Queen Mary, on her accession, repealed the acts of Edward, and restored the Romanist prayer-book. ** On the accession of Elizabeth, however, this repeal was reversed, and the second book of Edward VI, with sev- eral alterations, was re-established. This liturgy con- tinued in JjCse during the long reign of Elizabeth, and received farther additions and improvements. An accurate edition of it, and of the Latin translation of it made by Alexander Ales, was published for the Par- ker Society by the Rev. W. K. CUy, B.D. It is enti- tled Liturgies and occasional Forms of Prayer set forth in the Reign of Queen Elitabeth (Cambridge University Press, 1847, 8vo). Early in the reign of James I it was again revised. At this revision a collect in the daily morning and evening service, and a particular intercession in the litany, were appointed for the royal family ; the forms of thanksgiving upon several occa- sions were then added ; the questions and answers con- cerning the sacraments were subjoined to the cate- chism; Aid the administration of baptism was by the rubric expressly confined to the lawftil minister. These and some other additions and improvements were made by the authority of James I, though they were not ratified by Parliament. In 1661, the year after the restoration of Charles II, the commissioners.
both Episcopal and PresbyteriAO, who had in«t at ^ Savoy to revise the liturgy, having come to no af^**. ment [see Savot Confi(bkhce], the Convocab't agreed to the followin^r alterations and addxLsons, m several lessons hi the csalendar were changed lor otkesi more proper for the days ; the prayers upon pattirtfg occasions were disjoined ftx>m the litany; sevenl if the collects were altered; the epistlee and gotpeli were taken out of the last translation of the BSHt. published in 1611, instead of being read from ttm iM venion. Farther, tlie prayer for the Parliunent, tktf for all conditions of men, the general thankaghiaf, the office of baptism for those of riper years, tiie ferot of prayer to be used at sea, for the anniversary ^tkt murtyrdom of Charles I, and for the restaratioo ef the royal fiunily, were added; and throoghoat the whdi liturgy ambiguities were removed, and Tarioss 9- provements made. The whole book, heiag finidMi passed both houses of Convocation ; it was subsoibad by the bishops and clergy, and was ratified by set ef Parliament, and received the royal assent Mar 19, 1662. This was the last revisal of the Boot ^Oww Prayer in which any alteration was made by pai^ authority. (Wheatly's lUust, of the Cow^wum Prayer.a^ pendix to introduction ; Nicholl's Pr^. to his CommssL on the Book of Common Prayer; Tomline's Chriti. Thaoi ii, 20-29; Dr. Cardwell's Bigtory qf Cos^fortmoes asd other Prooeedimgs connected with the Bevisiom of ike Bosk of Common Prayer,from the year 1568 to tie year 1690, Oxford, 1840, 8vo). Hamon I'Bstrange's AOemce of Divine Offices (Lond. 1659, fol. ; reprinted at Oxford m 1844 m 8vo), exhibits all the liturgies of the Chordb of England dnce the Reformation, as also the service- book introduced into the Church of Scotland in 1637: it is iUustrated with ample annotations. The Liimyi' cte BritannictB, published by the Rev. William Ee^ ing, B.D., at London in 1842, exhibits the seveial e£- tions of the Book of Common Prayer of tbe Cfanrch of England from its first compilation to its laat revisit in 1662, together with the liturgy set forth for the sie of the Episcopal Charch fai Scotland. Tbe Rev. W. K. Clay's Book of Common Prayer lUustraUd (Lond. 1841, 8vo) most commodiously shows its varioas mo£- fications, the date of its several parts, and tbe antfaon- ty on which they rest. An appendix, containing va- rioas important ecclesiastical documents, ooododa the volume. To those who can procure more expensive publications, the complete collection of the antheotk editions of the Book of Common Prayer, publ^wd at London in 1848, in six large folio volomes, wiD dooU- less be preferred. The collection, which is nniforah- printed in black letter, like the original editions, com- prises the liturgies of king Edward Y 1, 1549 and 1558 : the first Prayer-book of queen Elisabeth, 1550 ; king James the First's Prayer-book, as settled at the Hamp- ton Court Conference in 1604 ; the Scotch book of king Charles I ; and Charles the Second's book, as settkd at the Savoy Conference in 1662. By tiie Act of Um- formity, 18 and 14 Car. II, c 4, sec. is, it was enacted that true and perfect copies of that act, and of the Bosk of Common Prayer, 1662, should be delivered into iht respective courts, and into tbe Tower of London, to be preserved among the records thereof in all time to come. These copies are usually termed * the Sealed Boc<ks,' from their being exemplified nnder the great seal of England. From the copy hi the Tower of Lon- don the folio fac-simile edition of 1848 was cfaiefij printed. In 1849-50 Mr. A. J. Stephens pablisheJ an edition of the BoSk of Common Prayer in three oc- tavo vol^junes, with notes legal and historicaL The text of this edition is taken from the * Sealed Book* of the Court of Chancery, collated with the copies iff<»> served in the courts of Queen's Bench and Excheqner, and also with the copies in the Tower of London ; In the library of St Paul's Cathedral, London ; of Oiri5t Chureh, Oxford; at Ely; and with the manuscript Book of Ommon Prayer oiiginaUy annexed to ^