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unusual facts about John Bastwick


John Bastwick

He then studied medicine abroad, and took the degree of M.D. at Padua.


Mutilation

In England, for example, various pamphleteers attacking the religious views of the Anglican episcopacy under William Laud, the Archbishop of Canterbury, had their ears cut off for those writings: in 1630 Dr. Alexander Leighton and in 1637 still other Puritans, John Bastwick, Henry Burton and William Prynne.


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