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JOHN BASTWICK (1593-1654)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 503 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN BASTWICK (1593-1654)  ,
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English physician and religious zealot, was born at Writtle, in Essex, in 1.593, and after a brief
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education at Cambridge, wandered on the continent and graduated in
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medicine at Padua . On his return he settled in Colchester . His celebrity rests on his strong opposition to the
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Roman Catholic ceremonial . About 1633 he printed in Holland two Latin
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treatises, entitled Elenchus Religionis Papisticae, and Flagellum Pontificis et Episcoporum Latialium; and as Laud and other English prelates thought themselves aimed at, he was fined £i000 in the court of high commission, excommunicated and prohibited from practising physic, while his books were ordered to be burnt and the author himself consigned to prison . Instead of recanting, however, he wrote A pologeticus ad Praesules Anglicanos, and another hook called The
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Litany, in. which he exclaimed vehemently against the proceedings of the court, and charged the bishops with being the enemies of
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God and " the tail of the beast." William Prynne and Henry Burton coming under the lash of the
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star-chamber court at the same time, they were allcensured as turbulent and seditious persons; and condemned to pay a
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fine of £5000 each, to be set in the pillory, to lose their ears, and to undergo imprisonment for
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life in remote parts of the
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kingdom, Bastwick being sent to Scilly . The parliament in 164o reversed these proceedings, and ordered Bastwick a reparation of £50oo, out of the estates of the commissioners and lords who had sentenced him . He joined the
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parliamentary army, but in later years showed bitter opposition to the
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Independents . He died in the latter
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part of 1654 .

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