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An Introductory Sketch to the Martin Marprelate Controversy; 1588-1590
An Introductory Sketch to the Martin Marprelate Controversy 15881590 Author:Edward Arber General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1879 Original Publisher: The editor Subjects: Marprelate controversy History / General History / Europe / Great Britain Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Religion / Christianity / Anglican Religion / Christianity / History Religion ... more »/ Christian Church / History Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: II. a later work, written when the Martin Marprelate Controversy was drawing to an end, PENRY gives us the following account of the trouble that the publication of the foregoing Treatise brought on him. It is entitled, probably in imitation of the Appellation of JOHN Knox, Th'Appellation of Iohn Penri, vnto the Highe court of Parliament, from the bad and injurious dealing of th'Archb. of Canterb. and other his colleagues of the high commission : Wherin the complainant, humbly submitting himselfe and his cause vnto the determination of this honorable assembly : craueth nothing els, but either release from trouble and persecution, or just tryall. Anno Dom. 1589. [i. e. 1590] Mar. 7. At pp. 3-5 of this tract (which was stated, in 1595, by Matthew Sut- Cliffe to have been printed for Penry by Robert Waldegrave at Rochelle, see following//. 179-181), we find -- And to the ende I may truely acquaint you of the parliament with my troubles, and the true causes thereof, you are to vnderstand, that the beginning of these mens hatred towards me, did arise from the goodwill I beare vnto the glory of my God and the good of his church, and that the continuance thereof, is for the same cause. For vntill such time, as the Lorde vouchsafed to vse me (most vnworthie, I acknowledge from the bottome of my heart) as an instrument ...« less