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Puritan writers and printers. According to the later testimony of her servant, Nicholas Tompkins, when the Puritan printer
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295:, was printed at East Molesey in October 1588. It enjoyed immense popularity, and the ecclesiastical authorities instigated a hue and cry after Martin, as a result of which Penry moved the secret press to
386:. The interrogations of Knightley, Hales and the Wigstons likewise failed to elicit the identity of Martin Marprelate, which appears to have been unknown to those who harboured the secret press.
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