# Martin Parker

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{{Short description|English ballad writer (c. 1600-c. 1656)}}
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'''Martin Parker''' ({{circa|1600}} – {{circa|1656}}) was an English [ballad](/source/ballad) writer, and probably a London tavern-keeper.

==Life==
About 1625 he seems to have begun publishing ballads, a large number of which bearing his signature or his initials, M.P., are preserved in the [British Museum](/source/British_Museum). [John Dryden](/source/John_Dryden) considered him the best ballad writer of his time. His sympathies were with the Royalist cause during the Civil War, and it was in support of the declining fortunes of [Charles I of England](/source/Charles_I_of_England) that he wrote the best known of his ballads, ''[When the king enjoys his own again](/source/When_the_king_enjoys_his_own_again)'', which he first published in 1643, and which, after enjoying great popularity at the [Restoration](/source/English_Restoration), became a favorite [Jacobite](/source/Jacobitism) song in the 18th century. Parker also wrote a nautical ballad, ''Sailors for my Money'', which in a revised version survives as ''When the stormy winds do blow''. It is not known when he died, but the appearance in 1656 of a funeral elegy, in which the ballad writer was satirically celebrated is perhaps a correct indication of the date of his death.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}

==References==
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{{1911|wstitle=Parker, Martin}}; Endnotes:
*''The Roxburghe Ballads'', vol. 3. (Ballad Soc., 9 vols., 1871–1899)
*Joseph Ritson, ''Bibliographia Poetica'' (London, 1802)
*''Ancient Songs and Ballads from Henry II. to the Revolution'', ed. by W. C. Hazlitt (London, 1877)
*Sir S. E. Brydges and J. Haslewood, ''The British Bibliographer'', vol. 2 (London, 1810)
*Thomas Corser, ''Collectanea Anglo-poelica'' (London, 1860–1883).

==External links==
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*[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/21326 "Parker, Martin"] ([fl.](/source/floruit) 1624–1647), Joad Raymond, ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004.

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