Regular episode • Season 2 • Episode 2 • Martin Marprelate

Artwork • The Cambridge University Library copy of:

'The Protestation of Martin Marprelate’, 1589.

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.