(Dr John), born at Writtle in Essex, in 1593; practised physic at Colchester; but being a man of warm imagination, and a good Latin scholar, applied himself to writing books against popery. About the year 1633, he printed in Holland a Latin treatise intitled, Elenchus religiosis Papilice, with Flavellum pontificis et episcoporum Latialium, in which the English prelates thinking themselves also aimed at, he was fined L.1000 in the high commission court, excommunicated, prohibited practising physic, his books ordered to be burnt, and himself to remain in prison until he made a recantation. Instead of recanting, he wrote in prison, Apologeticus ad praesules Anglicanos; and another book called, The Litany; wherein he fiercely exclaimed against the proceedings of that court, and taxed the bishops with an inclination towards popery. Prynn and Burton coming under the lash of the star-chamber court at the same time, they were all censured as scandalous seditious persons, condemned to a fine of L.500 each, to be pilloried, to lose their ears, and to perpetual imprisonment in three remote parts of the kingdom. The parliament in 1640 reversed these proceedings; and ordered Dr Bastwick a reparation of L.500 out of the estates of the commissioners and lords who had prosecuted him, which the ensuing confusions prevented his receiving: however, his wife had, in 1644, an allowance ordered for her and her husband's maintenance. What became of him afterward is not known.