The Parker Society was a text publication society set up in 1841 to produce editions of the works of the early Protestant writers of the English Reformation. It was supported by both the High Church and evangelical wings of the Church of England, and was established in reaction against the Tractarian movement of the 1830s. Its council was dominated by evangelicals, but not to the exclusion of other views.
In response, a group of Tractarians founded the Library of Anglo-Catholic Theology.
The Society took its name from Matthew Parker (1504–1575), Archbishop of Canterbury from 1559 to 1575, and a prominent collector of manuscripts. It published four or five volumes a year, to 1853.
Publications A General Index to the Publications of the Parker Society was published in 1855 by Henry Gough; the publications are listed on pp. vii–viii.
Single authors AuthorTitleDate of editionEditorJohn BaleSelect Works1849Henry ChristmasThomas BeconEarly Works1843John AyreThe Catechism1844John AyrePrayers and other pieces1844John AyreJohn BradfordWritings (two vols.)1848, 1853Aubrey TownshendHenry BullingerDecades (four vols.)1849–51Thomas HardingJames CalfhillAn Answer to John Martiall's Treatise of the Cross1846Richard GibbingsThomas CooperAn Answer in Defence of the Truth1850William GoodeMyles CoverdaleWritings and Translations1844George PearsonRemains1846George PearsonThomas CranmerWorks (two vols.)1844, 1846John Edmund CoxWilliam FulkeA defence of the sincere and true translations of the Holy Scriptures into the English tongue, against the cavils of Gregory Martin1843Charles Henry HartshorneStapleton's Fortress overthrown. A rejoinder to Martiall's Reply. A discovery of the dangerous rock of the popish church commended by Sanders.1848Richard GibbingsEdmund GrindalRemains1843William NicholsonJohn HooperEarly Writings1843Samuel CarrLater Writings1852Charles NevinsonRoger HutchinsonWorks1842John BruceJohn JewelWorks (four vols.)1845, 1847, 1848, 1850John AyreHugh LatimerWorks (two vols.)1844-5George Elwes CorrieJohn NordenA Progress of Piety1847Alexander NowellCatechism1853George Elwes CorrieMatthew ParkerCorrespondence1853John Bruce and Thomas Thomason PerowneJohn PhilpotExaminations and Writings1842Robert EdenJames PilkingtonWorks1842James ScholefieldNicholas RidleyWorks1841Henry ChristmasThomas RogersThe Catholic Doctrine of the Church of England: An exposition of the Thirty-nine articles1854John James Stewart PerowneEdwin SandysSermons1841John AyreWilliam TyndaleDoctrinal Treatises, and Introductions to different portions of the Holy Scriptures1848Henry WalterExpositions and Notes on sundry portions of the Holy Scriptures1849Henry Walter An Answer to Sir Thomas More's Dialogue1850Henry Walter William WhitakerA Disputation on Holy Scripture against the Papists1849William FitzgeraldJohn WhitgiftWorks (three vols.)1851–3John AyreJohn WooltonThe Christian Manual1851
Collections TitleDate of editionEditorThe Two Liturgies, A.D. 1549, and A.D. 15521844Joseph KetleyLiturgies and Occasional Forms of Prayer set forth in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth1847William Keatinge ClaySelect Poetry, Chiefly Devotional, of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth (two vols.)1845Edward FarrPrivate Prayers, put forth by authority during the Reign of Queen Elizabeth1851William Keatinge ClayChristian Prayers and Holy Meditations, as well for private as public exercise1842Reprint from Henry Bull (1566)The Zurich Letters: comprising the correspondence of several English bishops and others, with some of the Helvetian reformers, during the early part of the reign of Queen Elizabeth (two vols.)1842Hastings RobinsonOriginal Letters relative to the English Reformation: written during the reigns of King Henry VIII, King Edward VI, and Queen Mary: chiefly from the archives of Zurich (two vols.)1847Hastings Robinson
See also Library of Anglo-Catholic Theology Library of the Fathers
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