The English Rite Vol. 1: Being a Synopsis of the Sources and Revisions of the Book of Common Prayer With an Introduction and an Appendix (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The English Rite Vol. 1: Being a Synopsis of the Sources and Revisions of the Book of Common Prayer With an Introduction and an Appendix<br><br>The Introduction is not an attempt to write once again the history of the Book of Common Prayer. Primarily and for the most part it is concerned with sources as a key and a supplement to the first column of the Synopsis. Conse quently I have endeavoured as shortly as may be to indicate the ritual situation in which the English book originated and those in which it was further modified and developed; to make sufficiently distinct the relations in which the English book stands to its predecessors; and to describe the mani fold in?uences documentary and personal which affected it from time to time and to put them into their historical con text. I have avoided I hope for the most part both here and in the first column of the Synopsis mere illustration abundance of which is to be found in current commentaries from Hamon l''estrange onwards and have aimed at con fining quotation to what has certainly probably or pos sibly in?uenced the text directly to what originating under the same conditions and in the same period indicates what was in the air and to what as traditional and in every body''s mind explains what might otherwise be obscure. Of the latter two sorts it is likely that there is a good deal still to be gleaned from medieval and contemporary sources which would throw light on the work of an absorbent mind like Cranmer''s.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition. We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.