Elizabeth Hussey, later Elizabeth Crane and Elizabeth Carleton, was a religious activist with strong Puritan sympathies. She and her second husband, George Carleton, were prosecuted for involvement in the Marprelate controversy. The first of the anonymous Marprelate tracts, Martin's Epistle, was printed at her home in East Molesey, Surrey, in October 1588.
Sir Richard Knightley's home at Fawsley Hall, where John Penry moved the secret press after Martin's Epistle was printed at Elizabeth Crane's country home at East Molesey.
Henry Stanley, 4th Earl of Derby, whose agents captured the secret press on which the Marprelate tracts were printed
George Carleton was a lawyer, landowner and Member of Parliament with strong Puritan sympathies. It has been suggested that he was the secret author of the Marprelate tracts, and both he and his third wife were prosecuted for their involvement in the Marprelate controversy. Ordered to appear daily before the Privy Council in April 1589, he died in early 1590 before a decision in the proceedings against him had been reached.
Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex, in whose Irish campaign George Carleton served as treasurer
Henry Stanley, 4th Earl of Derby, whose agents captured the secret press on which the Marprelate tracts were printed
