Did Queen Elizabeth Take Other Order in the Advertisements of 1566?; A PostScript to a Letter Addressed to Lord Selborne, in Reply to His Lordship's Criticisms on the Introduction to the Revisions of the Book of Common Prayer (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 Excerpt: ...utterly extinct, and destroy all shrines, coverings of shrines, all tables, ..." pictures, paintings, and all other monuments of feigned miracles." As many of the screens had paintings, and most had the figures on the Rood-loft, it is no wonder--with the revolutionary and destructive spirit abroad, which the Puritan party took every opportunity to excite--that, under the name of obeying the Injunctions, they had in places utterly disregarded the Rubrick, --"and the chancels shall remain as they have done in times past." I think we may notice here in these ' Orders' the same moderate spirit, of which I have already spoken as existing in the Advertisements, when dealing with the abuses and 'Varieties.' And as I look through the other provisions of the same document, I am struck by the same temperate character which pervades the whole. Some of them are almost identical with the Injunctions, and some seem to have been followed by the Advertisements, but all point to existing law. The next provision to those already quoted runs as follows: --"Also that the Steppes which be as yet at this day remaynyng in any Cathedrall, Collegiat, or Parryshe Church, be not styrred nor altered: but be suffered to continue with the Tombes of any noble or worshypful personage, where it so chaunceth to be, as well in Chauncell, Churche, or Chappell." Here, again, we find a rebuke to the puritanical excesses of which I have spoken: and in the next a gentle mode of proceeding where there had already been excess of zeal. "And yf in any Chauncel the Steppes be transposed, that they be not erected agayne, but that the place be decently paved, where the Communion ta'ile shall stande out of the tymes of receyvyng the Communion, having the.on a fayre lynnen ...