[A manuscript copy in a contemporary hand of a contribution to the Marprelate Controversy which was never published].
Marprelate, Martin.
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[England? : s.n.,
1588-1589?]
Signed on the last leaf "Martin Marprelate".
The Marprelate Controversy was a war of pamphlets waged in England and Wales in 1588 and 1589, between a puritan writer who employed the pseudonym Martin Marprelate, and defenders of the Established Church. Martin's tracts are characterised by mockery of Anglican 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 attack was the episcopacy.--Wikipedia
Marprelate controversy