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PART d'ni secundu. Computatione. eccl'ie Anglicane Mill'imo, Quingen, APPENDIX. Quinquagesimo, nono Et n're Cons. Anno primoc.

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[Concordat cum Registro facta Collatione per Nos W'mum Angier Notarium publicum, et Johannem Jacobum Benard.-Attestat. added in the fol. edit. of Bramhall's Works in 1676.]

[A similar Certificate, with the addition of a few corrections, is among the Preuves Just. to Courayer's Dissertation, Art. VI., signed "WILLIAM AYERST, S. Th. Bac. et Eccles. Anglic. Presbyter, JAMES PIERS, Juris-consult., PAT. PIERS DE GIRARDIN, Doctor of the Sorbonne, ED. WILKINS, Sacræ Theologiæ Prof. Cantabrigiensis, Canonicus Cantuariensis, Reverendissimo in Christo Patri ac D.D. Guilielmo Div. Prov. Archiepiscopo Cantuariensi, a Sacris Domesticis," at "the Archiepiscopal Palace at Lambeth, 15th March, O. S. 1721-2."]

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[Transcript of so much of the preceding Record as relates to the Consecration of Parker, from a MS. transcript of that part of the original Register in C.C.C. Library, Cambridge.]

RITUUM ATQUE CEREMONIARUM 1051

ORDO IN CONSECRANDO REUERENDISSIMO IN CHRISTO
PATRE MATTHEO PARKER CANTUARIENSI ARCHIE'PO IN
SACELLO SUO APUD MANERIU. SUUM DE LAMHETH, DIE
D'NICO XVII VIZ. DIE MENSIS DECEMBRIS, ANNO DOM
1559. HABIT.

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PRINCIPIO Sacellum tapetibus ad orientem adornabatur solum

[The record of the actual inthronization would appear (not in this, but) in the Register of the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury.]

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[This transcript (of which the first three words are elaborately ornamented on the original parchment, with Parker's arms emblazoned in the centre) is believed to have been given to the College by Parker himself. It has been repeatedly printed; 1. in 1676 in the folio edition of Bramhall's Works (very carelessly); 2. in 1688 by the Rev. Thomas Browne, of St. John's Coll. Cambridge, pp. 63-65 in fin. Concion, habit. Jul. 3, 1687, publ. at Cambridge in 1688; 3. in 1841 by Percival, on the Apostol. Success., Append. (B); 4. by Rev. J. Goodwin at present fellow of C.C.C.C., in No. III. of the Proceed. of the Cambr. Antiq. Society, with a facsimile of the original, from which it is here reprinted. Burnet (Records Pt. II. bk. iii. num. 9) has reprinted it from Bramhall and Browne; Collier (Hist. Dict., Supplem. in voce Parker),

and Courayer (Diss. Pr. Just. art. iv), from Bramhall and Burnet; Dodd (Ch. Hist. Pt. IV. bk. iii. art. 6), from Browne; Wilkins (Concil., tom. iv. pp. 198, 199), and Elrington (Valid. of Engl. Ordin., Append. num. xii), from Bramhall; and, lastly, Cardwell (Docum. Annals, vol. i. pp. 242-246), from Wilkins and Browne, with a mistake of sixteenth for seventeenth of December.

In the present reprint of it, contractions and orthography have been as far as possible retained. All errors in the folio edition of Bramhall, beyond mere spelling, are noticed in the foot notes. It varies from the original Register only in a few insignificant points, e. g. "olim" for "quondam," and the like (and see note d), and in giving the words of consecration in Latin instead of English.

Two similar transcripts upon paper are in the State Paper Office, one (endorsed Installment, &c.) apparently of the same or similar date with this and more accurate, the other a copyofit in a later hand.]

verò panno rubro insternebatur Mensa quoq; sacris peragendis DISCOURSE necessaria, tapeto puluinariq; ornata ad orientem sita erat.

QUATUOR preteria Cathedre, quatuor e'pis quibus munus consecrandi Archie'pi delegabatur, ad austru. Orientalis sacelli partis erant posite.

SCAMNUM preterea tapeto pulvinaribusq; instratum, cui E'pi genubus flexis inniterentur, ante cathedras ponebatur.

PARI quoq; modo cathedra, scamnu'q; tapeto puluinariq; ornatum, Archie'po ad Borealem orientalis eiusdem sacelli partis plagam posita erant.

HIJS rebus ita ordine suo instructis, mane circiter quintam aut sextamb per occidentalem portam ingreditur Sacellum Archie'pus, toga talari coccinea caputioq; indutus, quatuo' precedentibus funalibus et quatuor comitatus e'pis qui eius conserationic inservire't (verbi gr'a) Gulielmo Barlow olim Bathon. et Wellen. E'po nunc verò ad Cichestren e'patum electo Joh'e Scory olim Cichestriæ e'po et nunc ad Herefordiensem vocato, Milone Coverdallo olim Exoniense e'po, et Johanne Hodgskinne Bedfordie suffraganeo. Qui o'es postquam sedes sibi paratas ordine singuli suo occupassent, Preces continio matutine per Andream Pirson Archie'pi Capellanum clara voce recitabantur, quibus peractis, Joh'es Score (de quo supra diximus) suggestu. conscendit, atq; inde assumpto sibi in thema, 'Seniores ergo qui in vobis sunt obsecro consenior,' etc. non ineleganter concionabatur.

FFINITA concione, egrediuntur simul Archie'pus reliquiq; quatuo e'pi sacellum se ad sacram co'munionem paraturi, neq; mora confestim p'. borialem portam in vestiarum ad hunc modum vestiti rediunt. Archie'pus nimirum linteo sup'pelliceo (quod vocant) induebatur. Cicestriensis electus, capa serica ad sacra peragenda paratus vtebatur. Cui ministrabant operamq; suam prebebante duo Archie'pi capellani, Nich'us viz. Bullingh'm Lincolnie archideaconus, et Edmundus Gest Cantuariensis quoq; Archideaconus, capis sericis similiter vestiti. Hereford electus et Bedford suffraganeus, linteis sup'pellicies induebantur.

MILO verò Coverdallus non nisi toga lanea talari vtebatur.

ATQ; hunc in modum vestiti et instructi ad co'munionem celebrandum p'rexerunt Archie'po genubus flexis ad infimum sacelli gradum sedente.

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V. APPENDIX.

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FFINITO tandem evangelio, Hereforden. electus, Bedforde suffraAPPENDIX. ganius et Milo Coverdallus (de quibs supra) Archie'pum coram Cicestrien, electo apud mensam in Cathedra sedenti hijs verbis adduxerunt, Reu'ende in deo pater hunc virum piu. pariter atq; doctum tibi offerimus atq; presentamus, ut Archie'pus consecretur. Postq; hec dixissent, proferebatur ilico regine diploma siue mandatu. pro consecrac'o'e Archie'pi, quo p'. R. Thomam Yale legum doctorem p'lecto, Sacra- 1052 mentum de Regio Primatu siue suprema eius authoritate tuenda iuxta Statuta 1o. ano. regni sereniss. regine nostre Elizabeth. promulgata ab eodem Archie'po exigebatur, quod cum ille solenniter tactis corporaliter sacris evangelijs conceptis verbis prestitisset, Cicestriens. electus quedam prefatus atq; populum ad orationem hortatus, ad Litanias decantandas Choro respondente se accinxit. Quibus finitis, post questiones aliquot Archie'po per Cicestrien. electum propositas, et post orac'ones et suffragia quedam iuxta formam libri auc'tek Parliamenti editi, apud deum habita, Cicestrensis, Herefordiensis Suffraganeus Bedfordensis et Milo Coverdallus, manibus Archie'po impositis, Accipe (inquiunt1) spiritum sanctum, et gratiam dei que iam per impositionis manuu. in te est excitare memento, Non enim timoris, sed virtutis dilectionis et sobrietatis spiritum dedit nobis deus. His ita dictis Biblia sacra illi in manibus tradiderunt hui'smodi apud eu. verba habentes, In legendo, hortando, et docendo vide diligens sis, atq; ea meditare assidue que inm hiisce libris scripta sunt, noli in his segnis esse, quo incrementum inde proveniens omnibus innotescat et palam fiat. Cura quæ ad te et ad doce'di munus spectant diligenter. Hoc enim modo non teipsum solum sed et reliquos Auditores tuos per Jesum Xpm. dominu. nostrum salvabis. Postquam hec dixissent, ad reliqua co'munionis solemnia pergit Cicestrensis nullum Archie'po tradens pastorale baculum, cum quo co'municabant vna Archie'pus, et quatuor" illi e'pi supra nominati cum alijs etiam nonnullis.

FFINITIS tandem peractisq; sacris egreditur per borealem orientis Sacelli partis portam Archie'pus quatuo' illis comitatus e'pis qui eum consecrauerant, et confestim ijsdem ipsis stipatus e'pis per eandem revertitur portam albo e'pali superpeilic'o Crimeraq; (ut vocant) ex nigro serico indutus circa collum vero collare quoddam ex pretiosis pellibus sabellinis (vulgo Sables vocant) consutum gestabat. Pari quoq; modo Cicestrensis et Herefordensis, suis e'palibus amictibus, sup'pelliceo scz. et crimera uterq; induebat'. D. Coverdallus vero et

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Bedfordie Suffraganeus togis solum modo talaribus vtebantur. Per- DISCOURSE
gens deinde occidentalem portam versus Ar'e'pus Thome Doyle APPENDIX.
Economo, Joh'i Baker Thesaurarario, et Joh'i Marche computo
rotulario, singulis singulos Albos dedit baculos, hoc scz. modo eisp
muneribus et officijs suis ornans.

HIJS itaq; hunc ad modum ordine suo ut iam ante dictum est
p'actis per occidentalem portam Sacellu. egredit' Archie'pus genero-
sioribus quibusq; sanguine ex eius famillia eu. precedentibus, reliquis
vero eum a tergo sequentib3.

Acta gestaq; hec erant omnia in presentia Reuerendorum in Xpo. p'rum Edmundi Gryndall Londinensis E'pi electi, Richardi Cockes Eliensis electi, Edwini Sandes Wigorniensis electi Anthonij Huse armigeri principalis et primarij reg'rarij dicti Archie'pali Thome Argall Armigeri Reg'rarij Curies prerogatiue Cantuariensis, Thome Willet et Joh'is Incent notariorum publicorum, et alicrum quoq; nonnullorum t.

[Jan. 8, 1674.-Concordat cum Originali in Bibliotheca Collegii Corp. Christi apud Cantabrigiens. Ita testor Matth. Whinn Notarius Public. et Acad. Cantabr. Registrarius Principalis.

Cambridge, Jan. 11, 1674.

We whose names are hereunto subscribed, having seen the original, whereof this writing is a perfect copy, and considered the hand and other circumstances thereof, are fully persuaded that it is a true and genuine record of the Rites and Ceremonies of Archbishop Parker's Consecration, and as ancient as the date it beares. In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands, the day and yeare above written.

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C. C. C. C.

Hen. Paman Orat. Publicus".

Hen. More D.D."

Ra: Widdrington. S.T.D. & D. Marg. P.

We, the Master and Fellows of Corpus Christi College in the University of Cambridge, doe hereby declare and certifie, that this writing, being a Narrative of Archbishop Parker's Consecration in Lambeth Chappel, is faithfully transcribed from the Original Record in our Col

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PART lege Library: and that we are fully satisfied that the said Record is as APPENDIX. ancient as the date it beares, and the occasion to which it doth referr. Nor can we doubt but the plain and evident tokens of antiquity which it carries, will as much satisfy any ingenuous persons who shall have a sight thereof: which therefore we shall readily afford to those who shall repaire to the College for that purpose.

John Spencer.D.D. Mr. of the Coll.

Joh: Peckover. B.D.
Erasmus Lane. B.D.

Ri: Sheldrake. B.D.

Sam: Beck. B.D.

Hen: Gostling. B.D.

Will: Briggs. M.A.

John Richer. M.A.".

"20 Novemb. 1687.-Factá collatione, concordat cum originali. Ita testor Jacobus Holman Not. Publ. et Alma Universitatis Cantabr. Regist. Principalis *."

"Nos quorum nomina infra scripta sunt, omnibus notum et testatum facimus, vidisse nos originale illud MS. cujus hoc fidele et accuratum apographum est: et spectatis, quæ prædictum MS. præfert, antiquitatis simul et simplicitatis indiciis, omnino persuasum habere, quod illum verum et authenticum Testimonium et Monumentum sit Consecrationis Reverendissimi in Christo Patris Matthæi Parker Archiepiscopi Cantuariensis. Jo. Balderston, Procan.y Jo. Luke, S.T.P. Ling. Arab. Prof.

Jo. Beaumont, S.T.P. Reg. Theol.
Profess."

Tho. Smoult, S.T.P. Theol. Pract.
Prof.

R. Widdrington, S.T.P. D. Marg. Jo. Billers, S.T.B. Orat. Pub.d
Is. Newton, Mathem. Prof.

Prof.
R. Cudworth, S.T.P. Ling. Heb. Mich. Payne, Ling. Græc. Prof.e
Prof.b
Cæsar Crouch, Procurat. Sen.
Jo. Copleston, S.T.P. Coll. Regal. Joh. Wotton, Procurat. Jun. 8
Præpos.
Barth. Wortley, Taxat. Sen.h
Humf. Gower, S.T.P. Coll. D. Joannes Pern, Bedel. Arm., Notar.

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