Reverendifsimus in Chrifto Pater D.D. MATTHEUS PARKERUS, Archiepiscopus Cantuariensis.

Printed for Iohn Wyat at the Rose in St Pauls Church Yard. 1711.

THE

LIFE and ACTS

O F

MATTHEW PARKER,
The First Archbishop of CANTERBURY
in the Reign of Queen ELIZABETH.
Under whofe Primacy and Influence the Reformation of Religion
was happily Effected; And the

Church of England

Reftored, and Established upon the PRINCIPLES
whereon it stands to this Day.

WHEREIN

Are related the faid Archbishop's Actions in Ecclefiaftical Commiffions, and
Synods; His Vifitations of the Diocefes, Colleges and Hofpitals within his
Province, with his Injunctions and Regulations: Characters and Accounts of
Bishops by him Confecrated: His Endeavours for Uniformity: His Diligence in
Retrieving, and Publishing many Daron, and other Ancient Hiftorical MSS. of
this Nation: His Procuring a more correct Tranflation of the Holy Bible: His
Government of his own Dioces of CANTERBURY: His fober Thoughts,
Counfels and Cares for Religion and this Church:

AND

Many Particulars of the Ecclefiaftical History of those Times, hitherto
Unknown, or very Obfcure, are discovered and brought to Light.
Compiled Faithfully from Records, Regifters, State - Papers, Orders of
Council, Authentic Letters, and fundry other Original MSS.

In FOUR BOOKS.

To which is Added, An APPENDIX,
Containing various Transcripts of Records, Letters, Instruments, Ordinances,
Commiffions, Difcourfes, Relations, Intelligences, and other fecret Papers, above
an Hundred in Number; for the Afferting or Illuftrating the foregoing History.
Among which will be found the Latin Life of this Archb". Entituled, MATTHÆUS,
fo much and fo long wanted in the Editions of the BRITISH ANTIQUITIES.

Æqui autem omnes atque candidi alienæ vitæ Cenfores, ejufque vitæ Exploratores feduli,
bac tam fumma, in uno viro fic conjuncta & copulata, eademque ad fummam Senectutem
perducta, bona, non commemoranda modo, fed & ftupefcenda, putabant. MATTHÆUS.

By JOHN STRTPE, M. A,

LOND 0 N:

Printed for JOHN WYAT at the Rofe in St. Paul's Church-Yard.
MDCC XI.

To His GRACE The Moft Reverend Father in GOD,

THOMAS,

By the Divine Providence,

Lord Archbishop of CANTERBURY, Primate of all ENGLAND, and Metropolitan: And one of Her Majesty's Moft Honourable Privy Council.

May it pleafe your Grace,

A

S I did, divers Years ago, Present MEMORIALS of CRANMER, the First Proteftant Archbishop of CANTERBURY, to your immediate Predeceffor in the faid See, fo I am Ambitious to Dedicate this LIFE of PARKER, the Second Proteftant Archbishop, unto Your Grace: Both of them Equal, as in the Great Work they undertook, of reforming corrupt Religion, and reftoring the Antient Church of ENGLAND; fo in their Sufferings, and all the Effects of Rage from evil Men, for their most beneficial Pains and Service therein: Whereof Wee, the fucceeding Generations in this happy Ifland, have reaped the [ a ] blefled