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31: 120:, opposed Parker's appointment and refused to officiate. The allegation of an indecent consecration in the Nag's Head tavern was first made in a controversial book entitled 174:. In this account it is stated that it was not the consecration which took place at the Nag's Head, but only that those who took part in it dined there subsequently. 151:. There, Parker was supposedly consecrated by having a Bible pressed to his neck while Scory said, "Take thou authority to preach the word of God sincerely." 325: 177:
As recently as the late nineteenth century, the legend was still being told as fact by controversialists in such countries as
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This story was later discredited, as a full eyewitness description was found of the consecration of Parker, in
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had been selected as Archbishop of Canterbury, but there was a question of how to obtain
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Fabricated account of the consecration of Matthew Parker as Archbishop of Canterbury
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The Catholic Religion: A Manual of Instruction for Members of the Anglican
132:(or Christophorus a Sacrobosco), in 1604, over 40 years after the event. 81: 54: 159: 140: 136: 178: 148: 58: 236: 234: 89: 85: 125: 231: 147:, was sent for and officiated at the Nag's Head tavern in 122:
De investiganda vera ac visibili Christi ecclesia libellus
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The Christian Faith: An Introduction to Dogmatic Theology
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An Illustrated Magazine of Literature, Science and Art
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Nag's Head Story

Matthew Parker
Matthew Parker
Archbishop of Canterbury
Elizabeth I
Cheapside
Roman Catholics
Act of Uniformity 1559
Elizabeth I
bishops
sees
Llandaff
Church of England
Matthew Parker
consecration
apostolic succession
Bishop of Llandaff
Anthony Kitchin
Jesuit
Christopher Holywood
propaganda
John Scory
Bishop of Chichester
Cheapside
Lambeth Palace Chapel
John Scory
William Barlow
Myles Coverdale
John Hodgkins

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