Life of Matthew Parker (Strype, 1821)/Book I/Chapter VII

This is the enhanced reading edition of Chapter VII, prepared for AnglicanWiki. Section headings, English translations of Latin, internal links, and editorial notes are modern additions; Strype's text is otherwise preserved. A faithful transcription without modern editorial apparatus is also maintained.

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Dr. Parker in commission against Anabaptists. Preaches at St. Paul's Cross; and at Court; and at St. Mary's in Cambridge, at the funeral of Bucer. Bishop Ridley writes to him to preach again at the Cross. A third son born to him. Tremellius. Made Dean of Lincoln. His friends: reputation in the University. His writings. His condition under Queen Mary; being deprived of all.

Resignation of Birlingham

WE are come to the year 1550; in which, Octob. 1, the Archbishop resigned his living of Birlingham, after he had now held it six years and upwards: not caring, as it seems, any longer to be a pluralist; or thinking he could not frequently enough inspect that cure, being at such a distance.

The Commission against the Anabaptists

Many now there were in the kingdom, who, though they were not Papists, yet differed from the doctrine and usage of religion now established. They would not baptize their children; held as the Arians in the doctrine of the Godhead, and as Pelagius in the doctrine of free-will and predestination: all these came under the denomination of Anabaptists.

Many also there were that administered the Sacraments in other manner than was prescribed by the Book of Common Prayer, lately set forth by public authority. For the prevention of the spreading of these people, a commission was issued out in the month of January to one and thirty persons, empowering them to correct and punish these men. Of which number was the Archbishop, and four other Bishops, and divers other Protestants and learned men of the Court; and of the King's Chaplains, Redman, Latymer, Coverdale, Eyre, and among the rest our Dr. Parker.

Called to Preach at St Paul's Cross and at Court

Archbishop Cranmer wrote to him a letter to preach, 28 March the 16th, at Paul's Cross; praying him "purely and sincerely to set forth God's word there, and to exhort his audience to due obedience to the King's Highness' laws and statutes." And again, he had a command to preach before the King four days after. For thus the same Archbishop wrote to him:

"I commend me hertily unto you; and wheras the Kings Majesty, by th'advise of his most honourable Counsail, hath appointed you to preach one sermon before his Highnes person at the Court, upon Sonday the XXth of March next coming, being the VIth Sonday in Lent, and hath commanded me to signify unto you his grace and pleasure in this behalf; thes therefore shalbe to requyre you to put your self in a redyness in the mean time to satisfy the day and place to you appoynted, according to the King's Majesties expectation, and not to fayle in any wise. Thus hertily fare ye wel. From my mannour at Lambeth, the XIIth of February 1550. Your loving frend, T. Cant."

"To my loving frend Mr. Doctor Parker."

Death of Martin Bucer

February 28, Parker lost his great friend Dr. Martin Bucer, the King's Professor of Divinity in Cambridge. He, with Dr. Sandys, Master of Katherine hall, Grindal and Bradford, Fellows of Pembroke hall, held a more particular converse and acquaintance with that great learned foreign Divine. And with these men Bucer held some communication concerning his writing that book De Regno Christi ("On the Kingdom of Christ"), dedicated to King Edward; as Sampson, a man of note, then in Pembroke hall in that University, conjectured.

But that they had an high esteem for the book, after it was written, was certain, by certain private talk that Parker and the rest had among themselves: which Sampson was privy to, as he once signified in a letter to the Lord Burghley.

And in the controversy that reverend Professor had with Yong, in a public disputation at Cambridge, begetting great heats and parties, (insomuch that he was fain to appeal to Bishop Ridley, and sent up his disputation in writing to him,) our Doctor, together with Dr. Sandys, adhered firmly to him. Which he signified in a letter he wrote to Grindal, then with the foresaid Bishop; viz. Fidelissime agere Christi et meam causam D. Parkerum et D. Sandes The friendship between Bucer and our Parker grew so intimate afterwards, that a little before his death he constituted him, and Dr. Haddon, Professor of the Civil Law, the executors of his last will and testament; as appeared by the codicil to his will, wherein are these words, Testamentarios appello hic eximios Dominos Doctores, Parkerum et Haddonum. A transcript of which codicil Parker sent to Strasburgh to Ulrich Chelius, and Conrad Hubert, the tutors and guardians to his children.

Parker's Funeral Sermon for Bucer

And, as the last respects they could pay to this their highly honoured friend deceased, both Haddon and Parker were the orators at his funeral at St. Mary's. The former, being University Orator, pronounced, very moving, a Latin speech, in his commendation, before that solemn assembly of the town and University that attended his funerals. And then, the corpse being interred, Parker ascended the pulpit, and preached a sermon in English, in such a strain of melting oratory, as was to the admiration of the auditory: taking his text out of the Book of Wisdom, chap. iv. beginning at ver. 7. But though the righteous be prevented with death, yet shall he be in rest. For honourable age is not that which standeth in length of time, nor that is measured by number of years. But wisdom is the gray hairs unto men, and an unspotted life is old age. He pleased God, and was beloved of him: so that living among sinners, he was translated. Yea, speedily was he taken away, lest that wickedness should alter his understanding, or deceit beguile his soul, &c. and so on to ver. 19. The sermon was afterwards printed; and some years after translated into Latin; and is still to be seen in the volume of Bucer's Scripta Anglicana ("English Writings").

In his discourse, "having mentioned the happiness of the deceased person, and of all saints departed, and relating the rewards of a well spent life; he forbad his auditors to lament the death of so holy a man. Because it fell out well for him, who, having finished a most painful life, and passed through abundance of troubles, was 29 gotten now out of the waves to the port; out of the rout and sink of men, into eternal peace, and the company of the blessed.

Then he proceeded to relate the punishments which God inflicts upon impious and disobedient men for their wickednesses: and then giving his hearers a view of their own slackness and neglect in the entertainment of such a saving messenger as Bucer was; from whose most dissolute manners he was snatched away for the heavier punishment of the succeeding times: this, he said, was a most just cause of sorrow and weeping. And that if they should suffer it to slip away, and turned not, both in their minds and senses, to mourning and tears, and sighs and groans, God would not endure their hardened hearts: but as he had made them to shake by the great fall of Bucer, so he would afterwards chastise them with heavier punishments.

He added, that God had placed him among them as the chief master workman; who omitted no day, no hour, in bringing somewhat which seemed fit for the building of God's house. But they of Cambridge, part of them, complying with the times, were drawn to join in the same work, but hardly moved a hand to reach one stone: and part overborne with envy, blindness, and the old dregs of superstition, raised tumults, and prepared strength to undermine the foundation, and to throw down the walls and roof of the building.

Therefore God could bear no longer the dissembled industry of the one part, and the infinite hatred of the other. And thus he applied this, as a punishment of their wickedness, if they persisted; but as a medicine of their error, if they returned and were sorry." This topic did Dr. Parker copiously and accurately handle; moving upon his auditory to congratulation in regard of Bucer's happiness, and to lamentation and tears in regard of their own misery. And so he descended largely into the praises of the excellent virtues and incomparable learning of the deceased.

Ridley Calls Him to St Paul's Cross

Our Doctor's abilities for preaching being so well known, Ridley, the Bishop of London, sent to him, July 22, to preach again at St. Paul's Cross: which he declined, and earnestly desired to be excused. Wherefore the good Bishop, being minded that none but learned and discreet preachers should officiate there, July 25. wrote a very pathetic letter to him to give a sermon there, and would take no denial and the rather, because several came up unfit for such an audience: some wanted learning, and some judgment, and some a good conversation, and some discretion. All which accomplishments the Bishop judged to meet in him. Whose letter therefore was as follows:

"Mr. Doctor, I wish you grace and peace. Sir, I pray you refuse not to take a day at the Cross. I may have, if I would call without any choice, enow: but in some, alas! I desire more learning, in some a better judgment, in some more virtue and godly conversation, and in some more soberness and discretion. And he, in whom all these do meet, shall not do well to refuse, in my judgment, to serve God in that place. Of which number, because I take you to be, therefore (leaving at this time to charge you with answering for the contrary to the King and his Council) I must charge you to take a day, as ye will answer for the contrary to Almighty God at your own peril. If the day be thought not commodious for you, I shall appoint another for it. But if I should discharge you for that place for the time hereafter, in good faith, my conscience should accuse me, and tell me, that I should rather go about to satisfy your request, (whom the truth is, as your kindness hath bound me, I would be glad to gratify,) than to set forth God's cause. Thus fare you well. From my house at London. And I pray you commend me to Mrs. Parker, whom although I do not know, yet, for the fame of her virtue in God, I do love. 25 of July. Yours in Christ, Nic. London."

A Third Son; Tremellius as Godfather

The first of September this year was born to our Doctor a third son, named Matthew, after his own name; having had also a son of the same name the last year, born August 27, and died in January ensuing. This Matthew the Archbishop lived to see matched with Frances, the virtuous daughter of another Bishop, viz. Barlow of Chichester. But Matthew died before his father, in the year 1574. This was the son, I suppose, for whom the Doctor chose 30 Immanuel Tremellius the foreigner (and then the Hebrew Professor in the University) to stand godfather, to give the greater countenance to his learning and piety. For the Doctor was so well pleased with this man, that there was maintained a great familiarity between them; as there seemed to be between their wives also. In July the next year, I meet with a letter wrote by Tremellius from London to Parker; wherein salutations are sent from his wife to Mrs. Parker, and she sends a kiss to the little infant also.

Preaching before King Edward

This Lent Dr. Parker preached before King Edward two several Wednesdays, if not three, Harly, his fellow chaplain, supplying by course the other days.

The Clare Hall Mastership Dispute

A great controversy happened about this time between John Madew, D. D. plaintiff, and Rowland Swinburn, defendant, about the Mastership, I suppose, of Clare hall, whereof Swinburn had got possession. For which they appealed at length to the King and Council. Swinburn was a Papist, or that way affected, whatsoever his pretences and compliances now were: Madew, a great promoter of the Gospel, a good preacher and disputant, and had been one of the King's Commissioners in the royal visitation, 1547, and of good service in the University. Upon the appeal aforesaid, the King and Council issued out a commission, dated April 8, directed to Dr. Parker, Walter Haddon, LL. D. Master of Trinity hall, and the King's Professor of the Civil Law, Tho. Lever, S. Th. B. Master of St. John's college, and Ralph Hensworth, [Aynsworth,] Master of Peter house, or to two or three of them, to determine, or to certify the matter in a certain competition between them. The issue was, that Madew obtained the Mastership, and Swinburn was laid aside. Yet the next year, upon the change of the government, Madew was thrown out, and Swinburn came into the Mastership again.

Dean of Lincoln

A presentation from the King was granted to our Doctor this year to the canonry and prebend of Corringham, in the church of Lincoln. His patent bore date at Westminster, June 21. And now the King sent his letters to the President and Chapter to admit and choose him to the deanery also. For John Taylor, Dean of the said church, being advanced to be Bishop of this see, June 8. Dr. Parker was nominated to succeed him in the deanery. And July 9. he was installed into his prebend; and the 30th elected Dean; and October 7. installed into the said deanery of Lincoln in his own person.

Friendship with Bishop Goodrick

It was said before how King Henry gave him a prebend in the church of Ely. By which means probably he came to be the better known unto the Bishop of that see, Dr. Goodrick, Lord Chancellor in the latter part of King Edward's reign. To this Bishop our Parker was dear, and in the number of his friends: yet, according to the temper of the man towards his friends, when he came to be advanced, he was not forward to shew such kindness to this his friend as he expected, and sometimes sued for at his hands, and used too much sourness and passion towards him. Which character Parker afterwards, when Archbishop, gave of this Bishop in one of his letters. "More and Audley," said he, "for wit, eloquence, and law; Goderick for his sincerity towards justice. But they all had their faults. The third a dissembler in friendship; who used to entertain his ill-willers very courteously, and his very friends very imperiously; thinking thereby to have the rule of both; whereby he lost both. For while his ill-willers spread, how he would shake up his acquaintance, they gathered thereby the nature of his friendship towards his old friends, and therefore joyed not much of his glorious entertainment; and his friends indeed joyed less in him for such his discouragement that they felt at his hands. Expertus loquor."

Tremellius Returns the Hebrew Bible

Tremellius had borrowed of Dr. Parker some ancient curious copy in MS. of the Bible, (in the original Hebrew, I suppose,) and now in July returned it from London to him to Cambridge, by the hands of Brian Wade, the incumbent of Sauston.

Nominated to Preferments

In this King's reign also he was nominated to two things; to a bishopric, and to be Master of Trinity college in Cambridge which he either declined, or others stepped in before him. But I rather incline to believe the former; at least concerning the bishopric.

His Circle of Friends

Dr. Parker was known to the King, the Lord Crumwel, 31 the Archbishop of Canterbury, Bishop Goodric, Lord Chancellor, Ridley Bishop of London, to Sir William Cecil the Secretary, Sir John Cheke, the King's tutor, and Mr. Nicolas Bacon, a profound lawyer, and many others of the best rank and name for virtue and religion: and all that knew him valued him. Cheke he styled, "His entire good friend and patron;" Cecil he called, "Of a long time my special good friend and master;" and to Bacon his countryman, he used these words in one of his letters, "In confidence of your good old heart to me."

Standing in the University

In the University, whereof he was one of the venerable Heads, he carried it with great gracefulness, and as much serviceableness; assisting very much in the promoting of learning, and in detecting and bringing men off from the Popish superstitions. And such an high opinion had the learned and best men there concerning him, that, in the second year of King Edward's reign, they chose him Vice-Chancellor, though he had borne the same office but two years before: which office he bore with a very becoming grace. Roger Ascham, being Secretary to Morison, King Edward's Ambassador to Germany, wrote a letter from Lovain to a friend of his of St. John's college; where, speaking of his meeting the Vice-Chancellor of that University in the streets, attended with his Beadles, saith, "That he was more like in apparel and port to our Priest of Horningshie, than to the comeliness of Master Doctor Parker and his Beadles."

Writings under Edward VI

Among his miscellaneous volumes in MS. I meet with a large tract in one, entitled, Defensio Reformationis Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ; which, whether writ by himself or Bucer, I cannot say: but I suppose the latter. There be also in the said volume rules for the French and Dutch churches, drawn out by Dr. Parker's own hand: which perhaps might be his own doing, set on work by some of the Bishops, or by the Convocation in this King's reign, to serve as a model for the churches of the foreigners fled over hither. But, whatever the design thereof was, I will not think much to transfer it into the Appendix, being his writing.

Deprivation under Queen Mary

As our Doctor passed through this reign, not without great reputation and esteem of all good men in country, Court, and University; having made himself beloved for his great serviceableness and true zeal for God and his pure worship; so, upon the arrival of Queen Mary, being of another religion, he endured much, and was stripped of all capacity of doing good to the Church and to the nation any more; and, having made such a figure in the former reign, was glad to conceal himself the more in this. And though he was sought for, yet, by shifting from place to place, (but keeping himself within the kingdom,) he escaped those bloody times: and God reserved him to better days, for further service of the Church and his country. He was despoiled under that Queen of all his preferments and benefices; and then retired into Norfolk among his friends, with his wife and family. And even then he had sufficient for his maintenance, by God's gracious care of him, as he after told the Lord Keeper Bacon, who had been acquainted with him from his youth. "Your Lordship knew with what patrimony I began the world, and yet have hitherto lived well enough. Yea, when all my livings were taken away from me, yet God, I thank him, ministered to me sufficiently above the capacity of my understanding or foreseeing." For in the second year of Queen Mary, he was thrown out of all, for being married: and so were all the rest of the married Clergy, and turned out into the wide world to shift for themselves and their families. Although the marriage of Priests (as well as others) were allowed by the word of God, and also by the laws, made in two Parliaments under King Edward: yet the Papists, with whom nothing gentle and moderate is wont to take place, and who equal their own decrees with the sacred Scripture, or prefer them above it, discharged them all without difference thenceforth from their offices and benefices. Then Dr. Parker "lurked (to use the words of the college MS.) secretly in those years within the house of one of his friends, leading a poor life, without any men's aid or succour: and yet so well contented with his lot, that in that pleasant rest, and leisure for his studies, he would never, in respect of himself, have desired any other kind of life, the extreme fear of danger only excepted: and therein he lived, as all other good men then did. His wife he would not be divorced from, or put her away, all 32 this evil time, (as he might, if he would, in those days, which so rigorously required it,) being a woman very chaste, and of a very virtuous behaviour, and behaving herself with all due reverence toward her husband." Thus was he thrown out of all his places and benefices, without receiving any single benefit, recompence, or annual stipend. Which calamity was common with him to all the Clergy almost in the whole realm, for the cause of religion, and withal because they had married wives. Which nevertheless, in two Parliaments, was allowed under King Edward, and permitted by the eternal word of God. Supra quod (saith the abovesaid MS.) mortalem hominem sapere et summæ est dementiæ, et intolerabilis superbiæ. "And for frail man to be wise above that, is the highest madness, and an arrogance not to be suffered."

Flight and the Fall from His Horse

One time in this reign narrow search was made for him to take him, which he having some notice of, fled in the night in great peril, and got a fall from his horse so dangerously, that he never recovered it. Which made him complain to the Lord Bacon, when he was nominated for Archbishop of Canterbury, that he was in body so hurt and decayed, that his painful infirmity would not suffer it; namely, to accept of that preferment.

The Parchment Roll: A Journal of Deprivation

But how he was spoiled of all his places and preferments, and in what contentment and quiet of mind he lived in this bare and naked condition, I shall represent out of the Doctor's own MS. being a parchment scroll of his own writing, which Dr. Tenison, then the right reverend Bishop of Lincoln, (now the most reverend Father in Christ, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury,) procured and gave into the hands of Dr. Stanley, then Master of Bene't college, to be reposited in the library there among the rest of Archbishop Parker's MSS. I do only translate thence what he wrote in Latin. "December, 1553, I resigned the Mastership of Corpus Christi college to Laurence Moptyde, whom, in a kind of necessity, I chose for my successor. "April 2, 1554, I was deprived of my prebend in the

"church of Ely; and deprived also of my rectory of Landbeach. To be presented to which church I procured William Whalley, a Canon of Lincoln; whom I chose my successor; and he was instituted September 30." [To the prebend succeeded Dr. Yong, a complier. Of both these preferments Dr. Parker was said, in the register of Ely, to be canonically deprived; that is, no doubt, for being married. For these are the words of the said register, as they were friendly communicated to me by the Reverend Mr. Tho. Baker, Fellow of St. John's in Cambridge, who transcribed them: Anno 1554, Apr. 12. Mr. Johannes Young, S. T. P. admissus fuit ad prebendam illam in eccles. Eliensi per canonicam deprivationem Rev. viri Matthæi Parker, vacantem, quam idem Matthæus nuper obtinuit ad præsentationem Mariæ Reginæ. Anno 1554, Septemb. ult. Dominus Wilhelmus Whalley admissus fuit ad ecclesiam paroch. de Landbeache, &c. vacantem per canonicam deprivationem Rev. Matthæi Parker, S. T. P. ultimi incumbent. But now to go on with the Archbishop's relation.] "May 21, I was spoiled of my deanery of Lincoln: and so I was the same day of my prebend of Coringham in the same church. To which Mr. George Pierpoynt was presented by force of the advowson of the same, not granted by Tayler, Bishop of Lincoln. The deanery was conferred upon Francis Malet by Queen Mary. "After my deprivation I lived so joyful before God in my conscience, and so neither ashamed nor dejected, that the most sweet leisure for study, to which the good providence of God recalled me, created me much greater and more solid pleasures, than that former busy and dangerous kind of living ever pleased me. What will hereafter happen to me, I know not; but to God, who takes care of all, and who will one day reveal the hidden things of men's hearts, I commend myself wholly, and my godly and most chaste wife, with my two most dear little sons. And I beseech the same most great and good God, that we may so for the time to come with unshaken minds bear the reproach of Christ, that we may always remember, that we have here no abiding city, but may seek one to come, by the grace and mercy of my Lord Jesus Christ. 33 To whom with the Father and the Holy Spirit be all honour and empire, Amen. 26. Octob. A. D. 1554."

Contentment in Obscurity

And in this cheerful and contented condition he still continued, how obscurely and dangerously soever he passed these Marian days. For, in the year 1556, this was another of his meditations: "Hitherto I have lived before God so glad, being contented with my lot, that I have neither envied my superiors, nor despised my inferiors; directing all my endeavours to this, that I may serve God in a pure conscience, and that my better may not despise me, nor my underling be afraid of me. 14. Octob. An. Dom. 1556."

A Fourth Son; Books of His Retirement

This year, in the month of September, he had a fourth son born, named Joseph. Calling him so perhaps for the same reason that Jacob so called his son of that name, because God had added another son to those several others born to him before: as also, to parallel his present condition to that of Joseph, who suffered much for preserving a good conscience: which nevertheless God in time amply rewarded with great honour and prosperity; as it also happened to this our pious confessor. But this his son Joseph died within the year.

Again, on his birthday the next year, his mind was still in the same constancy and good frame; which he thus described: "And still this 6. August, An. Dom. 1557, I persist in the same constancy, upholden by the grace and goodness of my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. By whose inspiration I have finished the Book of Psalms turned into vulgar verse; and I have wrote a Defence of the Marriage of Priests against Thomas Martin's book, wrote February An. Dom. 1552." Whereby we see in what studies he spent some of his leisure. What became of his Psalms I know not; but his book of Priests' Marriage he printed soon after he came to be Archbishop, yet concealing his name: taking his occasion of writing from another imperfect tract of a learned man [Ponet, late Bishop of Winton] deceased in exile, concerning the same subject. And once more we read under his hand his faith and perseverance in the sentence following, which seems to have been his contemplation after his fall from his horse in his flight, whereby his body was sore hurt and endangered: "And yet I am joyful, contented with my lot, trusting in the testimony of my conscience in the Lord, and relying upon his living word, expecting the redemption of my body through Christ my Saviour." This parchment roll (whence I have extracted what is written above) being our Archbishop's own private journal of events happening to himself, and his pious meditations thereupon, will, I dare say, be acceptable to many that esteem his memory: and therefore I have transcribed it faithfully, to preserve it in the Appendix.

God's Judgments on Mary's Reign

And as in this dark and dismal time he silently, but with tears, observed the fearful persecution of many honest pious men, and the overthrow of the Gospel; so he likewise took notice of the hand of God, how remarkably it was now stretched out against Mary the Queen and the realm in judgment. Which take from his own pen in the Preface to the aforesaid book, which he wrote in this doleful reign, though he published it under Queen Elizabeth. "He recommended it deeply to be considered, with what plagues Almighty God revenged the contempt of his holy institution in the foresaid [Queen Mary's] reign, too much apparent, and in too much fresh remembrance to be denied. The discourse thereof, as it were worthy, if any indifferent learned man should take in hand to set out in story, with the circumstances thereof, would rise to a huge volume; to the wonder of the godly and wise heads of other countries, to see what we felt in these days here in the realm. But it is not like that the notability thereof will be forgotten to be transmitted to our posterity hereafter in writing. Surely the brief remembrance of things chaunced may appear lamentable to be considered. As, what immoderate rains and tempests raged in one year?

"What intolerable heats and droughts in another year? What penury and scarceness of corn and victuals, what hunger and famine thereof followed? What sickness, 34 what agues, what strange mortalities reigned and raged, wherewith the eldest and gravest personages of all degrees and conditions were in great numbers wasted and consumed? What misfortunes commonly fell to women with child in their delivery? What fires happened far above the wont of other years of princes' reigns? In many places wasting whole villages, towns, and churches. Again, what cruelty was then executed by firing old men and women, young men and maids, without choice, whether the women were with child, or free from children? What proscriptions and banishments of learned men out of the realm? And such as tarried within the realm, how they drove into corners, spoiled and impoverished? And such as could be gotten, shamed openly by vile penances and shameful recantations? And furthermore, what rapes and villanies committed, above the common practised disorder, by strangers and foreigners? What impunities soon purchased to that unchaste generation, to recourse again to their old trade of lewd living, after they had confounded the Priests' chaste matrimonies, so established and authorized by the high laws of the realm? Then at the last, what dishonour and loss the realm suffered by losing that notable borderer Calais, aforetime so valiantly won and gotten by King Edward III. Add to these unfortunate days, of resuming the great adversary of all Christian realms, the Pope of Rome again, and relinquishing the supremacy, politicly and chargeably maintained and defended in good and sure possession, to the comfort of the whole realm, and to the terror of all our foreign enemies: I say, consider all these particularities, as they might deserve to be set out at length, what English heart could forbear tears, and not inwardly sigh and lament the misery? Which heavy infelicities the English children, yet unborn, shall weep at and wail to consider the same. If these be not severe tokens and proofs of God's heavy displeasure towards England, for so vilely despising his word, his light, his religion, his sacraments, his institutions, what can be shews of his wrath and indignation?"

Queen Elizabeth coming to the crown, our good Doctor issued out, as did many more learned and conscientious men, from his lurking hole with his wife and two children.

Editorial Notes

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Source: John Strype, The Life and Acts of Matthew Parker, the First Archbishop of Canterbury in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1821), Vol. I. Enhanced reading edition: section headings, Latin translations, internal links, and editorial notes are modern additions; Strype's wording and historical spelling are otherwise preserved, with punctuation lightly modernized for readability.