Anthony Marten ( – August 1597) was an English courtier and author during the reign of

Queen Elizabeth I Elizabeth I (7 September 153324 March 1603) was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death in 1603. Elizabeth was the last of the five House of Tudor monarchs and is sometimes referred to as the "Virgin Queen". El ...

. He was the son of David Marten (senior clerk to the surveyor of the king's works) and his wife Jane Cooke. Anthony Marten was educated at

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, but there is no evidence that he graduated. He then entered the royal household. In 1570 he was the Queen's "sewar" and then her steward. From July 1579 to March 1586 he was bailiff of Ledbury,

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, and in August 1588 the Queen awarded him a lease for a house in

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. She also appointed him Keeper of the Royal Library at the

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(an office for life with a salary of 20 marks per annum) and as royal cup bearer the Queen granted him monopoly on exporting tin. He wrote two tracts around the time of the

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, portraying England as the new Israel, with

Philip II of Spain Philip II) in Spain, while in Portugal and his Italian kingdoms he ruled as Philip I ( pt, Filipe I). (21 May 152713 September 1598), also known as Philip the Prudent ( es, Felipe el Prudente), was King of Spain from 1556, King of Portugal from ...

as the new

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*''An exhortation, to stirre up the mindes of all her majestie's faithfull subjects, to defend their countrey'' (1588). *''A second sound, or, Warning of the trumpet unto judgment, wherein is proved that all the tokens of the latter day are not onelie come, but welneere finished'' (1589). *''A Reconciliation of All the Pastors and Cleargy of the Church of England'' (1590).

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