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was aftenvards attributed to a Matthew of Westmin- ster, for the name of Matthew really belonged to Mat- thew of Paris, whilst the afKx of Westminster was sup- plied by conjecture ; and this pseudonyme liaving been recognised by Bale and Joscelin, and adopted by arch- bishop Parker, the error has been perpetuated to our own time.' " Besides this edition by Madden, entitled Mattlmi Parisiensis, Monachi Sancti Albaiii, Historia An(jlorum, siee ut vulgo dicitiir, Ilistoria Minor, item, ejusdem abbreviatio Chronicorum A nf/lice (published by the authority of the lords commissioners of her majes- ty's treasury, London, Longmans, 1866 sq.), we have one by archbishop Parker (London, 1571, folio; reprinted at Liguri, Zurich, 1606 ; London, 1640 [or in some copies 1641], fob, by Dr. William Watts ; Par. 1644, fol. ; Lond. 1684, fol.). Watts's edition, which is sometimes divided into two volumes, contains, besides various readings and copious indexes, two other works of the author never before printed, namely, his Buorum Offarum Merciorum Reffum (S. Albani Fundatorum) Vitce, and his Viginti Trillin Abbatum S. Albani Vitce, together with what he calls his Additamenta to those treatises. "Matthew of Paris writes with considerable spirit and rhetorical dis- play, and uses remarkable freedom of speech ; and his work, which is continued to the death of Henry III (1272) by William Eishangor, another monk of the same abbey, has been the chief authority commonly re- lied upon for the history of that reign. Its spirit, how- fever, is somewhat tiercely and narrowly English ; and from the freedom with which he inveighs against what he regards as the usurpations of the papal see, Romanist writers have always expressed strong dissatisfaction es- pecially with his accounts of ecclesiastical affairs. With Protestant critics, on the other hand, Matthew of Paris has been a favorite in proportion to the dislike he has incurred from their opponents. At one time it used to be affirmed by the Roman Catholics that the printed Matthew of Paris was in many things a mere modern fabrication of the Reformers ; but Watts, by collating all the manuscript copies he could find, and noting the various readings, proved that there was no foundation for this charge" {Engl. Cgclop. s. v.). A translation of the History of Matthew of Paris, by Dr. Giles, forms a volume of Bohn's "Antiquarian Library," and the Flow- ers of History of Roger of Wendover forms two volumes of the same series. See Oudin, Scripto?-es Eccles. iii, 204 sq. ; also Herzog, Real-EncyHopddie, ix, 176 ; Wetzer u. Welte, Kirchen-Lexikon, vi, 932 ; North British Rev. Oct. 1869, p. 119. See Roger of Wendover.
Matthe'w of Westminster, an early English clironielcr, flourished in the reign of Edward II. Noth- ing whatever is known of his personal history except that he was a monk of the Benedictine Abbey of West- minster. He is supposed to have died about 1307 or 1377. His chronicle, written in Latin, is entitled Flores Historiariim, per Matthceum Wcstinonasteriensem col- lecti, pi-(p,cipue de Rebus Bi-ittannicis, ab Exordia Mundi, usque ad annum 1307 (Lond. 1567 ; with additions, Frkf. 1601). Bohn has published an English version (Lond. 1853, 2 vols. 8vo). Another work formerly ascribed to him is now definitely settled to be the production of Matthew of Paris (q. v.).
Matthe'w of York (Tom as), a noted English prel- ate, was born in Bristol in 1546. In childhood he mani- fested unusual talent, and was prepared for Oxford when only thirteen years of age. He took the bachelor's degree in 1563, and three years after the master's, and immedi- ately entered into " holy orders" — a young man much respected for his great learning, eloquence, sweet con- versation, friendly disposition, and the sharpness of his wit. In 1566 he was made university orator;- in 1570, canon of Christ Church and ilcacon of Bath; in 1572, prebendary of Sarum and president of St. Jo'lni's College, Oxford, and one of the queen's chaplains in ordinary-. In 1583 he was installed dean of Durham, in 1595 he was created bishop of Durham, and in 1606 archbishop
of York. He died at Cawood Castle March 29, 1628. The learning and piety of archbishop Matthew have been warmly eulogized by. Camden, It is to be much lamented that his sermons, which are said to have been superior productions, were not preserved to us in print. The only publication of his is entitled Concia Apolnget- icu contra Capiunum (Oxf. 1581 and 1638, 8vo). In the cathedral church at York there is a MS. from his pen containing Notes upon all the Ancient Fathers. See '\Woo<\, At henm Oxonienses ; Middleton, Ev. Biogr. ii, 478 sq. ; Hook, Eccles. Biog. s. v.
Matthe-ws, Alford A., a minister of the IMcth- odist Episcopal Church, was born in Mercer County, P,a., July 11, 1838 ; went to Wethersfield, 111., in 1855, and was there converted and joined the Missionary Baptist Church. In the winter of 1862-63 he joined the Meth- odist Episcopal Church, after advising with his pastor and members of his own Church. Soon after he re- ceived license to preach. In the spring of 1864, the health of the pastor of the Buda Circuit failing, the circuit was vacated, and Blatthews was appointed his successor. At the close of the year he was admitted on trial into the Illinois Conference, and retm-ned to the Buda charge. From the Conference of 1866 to that of 1868 he was in charge of the Tiskilwa Station. At the Conference of 1868 he was appointed to ChUlicothe, and there he la- bored most acceptably to the people and most success- fully for the cause to which he gave his life. He died quite suddenly at this place, Aug. 1, 1869. "From his boyhood days he was a diligent student ; from his es- pousal of the cause of Christ, a devoted Christian ; and from the time he received license to preach, a very zeal- ous and successful minister of the Gospel. While at Buda, his first charge, he sought and found the blessing of perfect love, and lived in the enjoyment of the bless- ing until the day of his death." See Coyf. Minutes, 1869, p.241.