The following eminent men have been put in the pillory for literary offences:- Leighton, for tracts against Charles I.; Lilburn, for circulating the tracts of Dr. Bastwick; Bastwick, for…
(in Hudibras). They were Prynne, Bertie or Burton, and Bastwick, who lost their ears and had their noses slit for lampooning Henrietta Maria and the bishops. Source: Dictionary of Phrase…
Sometimes called LORD, and sometimes ABBOT, etc. At Oxford and Cambridge one of the Masters of Arts superintended both the Christmas and Candlemas sports, for which he was allowed a fee of…
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Scene 2: A Chamber in Whitehall.
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Scene 3: The Star Chamber [1]
Laud, Juxon, Strafford, and others, as judges. Prynne as a prisoner, and then Bastwick.
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(Encyclopedia) Johnson, Samuel, 1709–84, English author, b. Lichfield. The leading literary scholar and critic of his time, Johnson helped to shape and define the Augustan Age. He was equally…
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