York Archbishops' Registers

1 . Register 32 f.79 (verso) entry 1

Entry Type:	Opinion, Court Proceedings, Order
Section Type:	Archbishop Neale, Archbishop Neile
Summary:	Order, and opinion signed by twelve judges, in Star Chamber trial for sedition of John Bastwick and William Prynne, religious controversialists and pamphleteers, in 1637, noting their challenge of the authority of ecclesiastical courts and carrying out of visitations
Language:	English, Latin
Subjects:	Courts, Civil, Visitations, Star Chamber, Sedition, Courts, Ecclesiastical
References:	Printed in Wilkins, Concilia Magnae Britanniae, pp. 534-5 (from Archbishop Laud's register, fol. 272 a).
Dates:	Enrolment date: 1637/00/00 (approximate) Order date: 1637/05/12 (certain) Opinion date: 1637/07/01 (certain)
People and Groups:	Defendant: Bastwick, John, ? 1595-1654, religious controversialist and pamphleteer (doctor of medicine) Defendant: Prynne, William, 1600-1669, pamphleteer and lawyer