ABSTRACT
This tract of eight pages was the first Barrowist publication to be printed. Robert Stokes testified that “he caused a little thyng of one shete of paper to be prynted by their [Barrow and Greenwood’s] procurement before all thys, called the Destruc-tyon [Description] of the Vysyble Church.”1 This work carried the date 1589. It may have been printed late in that year, or if it immediately preceded the printing of A Collection of Certaine Sclaunderous Articles, the date may be the opening months of 1589/90. But prior to this time there existed a copy in manuscript, which Richard Alison had seen.2
