many
too: as we may conjecture from his diligence for so many years as he
lived, in buying and procuring such monuments. The remainders of his
highly valuable collections are now preserved in several libraries of
the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, but chiefly in that of Benet
College, Cambridge.'

Archbishop Parker was one of the founders of the Society of Antiquaries
in 1572. He took a special interest in the early English Chronicles, and
endeavoured to revive the study of the Saxon language. Among other works
he caused to be printed _Flores Historiarum_, attributed to Matthew of
Westminster, Matthew Paris's _Historia Major_, and the Latin text of
Asser's _Alfredi Regis Res Gestae_ in Saxon characters, cut by John Day,
the printer. He also, says Strype, 'laboured to forward the composing
and publishing of a Saxon Dictionary.' His great work, _De Antiquitate
Britannicae Ecclesiae et Privilegiis Ecclesiae Cantuariensis, cum
Archiepiscopis eiusdem 70_, which, if not written by him, was produced
under his immediate supervision, was printed by John Day in Lambeth
Palace in 1572. A very limited number of copies of this work, the first
book privately printed in England, were struck off; not more than
twenty-five are known to exist, and no two are found quite alike. The
preparation of the Bishops' Bible, which was completed in 1568, was
performed under his auspices. A presentation copy to Queen Elizabeth
from the Archbishop of the _Flores Historiarum_, very handsomely bound,
with the royal arms on the covers; and a copy of the work _De
Antiquitate Britannicae Ecclesiae, etc._, in a fine embroidered binding,
which is also believed to have been presented to the Queen by the
Archbishop, are preserved in the British Museum. These books were
probably bound in Lambeth Palace, for in a letter to Lord Burghley,
dated the 9th of May 1573, the Archbishop writes, with reference to the
last-named work, 'I have within my house on wagis, drawers and cutters,
paynters, lymners, wryters, and boke-bynders'; and he adds that he has
sent Lord Burghley a copy of it 'bound by my man.'

A list of Parker's writings, and his editions of authors will be found
in Coopers' _Athenae Cantabrigienses_. There are portraits of him in
Lambeth Palace, the Guildhall at Norwich, Corpus Christi College, and in
the Master's Lodge, Trinity College, Cambridge. There is also a rare
portrait of him, engraved in 1573, by Remigius Hogenberg, who appears to
hav