Church Of England 1662 The Book Of Common Prayer

Google Wii #1* Qpmmon, THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER %h* Original "pamtscripf. - - J THE Book of Common Prayer FROM 3Tf»e Original JfflamtBCtipt ATTACHED TO THE ACT OF UNIFORMITY OF 1662, And now preserved in the House of Lords, EYRE & SPOTTISWOODE, Printers to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty. LONDON— ^GREAT NEW STREET, FLEET STREET, E.C. Edinburgh, Glasgow, Melbourne, Sydney, and New York. 4' 6Ts^ PREFACE OF THE PUBLISHERS. IN the following pages the Book of Common Prayer which was annexed in manuscript, as the authoritative record, to the Act of Uniformity of 1662, is exactly reproduced in type — it is believed for the first time. By this it is to be understood that the text is here printed verbatim et literatim, without any attempt to modernize the spelling, or to harmonize it in the very numerous instances in which it is at variance with itself, and that the punctuation of the original MS. (often extremely faulty and defective if judged by a present-day standard) has been most rigidly adhered to, even in cases where it is, to modern readers, obviously erroneous. Wherever an erasure or correctiou occurs in the MS., the passage is printed as it was left after the making of such erasure or correction. The MS. copy now reproduced was adopted by the clergy of both Houses of Convocation and of both Provinces, Dec. 20, 1661, and is authenticated by their sign…