Robert Crowley (printer)
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Robert Crowley, was a stationer, poet, polemicist and Protestant clergyman among Marian exiles at Frankfurt. He seems to have been a Henrician Evangelical in favour of a more reformed Protestantism th
Title page to A Briefe Discourse Against the Outwarde Apparel of the Popishe Church (1566)
Vestments controversy
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The vestments controversy or vestarian controversy arose in the English Reformation, ostensibly concerning vestments or clerical dress. Initiated by John Hooper's rejection of clerical vestments in th
Robert Crowley (printer)
…and sought change from the pulpit and within the church hierarchy. Against the Elizabethan Religious Settlement, Crowley was a leader in the renewed vestments controversy, which eventually lost him his clerical posts. During the dispute he and other London clergy produced a "first Puritan manifesto". Late in life Crowley…
Church of England vestments depicted in the late 19th century
Westminster Abbey by Canaletto, 1749
The Puritan by Augustus Saint Gaudens Springfield, Massachusetts DSC02513