Marprelate Tracts, a series of clever but scurrilous tracts published under the name of Martin Marprelate, but which are the work of different writers in the time of Elizabeth against prelacy, and which gave rise to great excitement and some inquisition as to their authorship.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Marot, Clement * Marque