■ Rolls Patents^ 1 Eliz., p. 6, and Bymer, vol. 15, p. 536.
ANGLICAN ORDERS. 163

cient manner and laudable custom of the aforesaid
Church, anciently used and inviolably observed/' chose
the devout and scholarly Matthew Parker, Priest and
Doctor of Divinity, August 1st, 1559. Parker had
been ordained to the Priesthood according to the Latin
Pontifical. On the 6th day of the following December,
the Queen issued letters patent to seven Bishops (six
English and one Irish), as follows:

"Elizabeth, by the grace of God, of England,
France, and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith,
etc., to the Reverend Fathers in Christ, Anthony, Bish-
op of Llandaff ; William Barlow, sometime Bishop of
Bath, now elect of Chichester; John Scory, sometime
Bishop of Chichester, now elect of Hereford; Miles
Coverdale, sometime Bishop of Exeter; John, Suffra-
gan, of Bedford ; John, Suffragan, of Thetf ord ; John
Bale, Bishop of Ossary, greeting: —

"Whereas, the Archiepiscopal See of Canterbury
being lately vacant by the natural death of the Lord
Reginald Pole, Cardinal, last and immediate Arch-
bishop and Pastor of the same, upon humble petition
of the Dean and Chapter of our Cathedral and Metro-
politan Church of Christ, at Canterbury, we, by our
letters patent, have granted to the same, license to elect
for themselves another Archbishop and Pastor of the
See aforesaid ; and the said Dean and Chapter, by vir-
tue of our aforesaid license obtained, have elected for
themselves and the Church aforesaid, our beloved in
Christ, Matthew Parker, D.D., as Archbishop and Pas-
tor. We, accepting that election, have granted to the



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