An ansvvere to a certaine libel supplicatorie, or rather diffamatory and also to certaine calumnious articles, and interrogatories, both printed and scattered in secret corners, to the slaunder of the ecclesiasticall state, and put forth vnder the name and title of a petition directed to her Maiestie: vvherein not onely the friuolous discourse of the petitioner is refuted, but also the accusation against the disciplinarians his clyents iustified, and the slaunderous cauils at the present gouernement disciphred by Mathew Sutcliffe.

Abstract

A reply to: Throckmorton, Job. A petition directed to her most excellent Majestie. Relating to the alleged wrongful condemnation of John Udall on an indictment for libel. Sutcliffe attributes all of the Marprelate tracts to Throckmorton. Running title reads: An answere to certaine calumnious petitions, articles, and questions of the consistorian faction. The last two leaves contain an advertisement to the reader. Reproduction of the original in the Bodleian Library. Some print show-through; cropped. Title page, pages 46-66 and 110-117 from the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery copy filmed at end.