An Introductory Sketch to the Martin Marprelate Controversy, 1588-1590Edward Arber |
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answere Archbishop Author BARROW Bishop of LONDON BUCKHURST called CANTERBURY cause Church copy Court Coventry dayes Demonstration of Discipline deposeth DIOTREPHES doth East Molesey England English Epistle Epitome euen euery Fawsley further sayth GRAVE hand Harl hath haue HENRY SHARPE heresie HODGKINS HUGH LATIMER Ibid JOB THROKMORTON JOHN PENRY JOHN UDALL Junior Kingston Kingston upon Thames knoweth lawe letter Lettres type libels load of Stuff Lord BUCKHURST Lord BURGHLEY Lord Tresorer MARPRELATE Controversy MARTIN MAR MARTIN MARPRELATE MARTIN MARPRELATE Controversy MARTIN Senior Martinist Master HALES Master PENRY Master THROCKMORTONS minister Mistress CRANES Howse neuer NEWMAN Northampton Parliament PENRY'S preaching Prelates Press priest Printer prison PROTESTANT Puritan Queen religion saith sayd Scripture shewed Sir RICHARD KNIGHTLEYS things thinketh told this Examinate tyme unto VDALL vnder vnto vpon vppon WAL[DE WAL[DE]GRAVE WALDEGRAVE WEEKSTON Welsh wherein WIGSTON Wolston word writinge
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Page 197 - Oh read ouer D. JOHN BRIDGES, for it is a worthy worke : Or an epitome of the fyrste Booke of that right worshipfull volume, written against the Puritanes, in the defence of the noble cleargie, by as worshipfull a prieste, JOHN BRIDGES, Presbyter, Priest or Elder, doctor of Diuillitie, and Deane of Sarum.
Page 22 - O that Ben Jonson is a pestilent fellow ; he brought up Horace, giving the poets a pill ; but our fellow Shakespeare hath given him a purge, that made him bewray his credit.
Page 198 - Wherein is shewed not only the necessitie of reforming the state of religion among that people, but also the onely way, in regarde of substaunce, to bring that reformation to pass.
Page 158 - God grant that we may contend with other churches, as the vine with the olive, which of us shall bear the best fruit ; and not as the brier with the thistle, which of us is most unprofitable.
Page 197 - By the reverend and worthie Martin Marprelate gentleman/ and dedicated to the Confocationhouse. The Epitome is not yet published/ but it shall be when the Bishops are at convenient leysure to view the same. In the meane time/ let them be content with this learned Epistle. Printed oversea/ in Europe/ within two furlongs of a Bounsing Priest/ at the cost and charges of M. Marprelate / gentleman.
Page 198 - England to bee an unskilful! and beceytfull tubtrimmer. Wherein worthy Martin quits himselfe like a man I warrant you, in the modest defence of his selfe and his learned Pistles, and makes the Coopers hoopes to fly off, and the Bishops Tubs to leake out of all crye.
Page 161 - A contentious retaining of custom is a turbulent thing, as well as innovation." A good husband is ever pruning in his vineyard or his field ; not unseasonably, indeed, not unskilfully, but lightly ; he findeth ever somewhat to do. We have heard of no offers of the bishops of bills in parliament; which, no doubt, proceeding from them to whom it properly belongeth, would have every where received acceptation.
Page 159 - Church, hath not kept one tenor neither. First, those ceremonies which were pretended to be corrupt, they maintained to be things indifferent, and opposed the examples of the good times of the Church to that challenge which was made unto them, because they were used in the later superstitious times. Then...
Page 197 - An admonition to the people of England: Wherein are answered, not onely the slaunderous vntruethes, reprochfully vttered by MARTIN the Libeller, but also many other Crimes by some of his broode, objected generally against all Bishops, and the chiefe of the Cleargie, purposely to deface and discredite the present state of the Church, [fan.
Page 10 - An Order of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament for the regulating of Printing, &c. London, 14 June, 1643.