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A pamphleteering attack on the clergy of the
Church of England made in 1588 and 1589 by a
Puritan writer or writers, who took the
pseudonym of Martin Marprelate. The pamphlets
were printed by John Penry, a Welsh Puritan.
His press was seized, and he was charged with
inciting rebellion and hanged in 1593.