d in the chapel.

Parker married in 1547 Margaret, daughter of Robert Harlestone of
Matsal, in the county of Norfolk, by whom he had four sons, of whom two
died in infancy, and a daughter. John, the eldest son, was knighted in
1603, and died in 1618.

Archbishop Parker was not only a great churchman, a distinguished
scholar, and a warm promoter of learning, but he was also an ardent
collector of books, and formed a very fine and valuable library,
composed to a great extent of rare and choice manuscripts which had
once belonged to the suppressed monasteries and religious houses. He
also appears to have purchased Bale's fine collection of manuscripts.

Some of his books he presented to the Cambridge University Library
during his lifetime, and in his will he made bequests of other volumes
from his collection to that library. He also gave books to the libraries
of the colleges of Caius and Trinity Hall, but the great bulk of his
manuscripts and printed books he left to his own college of Corpus
Christi.[3] An original list of these volumes is preserved in the
college, with a note by John Parker, the Archbishop's son, stating that
the missing volumes 'weare not found by me in my father's Librarie, but
either lent or embezeled, whereby I could not deliver them to the
college.' Some singular conditions were attached to this bequest by the
Archbishop. 'Every year on the 6th of August, the collection is to be
visited by the masters or _locum tenentes_ of Trinity Hall and Caius,
with two scholars on Archbishop Parker's foundation, and if, on
examination of the library, twenty-five books are missing, or cannot be
found within six months, the whole collection devolves to Caius. In that
case the masters or _locum tenentes_ of Trinity Hall and Benet, with two
scholars on the same foundation, are the visitors: and if Caius College
be guilty of the like neglect, the books to be delivered up to Trinity
Hall: then the masters or _locum tenentes_ of Caius and Benet, with two
such scholars, become the inspectors; and in case of default on part of
Trinity Hall, the whole collection reverts back to its former order. On
the examination day, the visitors dine in the College Hall, and receive
three shillings and four pence, and the scholars one shilling each.'[4]
It is also probable that he was a benefactor to the library at Lambeth,
for some of the manuscripts preserved there contain notes in his
handwriting. The books which he did not speci