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The life and acts of Matthew Parker, the first Archbishop of Canterbury in the reign of Queen Elizabeth: under whose primacy and influence the reformation of religion was happily effected; and the Church of England restored, and established upon the principles whereon it stands to this day: wherein are related the said Archbishop's actions in ecclesiastical commissions, and synods; his visitations of the dioceses, colleges and hospitals within his province, with his injunctions and regulations: characters and accounts of bishops by him consecrated: his endeavours or uniformity: his diligence in retrieving, and publishing many Saxon, and other ancient historical Mss. of this nation: his procuring a more correct translation of the Holy Bible: his government of his own dioces of Canterbury: his sober thoughts, counsels, and cares for religion and this church: and many particulars of the ecclesiastical history of those times, hitherto unknown, or very obscure, are discovered and brought to light: compiled faithfully from records, registers, state-papers, orders of council, authentic letters, and sundry other original Mss. in four books: to which is added an appendix, containing various transcripts of records, letters, instruments, ordinances, commissions, discourses, relations, intelligences, and other secret papers, above an hundred in number; for the asserting or illustrating the foregoing history: among which will be found the Latin life of this Archbp. entituled, Matthæus, so much and so long wanted in the editions of the British antiquities