Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Nag's Head Fable was a fiction which purported that Anglican Archbishop Matthew Parker was not consecrated solemnly, but instead was consecrated with a Bible pressed to his neck while inside the Nag's Head tavern. The story surfaced more than forty years after Parker's consecration and was spread by Roman Catholics as fact until the dawn of the 20th century. On the passing of the first Act of Uniformity in Queen Elizabeth I of England's reign, fourteen bishops were dismissed from their sees, and all the other sees, except Llandaff (then part of the Church of England), were at the time vacant. The question was how to obtain consecration so as to preserve unbroken Apostolic Succession, as the Bishop of Llandaff refused to officiate at the consecration of the new Archbishop of Canterbury. Matthew Parker had been selected for the see. The allegation of an indecent consecration in the Nag's Head Fable seems first to have been made by the Jesuit, Christopher Holywood, in 1604, over forty years after the event.

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