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

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