Pynchon, William. Meritorious Price of our Redemption, Justification, &c.

[1651] The first book banned in Boston, it is condemned as “false, heretical, and erroneous.” Pynchon was one of the founders of Roxbury, but his book presents a view of the Puritan religion that is not shared by town fathers which, according to Edmund Morgan in The Puritan Dilemma, “required that a man devote his life to seeking salvation but told him he was hepless to do anything but evil.” All but four copies of the book are burned on Boston Common and Pynchon returns to England a year later.