… together with … examples of Gods Judgements … made Dialoguewise …’ black letter, R. Jones, London, 1 May 1583, 4to; dedicated to Philip, earl of Arundel. The success of this book evoked a second edition on 16 Aug. in the same year. A third edition ‘newly augmented’ appeared in 1584[–5], and a fourth edition in 1595. It was reprinted in 1836 by W. D. Turnbull, and again in 1870 with an introduction by J. Payne Collier, and edited with elaborate ‘forewords’ and notes for the New Shakspere Society by Dr. F. J. Furnivall, 2 pts. 1877, 1882. In the preface to the first edition Stubbes protests that his object is not to abolish all amusements, but only abuses of them; he admitted that some plays were useful, that dancing in private was allowable, and that gaming was only wrong when ‘inflamed with coveytousness.’ But in all subsequent editions this preface was omitted, and Stubbes's strictures and invectives marked him out as a typical exponent of extreme puritanic views. He was popularly associated with the Martin Mar-Prelate zealots, and was mercilessly abused in ‘An Almond for a Parrat,’ a pamphlet published in 1589 and attributed both to Lyly and to Nashe. In the same year Nashe published an equally vehement attack on Stubbes in his ‘Anatomie of Absurditie,’ while Gabriel Harvey in his ‘Pierce's Supererogation,’ 1593, defended him and classed him with ‘Mulcaster, Norton, Lambert, and the Lord Henry Howarde, whose seuerall writings, the siluer file of the workeman recommendeth to the plausible interteinment of the daintiest censure.’ The book is now valuable from the encyclopædic information it supplies as to manners, customs, and fashions in England towards the end of the sixteenth century.
In the same year (1583) Stubbes published two other works, ‘The Rosarie of Christian Praiers and Meditations …,’ London, by John Charlewood, 18mo, of which no copy is known to be extant, and ‘The Second Part of the Anatomie of Abuses.’ He also contributed verses to the 1583 edition of Foxe's ‘Actes and Monumentes.’ In 1584 he published ‘The Theatre of the Pope's Monarchie, by Phil. Stubbes,’ London, 8vo, of which no copy is known to be extant, and in 1585 ‘The intended Treason of Doctor Parrie and his Complices against the Queenes Most Excellente Maiestie, with a Letter sent from the Pope to the same effect,’ London, 4to [see Parry, William, (d. 1585)]. This was reprinted in the ‘Shakespeare Society's Papers,’ iii. 17–21.
For six years Stubbes's pen remained idle. In the autumn of 1586 he married. In the license, which was dated 6 Sept. 1586, Stubbes was described as ‘gentleman, of St. Mary at Hill, London,’ and his wife as ‘Katherine Emmes, spinster, of the same parish, daughter of William Emmes, late of St. Dunstan in the West, cordwainer, deceased.’ Emmes was also a freeman of the city of London, and bequeathed some property to his children, of whom Katherine was the third child but eldest daughter. She was only fifteen years of age at her marriage, which she survived four years, being buried on 14 Dec. 1590 at Burton-on-Trent, six weeks after the birth of a son named John, who was baptised in the same church on 17 Nov.
Stubbes now resumed literary work, and his first book was a life of his wife, entitled ‘A Christal Glasse for Christian Women, by P. S., Gent.,’ London, 1591, 4to. The book proved even more popular than the ‘Anatomie of Abuses;’ a second edition appeared in 1592, and others in 1600 (?), 1606, 1629, 1633, and 1646. Lowndes mentions an edition of 1647 with portrait by Hollar. In 1592 Stubbes issued ‘A Perfect Pathway to Felicitie, conteining godly Meditations and praiers fit for all times, and necessarie to be practized of all good Christians,’ London, 16mo; another edition, with fifteen new prayers, was issued in 1610, and some of the prayers were printed by Dr. Furnivall with the ‘Anatomie’ in 1877–82. Stubbes's last book was ‘A Motive to Good Works, or rather, to true Christianitie,’ London, 1593, 8vo; reprinted 1883, 4to, from a manuscript copy in the library of Emmanuel College, Cambridge (cf. Collier, Bibliogr. Cat. ii. 400–401). In that year (1593) Stubbes was lodging ‘by Cheapside’ on 8 Nov. Collier maintained that he died of the plague soon afterwards; but it is probable that he was alive in 1610, and that he himself added the fifteen new prayers to the edition of his ‘Perfect Pathway to Felicitie’ published in that year.
[Most of the information available has been collected in Dr. Furnivall's ‘Forewords’ to his edition of the Anatomie of Abuses. See also Stubbes's Works in Brit. Mus. Libr.; Bodleian Cat.; Cat. Huth Libr.; Collier's Bibliogr. Cat.; Hazlitt's Handbook, Collections, and Notes; Arber's Transcript of the Stationers' Registers; Wood's Athenæ Oxon. ed. Bliss, i. 645; Chester's London Marriage Licences.]
STUBBS, PHILIP (1665–1738), archdeacon of St. Albans, was son of Philip Stubbs, citizen and vintner of London. Born on 2 Oct. 1665, during the plague, in the parish of St. Andrew Undershaft, London,
