he church, where, to show their contempt, it
was always made the filthiest seat in the church. They used
to kneel at the sacrament; now they would sit, because that
was a proper attitude for a supper; then they would not
sit, but stand: at length they tossed the elements about,
because the bread was wafers, and not from a loaf. Among
their _preciseness_ was a qualm at baptism: the water was to
be taken from a basin, and not from a fount; then they
would not name their children, or if they did, they would
neither have Grecian, nor Roman, nor Saxon names, but Hebrew
ones, which they ludicrously translated into English, and
which, as Heylin observes, "many of them when they came of
age were ashamed to own"--such as "Accepted, Ashes,
Fight-the-good-Fight-of-Faith, Joy-again, Kill-sin, &c."

Who could have foreseen that some pious men quarrelling about
the square caps and the rochets of bishops should at length
attack bishops themselves; and, by an easy transition, passing
from bishops to kings, finally close in levellers!

[406] The origin of the controversy may be fixed about 1588. "A far
less easy task," says the Rev. Mr. Maskell, "is it to guess at
the authors. The tracts on the Mar-Prelate side have been
usually attributed to Penry, Throgmorton, Udal, and Fenner.
Very considerable information may be obtained about these
writers in Wood's 'Athenae,' art. _Penry_; in Collier, Strype,
and Herbert's edition of 'Arnes,' to whom I would refer. After
a careful examination of these and other authorities on the
subject, the question remains, in my judgment, as obscure as
before; and I think that it is very far from clear that either
one of the three last-named was actually concerned in the
authorship of any of the pamphlets."--ED.

[407] So Heylin writes the word; but in the "Rythmes against Martin,"
a contemporary production, the term is _Chiver_. It is not in
Cotgrave.

[408] In the "Just Censure and Reproof of Martin Junior" (circae 1589),
we are told: "There is Cartwright, too, at Warwick; he hath
got him such a company of disciples, both of the worshipfull
and other of the poorer sort, as wee have no cause to thank
him. Never tell me that he is to