Nag's Head Consecration

Nag's Head Consecration, a calumnious legend first circulated by Roman Catholics forty years after the event with respect to Archbishop Parker's consecration (1559), to the effect that he was consecrated in the most casual and irregular manner in the Nag's Head Tavern, Cheap-side. The facts of the case are that the election took place in the chapter-house at Canterbury, the confirmation at St Mary-le-Bow's Church in Cheap-side, and the consecration in the chapel of Lambeth Palace, the consecrating bishops being Barlow, Scory, Coverdale, and Hodgkin.