[...]o. St. 1182. Mat [...]hew Parker a ler|ned antiqua|rie, and what monuments of his loue to learning he left behind him.¶This reuerend father examined throughlie the English translation of the holie bibles, wherein he partlie vsed the helpe of his brethren bishops, and o|ther doctors, and caused the same to be newlie prin|ted in the largest volume, for the due furniture of manie churches then wanting. Also making dili|gent search for the antiquities of the Britons, and English Saxons, to the end those monuments might be carefullie kept, he caused them to be well bound and trimlie couered: and such wherof he knew verie few examples to be extant (among the which was Matthew Paris, Matthew Florilegus, and Tho|mas Walsingham) he caused to be printed. The fa|mous palace of his see at Canturburie, by long con|tinuance decaied & consumed with fire, he renewed, builded, and fullie restored with the charges of more than fourtéene hundred pounds.

Founder of a grammar schoole.

A benefactor to Corpus christi college.

To Corpus Christi college in Cambridge he pro|cured thirtéene scholarships, and bare the charges in making and furnishing two chambers for scholars, and the inward librarie of the same college. Item he gaue to the outward and inward librarie of the said college a goodlie companie of printed bookes, & a great number of written books of great antiquitie & much value. Item he procured to the said college the patronage of saint Marie Abchurch in London. Item he hath founded two felowships in the said col|lege, and procured one charter of mortmaine to the summe of one hundred pounds by yeare. Item he hath giuen to the same college of siluer plate double guilt thrée hundred nine ounces, and thrée quarters, & surrendred to them a lease with the improouement of foureteene pounds and eight shillings yeerelie for seuentéene yéeres. Item one hundred pounds to the maintenance of a fier in the hall from Halomas to Candlemas; and by his last will and testament fiue hundred pounds. Item to diuers scholars cham|bers within the said college diuerse bedsteads, with sufficient bedding & books to remaine for euer. Item he hath founded for euer fiue sermons to be preach|ed in diuerse places of Norffolke euerie yéere in Ro|gation weeke;Sermons perpetuallie founded at his charges in Norffolke: and what o|ther particu|lar gifts he bestowed to good pur|poses. and fortie shillings to be diuided at Norwich to the poore and others. Item to the citie of Norwich one bason and ewer of siluer and double guilt of one hundred seauentie and fiue oun|ces. Item to the towne of Matsall in Norffolke for euer an annuitie of fiftie shillings to be diuided to the poore with a sermon in Rogation weeke. Item to Gunuill and Caius college one scholarship, with a standing cup, and a pot of siluer double guilt of fiue and fiftie ounces and thrée quarters, and one nest of goblets with a couer siluer and guilt; with a num|ber of good bookes to their librarie. Item to Trini|tie hall one scholarship, a standing cup and a pot of siluer and guilt of thrée and fiftie ounces, a nest of goblets siluer and guilt with a couer; and bookes to their librarie. Item to the vniuersitie librarie fiftie old ancient written bookes, and fiftie printed bookes. Of this prelat, to his further commendati|on the aforesaid doctor Haddon, in the second booke of his poems maketh very honorable mention, com|prising in six verses the ensignes of his ancestors, with those also which were accessarie by the gratious|nesse of the prince, who preferred him to his prelacie. In the same verses also is comprehended as it were an harmonie or consent of most godlie qualities an|swerable vnto the ensignes that he bare; as thus:

Sunt antiquorum claues monumenta parentum,De insigni [...]u [...] eiusdem Mat|th [...].

Venit ab augusto principe stella triplex.

Sic benè conspirant virtus, doctrina, potestas,

Et placidae pacis semina laeta serunt.

Sed tamen ad finem decurrunt gaudia vitae,

Ac homo puluis erit, puluis vt antè fuit.]

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 The 21 of Maie being Whitsun éeuen,Anabaptists banished. one man and ten women anabaptists Dutch, were in the consistorie of Paules condemned to be burned in Smithfield: but after great pains taken with them, onlie one woman was conuerted, the other were banished the land. On the first of Iune the nine women being led by the shiriffs officers, and the man also tied to a cart & whipped, were all conueied from Newgate to the waters side, where they were shipped awaie neuer to returne againe.Fiue person [...] of the familie of loue stood at Paules crosse. The twelfe of Iune stood at Paules crosse fiue persons English|men of the sect termed the familie of loue, who there confessed themselues vtterlie to detest as well the author of that sect H. N. as all his damnable errors and heresies.