oct 1, 1565 - Crowley v. Parker Vestiarian Controversy

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nonconformist vicar Robert Crowley confronted 6 laymen at entrance to church because they wore surplices/vestments "superstitious rags of Rome"
A Brief Discourse Against the Outward Apparel of the Popish Church (Robert Crowley) "the earliest puritan manifesto" Patrick Collinson in "The Elizabethan Puritan Movement" (ch. "That Comical Dress")

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