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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 165. 



substitution of " Dominions " for " Kingdoms " in 

 several places; but also it shows all the alterations 

 which were made in the Pi*ayer-Book at the time 

 of the Union with Ireland, the period at which 

 Balliolensis very rightly supposes the variation 

 to which he referred must first have taken place. 

 William J. Thoms. 



"At the Court at St. James's, the first day of 

 January, 1801, present, the King's most Excellent 

 Majesty in Council : 



" Whereas by the Act of Uniformity, which esta- 

 blisheth the Liturgy, and enacts. That no form or 

 order of Common Prayer be openly used, other than 

 what is prescribed and appointed to be used in and by 

 the said Book ; it is, notwithstanding, provided, that 

 in all those Prayers, Litanies, and Collects, which do 

 anywise relate to the King, Queen, or Royal Progeny, 

 the names be altered and changed from time to time, 

 and fitted to the present occasion, according to the 

 direction of lawful authority : it is thereupon, this day, 

 ordered by His Majesty, with the advice of His Privy 

 Council, that the following alterations be made, viz. 



" In the Book of Common Prayer, title-page, instead 

 of ' Tlie Church of England,' put 'of the United Church 

 of England and Ireland.' 



" Prayer for the High Court of Parliament, instead 

 of ' Our Sovereign and his Kingdoms,' read, ' and his 

 Dominions.' 



" The first Prayer to be used at Sea, instead of < His 

 Kingdoms,' read, ' His Dominions.' 



" In the form and manner of making, ordaining, and 

 consecrating of Bishops, Priests, and Deacons, instead 

 of the order 'of the Church of England,' read, 'of the 

 United Church of England and Ireland.' 



" In the preface of the said form, in two places, in- 

 stead of ' Church of England,' read, ' in the United 

 Church of England and Ireland,' 



" In the first question in the Ordination of Priests, 

 instead of ' Church of England,' read, 'of this United 

 Church of England and Ireland.* 



" In the Occasional Offices, 25th October, the King's 

 accession, instead of ' these Realms,' read, ' this Realm,' 



" In the Collect, before the Epistle, instead of ' these 

 Kingdoms,' read, 'this United Kingdom.' 



" For the Preachers, instead of ' King of Great Bri- 

 tain, France, and Ireland,' say, ' King of the United 

 Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.' 



" And it is further ordered. That no edition of the 

 Book of Common Prayer be from henceforth printed 

 but with the aforesaid amendments ; and that, in the 

 mean time, until copies of such edition may be had, all 

 Parsons, Vicars, and Curates do (for the preventing of 

 mistakes), with the pen, correct and amend all such 

 prayers in their church books, according to the fore- 

 going directions ; and, for the better notice hereof, that 

 this order be forthwith printed and published, and sent 

 to the several parishes ; and that the Right Reverend 

 the Bishops take care that obedience be paid to the 

 same accordingly, within their respective Dioceses. 

 " Steph. Cottrell." 



DESTRUCTION OF SEPULCHRAL MONUMENTS. 

 (Vol. Tl., p. 504.) 



In the second passage, quoted at p. 504. from 

 Mr. Kelke's Notices of Sepulchral Monuments, 

 after stating that the destruction of the memorials 

 of the dead was not in accordance with the prin- 

 ciples of the Reformation, he says that it wa& 

 " elFectually arrested in the second year of Eliza- 

 beth's reign by a proclamation commanding the 

 severe punishment of such offences." I doubt not 

 that the proclamation referred to prevented much 

 sacrilege ; but it is an error to suppose that the 

 thirst for the destruction of all things which the 

 more violent of our reformers considered rem- 

 nants of Popery was so soon allayed. There is 

 evidence to show that, in spite of the exertions of 

 the greater part of the bishops and many of the 

 clergy, aided by the civil power, the work of de- 

 struction was carried on alike by the fanatical and 

 the profane. As proof, permit me to quote from 

 Wood's " Life of Whittyngham, Dean of Dnrhani,"^ 

 who was advanced to that office in 1563 : 



" Most of the Priors of Durham having been buried 

 in coffins of stone, and some in marble, and each coffin 

 covered with a plank of marble, or freestone, which lay 

 level with the paving of the church (for anciently men 

 of note that were laid in such coffins, were buried no 

 deeper in the ground than the breadth of a plank, to be 

 laid over them, even with the surface of the pavement), 

 he caused some of them to be plucked up, and ap- 

 pointed them to be used as troughs for horses to drink 

 in, or hogs to feed in. All the marble and freestones 

 also, that covered them and other graves, he caused to 

 be taken away and broken, some of which served to 

 make pavement in his house. He also defaced all such 

 stones as had any pictures of brass, or other imagery 

 work, or chalice wrought, engraven upon them ; and 

 the residue he took away, and employ'd them to his- 

 own use, and did make a washing-house of them at the 

 end of the eentory-garth. So that it could not after- 

 wards be discerned that ever any were buried in the 

 said centory-garth, it was so plain and straight. The 

 truth is, he could not abide anything that appertained 

 to a goodly religiousness or monastical life. Within 

 the said abbey church of Durham were two holy-water 

 stones of fine marble, very artificially made and en- 

 graven, and bossed with hollow bosses, upon the outer 

 sides of the stones, very curiously wrought. They 

 were both of the same work, but one much greater 

 than the other. Both these were taken away by this 

 unworthy Dean Whittyngham, and carried into his 

 kitchen, and employ'd to prophane uses by his servants, 

 steeping their beef and salt-fish in them, having a con- 

 veyance in the bottoms of tiiem to let forth the water, 

 as they had when they were in the church to let out 

 holy water," — AthencB Oxon., 1721, vol. i. p. 195. 



Edward Peacock. 



Bottesford Moors, Kirton Lindsey. 



