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HISTORY OF PRINTING.
lent to Waldegrave the printer, at the request of sir Richard. It appears that Hodgskins, one of the journeymen printers, refused to proceed any farther than Coventry, and would hare made his submission, hut he was told by sir Richard Knightley that the lords were so incensed that if he returned to London, they would have him hanged. The next step of this moveablepress was to the house of sir — Wickstone, at Wool- ston, in Warwickshire, where it was erected in a parlour, and Mrs. Wickstone informed her husband that it was works of embroidery, and she willed him to will his servants not to peep or
Sry into the parlour ; since it pertained not to lem. Hodgskins and two others printed Martin senior and Martin junior. Hodg- skins was desired to print more but he refused. From Woolston the press was conveyed to War- rington, in Lancashire, and at their departure Mrs. Wickstone gave them two shillings and sixpence, and bei nusband, two shillings. The labour of this press was brought to its final close at Manchester,* where it was discovered by the earl of Derby, while printing Ha' ye any more work for the Cooper. \ The press was des- troyed, Waldegrave made his escape, but several others were taken and imprisoned. Hodeskins was admitted in evidence upon the trial, and made a full confession as to the route the press had travelled, and by whom entertained. Sir Richard Knightley ,| sir — Wickstone and
- The prew at Manchester was set up some where in
Newtonluie, which would at that time, no doubt, be some dtetaoce from the town.
Some of these works still bear evident malts that the "pmmlvants" were hnntbiK the printers. The printing and the orthojcrapby show aU the imperfections of that haste in which they were forced to print the foUowio^work. t PntatatUm of Martin Marprelaie: wherin, mttuHlh- ttanding the narpt iiingo/tht printer, he maketh it known unto the world, thai he/eareth neithtr proud priett, anii. ehriitianpope, tgnaume prelate, nor Oodteie eater-em, tut i^th all the race of them by these pretente, andi^ertth eonditionallf, ai it fathere etpreued kearin bg open ditpu- tation, to appear in the defence of hit caute againtt them and theirt. Which chaleng, If they dare not maintaine againtt him, then doth he alto publiahe th^it he never meaneth M the attittance of God to leave the attylam of them, and their generation, utUitl they be utcrly eiUnguithed out of the church. Pubtithed by the worthie gentleman D. Martin. Marprelate D. in all thefaeultietprimtU and Metro Politan. 1589- Twelves.
t Sir Richard E^nightley was several times member of parliament for the county of Northampton, in the reign of queen JQJcabeth. Camden says, " that at this time several scurrilous pamphlets were published against the church of England, by the dissenters ; the great patrons and ahettora were sir Richard Knightley and Wickstone, persona in other respects sober and pious, but drawn into the party by some instmmento that were to make a pri- vate market of them. However, the knights bad a pretty round fine laid on them in the Star Chamber ; but the archbishop of Canterbury was so generously good natnred, as to procure a remiSHion of it at her majesty's hands. See Camden's Elix. in the Complete Hittorjj of England, vol. il. p. S50. It is stated in Bridge's Northamptonshire, by Jebb, folio, p. 63, that though sir Richard Knightley was zealous for the Puritan party, he joined with sir Fran- cis Hastings in presenting a petition to the House of Commons, for granting a toleration to the Catholics.
At sir Richud Knightley's the Epitome was printed. He sent a ring to his man Jackson, by Penry, to receive a load of staff into his house, which was the press and other necessaries for ivinting. Newman, the cobler, and dis- perser of the books, wore his livery ; and Wastal, his man, helped Waldgrave away from his house, to Mr. Hales, at Coventry ; Fbx, his schoolmaster, and Wastel his servant, commonly read the books in sir Richard's house, and scoiT and scorn at John of Canterbury.— Sfofe Trials.
his wife, and Mr. Hales, were arraigned in the star chamber for maintaining seditious persons, books and libels, Feb. 31, 1688, and found guilty of harbouring an itinerant printing press. For punishment it was agreed by all the judges that sir Richard Knightley should be fined £2000 ; Mr. Hales, £1000 ; sir— Wickstone, for obeying his wife, and not discovering it, five hundred marks; Mrs. Wickstone, £1000; and all of them imprisoned during her majesty's pleasure.
Martin seems to have written little verse ; but there is one Epig^m worth preserving for its utter bitterness.
Martin Senior, in his Reproofe of Martin Junior, compluns that "his Tounger brother has not taken a little paines m ryming with Mar-Martin (one of their poetical antagonists) that the Cater-Caps may know how the meanest of my father's sons is able to answeaie them, both at blunt and sharpe." He then gives his younger brother a specimen of what he is here- after to do. He attributes the satire of Mar- Martin to doctor Bridges, dean |of Sarum, and' John Whitgift, archbishop of Canterbury.
TTte first rising, generation, and original of Mar-Martin.
From Sarum came a Qoos's egg. With specks and spots )>epatched,
A Priest of Lambeth concht thereon. Thus was HAa.HARTiN hatched.
Whence hath MAa-MAariN all his wit.
But frxim that egge of Sarum i The rest come all from great sir John,
Who rings up all this 'lanun.
What can the Cockatrice hatche up
But Serpents like himselfe) What sees the ape within the glasse
Bv a deformed Elfe I
Then must Mar-Mabtim have some smell
Of forge, or else of fire} A sotte in wit, a beaste in minde.
For so was Damme and Sire.
Of the heads of this party were John Peniy and John Udall, two self-aevoted victims to non-conformity. The most active was John Penry, or Ap Henry. He exulted that he was born and bred in the mountains of Wales : he had, however, studied at both our universities. He had all the heat of his soil, and of his party. He " wished that his head might not go down to the Krave in peace," and was just the man to obtain his purpose. He was born in 1559, and studied at Cambridge, where he took the degree of A.B., in 1584 ; ne afterwards removed to Oxford, and took the degree of A.M., and was ordained priest. Accordingto Fuller, he was executed at St. Thomas, Watering, May 29, 1693. The papers upon which he was convicted, contained cinly an implied denial of the queen's absolute authority to make, enact, decree, and ordain laws. His sentence was both illegal and unjust, — state necessity claimed another victim ; and this ardent young man, who, after condemna- tion, had hit death unexpectedly postponed, was
