[1] [2] Matthew Parker arch|bishop of Canturburie deceased.The seauenteenth of Maie about midnight follo|wing, the reuerend father in God Matthew Par|ker doctor of diuinitie archbishop of Canturburie deceased at Lambeth, and was there honorablie bu|ried, on whose toome (being of blacke marble) is written this most worthie epitaph here following:

Sobrius & prudens, studijs excultus & vsu

Integer & verae relligionis amans,

Walter Had|don. Matthaeus vixit Parkerus, fouerat illum

Aula virum iuuenem, fouit & aula senem,

Ordine res gessit, recti defensor & aequi,

Vixerat ille Deo, mortuus ille Deo est.

Matthew Parker liued soberlie and wise,

Learned by studie and continuall practise,

Louing, true, of life vncontrold,

The court did foster him both yoong and old,

Orderlie he dealt, the right he did defend,

He liued vnto God, to God he made his end.