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The English Scholar s Library. 23 7 - Thomas Decker, the Dramatist. The Seven Deadly Sins of London, Sec. 1606. The Seuen deadly Sinnes of London : drawn in seuen seuerall Coaches , through the seuen sever all Gates of the Citie , bringing the Plague with them . A prose allegorical Satire, giving a most vivid picture of London life, in October 1606. The Seven Sins are — Fraudulent Bank- ruptcy. Lying. Candlelight {Deeds of Darkness'). Sloth. Apishness (i Changes of Fashion). Shaving (i Cheating ), and Cruelty. Their chariots, drivers, pages, attendants, and. fol- lowers are all allegorically described. 8 . The Editor. AN INTRODUC- TORY SKETCH TO THE MARTIN Marprelate CONTROVERSY. 1588-1590. (a) The general Episcopal Adminis- tration , Censor ship $c. (b) The Origin of the Controversy . (c) Depositions and Examinations . (d) State Documents. (e) The Brief held by Sir J ohn Pucker- ing, against the Mar- tinists . The Rev. J. Udall (who was however not a Martinist) ; Mrs.CRANE,ofMolesey ; R-sv. J. Penry; ShR-Knightley, of Fawsley, near North- ampton; Humfrey Newman, the London cobler; John Hales, Esq. of Coventry ; Mr. and Mrs. Weekston, of Wol- ston ; Job Throckmorton, Esq. ; Henry Sharpe, book- binder of Northampton, and the four printers. (/) Miscellaneous Information . (g) Who were the Writers who wrote un- der the name of Mar- tin Marprelate? 9 - [Rev John Udall, Minister at Kingston on Thames .] A Demon- stration of Discipline. x 5 88. A Demonstration of the trueth of that dis- cipline 7£//«VAChriste hath prescribed in his worde for the gouerne- ment of his Church , in all times and places , vntill the ende of the worlde. Printed with the secret Martinist press, at East Mole- sey, near Hampton Court, in July 1588 ; and secretly dis- tributed with the Epitome in the following November.. For this Work, Udall lin- gered to death in prison. It is perhaps the most com- plete argument, in our lan- guage, for Presbyterian Puri- tanism, as it was then under- stood. . Its author asserted for it, the infallibility of a Divine Logic ; but two generations had not passed away, before (under the teachings of Expe- rience) much of this Church Polity had been discarded.