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He graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1578-1579, and Master of Arts
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Richard Parkes
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He was a native of Lancashire, elected king"s scholar of Brasenose College, Oxford, in 1574, and matriculated there on 20 December 1577. in 1585. He took holy orders when Bachelor of Arts, and, according to Anthony Wood, ‘became a goodly divine’ and a noted preacher. In 1604 he wrote against Andrew Willet.
At the suggestion of friends, Parkes wrote anonymously his Brief Answer to certain Objections against Christ"s Descension into Hell, sent in writing by a Minister unto a Gentleman in the Country.
In 1607 Parkes published under his own name An Apology of three Testimonies of Holy Scripture concerning the Article of our Creed, He descended into Hell. This consists of two books, of which the first is the Brief Answer revised and enlarged, while the second is A Rejoinder to a Reply made against the former book, lately published in a printed pamphlet, entitled Limbo-mastix.
In the same year Willet produced his Loidoromastix, in which Parkes is roughly handled.
