ABSTRACT
This examination is reproduced from the rare tract, The Examinations of Henry Barrowe, John Grenewood, and John Penrie before the High Commissioners and Lordes of the Counsel. Penned by the Prisoners Themselves before Their Deathes. It is available in the British Museum, Cambridge University Library, and the Folger Shakespeare Library (Short-Title Catalogue, No. 1519). The title-page, preface, and first examination occupy signature A-A iv recto. The tract is reprinted in The Harleian Miscellany, IV (London, 1745), pp. 326-348, and in ibid., IV (London, 1809), pp. 340-365, and in ibid., II (London, 1809), pp. 10-41. Consisting of thirty-two pages, this tract contains four of Barrow’s examinations, one of Greenwood’s, and one of Penry’s examinations, all written by the examinees and smuggled out of prison. There is a pamphlet issued in 1710, entitled, A Specimen of the Wholesom Severities, Practis’d in Queen Elizabeth’s Reign, against Her Protestant Dissenters; in the Examination of Henry Barrow before the High Commissioners, and Lords of the Council, etc. Recommended by Dr. Henry Sacheverell, as Proper for the Present Times (London, 1710). This reprints Barrow’s examinations of November 19, 1587, of November 27, 1587, and of March 24, 1588/9. It does not reprint the examination of March 18, 1588/9, before a special commission, perhaps because it does not cast reflections upon the archbishop and bishops.
