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William Prynne (1600 – 24 October 1669), an English lawyer, voluble author, polemicist and political figure, was a prominent Puritan opponent of church policy under William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury (1633–1645). His views were Presbyterian, but he became known in the 1640s as an Erastian, arguing for overall state control of religious matters.
Recent scholarship has portrayed Prynne as an important Caroline era propagandist whose innovative political storytelling and publishing techniques played a major role in fomenting public distrust of Charles I and Archbishop Laud.[1]
- ^ Manns, Andrew. "Political Storytelling and Propaganda: William Prynne and the English Afterlife of Tommaso Campanella" (PDF). sas.ac.uk. Retrieved 7 February 2025.