The history and antiquities of the parish of Lambeth, and the archiepiscopal palace .. . Parker before mentioned. He died in 1575,aged seventy-two, and desired by his will to lie here. Accord-ingly, at his death, his bowels were put into an urn (a pitcherone writef terms it), and deposited in the dukes chapel inLambeth church. His body, by his request, was buried at theupper end of this chapel, against the communion-table on thesouth side, under a monument of his own erecting, and placedby his direction against that part of the chapel where he used topray, with a Latin inscription composed by
The history and antiquities of the parish of Lambeth, and the archiepiscopal palace .. . Parker before mentioned. He died in 1575,aged seventy-two, and desired by his will to lie here. Accord-ingly, at his death, his bowels were put into an urn (a pitcherone writef terms it), and deposited in the dukes chapel inLambeth church. His body, by his request, was buried at theupper end of this chapel, against the communion-table on thesouth side, under a monument of his own erecting, and placedby his direction against that part of the chapel where he used topray, with a Latin inscription composed by his old friend Haddon, as follows : Sobrius et prudens, studiis excultus et usu,Integer,, et verae religionis amans,Matthaeus vixit Parkerus, foverat ilium Aula virum juvenem, fovit et aula res gessit, recti defensor et aequi :Vixerat ille Deo, mortuus ille Deo spot where this prelates body now rests is marked bythe following notice, cut in a stone of the pavement immediatelybefore the communion rails: Corpus Matthjei Archiepiscopi Tandem Hrc a Ducarels Lambeth. 212 LAMBETH PALACE. The ancient monument, which originally stood near this spot,is at present placed in a corner of the vestihulum, against thewall. It is a plain altar-tomb of gray marble, in the Gothictaste, and has at one end a small brass plate with the followingLatin inscription, written and placed there by Arehbishop San-croft, in whose time the body was discovered by the interfer-ence of Sir William Dugdale, and re-interred as before no-ticed. » Matthaei Archiepiscopi ccenotaphium, corpus enim, (nenescias, lector,) in adyto hujus sacelli olim rite conditum, asectariis perduellibus, anno mdcxlviii, efFracto sacrilege hocipso tumulo, elogio sepulchrali impie refixo, direptis nefarieexuviis plumbeis, spolatum, violatum, eliminatum ; etiam substerquilenio (proh scelus !) abstrusum : rege demum (plaudenteccelo et terra) reduente, ex decreto Baronum Angliae, seduloquacsitum, e
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