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, entitled Elenchus religionis Papistice, with Flagellum pontificis et episcoporum Latitudinum, in which the English prelates thinking themselves also aimed at, he was fined 1000l. in the high commission court, excommunicated, prohibited practicing 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 presules Anglicanos; and another book called, The Litany; wherein he severely exclaimed against the proceedings of that court, and taxed the bishops with an inclination towards popery. Prynne 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 5000l. 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 5000l. out of the estates of the commissioners and lords who had persecuted 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.