Philip Stubbs (c. 1555 – c. 1610), English

England

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 pamphleteer

Pamphleteer

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, was born about 1555.

He was from Cheshire

Cheshire

Cheshire is a ceremonial county in North West England. Cheshire's county town is the city of Chester, although its largest town is Warrington. Other major towns include Widnes, Congleton, Crewe, Ellesmere Port, Runcorn, Macclesfield, Winsford, Northwich, and Wilmslow...

, possibly the area near Congleton

Congleton

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. According to Anthony Wood he was educated at Cambridge

University of Cambridge

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 and subsequently at Oxford

University of Oxford

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, but did not take a degree and his name is not in university records. He is reputed to have been a brother or near relation of John Stubbs

John Stubbs

John Stubbs was an English pamphleteer or political commentator during the Elizabethan era.He was born in Norfolk, and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. After studying law at Lincoln's Inn, he lived at Thelveton, Norfolk...

. He married Katherine Emmes (1570/71 –1590) in 1586.

He started writing about 1581 and in 1583 published his best-known work, The Anatomie of Abuses. This consisted of a virulent attack on the manners, customs, amusements and fashions of the period, and is still valuable for its copious information on those matters. In 1591 Stubbs published A Christal Glass for Christian Women, of which at least seven editions were called for, and he followed this with other semi-devotional works. He died in about 1610.

Written Works

• 1581, Two Wunderfull and Rare Examples
• 1582, A View of Vanitie, and Allarum to England, or, Retrait from Sinne (now lost)
• 1583, The Anatomie of Abuses
• 1583, The Display of Corruptions (part 2 of The Anatomie of Abuses)
• 1583, The Rosarie of Christian Praiers and Meditations (now lost)
• 1585, The Intended Treason of Doctor Parrie
• 1585, The Theater of the Popes Monarchie
• 1591, A Christal Glasse for Christian Women -- biography of his wife, Katherine Stubbes (née Emmes)
• 1592, A Perfect Pathway to Felicitie
• 1593, Motive to Good Workes