Marprelate Controversy
The Epistle attracted considerable notice and a reply was written by Thomas Cooper, Bishop of Winchester, under the title An Admonition to the People of England, but this was too long and too dull to appeal to the same class of readers as the Marprelate pamphlets, and produced little effect.Penry's press, removed in November to the home of Sir Richard Knightley at Fawsley,[6] near Northampton, then produced a second tract by Martin, the Epitome, which contains more serious argument than the Epistle but is otherwise similar.Shortly afterward the press was moved to the Whitefriars, Coventry, the home of Knightley's great-nephew,[7] John Hales (d. 1 January 1607/8), and his wife, Frideswide, the daughter of William Faunt.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 John Lyly, Thomas Nashe and Robert Greene, were secretly commissioned to answer the pamphlets.Rowse);[12] to Henry Barrow; to Roger Williams; to George Carleton by Kathryn M. Longley and Patrick Collinson;[13][14][15][16] and to the Warwickshire squire and Member of Parliament Job Throckmorton, whom most Marprelate scholars now believe was the primary author with the assistance of Penry.
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