THE
ANNOTATED BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER 3
PREFACE................................................................................................................................................ 5
PREFACE TO FORMER EDITIONS...................................................................................................... 7
End Notes............................................................................................................................................. 9
A LIST OF THE PRINCIPAL LITURGICAL AND HISTORICAL AUTHORITIES
USED, QUOTED, OR REFERRED TO, IN THIS WORK.................................................................................................................... 10
CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE................................................................................................................ 17
INTRODUCTORY NOTICE ON THE AMERICAN BOOK OF COMMON
PRAYER..................... 20
AN HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION TO THE PRAYER BOOK....................................................... 26
1. Altar Lights..................................................................................................................................... 37
2. The Latin and English Lessons at Mattins and
Evensong................................................................... 39
3. Processional Litanies....................................................................................................................... 40
The Order of Communion of AD 1548................................................................................................ 42
The Prayer Book of AD 1549............................................................................................................. 43
The Ancient Daily Services and Those of 1549.................................................................................... 46
The Revised Prayer Book of AD 1552................................................................................................ 49
The Revised Prayer Book of AD 1552................................................................................................ 52
The Revised Prayer Book of AD 1662................................................................................................ 58
On the Church side.................................................................................................................................. 61
The Concessions offered by the Bishops at the Savoy
Conference............................................................ 64
End Notes........................................................................................................................................... 83
RITUAL INTRODUCTION...................................................................................................................... 96
SECTION I: THE PRINCIPLES OF CEREMONIAL WORSHIP........................................................ 97
End Notes......................................................................................................................................... 104
SECTION II: THE MUSICAL PERFORMANCE OF DIVINE SERVICE.......................................... 105
End Notes......................................................................................................................................... 120
SECTION III: THE ACCESSORIES OF DIVINE SERVICE.............................................................. 125
End Notes......................................................................................................................................... 158
COMMON PRAYER and Administration of the SACRAMENTS............................................................ 161
The Title of the Prayer Book.................................................................................................................. 162
End Notes......................................................................................................................................... 167
An Act for the Uniformity of Common Prayer1....................................................................................... 168
End Notes......................................................................................................................................... 174
An Act for the Uniformity of Publick Prayers.......................................................................................... 177
An Act for the Amendment of the Act of Uniformity............................................................................... 187
The Preface........................................................................................................................................... 195
End Notes......................................................................................................................................... 201
Concerning the Service of the Church.................................................................................................... 203
End Notes......................................................................................................................................... 213
Of Ceremonies: Why Some be Abolished and Some Retained................................................................ 215
End Notes