ABSTRACT
Nine days after the two lord chief justices had examined Barrow, they re-examined him, with the assistance of Thomas Egerton, attorney-general, William Lewin, a judge of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, and Edward Stanhope, high commissioner and chancellor of the diocese of London. They questioned Barrow about his most important book, A Brief Discoverie of the False Church, and obtained his acknowledgment of authorship. They learned how the book had been written and smuggled out of prison sheet by sheet, who had prepared the copy and who had defrayed the expense. They also questioned him about his second most important book, A Plaine Refutation of M.G[eorge] Giffard’s Reprochful Booke, Intituled, A SHORT TREATISE AGAINST THE DONATISTS OF ENGLAND, and obtained his admission that he had written most of the book, as well as two drafts of letters exhibited to him. The examiners also sought information about the role of Daniel Studley and James Forrester in preparing the copy for the printer.
