other sentenced to lose his ears in the pillory, to pay a fine of £5,000, and to be imprisoned for life. This sentence was carried out with a supportive audience. Bestwick supplied his own scalpel and his wife Sussana kissed his ears before they were removed. After the event she took each ear and placed them by her bosom. Bastwick was afterwards moved to Star Castle, Isles of Scilly. From there in November 1640 he was released by order of the Long Parliament, and in December entered London in triumph. Reparation to the amount of the fines imposed was ordered to be made to him (2 March 1641). In 1642, as the First English Civil War broke out, Bastwick was a captain of the Leicester trained bands, and on 22 July he was taken prisoner by the royalists at Leicester, and sent prisoner to York. Soon at liberty again, he published in 1643 a Declaration demonstrating ... that all malignants, whether they be prelates, &c., are enemies to God and the church. The Parliamentary success in the war brought by 1645 a new relationship into being between the Presbyterians and other Protestant groups, classified as Independents, such as the emerging Quakers and Congregationalists. Bastwick with Prynne was a hard-liner on the Presbyterian side; Burton wanted a less harsh approach, and by then Lilburne was a very popular Independent, beginning to found the Levellers. Bastwick with Colonel Edward King arranged for Lilburne to be arrested on 19 July 1645 for words he had said against the Speaker of the House of Commons; he was in custody until October. In 1648 Bastwick published two bitter tracts against the Independents, and in defence of himself against Lilburne. Death Bastwick died in 1654. Richard Smith, in his 'Obituary,' gives 6 October 1654 as the date of his burial. Private life Bastwick married Susanna Poe and they had five children. Twin girls, Judith and Dionise, were born in 1626, two boys named John in 1633 and 1646 and lastly Susanna born in 1640. See also English Dissenters Notes References Attribution 1593 births 1654 deaths 17th-century English medical doctors English religious writers English Presbyterians of the Interregnum (England) Roundheads Alumni of Emmanuel College, Cambridge English male non-fiction writers People from Writtle