Henry Burton (1578-1648), English Puritan and radical preacher who, in 1637, was placed in a pillory and had his ears cut off. In a sermon that Burton preached in 1636, he called bishops ‘caterpillars’ and ‘anti-christian mushrumps’. Square detail of an 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.
Henry Burton (1578-1648), English Puritan and radical preacher. Square detail of an original copperplate engraving by an unknown engraver. 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’. In 1625, in a letter to King Charles, Henry Burton alleged that Bishop William Laud (later Archbishop of Canterbury) was drawing the Church of England closer to popery. The same year, Burton became Rector of a City of London Parish and almost immediately began to deviate from Church of England ceremony and to preach against episcopal practices. His pulpit campaigning and writings led to an appearance before the privy council, suspension from his benefice and time in Fleet Prison. In a sermon that he preached in 1636, Burton called bishops ‘caterpillars’ and ‘anti-christian mushrumps’. In 1637, Burton was placed in a pillory and had his ears cut off. Similar punishment was simultaneously inflicted on Puritan physician and soldier, Captain John Bastwick (1593-1654), and the Puritan pamphleteer, William Prynne (1600-1669).
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