John Bastwick (1593-1654), an English Puritan who published anti-Roman Catholic treatises and, in 1637, was placed in a pillory and had his ears cut off for attacking the views and policies of the Archbishop of Canterbury. In the English Civil War, Bastwick fought for Parliament as Captain of the Leicester Trained Bands. Square detail of engraving used in the 1740 edition of 'History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England' by Edward Hyde (1609-1674), raised to the peerage as 1st Earl of Clarendon.
John Bastwick (1593-1654), Puritan soldier, physician and writer. Square detail of an original copperplate engraving, by an unknown engraver and after an unknown artist. This engraving was first used in the 1740 edition of 'History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England' by Edward Hyde (1609-1674), Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to King Charles I, who was later raised to the peerage as 1st Earl of Clarendon; his history of the English Civil War is frequently referred to as 'Clarendon's Rebellion’. John Bastwick obtained a degree in medicine at Padua, Italy, and then practised as a physician in Colchester, England. He published anti-Roman Catholic treatises and, in 1637, was placed in a pillory and had his ears cut off for attacking the views and policies of the Archbishop of Canterbury, William Laud. Similar punishment was simultaneously inflicted on the radical Puritan preacher, Henry Burton (1578-1648), and the Puritan pamphleteer, William Prynne (1600-1669). Bastwick fought for Parliament in the first English Civil War as a Captain of the Leicester Trained Bands, but then attracted more controversy after the war when he was imprisoned for insulting the Speaker of the House of Commons and railed against independent Protestant groups such as the Quakers.
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Location: London, England, UK
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