Matthew Parker, was born in St. Saviour’s parish, August 6th, 1504, he received his education in Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he made rapid progress in almost every kind of learning; he was appointed Chaplain to Queen Ann Boleyn, and through her interest obtained several preferments;—and on her being brought to the scaffold, the Princess Elizabeth, with a solemn injunction, was put under his care. He was shortly after made Vice Chancellor of the Cambridge University; he was appointed Chaplain to King Edward the VIth. and in 1552 preferred to the Deanery of Lincoln; he withdrew from his native country in Queen Mary’s reign, but was recalled on her death, and appointed to the See of Canterbury by her successor. In his character he combined learning and religion, in his household he was hospitable and courteous, of his charity his liberal benefactions bear ample testimony; he collected many valuable manuscripts, which he gave to the library of the College where he received his education: he was a profound Antiquarian, and was the author of _Antiquitates Britannicæ_; he caused many valuable records where copies were scarce to be printed; he published some other works, and superintended a translation of the Scriptures from the original tongue, known by the name of the Bishops Bible; he died at his palace in Lambeth, May 17, 1575. John Kaye or Cains, was born in Norwich, in 1510, and received his education at Cambridge. He finished his studies on the Continent, where he wrote many books, and formed numerous valuable literary acquaintance; on his return to England he practised as a Physician in Norwich with great success, and in 1557 he was considered the most able practitioner of medicine in the kingdom: he was physician to King Edward VI. and held the same office to Queen Mary, with whom he was in high favor; in the latter part of his life he retired to Cambridge, but being called to London on some urgent business, he was taken ill, and died in July, 1573, and was buried in Caius College Chapel, Cambridge; he exercised his pen on almost every branch of learning, and left upwards of four-score different treatises on various subjects. William Cuningham, was born in Norwich, in 1531; he studied physic, and graduated at Heidelburgh; he wrote several treatises on Astronomy, Chronology and Medicine, particularly the Cosmographical Glass—printed in 1559, at the close of which year he died. Thomas Legge, born in 1535, was student at Cambridge, and succeeded his friend Caius in the mastership of Caius College; he was a great and distinguished Antiquarian; having attached himself to the Law, he was appointed King’s legal professor, and twice filled the vice Chancellor’s chair; he was also a dramatic writer, he died in 1607.