ABSTRACT
This treatise of Barrow was published in 1611 as a part of a larger apologetic work, Mr. Henry Barrowe’s Platform. The title-page carries the date, anno 1593, but this refers not to the date of publication but to the year of the martyrdom of Barrow and Greenwood and Penry. On the last page appears the date 1611, which is the publication date. The entire book, which is a defence of Separatism and Barrowism, contains: (1) “A Dialogue or Discourse, Passing between Desiderius and Miles Micklebound, by Occasion of Their Old Love and New Meeting” (A2 recto-C8 recto); (2) a letter to Mr. Wood, a Scottish preacher in Ireland, 1594 (C8 recto-D2 recto); (3) “The Humble, Most Earnest, and Lamentable Complaint and Supplication of the Persecuted and Proscribed Church and Servants of Christ, Falsely Called Brownists, unto the High Court of Parliament” (D2 recto-D4 recto), the draft of which has been ascribed to Barrow, but more likely was written by Penry ; (4) a petition to King James I (D4 verso-D5 verso); (5) a continuation of the “Dialogue” (D5 verso-E2 verso and I2 verso-L4 verso), and “The First Part of the Platforme” (E3 recto-I2 recto), with Barrow and Greenwood’s letter of the 13th of the 9th month (1590) appended.
