The Elders which are among you I exhort, who also am an
elder; and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, &c._
Sermon ended, and the sacrament administered, they proceed
to the consecration. The ARCHBISHOP had his rochet on, with
HEREFORD; and the suffragan of Bedford, CHICHESTER, wore a
silk cope; and COVERDALE a plain cloth gown down to his
ancles. All things are done conformable to the book of
ordination: Litany sung; the Queen's patent for Parker's
consecration audibly read by Dr. Vale: He is presented: the
oath of supremacy tendered to him; taken by him; hands
reverently imposed on him; and all with prayers begun,
continued, concluded. In a word, though here was no
theatrical pomp to made it a popish pageant; though no
sandals, gloves, ring, staff, oil, pall, &c., were used upon
him--yet there was ceremony enough to clothe his
consecration with decency, though not to clog it with
superstition." _Church History_, b. ix., p. 60. But the
virtues of the primate, however mild and unostentatious,
were looked upon with an envious eye by the maligant
observer of human nature; and the spontaneous homage which
he received from some of the first noblemen in the realm was
thus lampooned in the satirical composition just before
noticed:

_Homage and Tribute paid to Archbishop Parker._

"The next is, what great tributes every made bishop paid
him. How they entertained his whole household or court, for
the time, with sumptuous feasting. How dearly they redeemed
their own cloaths, and carpets, at his chaplain's hands.
What fees were bestowed on his crucifer, marshall, and other
servants. All which plentiful bounty, or rather, he might
have said, largess, is shrunk up, he saith, to a small sum
of ten pounds, somewhat beside, but very small, bestowed, he
might have said cast away, upon the archbishop's family,
&c.--The same earl (of Gloucester) must be his steward and
chief cupbearer, the day of his inthronization: This is not
to be called gracious Lords, as the Lords of the earth, but
this is to be beyond all grace; and to be served of these
gracious Lords, and to be their Lord paramount. In this roll
of his noble tenants, the next are the Lord Strangways, the
Earl of Oxford, the Lord Dacy, all which (saith he) owe
service to that