The prayer book articles and homilies; some forgotten facts in their history which may decide their interpretation . the Canons of 1604. Nochange was made in this respect under James, for, asLord Selborne observes, those rubrics were notmentioned or referred to in any of the alterations oradditions then made, or in the Kings Letters Patentor proclamation. The order to reprint the book, withthe alterations and additions specifically mentioned,could not make anything not so mentioned (and as towhich the King had not received the advice requiredby the statute) part of the book of Conunon Prayer,
The prayer book articles and homilies; some forgotten facts in their history which may decide their interpretation . the Canons of 1604. Nochange was made in this respect under James, for, asLord Selborne observes, those rubrics were notmentioned or referred to in any of the alterations oradditions then made, or in the Kings Letters Patentor proclamation. The order to reprint the book, withthe alterations and additions specifically mentioned,could not make anything not so mentioned (and as towhich the King had not received the advice requiredby the statute) part of the book of Conunon Prayer, unlessit was so before. The subsequent republication, there-fore, of those rubrics did not alter their effect, or theirrelation to the law. ^^ In other words, Elizabeths illegal fraud-rubric neverbecame any part of the statutory Prayer Book, thoughat the Revision of 1661 a modification of the wordingof the 25th section of the Act was substituted for the history of that Revision is so absolutely distinctand separate that it ought to be treated in a separatepaper by itself. ^^ Notes on the Liturgy, p. VI Ehc 0niamcnt0 IKulnnc No. II. .1002) ALTHOUGH the Prayer Book was proscribedfrom 1645 until the accession of Charles II.,it did not cease to influence the minds ofchurchmen. In 1655 appeared (anonymously) the firstcommentary on it, to which in 1657 Sparrow attachedhis name, a third edition being called for in , a layman, published in 1659, his Alliance ofthe Divine Offices, exhibiting, as the title-page intimates, All the Liturgies of the Church of England since theReformation. In 1661 Sparrow published his Collectionof Articles, &c., which included the Advertisements ofElizabeth. To the men of that generation, these reprints werethe only sources of information practically available ona subject which had not as yet interested any large•class of students. The Prayer Books of Edward hadbeen burned in every diocese under the proclamation ofPhilip and Mary
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