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7 unusual facts about Matthew Parker


Ælla of Deira

The manuscripts of Matthew Parker, and their dependent copies, preserve the following genealogy of Ælla: "Ælla was the son of Yffe, the son of Uxfrea, the son of Wilgisl, the son of Westerfalca, the son of Sæfugl, the son of Sæbald, the son of Segegeat, the son of Swebdæg, the son of Sigegar, the son of Wædæg, the son of Woden."

English Dissenters

Archbishop Matthew Parker of that time used it and "precisian" with the sense of stickler.

Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

Tallis's original tune is in the Phrygian mode and was one of nine he contributed to the Psalter of 1567 for the Archbishop of Canterbury, Matthew Parker.

Matthew Parker

He was not an inspiring leader and no dogma or prayer-book is associated with his name, however, the English composer Thomas Tallis contributed Nine Tunes for Archbishop Parker's Psalter which bears his name.

Through her, he was appointed dean of the college of secular canons at Stoke-by-Clare in 1535.

Parker avoided involvement in secular politics and was never admitted to Elizabeth's privy council.

The Black Heart Procession

The group is often augmented by the contributions of Matt Resovich Mario Rubalcaba, Jason Crane, Joe Plummer, Dmitri Dziensuwski and Jimmy LaValle and Matthew Parker.


Book of Advertisements

The Book of Advertisements was a series of enactments concerning Anglican ecclesiastical matters, drawn up by Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury (1559-1575), with the help of Edmund Grindal, Robert Horne, Richard Cox, and Nicholas Bullingham.

Martin Bucer

He named Walter Haddon and Matthew Parker as executors, commended his loved ones to Thomas Cranmer, and thanked his stepdaughter Agnes Capito for taking care of him.

Thomas Bickley

Returning to England after the accession of Elizabeth I, he enjoyed rapid promotion, being made, within ten years, chaplain to Archbishop Matthew Parker, rector of Biddenden in Kent, of Sutton Waldron in Dorset, archdeacon of Stafford, chancellor in Lichfield Cathedral, and Warden of Merton College, Oxford.


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