P044 A Short History of the English Bible.
P044 A Short History of the English Bible. From the time the edition of 1560 appeared in England it became popular, and this popularity lasted many years. Its small size was in its favor, and its notes and comments, many of them deeply spiritual, gave it increased value with the Puritans.
It outlived its contemporaries, the Great Bible and the Bishops’ Bible, and for a long time was a powerful rival of the Authorized Version of King James. During the reign of Charles I. it gradually sank into disuse. Cotton gives 1644 as the date of the last Genevan Bible published; yet even long after this its notes occasionally appeared in connection with the text of the Authorized Version.
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XII. THE BISHOPS’ BIBLE.
Matthew Parker, Born 1504, Died 1575. For principal contemporaries see under Coverdale, page 28.
Parker was born at Norwich, August 6, 1504.- He was educated at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he was noted for his studious habits. In 1527 he was ordained priest; 1533, appointed chaplain to Queen Anne Boleyn; 1535, Dean of the monastic college of Stoke-Clare, in Suffolk; 1537, Chaplain to Henry VIII.; 1538, made Doctor of Divinity; 1541, Prebend in Cathedral of Ely; 1542, Rector of Ashen, in Essex; 1544, Rector of Birmingham, in Norfolk, and Master of Corpus Christi College, in Cambridge; 1545, Vice-Chancellor of the College, and Rector of Landbeach, in Cambridgeshire; 1547, married the daughter of a Norfolk gentleman, and wrote "De Conjugio Sacerdotum," in defense of clerical marriages; 1552, Dean of Lincoln by appointment of Edward VI.; 1553, deprived of all his preferments by Queen Mary; 1559, appointed Archbishop of Canterbury by Queen Elizabeth, and consecrated Dec. 17 without the usual popish ceremonies; 1568, issued the "Bishops’ Bible," which has sometimes been called "Parker’s Bible," because of his prominence in its preparation; 1575, May 17, died. The two principal Bibles in use during the early part of Elizabeth’s reign were the Great Bible and the Genevan.