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An Order for Prayer and Thanksgiving (necessary to 

 be used in these dangerous Times) for the Safetie 

 and Preservation of her Majestie and this Realm. 

 1598. 



A revision of the form first issued in 1594. (3406. 

 c.)l. 



Certain Prayers collected out of a Form of godly Me- 

 ditations ... to be used at this Time in the present 

 Visitation of God's heavy Hand, &c. With the 

 Order of a Fast to be kept every Wednesday. 

 1603. (3406. c.) 



Thanksgiving, August 5 ; being the Day of his High- 

 nesse's happy Deliverance from the trayterous and 

 bloody Attempt of the Earle of Gowry and his Bro- 

 ther, with their Adherents. 1606. (3406. c.) 



Forme of Common Prayer, together with an Order of 

 Fasting : for the averting of God's heavy Visitation 

 upon many Places of this Kingdom [two editions, 

 the second with a few MS. notes]. 1625. (3406. 

 d.) Land (3406. d. 1.) 2. 



Thanksgiving. March 27, 1626. (3405. d. 1.) 4. 



Prayer for Safety and Preservation of his Majestie and 

 this Realm. *1626. (3406. d. 1.) 5. 



Thanksgiving. Safe Delivery of the Queen. 1631. 

 Fol. (3406. e.) 1. 



Thanksgiving. Safe Child-bearing of the Queene's 

 Majestie. 1635. Fol. (3406. e.) 2. 



Thanksgiving. November 5, 1636. (3406. c.) 



Thanksgiving. November 5, 1638. (3406. d. 1.) 6. 



Prayer for the King's Majestie, in the Northern Expe- 

 dition. 1639. Fol. (3406. e.) 3. 



A Form of Thanksgiving to be used September 7, 

 1640, thorowout the Diocese of Lincoln, and in the 

 Jurisdiction of Westminster. 1640 (?) (3407. c.) 



Thanksgiving. March 27, 1640. (3406. d. 1.) 8. 



Prayer for the King's Majestie, in his Expedition 

 against the Rebels of Scotland. 1640. Fol. 

 (3406. e.) 4. 



Fast, February 5, 1644, for a Blessing on the Treaty 

 now begunne. (3406. d. 1.) 9. 



Thanksgiving for the late Defeat given unto the Re- 

 bells at Newarke (and A Prayer for the Queene's 

 safe Delivery). 1644. Oxford, fol. (3406. e.) 5. 



Prayer to be used upon January 15, 1661, in London 

 and Westminster, &c. ; and upon the 22nd of the 

 said moneth in the rest of England and Wales. 

 (3406. d. 2.) 1. 



Prayer on June 12 and June 19, 1661 (as in the last 

 form). (3406. d. 2.) 2. 



Fast. July 12, 1665, in London, &c. (3406. d. 2.) 3. 



Prayer. April 10, 1678. (3407. c.) 



Fast. November 13, 1678. (3406. d. 2.) 5. 



Prayer for King. 1684. (3407. c.) 



Thanksgiving. July 26, 1685. Victories over the 

 Rebels. (3406. d. 3.) 3. 



Prayers . . . during this time of Public Apprehension 

 from the Danger of Invasion. 1688. (3407. c.) 



Additional Prayers to be used, together with those 

 appointed in the Service for November 5, 1689. 

 (3406. d. 4.) 4. 



Fast. March 12, 1689. Preservation of his Majestie's 

 sacred Person, and the Prosperity of his Arms in 

 Ireland, &c. (3406. d. 4.) 1. 



Fast. June 5 and June 19, 1689. To implore Suc- 

 cess in the War declared against the French King. 

 (3406. d. 4.) 2. 



Thanksgiving: Success towards the reducing of Ire- 

 land. October 19, 1690. (3406. d. 4.) 3. 



Thanksgiving. November 5, 1690. (3406. d. 4.) 6. 



A Prayer for the King, to be used instead of that ap- 

 pointed for his Majestie's present Expedition. 1690. 

 (3406. d. 4.) 5. 



A Prayer for the King, to be constantly used while 

 his Majesty is abroad in the Wars. 1691. (3406. 

 d. 4.) 7. 



Fast. April 29, 1691. (3406. d. 4.) 8. Two editions. 



Thanksgiving. Success in Ireland. November 26, 

 1691. (3406. d. 4.) 10. 



Thanksgiving. 1692. (3406. d. 4.) 12. 



Thanksgiving. 1692. (3406. d. 4. ) 14. 



Thanksgiving. October 27 and November 10, 1692. 

 For the signal Victory vouchsafed to the Fleet. 

 (3406. d. 4.) 15. 



Prayer, during the Time of their Majesties' Fleet 

 being at Sea. 1692. (3406. d. 4.) 18. 



Fast. April 8, 1692. (3406. d. 4.) 11. 



Prayer. May 10, 1693, and second Wednesday of 

 every month following, &c. (3406. d. 4.) 16. 



Thanksgiving. November 12 and November 26, 1693. 

 (3406. d. 4.) 17. 



Thanksgiving. December 9 and December 16, 1694. 

 (3406. d. 5.) 3. 



Prayers to be used during the Queen's Sickness, &c. 

 1694. (3406. d. 5.) 2. 



Thanksgiving. April 16, 1695. (3406. d. 5.) 4. 



Fast. June 19, 1695. (3406. d. 5.) 5. 



Prayer. December 11 and December 18, 1695. 

 (3406. d. 5.) 6. 



Fast. June 26. (3406. d. 5.) 7. 



Form of Prayer to be used Yearly on September 2, 

 1696, for the dreadful fire of London. (3406. d. 5.) 8. 



Fast. April 28, 1697. (3406. d. 5.) 9. 



Thanksgiving. December 2, 1697. (3406. d. 5.) 10. 



Fast. April 5, 1699. (3406. d. 5.) 11. 



It would occupy more space than " N. & Q." 

 can afford to complete the list up to the present 

 time. In the British Museum Catalogue alone, 

 between the years 1700 and 1800, there are about 

 120 Forms of Prayer; and, between 1800 and 

 1850, about 113 more. Let me, before leaving 

 the subject, draw the attention of your readers to 

 the following extract from Straker's (Adelaide 

 Street, West Strand) Catalogue of Books, printed 

 in 1853, pp. 419. : 



Article " 1862. Common Prayer. Forms of Prayer^ 

 an extensive collection of, issued by authority, on pub- 

 lic occasions ; such as War and Peace, Plague and Pes- 

 tilence, Earthquakes, Treason and Rebellion, Accession 

 of Kings, Birth of Princes, &c. &c, from a.d. 1550 to 

 A.n. 1847, consisting of 45 in manuscript and 181 

 printed, together 226 ; many of which are of the 

 greatest scarcity, with a detailed catalogue of the col- 

 lection, SI. 8s. 1550 — 1840 [tie]. 



« The late J. W. Niblock, D.D., F.S.A., was ac- 

 tively engaged for upwards of thirty years (with 



