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CROWLEY, ROBERT (1518?-1588)

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CROWLEY, See also:ROBERT (1518?-1588) , See also:English religious and social reformer, was See also:born in See also:Gloucestershire, and educated at Magdalen See also:College, See also:Oxford, of which he was successively demy and See also:fellow. Coming to See also:London, he set up a See also:printing-See also:office in See also:Ely Rents, See also:Holborn, where he printed many of his own writings. As a typographer, his most notable See also:production was an edition of See also:Pierce Plowman in 1550, and some of the earliest Welsh printed books came from his See also:press. As an author, his first venture seems to have been his " See also:Information and See also:Petition against the Oppressors of the poor See also:Commons of this See also:realm," which See also:internal See also:evidence shows to have been addressed to the See also:parliament of 1547. It contains a vigorous plea for a further religious See also:reformation, but is more remarkable for its attack on the " more than See also:Turkish tyranny " of the landlords and capitalists of that See also:day. While repudiating See also:communism, Crowley was a See also:Christian Socialist, and warmly approved the efforts of See also:Protector See also:Somerset to stop enclosures. In his Way to See also:Wealth, published in 1550, he laments the failure of the Protector's policy, and attributes it to the organized resistance of the richer classes. In the same See also:year he published (in See also:verse) The See also:Voice of the last See also:Trumpet blown by the seventh See also:Angel; it is a rebuke in twelve " lessons " to twelve different classes of See also:people; and a similar production was his One-and-See also:Thirty Epigrams (1550). These, with See also:Pleasure and See also:Pain (1551), were edited for the See also:Early English See also:Text Society in 1872 (Extra See also:Ser. xv.). The dozen or more other See also:works which Crowley published are more distinctly theological: indeed, the failure of the temporal policy he advocated seems to have led Crowley to take orders, and he was ordained See also:deacon by See also:Ridley on the 29th of See also:September 1551. During See also:Mary's reign he was among the exiles at See also:Frankfort. At See also:Elizabeth's See also:accession he became a popular preacher, was made See also:archdeacon of See also:Hereford in 1559, and See also:prebendary of St See also:Paul's in 1563, and was See also:incumbent first of St See also:Peter's the Poor in London, and then of St See also:Giles' without Cripplegate.

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minister in the " See also:conjuring garments of popery," and in 1566 was deprived and imprisoned for resisting the use of the See also:surplice by his See also:choir. He stated his See also:case in " A brief Discourse against the Outward See also:Apparel and Ministering Garments of the Popish See also:Church," a See also:tract " memorable," says See also:Canon See also:Dixon, " as the first distinct utterance of See also:Nonconformity." He continued to preach occasionally, and in 1576 was presented to the living of St See also:Lawrence Jewry. Nor had he abandoned his connexion with the See also:book See also:trade, and in 1578 he was admitted a See also:freeman of the Stationers' See also:Company. He died on the 18th of See also:June 1588, and was buried in St Giles'. The most important of his works not hitherto mentioned is his continuation of See also:Languet and See also:Cooper's See also:Epitome of See also:Chronicles (1559). See J. M. See also:Cowper's Pref. to the Select Works of Crowley (1872); See also:Strype's Works; See also:Gough's See also:General See also:Index to See also:Parker See also:Soc. Publ.; Machyn's See also:Diary; Macray's Reg. Magdalen College; Newcourt's See also:Rep. See also:Eccles. See also:Land.; Hennessy's Nov.

Rep. Eccl. (1898); Le Neve's See also:

Fasti Eccl. Angl.; See also:Pocock's See also:Burnet; See also:Pollard's See also:England under Somerset; R. W. Dixon's Church See also:History. (A. F.

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