Parker Society is the name of an English or- ganization of churchmen started in 1841, for the pur- ])ose of a complete republication of the writings of the Reformation. We append a list of the works published and proposed to be published by the Parker Society :
In roval octavo — liecon, Cranmer, Jewell, Whitgift, Tindid, Frith, aud Barnes; Bullingei's Decades; Alley, Whitlnker. In demy octavo— Ridley, Pilkington, Phil- pot, Fulke, Nowell, Covcrdnle, Parkei-, Bale, Rainolds, Sandys, Hutchinson, Giiiidal, Hooper, Latimer, Brad- ford,Fox, Taveriier, and some others. Royal authors- Documents of the reign of Edward VI ; Documents rela- tive to the reitrn of queen Mary ; Documents of the reign of queen Elizabeth ; Zuiich Letters (two series) ; Letters aud Documents from archbishop Parker's MSS. in C.C.C.C.; occasional Services of queen Elizabeth's reign ; the Hom- ilies ; some volumes of Sermons preached before king Edward VI and queen Elizabeth at Paul's Cross, in the universiiies, and on various occasions; several volumes of Tracts and Small Pieces; various Letters aud Docu- ments; the Reformatio legum Ecclesiasticarum ; queen Elizabeth's Prayer-hook; Devotional Poetry of the six- teenth century ;' Christian Meditations and Prayers, and some other devotioiuil manuals. It was calculated that the works above stated might be in about eighteen or twenty volumes royal octavo, and fifty volumes demy, and the whole might be com|)leted in sixteeu years from the com- mencement. A few pieces of peculiar interest would prob- ably be jjrinted as fac-similcs, and these were to be the eizes of the originals.
Parkhurst, John (O, D.D., an English prelate of some note, was born in 1511 at Cuildford, in Surrey. He received his yircparatory training at the grammar school of his native jilace, and then jiroceeded to ^Icrton College, Oxford. After graduation he was tutor at his alma mater, and one of his pupils was the learned Eng- lish prelate Jewell (q. v.). In 1548 Parkhurst was pre- sented with the living of Bishop's Cleve in Gloucester- shire, but on the death of Edward VI Parkhurst retired
to Switzerland, and there imbibed Calvinistic views. On the accession of (jueen Elizabeth he returned to his native country. He now advocated Puritanic notions, yet, notwithstanding his ditference of opinion, he was highly esteemed by archbishop Parker. This primate in 15G0 caused Parkhurst to be elevated to the bishopric of Norwich. As Parkhurst after this favored the most liberal concessions to the Dissenters, he fell under dis- pleasure with the archbishop and the queen, and his last years were embittered by much reviling and slander from the High-Church party. He was accused of in- ability for the bishopric, was declared in his dotage, and was reported very superstitious, when the truth is that he simply had faith in ecclesiastical miracles, and put a favorable construction on the failings of his fellow- beings of whatever class. He was certainly a learned and pious man. He died Feb. 2, 1574. Bishop Park- hurst was one of the translators of the '• Bishops' Bible," of which his share was the Apocrypha, from the book of Wisdom to the end. Some of his letters were published by Strype, and others are still in MS. in the British Mu- seum. His publications are, Epigrammata in Mortem duorum Fratrum, etc. (Loud. 1552, 4to) : — Epigi-ammata Seria (15G0, 4to) : — Ludicra ; sire Epigrammata Ju- venilia (1573, 4to): — Vita Christi, carm. Lat. in lib. pi-ecitm prirat. (lb'S,4to). See Strype, .4 «Ha/s ; Wood, AthencB Oxon.; Neal, Ilist. of the Puritans; Soames, Elizabethan History, p. 203 ; Macaulay, Hist, of Eng- land, i, 50 ; Fronde, Hist, of England (see Index in vol. xii); Hook, Eccles. Biog. vii, 548 sq. ; Allibone, Diet, of Brit, and A nier. A ulhors, vol. ii, s. v. (J. H. W'.)
Parkhurst, Joliu (2), a noted English Biblical scholar, was born of honorable parentage in June, 1728. He was educated at Kugby Grammar School, and afterwards at Clare Hall, Cambridge, where he took the degree of B.A. in 1748, and that of M.A. in 1752. He was for some years a fellow of his college ; then took orders in the Church of England, but never obtained any preferment, having succeeded to a considerable estate, which rendered him independent. He acted, without receiving any salary, as curate of the church at Catesb}-, the preferment of which was in his own gift. He died at Epsom March 21, 1797. Parkhurst was a man of great integrity and firmness of character. He alwaj-s lived in retirement, though he possessed quali- ties which fitted him to shine in society. In spite of a weak constitution he was a most laborious student. His first work was A Serious and Friendly Address to the Rer. John Wesley (1753), remonstrating against the doctrine of the faitli of assurance as held by Mr. Wesley (see Wesley's IForZs). Parkhurst, however, devoted himself chiefly to Biblical studies. In 17C2 he pub- lished the first edition of his Hebrew and English Lexi- con, without Points, irith a Hebreio Grarnmar, which has passed through several editions. His Greek and Eng- lish Lexicon to the New Testament, with a Greek Gram- mar, appeared in 17G9. Of this work there are several editions, both in quarto and octavo ; the first of the octa- vo editions was prepared by his daughter, Mrs. Thomas. A new edition, by the Rev. Hugh James Rose, B.D., was published in 1829. The only other work published by Mr. Parkhurst was The Lirinity and Pi-e-existence of our I^ord and Saciour Jesus Christ demonstrated from Scrip- ture, in Answer to the First Section of Dr. Priestley's In- troduction to the History of Early Opinions concerning Jesus Christ (Loud. 1787, 8vo). Dr. Priestley re[ilied to this work in "A Letter to Dr. Home." Parkhurst's lexicons, though now superseded, enjoyed a con.sidera- ble reputation at the lime of their first appearance, and certainly were very useful in their day. Their great blemisli is their many fanciful and ridicidous etymolo- gies bearing traces of the Hutchinsonian opinions of their author. See English Cyclop, s. v.; Kitto, Biblical Cyclop, s. v.; Allibone, Diet, of Brit, and Avier. Auth. s. V. ; Home, Bibllotheca Biblia (1839), p. 208 sq. ; Bick- ersteth. Christian Student, p. 388 ; Orme, Bibl. Bib. s. v. ; Chalmers, Biog. Did. -xxiv, 130 ; Lond. Gent. Mag, vol.