| |
| | MARPRELATE CONTROVERSY - LoveToKnow Article on MARPRELATE CONTROVERSY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | Martins tracts are characterized by violent and personal invective against the Anglican dignitaries, by the assumption that the writer had numerous and powerful adherents and was able to enforce his demands for reform, and by a plain and homely style combined with pungent wit. |
 | | The pamphlets were printed at a secret press established by John Penry, a Welsh puritan, with the help of the printer Robert Waldegrave, about midsummer 1588, for the issue of puritan literature forbidden by the authorities. |
 | | It is in answer to A Defence of the Government established in the Church of Englande, by Dr. John Bridges, dean of Salisbury, itself a reply to earlier puritan works, and besides attacking the episcopal office in general assails certain prelates with much personal abuse. |
| www.1911ency.org /M/MA/MARPRELATE_CONTROVERSY.htm (688 words) |
|