The date of his admission at Oxford was
1534; he was elected Fellow of Magdalene in 1542; he printed the
first edition of _Piers Plowman_ in 1550; and was still Parson of St.
Giles's, near Cripplegate, in 1588, i.e. fifty-five years after the
publication of the Tract we are considering. (See _Heylin's Hist. of
the Reformation_, ii. 186., E.H.S. ed.) Were there _two_ writers named
_Robert Crowley?_ or was _the_ Crowley a pupil or protege of some
early reformer, who caused his name to be affixed to a treatise for
which he is not wholly responsible? I leave these queries for the
elucidation of your bibliographical contributors.
If I have not already exceeded the limits allowable for such
communications, I would also ask your readers to explain the allusion
in the following passage from Crowley's tract:
"And know right well, that the more they steare thys
sacramente the broder shal theyr lyes be spreade, the more
shall theyr falsehoode appeare, and the more gloriously
shall the truthe triumph: as it is to se thys daye by longe
contencion in thys same and other like articles, which the
papists have so long abused, and howe more his lyes utter the
truthe every day more and more.
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