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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Certain godly Prayers for certain dayes (the days of the 

 ■week — two for Saturday) ; 



A prayer for trust in God f" The beginning of the fall of 

 man was trust in himself. The beginning of the re- 

 storing of man was distrust in himself, and trust ih 



God ") ; 

 A generall confession of sins to be said 6very morning 



(" Almighty God ") ; . -c u t a 



f ravers to be said in" the morning (" O merci full Lord 



God ; " " All possible thanks, that we are ablfe ; " "0 



.Lord Jesus ; " and " O God ") ; 

 A prayer against temptation (" O Lord Jesus ") ; 

 A prayer for the obtaining of wisdom (" God of our 



fathers ") ; j j 



A prayer against worldly carefulnesse (" most dear and 



tender Father ") ; .^ „ r. j ,,s 



A prayer necessary for all persons (" O merciful! God ) ; 

 A prayer for patience in trouble (" How hast thou, O 



Lord, humbled and plucked me down ? " ) ; 

 A prayer to be said at night going to bed (" O merci- 



A prayer to be said at the hour of death (" Lord 



Jesus "). 



The book contains "An Act for the Unlformitie 

 of Common Prayer,'* which is followed by "A 

 Proclamation for the authorizing an uniformitie 

 of the book of Common Prayer to be used thorow- 

 out the realm." Tliis is in Black Letter, and is 

 " Given at Our Palace of Westminster, the 5. day 

 of March, in the first yeer of Our reign of Eng- 

 land, France, and Ireland, and of Scotland the 

 seven and thirtieth." The Lessons for the 6th 

 Sunday after the Epiphahy are omitted — or 

 rather, those for the Fifth are ordered to be 

 used, and Proper Psalms are not assigned to Ash 

 Wednesday or Good Friday. Under the heading 

 " These to be observed for Holy dayes, and none 

 other," no mention is made of the Conversion of 

 St. Paul, nor of St. Barnabas. There is no ac- 

 count of Vigils, Fasts, and Days of Abstinence. 

 The Third Collect for Grace finishes Morning 

 Prayer. St. Athanasius is ignored, the rubric 

 preceding the Creed ending with "this confes- 

 sion of our Christian faith." The second prayer 

 in time of Dearth and the General Thanksgiving 

 are omitted, and another is added to time of 

 Plague. The first anthem for Easter Day is not 

 inserted, and the Collects for Tuesday in Easter 

 Week and Second Sunday after Trinity differ 

 from those now in use. The Petition in the Le- 

 tany is in behalf of " Our gracious queen Mary, 

 prince Charles, and the rest of the royall Pro- 

 genie." (See W. W. S., 2"<i S. iii. 353.) 



In the Communion^ Service the third rubric 

 ends with " obstinate," and that preceding the 

 Commandments is, " Then shall the priest re- 

 hearse distinctly all the ten commandments, and 

 the people kneeling," &c. — omitting the words 

 " turning to the people " and " still." In the 

 prayer for the King, " congregation " is Used, not 

 "church." In the rubric preceding the Greed, 

 nothing is Said about " the people still standing." 

 The Homilies are " set forth by common au- 

 thority," and all is omitted from " And then also " 



to "discretion." In the prayer for the Church 

 Militant " and oblations " is omitted, and " Pas- 

 tors " inserted before Curates, while nothing from 

 "And we also bless" to "kingdom" is to be 

 found. The Exhortation ends thus : " for the 

 obtaining whereof we shall make our humble pe- 

 titions, while we shall receive the holy commu- 

 nion." In " Dearly beloved in the Lord," eight 

 lines more are used after " kinds of death." The 

 rubric preceding the Proper Preface — " Then 

 shall the Priest turn to the Lord's Table"— is 

 omitted. 



The Marriage Service sajrs, " the new married 

 persons the same day of their marriage, must re- 

 ceive the holy communion : " the Visitation of the 

 Sick, "The minister may not forget nor omit to 

 move the sick person (and that most earnestly) 

 to liberality towards the poor." " Here shall the 

 sick person make a speciall confession, if he feel 

 his conscience troubled with any weighty matter. 

 After which confession the priest shall absolve him," 

 — the words "if he humbly and heartily desire it" 

 are not there. This Service ends with the prayer" 

 " The Almighty Lord." The excommunicating 

 rubric is not given in the Burial service, which 

 is transposed, and does not contain any Psalms. 

 In Churching of Women the Psalm given is the 

 121st. The Commlnation service ends with " mer- 

 cies look upon us," omitting " through the merits 

 and mediation of thy blessed Son." Then follow 

 the Psalms of David, "of that translation which 

 is commonly used in the Churches," and the Godly 

 Prayers. None of these appear, —Forms at Sea ; 

 Forms of making Bishops, Priests, and Deacons ; 

 Consecration of Bishops ; and the Articles of Re- 

 ligion. R. Wfiua. 



40. Hanover Street, Pimlico, S. W. 



It has occurred to me, in reference to the 

 Query of your correspondent J. B. Wilkinson, 

 as to the authorship of the " Godly Prayers," that 

 it is desirable to ascertain, as far as practicable, 

 whether those prayers are varied in different 

 Prayer-Books in like manner as the petitions in 

 the Litany for the king and his family. I there* 

 fore forward to you a list of the Godly Prayers as. 

 contained in a small octavo Prayer Book in my 

 possession. This book (like most of those men- 

 tioned by your correspondents) wants the title. 

 It is bound up with the versified Psalms, which 

 are dated 1631, to which year we may, 1 think, 

 pretty safely assign the Prayer Book. The Litany 

 petitions are for " Charles our most gracious King 

 and Gouernour," and " our gracious Queene^ Mary, 

 Prince Charles, Fredericke, the Prince Electol? 

 Palatine, the Lady Elizabeth his wife, with all 

 their Princely issue." The Godly Prayers follow 

 the Psalms and consist of — ■ 



" A Prayer containing the duty of euety tfu6 Chris- 

 tian." 



