mar-prelates

Updated: May 4, 2025

The reigns of Elizabeth and James teemed with libels in church and state from opposite parties: the idleness of the pacific court of James I. hatched a viperous brood of a less hardy, but perhaps of a more malignant nature, than the Martin Mar-prelates of the preceding reign.

Isaac Disraeli - Literary Character of Men of Genius: Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions