Brownist TWELFTH NIGHT, iii. 2. 29.
“The Brownists were so
called from Mr. Robert Browne, a noted separatist in Queen Elizabeth's reign. See Strype's
Annals of Queen Elizabeth, vol. iii. pp. 15, 16, etc.
In his Life of Whitgift, p. 323, he informs us, that
Browne, in the year 1582, ‘went off from the separation, and came into the
communion of the church’”
(GREY)
. Browne died in 1630.
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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