s were collected and arranged by H. Jenkyns, and published
in four volumes at Oxford in 1833. There is a portrait of the
Archbishop, at the age of fifty-seven, by G. Fliccius in the National
Portrait Gallery, and others are at Cambridge and Lambeth. Cranmer was
born at Aslacton Manor, in Nottinghamshire, on the 21st of July 1489,
and burned at the stake at Oxford on the 21st of March 1556.

[Illustration: ARCHBISHOP PARKER.]

MATTHEW PARKER, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, 1504-1575

Matthew Parker, the second Protestant Archbishop of Canterbury, was born
at Norwich on the 6th of August 1504. He was the son of William Parker,
a calenderer of stuffs, who, Strype says, 'lived in very good reputation
and plenty, and was a gentleman, bearing for his coat of arms on a field
gules, three keys erected. To which shield, in honour of the Archbishop,
a chevron was added afterwards, charged with three resplendent
estoilles.' Parker was first privately educated, and afterwards
proceeded to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, of which college he was
elected a Fellow in 1527. In the same year he took holy orders, and in
1535 was appointed Chaplain to Queen Anne Boleyn, who shortly afterwards
conferred on him the Deanery of the College of St. John the Baptist at
Stoke, near Clare in Suffolk. In 1538 he was created a Doctor of
Divinity, and made one of the King's chaplains; and in 1544 he was
elected Master of Corpus Christi College. He was chosen to the office of
Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge in 1545, and again in
1549. In 1552 he was appointed to the Deanery of Lincoln, of which he
was deprived in 1554. During the reign of Mary, Parker lived quietly
pursuing his studies, as he himself tells us, 'Postea privatus vixi, ita
coram Deo laetus in conscientia mea; adeoque nee pudefactus, nec
dejectus, ut dulcissimum otium literarium, ad quod Dei bona providentia
me revocavit, multo majores et solidiores voluptates mihi pepererit,
quam negotiosum illud et periculosum vivendi genus unquam placuit.' On
the accession of Elizabeth he was summoned from his retirement and made
Archbishop of Canterbury. His consecration took place on the 17th of
December 1559. He died on the 17th of May 1575, and was buried in his
private chapel at Lambeth, in a tomb which he had himself prepared. His
remains, however, were disinterred in 1648 by Colonel Scot, the
regicide, and buried under a dunghill, but after the Restoration they
were replace