He produced a series of violent stories around marriage, adultery and murder, as well as some political writings that caused him to be imprisoned.
[1] Reynolds wrote moral tales, poetry, political pamphlets around the time of the proposed Spanish match, and also translated works from the French.
[1] The collective title of what became a series of publications was The Triumphs of God's Revenge against the crying and execrable Sinne of Murther.
These tales had a long subsequent publishing history; and in their own period they formed source material for the stage plays The Changeling[3] and The Maid's Revenge.
Vox coeli and Votivae Angliae (around 1624, and often attributed to Thomas Scott) concern respectively the Spanish match and the politics of the Electorate of the Palatinate, bound up with the outbreak of the Thirty Years' War.