''The Meritorious Price of Our Redemption'' is a book written by
William Pynchon
William Pynchon (October 11, 1590 – October 29, 1662) was an English colonist and fur trader in North America best known as the founder of Springfield, Massachusetts, USA. He was also a colonial treasurer, original patentee of the Massachu ...
and published in England in 1650. Pynchon expressed views which the
Massachusetts General Court found to be full of errors and heresies, and condemned the book to be burnt on
Boston Common.
It thus became the first book banned by English colonists in
New England.
The first printing
''The Meritorious Price of Our Redemption'' was first printed in 1650, under the imprint "London: Printed by J.M. for
George Whittington
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, and
James Moxon, and are to be sold at the blue Anchor in Corn-hill neer the
Royall Exchange, 1650."
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Meritorious Price of Our Redemption, The Meritorious Price of Our Redemption
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