ns' Journals_, viii. 247. This and the following citations from
the Journals of the two Houses will be found collected in the Report of
the Ecclesiastical Courts Commission, Appendix v.
[28] _Commons' Journals_, viii. p. 296. The "original Book" should mean
the copy actually tied to the Statute of 1552. It was probably intended to
mark in it the alterations mentioned in the Act of 1559. The actual Book
was missing, and apparently no copy of the Prayer-book of that year could
readily be procured. A copy of the year 1604 was probably selected as
being anterior to the changes made by James I. after the Hampton Court
Conference, and so presumably printed in accordance with the Act of
1559. It did not, however, as I have said above, strictly follow the Act.
Two prayers printed "before the reading Psalms" were cancelled before
the book was annexed to the Bill, but the other variations would probably
be unknown to the examiners.
[29] _Lords' Journals_, xi. 364, 366.
[30] _Ibid_., xi. 383.
[31] _Lords' Journals_, xi. 406-408.
[32] _Ibid_., xi. 425.
[33] Cardwell, _Synod_., p. 666.
[34] _Commons' Journals_, viii. 406-408.
[35] _Ibid_., viii. 413.
[36] _Lords' Journals_, xi. 441-442.
[37] _Lords' Journals_, xi. 451.
[38] _Ibid_.
[39] Cardwell, _Synod_., p. 670.
[40] See Appendix.
[41] This fact should suffice to dispose of a theory propounded by some
who attempt to save the face of the Church by representing the Act of
Uniformity as the _ratification_ in Parliament of what had been already
done by the Church. There is no historical basis for such a theory.
[42] _The Book of Common Prayer, etc., with notes, etc_., by A. J. Stephens,
p. clxxiv.
Transcriber's notes: The footnotes were moved to endnotes and renumbered.
Some words, such as "Mr" and "Parlt" are words that have a superscript ending with
no punctuation.
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