1 Perry. 17th of the same month he was consecrated in the chapel at Lambeth-palace by William Barlow late bishop of Bath and Wells and bishop elect of Chichester, John Scory late bishop of Chichester and bishop elect of Hereford, Miles Coverdale late bishop of Exeter, and John Hodgkin suffragan bishop of Bedford. He had restitution of the temporalities 1 March 1559-60. During the interval between his election and consecration he, with four other bishops elect, addressed a letter to the queen entreating her to stay an exchange proposed to be made under the act whereby the queen was empowered upon the vacancy of any bishopric to convert the lands and manors thereof unto herself, giving in exchange tenths and impropriate benefices which had belonged to the dissolved monasteries; also praying that the bishops might be allowed the half-year's rents due at Michaelmas preceding. On 29 July 1560 the queen and her council dined with the archbishop at Lambeth, and in that and subsequent years he by his commissioners visited several cathedrals and dioceses within his province. In May 1562 he by his commissioners visited All Souls and Merton colleges Oxford, and in August following he and others visited Eton college by a commission from the queen. In January 1562 began under his presidency that famous convocation wherein the thirty-nine articles were agreed to. In the summer of 1563 he visited his diocese in person. In 1564 he and other prelates, as commissioners ecclesiastical in obedience to the queen's peremptory commands, issued advertisements for due order in the administration of common prayer and the sacraments, and for the apparel of all persons ecclesiastical. These occasioned the first open separation of the nonconformists from the church of England, the professed ground of separation being the necessity of wearing the same garments that were used by the clergy of the church of Rome, but the real point at issue being, and soon afterwards shewing itself to be, the right principle of church government. The remainder of the archbishop's days were greatly embittered by the dissensions which ensued, and he seems to have been especially grieved at the conduct of Sampson dean of Christchurch, who was deprived and confined though the archbishop strove earnestly to induce him to conform, and failing in that, to mitigate the rigour with which he was treated. In 1565 the archbishop made three noble feasts in his great hall at Canterbury, the first on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday in Whitsun-week, the second on Trinity Sunday, the third during the assizes in July, the two first feasts being preceded by a solemn service and the administration of the holy communion in the cathedral. In 1568 he caused to be published a new translation of the Bible revised by himself and other prelates and learned men. It is commonly known as the Bishop's Bible, and an amended edition came forth in 1572. In November 1569 the archbishop again visited his diocese by commission. In May 1570 he was at Canterbury, and on Ascension-day preached before the clergy and people in his cathedral. On Whitsunday and two following days he feasted the citizens of Canterbury and their wives in his great hall. On Trinity Sunday he consecrated Richard Curtis bishop of Chichester, and on the same day made another noble feast, at which were present Grindal archbishop elect of York, and the bishops of Winchester, Rochester, and Chichester, all the clergy ministers and servants of the church of Canterbury, and the poor of the hospitals of S. John and Herbaldown. On the next day he confirmed archbishop Grindal and inducted him into the see of York. On 3rd July he in person visited the chapter of Canterbury, and on the 11th gave another splendid entertainment in his great hall to the judges of assize, the high sheriff, gentry, and others. A few days afterwards he was visited at Canterbury by Sandys bishop elect of London whom he confirmed. On 17th August his wife, to whom he was greatly attached, died at Lambeth where she was buried. In the convocation which began 3 April 1571 the queen's assent was given to the thirty-nine articles, which were then for the first time offered as a test to every candidate for holy orders. Certain canons for discipline, drawn up by the archbishop assisted by Cox bishop of Ely and Horne bishop of Winchester, were also established. On the queen's progress into Kent in the autumn of 1573, the archbishop with all his men met her majesty upon Folk stone-down and accompanied her thence to Dover. He subsequently received her with the bishops of Lincoln and Rochester and the dean and chapter of Canterbury, when she attended Canterbury cathedral. During her stay in that city she dined on her birthday with the primate in his great hall, there being also present on the occasion the lords of the council, divers of the nobility, the french ambassadors, the mayor and aldermen of the city, and a large assemblage of gentlemen and ladies. He presented her majesty with a saltcellar of gold and agate with a diamond on the top, the hollow of the agate being filled with six portugal pieces of £3. 10s. each. Shortly after the queen's departure from Canterbury the archbishop visited that church and the chapter both in person and by his commissaries, and issued orders and injunctions for redressing various abuses and defects which were discovered to exist. He also made a personal visitation of Eastbridge hospital, and soon afterwards issued a commission for a general visitation throughout his diocese. In the he made orders for regulating year apparitors, and framed a code of constitutions for the court of arches. same His health began greatly to fail in March 1574-5, and on 17 May 1575 death deprived the church of England of this pious, useful, wise and public-spirited metropolitan. He was to the last of a vigorous mind and perfect memory. His friend and secretary Alexander Neville says, "Integris sensibus, ætate optimâ, e vitâ, tanquam è scenâ benè peracta fabulæ, discessit." Upon his deathbed he wrote to the queen protesting against the spoliation of the revenues of the church, and not sparing to speak vehemently against his old friends the lordkeeper Bacon and lord Burghley, whose conduct in that respect he deemed open to censure. It would rather appear however that he was dissuaded from sending this letter. He was buried at Lambeth with great solemnity on the 6th of June. The bishop of Lincoln preached the funeral sermon, and the bishops of London, Ely, Bath and Wells, and Rochester, the two chief-justices, the master of the rolls, justices Manwood and Harper, the deans of Ely and Westminster, the recorder of London and the doctors of the arches were amongst the mourners, Garter and Clarenceux kings-at-arms, four heralds and two pursuivants were also in attendance. His bowels by his own order were put into an urn and interred in the Duke's chapel in Lambeth church where his wife and his son Matthew lay, but his body was buried in his own private chapel in Lambeth palace under a monument which he had erected in his lifetime. On the front of the monument was inscribed: Depositum Reverendissimi in Christo Patris Mathæi Parkeri Archiepiscopi Cantuar. Sedit annos 15 Menses 6 obiit 1575 Maii 17. There were also these verses, compiled by his old friend Dr. Walter Haddon whom he had survived: Sobrius et prudens, studiis excultus et usu, Anno Domini 1575 Etatis suæ 71. molished in or about 1648 by one Harding This monument was barbarously dewho was the grantee of part of Lambeth palace. The archbishop's body was dug up and thrown into an outhouse where it remained till after the restoration, of sir William Dugdale, caused it to be when archbishop Sancroft, at the instance decently reburied in the chapel under this inscription: Corpus Matthæi Archiepiscopi hic tandem quiescit. The monument was reerected in the vestibule of the chapel, the following inscription composed by archbishop Sancroft being placed thereon: Matthæi Archiepiscopi Cenotaphium. In adyto hujus sacelli olim rite conditum Etiam sub sterquilinio (proh! scelus) ab strusum: Rege demum (plaudente et cœlo et terra) redeunte, Ex decreto Baronum Angliæ sedulo requisitum, Et sacello postliminio redditum, Non nisi tuba ultima solicitandum. His will, which bears date 5 April 1575 and was proved 1 October the same year, contains a pious account of his faith and repentance and expresses his desire that his burial might be performed without pomp, worldly noise, or cost. Besides his charitable donations, which will be hereafter particularly noticed, he gave to his successors his choral organs in the chapel at Lambeth, and all his arms and implements of war with their appurtenances in his armouries at Canterbury and Lambeth, and the saddles of his war-horses; also "illum magnum instrumentum musicum, quasi abacum, cum suis appendicis jam locatum in cubiculo illo quod ministri regii vocant Præsentiæ," together with the pictures of archbishop Warham and Erasmus. He also gave to Edmund Grindal archbishop of York a gold ring with a round sapphire; to Edwin Sandys bishop of London his staff of indian cane with silver gilt at the end; to Robert Horne bishop of Winchester a gold ring with a turquoise; to Richard Cox bishop of Ely his staff of indian cane with a horologe on the top; to Nicholas Bullingham bishop of Worcester his white horse called Hackengton with the saddle and bridle and a new footcloth of velvet; to Andrew Pearson, B.D., a silver cup with a cover gilt, given to him by the queen on the feast of the circumcision; to the lord-keeper Bacon a great gilt cup with the cover weighing 43 ounces, and a psalter with a saxon gloss fairly written and bound; to lord Burghley his best gold ring with a sapphire cut in squares, and a cup of ivory; to sir William Cordel master of the rolls his gilt cup with a cover, given him by the queen 1 Jan. 1572. There are also pecuniary and other bequests to Dr. Rogers suffragan bishop of Dover, Roger Manwood justice, Robert Forth, LL.D., his son John Parker, his grandson Matthew Parker, Samuel Harleston, B.A., of Cambridge, the children of his brother Thomas Parker sometime mayor of Norwich, the children of Simon Harleston, Katherine Whiting, and his domestic and other servants. He appointed as supervisors, Richard bishop of Dover, sir William Cordel, Thomas Wotton, esq., Thomas Yale, LL.D., and John Bungay clerk; and as executors, Peter Osborn of the queen's exchequer, his son John Parker, Richard Wendesley, esq., Andrew Pearson commissary of the faculties, and his half-brother John Baker of Cambridge, gent. The inventory of his goods, household stuff, plate, &c., taken 31 May 1575, is curious and interesting, especially the list of his pictures and maps. His wife, who was a most excellent woman, has been already mentioned. Queen Elizabeth had a great dislike to the clergy being married. On one occasion, when taking leave of the archbishop after she had been entertained by him, she thus addressed his wife, "Madam, I may not call you, and Mrs. I am ashamed to call you, so I know not what to call you, but yet I do thank you." His children were, John born at Cambridge 5 May 1548, knighted 1603, died, 1618; Matthew born 27 Aug. 1550, buried at Great S. Mary's Cambridge 7th January following; Martha baptised at S. Benedict's Cambridge 29 Aug. 1550; Matthew born 1 Sept. 1551, died 1574; Joseph born 12 Sept. 1556, died the same year. Subjoined is a list of the works which he compiled or edited. 1. Statuta collegii de Stoke juxta Clare. MS. C. C. C. C. 108, PP. 155, 171. 2. Statuta Collegii Corporis Christi et Beatae Mariae Virginis Cantabrigiae. In Masters' Hist. of C. C. C. C. ed. Lamb, 279, and Cambridge Univ. & Coll. Documents, ii. 447. 3. Orationes habitæ coram senatu Cantab. MS. C. C. C. C. 106, PP. 417*, 419*, 423*, 428*. 4. Black paper book of the University. [See MS. C. C. C. C. 106, p. 43.] 5. Black paper book of the proctors' accounts. [See MS. C. C. C. C. 106, p. 45.] 6. Historia de Fundatione et Statu Collegii Corporis Christi. MS. [See Strype's Parker, 15, 487.] A translation of part of this work with a scurrilous commentary appeared 1573, under the title of The life off the 70 Archbishop off Canterbury presentlye settinge Englished, and to be added to the 69 lately sett forth in Latin. The number of seventy is so compleat a number as it is great pitie there should be one more: but as Augustin was the first, so Mathew might be the last. 7. Howe we ought to take the death of the Godly. A sermon made in Cambridge at the Burial of the noble Clerck D. M. Bucer. Lond. (Jugge) 8vo. n.d. Also in latin in Buceri Scripta Anglicana. 8. The whole Psalter translated into English Metre which contayneth an hundredth and fifty Psalmes. London, 4to. (J. Day) n. d. Divided into three parts or quinquagenes each containing fifty Psalms. 9. Journal of memorable things happening to him from the year of his birth to the year wherein he was made archbishop. MS. C. C. C. C. In Strype's Parker, Append. No. IX., and Parker Correspondence, p. vi, 482. 10. A note of the differences between King Edward the Sixth's Common Prayer and that of her Majesty. MS. Lansd. 120, art. 4. 11. A declaration of certain principal articles of religion set out by the order of both archbishops metropolitans, and the rest of the bishops for uniformity of doctrine, to be taught and holden of all parsons, vicars, and curates, as well in testification of their common consent in the said doctrine to the stopping of the mouths of them that go about to slander the ministers of the church for diversity of judgment, as necessary for the instruction of their people. Lond....... (R. Jugge) 1561. In Wilkins's Concilia, iv. 195, Cardwell's Documentary Annals, i. 263, and Hardwick's Hist. of the Articles of Religion, Append. No. IV. 12. A Form of Prayer commanded to be used for her majesty's safety, and the good estate of the nation, and of the religion professed therein. [1559-60. See Clay's Liturgical Services, 458.] 13. A shorte fourme and order to be used in Common prayer thrise a weke for sesonable wether, and good successe of the Common affaires of the Realme: meate to be used at this presente and also hereafter when like occasion shall aryse, by the discrecyon of the Ordinaries within the province of Canterburye. Lond. (Jugge) 8vo. n.d. [1560. See Clay's Liturgical Services. 458, 475.] 14. Articles for the dioceses to be inquired of in his metropolitical visitation. În Strype's Parker, Append. No. XI. 15. Statutes for the government and settlement of the hospitals of S. John the Baptist in Canterbury and S. Nicholas in Harboldown; Dated 15 Sept. 1560, with additions 20 Aug. 1565 and 20 May In Strype's Parker, Append. 1574. No. XIII. 16. An Admonition for the necessity of the present time, till a further con sultation, to all such as shall intend hereafter to enter the state of matrimony godly, and agreeable to law. Lond. 1560. With a shorter title, Lond. 1563. In Wilkins's Concilia, iv. 244, and Cardwell's Documentary Annals, i. 316-320. 17. A Defence of Priests' Marriages, established by the Imperial Laws of the Realm of England: against a Civilian naming himself Thomas Martin, Doctor of the Civil Laws, going about to disprove the said Marriages lawful by the eternal Word of God, and by the High Court of Parliament: only forbid by foreign Laws, and Canons of the Pope, coloured with a visour of the Church. Which Laws and Canons were extinguished by the Parliament, and so abrogated by the Convocation in their Synod by their Subscriptions, &c. Lond. 4to. 18. A Prayer to be used for the present estate in churches, at the end of the latanie, on Sondaies, Wednesdaies, and Frydaies, throughe the whole Realme. In Clay's Liturgical Services, 476. [See Strype's Annals, i. 248, and Clay's Liturg. Serv. 458, 459.] 19. A Fourme to be used in Common prayer twyse aweke, and also an order of publique fast, to be used every Wednesday in the weeke, duryng this tyme of mortalitie, and other afflictions, wherewith the Realm at this present is visited. Set forth by the Quenes majesties speciall commandement, expressed in her letters hereafter folowyng in the next page xxx Julii, 1563. Lond. 4to. 1563. Also in Clay's Liturgical Services, 478. 20. The manner how the church of England is administered and governed. With lady Bacon's translation of Jewel's Apology. Lond. 8vo. 1564, and in Strype's Parker, Append. No. XXXII. 21. A godly and necessarye admonition of the Decrees and Canons of the Counsel of Trent celebrated under Pius the fourth, Byshop of Rome, in the yeares of our Lord M.D.LXII. and M.D.LXIII. Written for those godly disposed persons sakes, whych looke for amendment of Doctrine and Ceremonies to bee made by generall Counsels. Lately translated out of Latin. Lond. 4to. 1564. 22. Advertisements partly for due order in the publique administration of common prayers, and usinge the holy sacramentes, and partly for the apparell of all persons ecclesiasticall, by virtue of the queenes majesties letters, commanding the same, the 25th day of January, in the seventh year of the raigne of our soveraigne lady Elizabeth, by the grace of God of Englande, Fraunce, and Ireland queene, defender of the faith, etc. In Strype's Parker, Append. No. XXVIII., Wilkins's Concilia, iv. 247, and Cardwell's Documentary Annals, i. 321. These were drawn up by the archbishop with the assistance of other bishops. They are signed by him and the bishops of London, Ely, Rochester, Winchester, and Lincoln, as commissioners in causes ecclesiastical. 23. A fourme to be used in Common prayer every Sunday, Wednesday, and Fryday, through the whole Realme. To excite and stirre up all godly people to pray unto God for the preservation of those Christians, and their Countreys, that are now invaded by the Turke in Hungary, or elswhere. Lond. 4to. (Jugge and Cawood) n.d. [1565]. In Clay's Liturgical Services, 527. : 24. A Dietary; being ordinances for the prices of victuals and diet of the Clergy for the preventing of Dearths. In Strype's Parker, Append. No. XXXIII. 25. A brief and lamentable consideration of the apparel now used by the clergy of England set out by a faithful servant of God for the instruction of the weak. Lond. 8vo. 1565. [See Strype's Annals, I. 492.] 26. An examination for the time, of a certain declaration lately put in print in the name and defence of certain ministers of London, refusing to wear the apparel prescribed by the laws and orders of the realm. Lond. 4to. 1566. [See Strype's Annals, i. 517.] 27. A Testimonie of Antiquitie shewing the auncient fayth in the Church of England touching the sacrament of the body and bloude of the Lord here publickely preached, and also receaved in the Saxons tyme, above 600 years ago. Lond. 8vo. [1567]; 4to. 1623; Oxford 1675. Saxon on one page, English on the opposite. It contains a Sermon by abbat Elfric of the Paschal Lamb, the epistles of Elfric to Wolfstan, the Lord's prayer, the Creed, the Ten Commandments in Saxon. The sermon both in saxon and english is incorrectly given in the later editions of Fox's Acts and Monuments. The preface to the sermon is by archbishop Parker. 28. Articles to be inquired of in his metropolitcal visitation in al and singular cathedral and collegate churches within the province of Canterbury [1567]. In Strype's Parker, Append. No. LIII., Wilkins's Concilia, iv. 252, and Cardwell's Documentary Annals, i. 337. 29. Flores Historiarum per Matthæum Westmonasteriensem collecti, Præcipuè de rebus Britannicis ab exordio mundi usque ad Annum Domini 1307. Lond. fo. 1567-1570. With a large preface by the archbishop. 30. The sum of the Scripture: The tables of Christ's line: The Argument of the Scriptures: The first Preface into the whole Bible: The Preface into the Psalter: The Preface into the New Testament: Genesis, Exodus, Matthew, Mark, 2 Corinth., Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, Thessalonians, Timothy, Titus, Philemon, Hebrews. In the Bishop's Bible 1568. The Preface to the Old and New Testament in Strype's Parker, Append. No. LXXXIII. No. LXXXIV. 31. Statutes for the hospital of Eastbridge in Canterbury: Dated 20 May 1569. In Strype's Parker, Append. No. LVIII. 32. A Prayer. At the end of the Homilie against disobedience and wylful rebellion 1569, and in Clay's Liturgical Services, 538. 33. The entry of the most sacred majestie imperiall, done in the city of Ausboura [Augsburgh] the xv daie of June, in the yeare of our Lorde 1530: withe the godly and devoute procession made on the morrowe, being the xvi daie of the same moneth, in the which the emperours majestie being bareheded did carry a torche of white waxe. C. C. C. C. 111, p. 359. Translated by the archbishop in 1569 from a french book printed at Antwerp 1530. MS. 34. Articles to be enquired of within the diocese of Canterbury in his ordinary visitation in the yeare of our Lorde God MD.LXIX. In Wilkins's Concilia, iv. 257, and Cardwell's Documentary Annals, I. 355. 35. A Thankes Geving for the suppression of the late rebellion [1569-70]. In Clay's Liturgical Services, 538. [See Strype's Annals, i. 552.] |