THE 1928 PRAYER BOOK SIR,—I read with surprise the statement
by your correspondent. Mr. G. W. R. Thomson, in reference to the consecration of Matthew Parker as Archbishop, that "All the recognised books of reference state categorically that not one of the four bishops who are alleged to have consecrated Parker—namely Barlow, Scory, Coverdale and Hodgkin—was himself consecrated." In one well-known book of reference, the History of the Church of England by Henry Offley Wakeman, Fellow of All Souls' College, Oxford, it is stated on page 313 as follows: " On the 17th December, 1559 [Parker] was consecrated according to the new ordinal in Lambeth Chapel by Barlow Bishop of Bath and Wells, Scory Bishop of Chichester, Coverdale Bishop of Exeter, and Hodgkin Suffragan Bishop of Thetford. Of these Barlow and Hodgkin had been con- secrated according to the Sarum rite, Coverdale and Scory according to the ordinal of 1550."—Yours faithfully, E. E. WELBY-EVERARD. Gosberton, Lincolnshire.
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