PRYNNE, William.

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An Humble Remonstrance against the Tax of Ship-money Lately Imposed: First authorised edition. The second part mentioned was issued later and is not present here. William Prynne (1600-1669) was a radical pamphleteer and lawyer, who was imprisoned in the Tower of London in the 1630s. With the aid of a friendly jailer, Prynne was able to smuggle out pamphlets. These included the present treatise, a polemic against Charles I's ship-tax, in manuscript form. It was published without the author's consent in 1641 in an error-filled edition, leading to Prynne publishing the present, authorised text, in 1643.

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