ABSTRACT
On Sunday, March 11, 1592/1593, Greenwood was examined by the two leading judges of England, Sir John Popham, Lord Chief Justice of the Queen’s Bench, and Sir Edmund Anderson, Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. The purpose of the examination was to establish the authorship of several treatises and one book penned by Greenwood, and to ascertain information about the printers and publishers. Greenwood readily admitted his own authorship and that of Henry Barrow. He also admitted having the books in his possession, but would not mention the names of others who had owned or read the books. The one name he reveals frankly is that of Robert Stokes, who had been a chief agent in seeing the books through. the press. He mentions his maidservant, Cycely, but does not implicate her. Some time during the autumn of 1592, Stokes had been excommunicated by the newly organized Separatist church, and Greenwood evidently had no hesitation in revealing his name. Stokes had recanted, made his peace with the Church of England, and disowned the Separatists. Although he had been a primary agent in publishing the books of the Separatists, more culpable than Studley, Boull, or Bellot, he was not brought to trial on March 21–23, 1592/1593, when the others were arraigned. To the Separatists, he was an apostate, a renegade, an informer, a traitor.
