HENRY BARROW

(Henry Barrowe)


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Henry Barrow

The men that call for Reformation, may pretend cause or colour of cause both in matters of doctrine & fact, why they may hate the Bishops, which in no sorte may bee applyed to hir Majestie.
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Barrow tried to argue that attacking the Bishops was not an attack on the Queen (Elizabeth I) who was head of the church. His argument failed and he was hanged. Even in modern times there are some who see an attack on a cabinet member as an attack on the President or Prime Minister, since the former serve at the suffrage of the latter.

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Henry Barrow
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Henry Barrow (or Barrowe) was an English Separatist Puritan, or Brownist, executed for his views. He led the London Underground Church from 1587 to 1593, spending most of that time in prison, and wrote numerous works of Brownist apologetics, most notably A Brief Discoverie of the False Church.