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sewoty-five : and of these one hundred and forty came to their freedom since the queen's access to the crown. So much did printinf^ and learn- ing come into request under the reformation.
1575. Thomas Colwell succeeded Robert Wyer in business ; he kept the sig^ of St. John the Evangelist, in St. Martin's parish, near Cha- ring Cross ; and the same am in Fleet-street, near the conduit ; and continued in business from 1558 to 1675. In 1670, he printed the End and confarion of John Felton, the rank
ntOT, u>ko tet up the traytorout bull on the op of Londont gate* 4to. In 1575, A ballad agaimt marriage, by William ElderUm, ballad maker. 12roo. This is the myrror, or glau of health. In 1674, he printed a book with wooden cats of the shapes of the quarter of wheat, far- thmge waatell, farthynge tymnell, farthynge vhyte lofe, a halfpenny whyte lofe, a halfpenny vMen lofe, a penny tcheten lofe, and a halfpenny
1575. William Hoskins resided in Fleet- street, at the Temple Gate. He also printed with John Danter. Hoskins printed two works.
1575, May 17. Died, Matthew Parker, the patron and director of the Bithom' Bible, and the second protestant archbishop of Canter- bury. He was born at Norwich, August 6, 1504, and educated at Corpus Chnsti, or Benet's College, Cambridge, where he became a fellow in 1627. In 1533, archbishop Cran- mer granted him a licence to preach through the prorinces, as the king did a patent for the same throughout the kingdom ; and in the same year he was made chaplain to queen Anne Boleyn. In July 1535, ne was preferred by the qneen to the deanery of the college of Stoke Clare, in Suffolk. On the death of the queen, in 1537, he was appointed chaplain to Henry VIII. In 1644, he was chosen master of Cor- pus Christi college, by the recommendation of the king, and in the following year vice-chancel- lor of the university. In 1647, he married Margaret, daughter of Robert Harlstone, gent., of Mattishall, in Norfolk, to whom he had been attached for about seven years, but had been pre- rented from marrying by a statute of king Henry VIII., which made the marriage of the clergy felony .f In 1662, Edward VI. presented him to the canonry and prebend of T/ivingham, in the church of Lincoln, where he was soon after elected dean. During queen Mary's reign, he was stript of all his ecclesiastical honours, and obliged to seek safety in privacy. One cause was that he refused to separate from his virtuous and excellent wife. During his seclusion,he applied himself in biblical and antiquarian studies, and in particular versified the Psalter, which was afterwards printed by Day, the archbishop's printer, in 4to., but in what year is uncertain.
- John Felton was lunged, diawo, and qnartered, for the
above crime, before the bishop of London's palace gate, Angnst 8, 1S70.
t The chief publication of the archbishop, as a theologi- cal writer, was o De/tnee of Prittet Maniage, printed by JohnDay, In ISOS.
This rare book is divided into three q%dnqwi^enei, or parts, of fifty psalms each, with the argument of each psalm in metre, placed before it, and a suitable collect, full of devotion and piety, at the end. Some copies of verses, and transcripts from the fathers and others, on the use of the psalms, are prefixed to it, with a table dividing them into Prophetiei, Eruditorii, Contolatorii, Sec; and at the end are added eight several tunes, with alphabetical tables to the whole. He thus characterizes
THE NATURE OF THE EYGHT TUNES.
The first is meke devout to see. The second sad, in maiesty : The third doth rage, and rooghly brayth. The fourth doth fawne, and flatly playth * The flith dcLigtb, and laugheth the more, The sixt bewayleth, it wepeth full sore. The seventh tredeth stoute in Aroward race. The eygbte goeth milde in modest pace.
The following versification of part of the 23rd Psalm, may serve as a specimen of the whole version :
To feede my neede ; he will me leade
To pastures greene and tet : He forth brought me: in Ubeitie,
To waters delicate.
My aoule and bait : he did convmrt
To me he shewth the path : Of right wisncss : in holiness.
His name such vertne hath.
Yea though I go : through death Us wo,
His vale and shadow wyde : I fear no dart : with me thou art.
With rod and stalffe to guide.
Thou Shalt provyde : a table wyde.
For me against theyr spite : With oyle my head : thou hast bespred.
My cup is fully dight.
On the death of queen Mary, 1658, he was pre- sented to the see of Canterbury, an honour which he neither solicited nor desired, but to which he was entitled by his talents and his virtues. He was consecrated December 17, 1659, in Lambeth chapel. Of his erudition and zeal for the pro* motion of learning, there is butone opinion ; and all parties are agreed in granting him the meed of praise, of being a diligent and laborious anti- quary, and the liberal friend of literature in generikl. The following tribute to the memory of this virtuous and learned character is from the pen of Gibbon, whose splendid talents were never subservient to episcopal flattery : — " Far different from such reformers was the learned and pious Matthew Parker, the first protestant archbishop of Canterbury in the reign of queen Elizabeth. His apostolical virtues were not incompatible with his love of learning, and while he exercised the arduous office,not of governing, but of founding the church of England, he strenuously applied himself to the study of the Saxon tongue, and of English antiquities." The revision and republication of the bible was a favourite object with the archbishop. To the university of Cambridge, and particularly to Corpus Christi and Benet's colleges, he was a munificent benefactor, founding at his own expense many fellowships and scholarships; and
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