A.D. 1531 LUTHER'S Nuremberg form of Service. 1534 Convocation request an English Bible to be authorized. The Papal Supremacy rejected by the English 1535 Second edition of MARSHALL'S Primer (the first of 1536 The X. Articles about Religion, set forth by Convocation with the King's authority. 1537. The publication of MATTHEWES' Bible (translated by Tyndall, Rogers, and Coverdale). The Institution of a Christian Man,' or the [This seems the culminating point of the Reforma- 1539 Bishop Hilsey's Primer (the second of Dr Burton's Three Primers). The Great Bible, or Cranmer's. 1540 The English Bible set up in Churches. 1541 The Bible of the largest and greatest volume' printed. 1542 The reading of the New Testament forbidden to all below a certain rank. 1543 Revised Sarum Portiforry. The Use of Sarum ordered to be observed throughout the province of Canterbury. 'A necessary Doctrine and Erudition for any Christian Man,' or the King's Book, put forth by the influence of Gardiner, sanctioned by the King and Convocation. 1544 May.-Litany in English. 1545 King Henry's Primer (the third of Dr Burton's Three Primers). 1547 Jan. 28.-Accession of EDWARD VI. July.-Publication of the First Book of Homilies. October. A reformation of the Public Service, prepared by Melancthon for HERMANN, Archbishop of Cologne, which had been first put forth in German, in 1543, and afterwards in Latin, in 1545, was now translated into English, entitled, 'A simple and religious Consultation,' &c. A.D. November.-The Primer of 1545, reprinted. December.-Communion in both kinds approved by Convocation, and sanctioned by Parliament. 1548 March 8.-The Order of the Communion.' July.--Publication of Cranmer's Catechism (originally written in German, translated into Latin by Justus Jonas, and from Latin into English by Cranmer, or one of his chaplains). November. The First English Prayer-Book discussed by Convocation. 1549 January.-The first Act of Uniformity. June 9 (Whitsun-Day).-The English Prayer-Book used. November.-The old Service-Books ordered to be destroyed. 1550 February.-The English Ordinal published. July. JOHN LASKI (or à LASCO) appointed superintendent of the foreign congregations in London. VALERANDUS POLLANUS, with a congregation of French and Walloon refugees, settled at Glastonbury. 1551 Revision of the Prayer-Book. January.-Bucer and Martyr, the King's Professors October. Decree of the Council of Trent on the 1552 April 6.-The Second Act of Uniformity. September 27.-Order to Grafton, the King's Printer, not to issue the new Prayer-Books. October 27.-Order of Council to add the Declaration about kneeling at Communion. November.-The Second Prayer-Book of EDWARD VI. issued. 1553 March.-Publication of a reformed Primer (printed in Liturgies and Documents of Edward VI. ed. Parker Society). Bishop POYNET'S Catechism. July 6.-Accession of MARY. 1555 Troubles at Frankfort. 1558 November 17.-Accession of ELIZABETH. A.D. 1559 December. Two editions of the English Litany published. A Committee of Divines meet at Sir T. Smith's house. A Primer published of the form of that of 1545. June 24.-The revised Prayer-Book to be used. 1560 The Irish Act of Uniformity authorizes the PrayerBook in Latin. 1561 Revised Calendar. 1562 JEWEL's Apology. NOWELL'S Catechism. The XXXIX. Articles. 1564 The Second Book of Homilies (prepared principally, it is said, by Jewel). 1565 The Advertisements' of Elizabeth. 1568 The Bishops' Bible published under the superintendence of Archbishop Parker. 1570 Bull of Excommunication issued by Pope Pius V. against Queen ELIZABETH. 1571 Proposal to reform some things in the Prayer-Book. The XXXIX. Articles revised, brought into their present form, and required to be subscribed by the clergy. 1578 Puritan edition of the Prayer-Book. 1603 March 24.-Accession of JAMES I. The Millenary Petition. 1604 January 14, 16, 18.-The Conference at Hampton Court. Changes in the Prayer-Book, or Explanations, ordered by King JAMES I. The Canons (being 141 in number) were collected by Bishop Bancroft out of the Articles, Injunctions, and Synodical Acts published in the reigns of EDWARD VI. and ELIZABETH, particularly those put forth in 1571 and 1597. 1607 The Translation of the Bible (which occupied three years) commenced. 1625 March 27.-Accession of CHARLES I. 1637 The Prayer-Book for Scotland. 1641 Committee of the Lords on Church Reform. 1643 The Westminster Assembly of Divines. September 25.-The Solemn League and Covenant, founded on an oath taken by the Scots five years before, now received by the Parliament at Westminster, and imposed upon all ministers. A.D. 1645 The Directory for Public Worship. 1660 May 29.-Restoration of King CHARLES II. October.-Royal Declaration on Ecclesiastical Affairs. 1661 April 15.-The Conference opened at the Savoy. The Book of Common Prayer revised; and December 20, subscribed by Convocation. 1662 May.-Act of Uniformity. August-November.-The Irish Convocation receives the revised Prayer-Book. 1666 Irish Act of Uniformity. 1689 Commission of King WILLIAM III. to revise the Prayer-Book. 1691 The Non-jurors. 1789 The Book of Common Prayer revised for the Episcopal Church in the United States. 1859 January 17.-The Services for the State Holydays (Nov. 5, Jan. 30, May 29) removed from the Prayer-Book by Royal Warrant. II. The Lord's Prayer. FROM THE PRYMER CIRC. A.D. 14001. Oure fadir, that art in heuenes, haleuid be thi name: thy rewme come to thee: be thi wille do as in heuene and in erthe: oure eche daies breed zyue us to day: and for yue us oure dettis, as and we forzeuen to oure dettouris: and ne lede us into temptacioun: but delyuere us fro yuel. So be it. 1 Maskell's Mon. Rit. II. 175. Canticum S. Ambrosii et Augustini. Te Deum laudamus: te Do minum confitemur. Te æternum Patrem : omnis terra veneratur. Tibi omnes Angeli: tibi cœli et universæ potestates, Tibi Cherubin et Seraphin: incessabili voce proclamant, Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus : Dominus Deus Sabaoth; Pleni sunt cœli et terra: majestatis gloriæ tuæ. Te gloriosus Apostolorum chorus, Te Prophetarum laudabilis III. Ps. Te Deum Laudamus. FROM THE PRIMER CIRC, A.D. 1400. we We herien1 thee god knowlechyn thee lord Thee, euerlastynge fadir: al the erthe worchipith. To thee alle aungelis thee heuenes and alle maner poweris. to To thee cherubyn and seraphym crien with uncecynge vois. Hooli, Hooli, Hooli: Lord God of vertues 2. Heuenes and erthe ben ful: of the mageste of thi glorie. Thee, the glorious cumpany of apostlis. Thee, the preisable noumbre of profetis. Thee, preisith the white oost of martirs3. Thee,hooli chirche knowlechith throuz al the world. Fadir of rizt greet mageste. Thi worshipful, verrei1, and oonli sone. And the hooli goost oure counfortour. Thou, crist, kyng of glorie. Thou art the endeles sone of the fadir. Herien] A.-S. hérian, O. E. hery to praise, worship. Comp. "Forsothe, Hieu dydde this aspyingly, that he distruye alle the heryeris of Baal." Wiclif, 2 Kings x. 19. 2 Lord God of vertues] "of oostis," Douce MS. 275, fol. 6 b, in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. See above, p. 82, n. 3 The white oost of martirs] see above, p. 82, n. 4 Verrei] See above, p. 82, n. "Thy sothefast worrshippfulle oneliche Sone;" Douce MS. Sothefast from so truth. Hence a soothsayer is literally a "truth-sayer." = |