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792: 245:, but was later apprehended in London, charged with inciting rebellion, and hanged (May 1593). The authorship of the tracts has been attributed to several persons: to Penry himself, who however emphatically denied it and whose acknowledged works have little resemblance in style to those of Martin; to 386:
John Hales' grandmother was Anne Fermor, and Sir Richard Knightley's first wife was Anne's sister, Mary Fermor; at his subsequent trial Hales protested that 'He had great reason, as he thought, to gratify Sir Richard Knightley in anything, to whom he owed much reverence, as he that had married his
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dignitaries and satire against the corruptions of the Church of England. The style is 'a heady mixture of nonsense, satire, protest, irony and gossip', combined with pungent wit, 'full of the language of the street'. While Martin maintained puritan doctrines as a whole, the special point of his
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It now appeared to some of the ecclesiastical authorities that the only way to silence Martin was to have him attacked in his own railing style, and accordingly certain writers of ready wit, among them
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McCorkle, Julia Norton (1931). "A Note concerning 'Mistress Crane' and the Martin Marprelate Controversy".
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For her role in the printing of the Marprelate tracts Elizabeth Crane was heavily fined and imprisoned;
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Will of Anthony Crane, Master Of the Queens Household, proved 3 September 1583, National Archives
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was a war of pamphlets waged in England and Wales in 1588 and 1589, between a
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Martin Marprelate, Gentleman: Master Job Throckmorton Laid Open in His Colors
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Dictionary of Literary and Dramatic Censorship in Tudor and Stuart England
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The Marian Exiles; A Study in the Origins of Elizabethan Puritanism
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
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was printed at the Whitefriars, followed in March by John Penry's
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A Defence of the Government established in the Church of Englande
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The Martin Marprelate Tracts; A Modernized and Annotated Edition
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Collinson, Patrick (2004). "Carleton, George (1529–1590)".
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The Antiquities of Warwickshire ... by Sir William Dugdale
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attracted considerable notice and a reply was written by
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The first tract by "Martin Marprelate," known as the
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Index


the Cavaliero Pasquill
puritan
Martin Marprelate
Church of England
established church
Anglican
episcopacy
John Penry
Robert Waldegrave
East Molesey
Elizabeth Hussey
John Hussey, 1st Baron Hussey of Sleaford
Dr John Bridges
Dean of Salisbury
Thomas Cooper
Bishop of Winchester
Sir Richard Knightley
Fawsley
Northampton
Whitefriars, Coventry
Charlecote
John Hales
John Lyly
Thomas Nashe
Robert Greene
"the renowned Cavaliero Pasquill"
Wolston
Haseley
Scotland

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