The Marprelate Tracts
Fire the "The Marprelate Tracts" event in Europa Universalis IV with the console command event anglican_events.5.
The Marprelate Tracts
Fire this event with the event command and the event ID anglican_events.5.
What happens
Dissatisfied with the conservative establishment of the Anglican Church, a group of Puritans writing under the pseudonym ‘Martin Marprelate’ began publishing a series of scathing pamphlets directed at the Church leadership. The Bishops of, according to these writers, are ‘proud, popish, presumptuous, profane, paltry, pestilent and pernicious prelates’ who usurp authority from God.\n\nThese tracts have garnered public attention and risk making a mockery of the Establishment lest something be done about them.
Player choices
When this event fires, The Marprelate Tracts presents these options:
- Ignore this nonsense.
- Respond in kind, this is a war of pamphlets!
- Find and arrest the authors.