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Search - Documents Relating To The Proceedings Against William Prynne

Documents Relating To The Proceedings Against William Prynne
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IT is not because WILLIAM P RYNNE st ands in our literature as one of our most voluminous authors, nor because hc is conspicuous in our history as a sufferer for conscience sake, that I desire to interest the great body of English readers in his biography. His works, and the circumstances of his personal history, considered simply by themselves,... more » deserve the attention of the scholar and the historian, but taken in connection with the general incidents of the times in which he lived they acquire a much higher importance and have a far more extensive application. Viewed in that relation, they enlarge our knowledge of the momentous transactions which occurred in England between 1625 nnd 1660 they give us views of men and events. nearer and more distinct than can be derived from the wide survey of the general historian and they enable us-which is more valuable than anything else-to drink deep into the general spirit of that eventful period. It is of the greatest importance tliut the history of that birth-time of our modern freedom and our consequent greatness should be thoroughly understood I hope that the life of William Prynne, which I have endeavoured to write upon thc principle I have indicated, will conduce in some slight degree to their being so. CAMD. SOC. b BIOGRAPIIICAL FRAGMENT CHAPTER I. The family from which William Prynne descended derived both its name and origin from the county of Salop. Looking down from TATenlock Ridge on the broad and fertile expanse which spreads for many miles towards the west, the eye is attracted at the distance of a few miles by several gentle eminences, just raised above the level of the surrounding country. These grassy knolls were anciently designated Preens. a On one of them the Lords of Castle Holgood erected, in the old times, a house of religion devoted to the Cluniac monks-a cell to the magnificent Priory at W e n l c k . But all traces of this modest establishment C have long since disappeared. A Great Preen and a Little Preen, the names of which may also be discovered in the record, are not now to be found on the map. Church Preen remains alone to fix the locality and indicate the nature of these ancient pointed hillocks. From the time of Henry I. there dwelt on one of these Preens a family which a The word preon, preiw, or preen, signified originally a point. Hence it was applied to a pin, and in that sense is still common in Scotland. The jibala, a brooch fastened by a pin, was designated by the same word, and its meaning was extended so as to comprehend a graving tool or other instrument terminating in a sharp point. Dugdales Monast. v. 42. Tanners Notitia Monast. Shropsh. 32...

ISBN-13: 9781408641231
ISBN-10: 1408641232
Publication Date: 1/31/2008
Pages: 166
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