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rOREIGN KEFORMED LITURGIES. 



In his Friendly Debate (part ii. p. 227., ed. 6. 

 8vo., London 1684) Bishop Patrick makes use of 

 the following statement : 



" I remember in the beginning of the late wars the 

 Scottish Forms of Prayer were printed. And so were the 

 French, and those of Geneva, and Guernsea, and the 

 Dutch, to name no more ; all translated into English." 



I beg to solicit the assistance of those readers of 

 " N. & Q." who have made the obscure subject of 

 foreign liturgical formularies their special study, 

 towards verifying the accuracy of his remarks. 



1. There is no difficulty in identifying the 

 " Scottish Forms " first referred to with the fol- 

 lowing publication : 



" The Service, Discipline, and Forme of the Common 

 Prayers, and Administration of the Sacraments, used in 

 the English Church of Geneva ; as it was approved by 

 that most reverend Divine, M. John Calvin, and the 

 Church of Scotland. Humbly presented to the most High 

 Court of Parliament, this present yeare, 1641. London : 

 printed for William Cooke, at Furnefalls, June, 1641." 



The same compilation was reprinted, with a 

 slightly different title, in 1643 ; and a third time 

 in The Phceuix, vol. ii, pp. 204—259. 



It is mainly identical with the form generally 

 known as the book of Common Order adapted by 

 Knox, Whittingham, Parry, and Lever, from the 

 Genevan model of Calvin, with the addition of 

 " some part taken forth of the English book 

 (Church of England Book of Common Prayer), 

 and other things put in as the state of the church 

 required." (Troubles at Frankfort, in The Phoe- 

 nix, vol. ii. p. 71.) It was printed at Geneva, 

 with a preface dated Feb. 10, 1556, and seems to 

 have been carried back by Knox to Scotland, 

 where an act of the General Assembly ordered it 

 to be universally adopted, in December, 1562. 



2. I cannot, however, meet with an English 

 translation of the French ritual within thirty years 

 after the date of Patrick's work. In the Lambeth 

 I.<ibrary is a small octavo volume, printed in 

 London in 1699, entitled Forms of Prayer used in 

 the Reformed Churches in France before their Per- 

 secution and Destruction^ translated into English 

 by J. T. It is true that the Booh of Discipline of 

 the Jteformed Cliurches of France was put forth in 

 English in 1642 ; but this includes only certain 

 special offices, viz. those for baptism, burial, and 

 excommunication. Is any translation of the whole 

 liturgy extant prior to that I have referred to ? 



3. An ICnglish version of Calvin's Genevan 

 Order was in existence as early as the year 1554. 

 (Troubles, ^-c, p. 63. ; M'^Crie's Life of Knox, 

 p. 425.) Another was printed in London by 



AValdegrave in 1584, which being prohibited by 

 order of the Star Chamber in June, 1G85, was re- 

 printed by Ptichard Schilders at Middleburgh in 

 Zealand, in 1586. A third edition was issued in 

 1587, and a fourth in 1602. This book was pre- 

 sented by the Puritan party to Parliament in 1584, 

 with the view of securing that legal confirmation 

 for it in England which Knox's Liturgy (almost 

 identical with it) had already obtained in Scot- 

 land. The variations of these several editions are 

 clearly exhibited in vols. i. and iii. of Reliquice Li- 

 tm-giccE, by the Rev. Peter Hall, M.A., and I have 

 no further inquiry to institute under this head. 



4. With respect to the forms used by the re- 

 formed congregations of Guernsey, I am at a loss 

 to supply the author's reference, unless he may be 

 held to allude to — 



" The Order for Ecclesiastical Discipline, according to 

 that Avhich hath been practised since the Reformation- of 

 the Church in His Majesty's Dominions of the Isles of 

 Garnsey, Gersey, Spark, and Alderney ; confirmed b}' the 

 authoritie of the Synode of the aforesaid lies," 



which was drawn up in a conclave of the ministers 

 and elders of the several reformed churches of the 

 Channel Islands, held at the town of St. Peter's 

 Port in Guernsey, June 28, 1576. A later im- 

 pression of the same book appeared in 1642, the 

 precise date to which Patrick's remarks are calcu- 

 lated to apply. I am at the same time anxious to 

 have the query resolved, whether any specific pub- 

 lication of the Liturgy, properly so called, in an 

 English dress has ever taken place. The Book of 

 Discipline does not itself comprise the entire 

 ritual, but merely the special forms of service for 

 the ordination of elders and deacons. 



4. Has any English version of the Dutch Li- 

 turgy ever appeared ? The form drawn up, ori- 

 ginally in Latin, by Alasco for the use of the 

 Dutch church in Austin Friars, was translated 

 into Dutch by Martin Mikronius in 1550, and re- 

 printed in 1560 into German by J. Mayer, 8vo. 

 Heid. 1565, and into French by Giles Clematius, 

 8vo., 1556, n.p. But I have not succeeded in 

 finding any trace of an English translation.* 



Any information calculated to elucidate these 

 questions, as well as the further point, what other 

 foreign Forms of Prayer the author may be sup- 

 posed to indicate, will be most acceptable to the 

 present querist. A. Taylor, M.A- 



" Antiq^iity, a Farce." — Can you inform me 

 who is tlie author of Antiquity, a farce, in two 

 acts, 1808. It is said to have been written by a 

 gentleman of the Inner Temple. R. J. 



[* Two interesting articles on Alasco's Liturgy will be 

 found in Tlie Britisli Magazine, vol. xv. p. 612. ; vol. xvi. 

 p. 127. — Ed.] 



