Matthew Parker

Life

Born: 6 August 1504, Norwich, England

Died: 17 May 1575

Biography Matthew Parker was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1559 until his death in 1575. He was also an influential theologian and arguably the co-founder (with Thomas Cranmer and Richard Hooker) of a distinctive tradition of Anglican theological thought. He wrote a Psalter in 1567, with nine psalms set to music by Thomas Tallis.

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Settings of text by Matthew Parker

• Come Holy Ghost, eternal God (Thomas Tallis)
• Expend, O Lord (Thomas Tallis)
• God grant with grace (Thomas Tallis)
• Let God arise (Thomas Tallis)
• Man blest no doubt (Thomas Tallis)
• O come in one (Thomas Tallis)
• When like the hunted hind (Thomas Tallis)
• Why brag in malice high (Thomas Tallis)
• Why fumeth in sight (Thomas Tallis)

Publications

• Parker, Matthew. 1567. The Whole Psalter Translated Into English Metre, Which Contayneth an Hundred and Fifty Psalmes. London, John Daye. 546 pp.]

External websites:

• Parker, Matthew. 1567. The Whole Psalter Translated at Archive.org
• Text (not music) re-typeset by David Jensen, 2022