[1] He was protected by the earl of Leicester, whose policy it was to back the Puritan party, and who no doubt found a valuable ally in so vigorous a satirist of error in clerical places as was Hake.
[1] Newes out of Paules Churchyarde, A Trappe for Syr Monye, first appeared in 1567, but no copy of this impression is known, and it was re-issued in 1579 with the name given above.
The book takes the form of a dialogue between Bertulph and Paul, who meet in the aisles of the cathedral, and is divided into eight satyrs, dealing with the corruption of the higher clergy and of judges, the greed of attorneys, the tricks of physicians and apothecaries, the sumptuary laws, extravagant living, Sunday sports, the abuse of St Paul's Cathedral as a meeting-place for business and conversation, usury, and so on.
It contains, amid much prefatory matter, a "note to the carping and scornefull Sicophant," in which he attacks his foes with small courtesy and much alliteration.
"[1] A bibliography of these and of Hake's other works was compiled by Charles Edmonds for his edition in 1872 of the Newes (Isham Reprints, No.