Robert Crowley

Robert Crowley (born c. 1518, Gloucestershire, Eng.—died June 18, 1588) was an English Puritan, social reformer, and Christian Socialist prominent in the vestiarian disputes (over the alleged “Romishness” of the vestments worn by Anglican clergy) of Elizabeth I’s reign. His writings include The Way to Wealth (1550), in which he attributed the government’s failure to stop enclosure of common land to the organized resistance of the rich. Other works include An informacion and Peticion agaynst...