Marprelate Controversy

Brief but well-known pamphlet war (1588 - 89) carried on by English Puritans using secret presses; they attacked the episcopacy as �profane, proud, paltry, popish, pestilent, pernicious, presumptious prelates.� The tracts, of which seven survive, never had the support of Puritan leaders and ceased when the presses were discovered by government agents. The identity of the author,