PARKER, MATTHEW, STRYPE, JOHN
The life and acts of Matthew Parker, the first archbishop of Canterbury in the reign of queen Elizabeth. Under whose primacy and influence the Reformation of religion was happily effected; and the Church of England restored, and established upon the principles whereon it stands to this day (....) In four books. To which is added, an appendix, containing various transcripts of records, letters, instruments, ordinances, commissions, discourses, relations, intelligences and other secret papers (...).
London, John Wyat, 1711.
Engraved portrait of Parker. Big folio 4°. Leather binding. (IV) (XXVI) 448 pp., 441-450, 449-544, 171 pp., 176-208 pp.*text browned throughout the book, spine nicely rebound, boards a bit rubbed, edges boards and endpapers a bit damaged, old text and name Reverend R.J.Thompson on endpaper, reasonable edition*
Matthew Parker (6 August 1504 ? 17 May 1575) was an English bishop. He was the Archbishop of Canterbury in the Church of England from 1559 to his death. He was also an influential theologian and arguably the co-founder (with Thomas Cranmer, a previous Archbishop of Canterbury, and the theologian Richard Hooker) of a distinctive tradition of Anglican theological thought.
Parker was one of the primary architects of the Thirty-nine Articles, the defining statements of Anglican doctrine. The Parker collection of early English manuscripts, including the book of St Augustine Gospels and "Version A" of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, was created as part of his efforts to demonstrate that the English Church was historically independent of Rome and was one of the world's most important collections of ancient manuscripts. Along with the pioneering scholar Lawrence Nowell, Parker's work concerning Old English literature laid the foundation for Anglo-Saxon studies.
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