Distributed as part of the Lampeter Corpus P3996 T289 + T30/862 1649 London Robert Hodges quarto William Prynne 1600 Swainswick (Somerset) Swainswick; Bath; Oxford; London; Swainswick Bath Grammar School; Oriel College, Oxford: BA (1621); Lincoln's Inn (1628); studied law, theology and ecclesiastical antiquities barrister; pamphleteer Puritan; notoriously critical writer; severely punished (lost both his ears and was branded on the cheeks) and fined several times; during Civil War defended Parliament in the press on the outbreak of the civil war; assailed the army in various pamphlets (1647) defence of civil liberties vindication reasons front (address) body