The encyclopædia britannica; a dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information . = Edward VI. came to the throne on the 28th of January 1547; his second year. therefore, lasted from the 28th of January 1548 to the27th of January 1549. The first Prayer Book passed parliament onthe 2Ist of January 1549. but did not receive the royal assent tilllater, probably March, and was not in compulsory use till Whitsunday,J une 9th. r 549. The old rule, however, was that every act of parlia-ment in which the commencement thereof is not directed to be_ froma specific time, doth commence fro
The encyclopædia britannica; a dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information . = Edward VI. came to the throne on the 28th of January 1547; his second year. therefore, lasted from the 28th of January 1548 to the27th of January 1549. The first Prayer Book passed parliament onthe 2Ist of January 1549. but did not receive the royal assent tilllater, probably March, and was not in compulsory use till Whitsunday,J une 9th. r 549. The old rule, however, was that every act of parlia-ment in which the commencement thereof is not directed to be_ froma specific time, doth commence from the first day of the session ofparliament in which such act is passed (33 Geo. III. c. 13). Theevidence is now clear that the Rubric refers to the first Prayer was decided in LiddeU v. Weslerlon (1857), and is admitted in theReport of the five bishops to Convocation on The Ornaments of theChurch and its Ministers (1908), which adduces conclusive evidence.^ This was inserted, probably by the Privy Council, as a memo-randum or interpretation of the clause in the Act of Clearly it was the intention of the government, consisleatlywith the whole trend of its policy, to cover its concession to theProtestant party dominant in the Commons by retaining someof the outward forms of the old services until such time as itshould be expedient to take other order. Then followeda period of great confusion. If the massing vestments continued anywhere in use, it was not for long. Whatever theletter of the law under the rubric, the Protestant bishops andthe commissioners made short work ofsuch popish stuff as chasubles, albsand the like. As for copes, in someplaces they were ordered to be worn,and were worn at the Holy Com-munion, while elsewhere they werethrown into the bonfires with the difficulty seems to have beennot to suppress the chasuble, of theuse of which after 1559 not a singleauthoritative instance has been ad-duced, but to save the surplice, whichthe
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