Marprelate noun Martin, the pen name of the anonymous author or authors of a series of satirical Puritan tracts (1588–89), attacking the bishops of the Church of England Liberaldictionary.com
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Here Nash takes his customary side in the Marprelate business.
Elizabethan and Jacobean Pamphlets
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That is Will; and Nash detains him for a moment just to listen to his last words on the Marprelate controversy.
J. M. Barrie
Finally, there was the Marprelate press, of which Robert Waldegrave was the chief printer.
A Short History of English Printing, 1476-1898
Henry R. Plomer