. The annotated Book of common prayer, being an historical, ritual, and theological commentary on the devotional system of the Church of England . e dignity of appearing in print while theywere living rites. Hereford barely secured that honour, is represented by at least a hundred editions ; theSarum Breviary alone having been printed some forty or fiftytimes between 1483 and 1557. 3 Johnsons Enrj. Canons, i. 1SG. 4 Ibid. Ibid. 398. 6 It must be remembered that English was not spokenuniversally by the upper classes for some centuries after theConquest. In 13fi2 an Act of
. The annotated Book of common prayer, being an historical, ritual, and theological commentary on the devotional system of the Church of England . e dignity of appearing in print while theywere living rites. Hereford barely secured that honour, is represented by at least a hundred editions ; theSarum Breviary alone having been printed some forty or fiftytimes between 1483 and 1557. 3 Johnsons Enrj. Canons, i. 1SG. 4 Ibid. Ibid. 398. 6 It must be remembered that English was not spokenuniversally by the upper classes for some centuries after theConquest. In 13fi2 an Act of Parliament was passed enjoin-ing all schoolmasters to teach their scholars to translate intoEnglish instead of French. an Jt)tfiftorical Introduction eno-raviuo- made from one of two which were found by the present writer under the floor of OverChurch, near Cambridge, in 1857. It is of a late date, and has had In the Name of the Father, andof the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, in the place of the Angelic Salutation; but it is given as anillustration of the traditional practice, and because it is of special interest from being found in While these horn-books were thus provided for the poor, the Scriptorium of the Monastery alsoprovided Prymers in English and Latin for those who could afford the expensive luxury of a Latin Prymers are well known under the name of Books of Hours. Vernacular Prymers existwhich were written as early as the fourteenth century, and many relics of old English devotion of thatdate still These English Prymers contained about one-third of the Psalms, the Canticles, theApostles Creed, with a large number of the prayers, anthems, and perhaps hymns. They continuedto be published up to the end of Henry reign,2 and, in a modified form, even at a later date:and they must have familiarized those who used them with a large portion of the Services, even whenthey did not understand the Latin in which those Services were said by the c
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