Artwork • The Cambridge University Library copy of:
'The Protestation of Martin Marprelate’, 1589, the final instalment, in the series
Hastily created on an antiquated press hidden in a barn on a Coventry property, this last pamphlet was probably typeset by Martin’s collaborators, Job Throckmorton and John Penry. of Martin Marprelate'.
Music • Daniel Bacheler: To Plead My Faith · The Consort of Musicke · Anthony Rooley
Daniel Bacheler, 1572 – 1619, was an English lutenist and composer.
This is his only surviving song, set to the words of Robert Devereux, the Earl of Essex, 1565-1601.
Notes:
In the late 1500’s in London, if you wanted to buy a good book, or some other publication, there was only one place to go: St. Paul’s Churchyard.
Today, visitors standing at its north gate, see sloping paths and quiet gardens, but 435 years ago, this open space was packed with a dense maze of bookshops. Shops were tucked between buildings, wedged against the cathedral’s buttresses, and even wrapped around the walls. Everywhere you turned, there were books, and the people who loved them.
In and around, these bustling stalls, groups of shoppers from long ago, rummaged through all manner of publications, while gossiping, and sharing the latest news.
By the end of the 1580s, there was but one name, on everyone’s lips: Martin Marprelate.
