Oct. 28. 1854.] 



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The God of heaven for his person car'd, 

 The ship-master had a great reward. 

 Thus the good Prince from hence did flye ; 

 To suffer hardship he was not coy, 

 Which now will be this nation's joy. 



"J. W. 



" FINIS. 



" London, printed for Charles Tyns on London Bridge." 



FORMS or PEA.TEB. 



In the year 1661, two forms of prayer for the 

 31st of January, differing materially from each 

 other, were put forth by royal authority. The 

 first was " published by his Majestie's Direction," 

 and " printed by John Bill, Printer to the King's 

 Most Excellent Majesty, 1661." The second was 

 "published by His Majestie's command," and 

 " printed by John Bill and Christopher Barker, 

 printers, &c., 1661." At the end of the first form, 

 after the name of the printer, are the words, " at 

 the king's printing house in Black-Fryers," Avhich 

 do not occur in the other. 



The second form was submitted to convocation 

 in 1661. Several very material alterations were 

 introduced ; and in 1662 the office tlms altered 

 was appended to the Book of Common Prayer. 



The two forms of 1661 differ very much in the 

 Collects and Prayers. In the first office, some 

 remarkable petitions occur, among which is the 

 following : 



"That we may be made worthy by their prayers, 

 which thej% in communion with thy Church Catholick, 

 offer up for that part of it here militant." 



This allusion to Charles I., and to other saints and 

 martyrs, was altogether omitted in the second form. 



Few of our writers have been aware of the 

 existence of these two forms, and hence various 

 erroneous statements have been put forth ; some 

 authors having seen only the first, while others 

 were ignorant of the second. Thus Robinson, a 

 dissenter, in his Review of the Case of Liturgies, Sfc, 

 quoted the above petition in order to condemn 

 the Church of England. Kennet, replying to 

 Robinson's charge, in his Register and Chronicle, 

 asserted that no such petition existed. He even 

 charged Robinson with dishonesty. " The invent- 

 ing and improving such a atory," says he, "took its 

 rise from these words : ' we beseech thee, let not 

 his blood outcry those his prayers,' " &c. Yet 

 Robinson had quoted the title of the first correctly, 

 while Kennet gives that of the second. Grey, in 

 his reply to Neal, noticing Rennet's charge, de- 

 fends the petition. He was acquainted with the 

 two forms; but he falls into the error of sup- 

 posing that the second form was the same as that 

 which was sanctioned by Convocation, and ap- 

 pended to the Book of Common Prayer in 1662! 



I am anxious to discover copies of the earlier 

 form containing the clause which I have quoted. 



There is a copy in the Bodleian, and I have one 

 in my own possession. Some of your readers may 

 probably be able to mention others. 



I shall be obliged also to be informed of a copy 

 of the following work : 



" The Epystles and Gospels, of Every Sondaye and 

 Holy Daye thorow out the hole Yeare, after the Churche 

 of England. Imprinted at London in the Flete Strete at 

 the Sygne of the Rose Garland, by me Wyllyam Copland. 

 Anno M.D.L. The xiii. Daye of May. 16mo." 



Thomas Lathbuet. 



" BELTED WILL — LOED HOWABE. 



The publication of a recent work on the Castles 

 of Northumberland has directed afresh much 

 attention to the Interesting and stirring history 

 of the celebrated Lord William Howard — the 

 renowned "Belted Will" — of whom, it will be 

 remembered, Sir Walter Scott speaks In his 

 cliarming Border Minstrelsy. What is already 

 known of the gallant chief, makes it a subject of 

 deep regret that no one has yet been found to do 

 justice to his character, and at the same time 

 illustrate the state of society at the period when 

 his name was a watchword on the borders. Such 

 a history, well written, would be one of the most 

 interesting and valuable contributions to the re- 

 cords of a past condition of society — a " transition 

 state," which would furnish the most curious and 

 suggestive contrasts ; and it Is understood, that 

 among the family muniments In possession of Lord 

 William Howard's descendants, there are ample 

 materials for such a work. Mr. Robert Rawllnson, 

 C.E., in his admirable Report to the General Board 

 of Health on the Sanitary Condition, Sfc. of Mor- 

 peth, remarks, that " Belted Will" did more than 

 any baron of that period for the advancement of 

 civilisation on the borders. 



" As Warden of the Western Marches," he adds, " he 

 repressed with rigour the excesses of his day. Distin- 

 guished as he was for his martial character and love of 

 justice; his literary habits and tastes, and the industry 

 and energy with which he pursued them, were still more 

 remarkable for the period in which he lived; and his 

 strong, bold, easy writing is familiar to the antiquary . . . 

 His marching was not to burn, destroy, and plunder ; bat 

 to vuidicate the laws in force, and to repress and punish 

 crime. He was probably the most extraordinary man of 

 that period ; besides ' keeping the border ' he wrote much, 

 and frequently signed himself ' Will Howard.' " 



It Is stated that, to this day, freemen of Morpeth. 

 are made, and their rights regulated, according 

 to by-laws framed and drawn up by this celebrated 

 warrior and local legislator. Among the family 

 records of the illustrious Howards, there are, it Is 

 believed, ample materials for memoirs of their able 

 ancestor. The literature of our country would have 

 to boast the acquisition of another bright jewel, if 

 the present Earl of Carlisle would undertake such 



