IS CHAINED BOOKS IN DORSET AND ELSEWHERE. 



The Whole Duty of Man. 



The Book of Homilies. 



Comber's Companion to the Temple. 



An Order of Thomas Cromwell's to provide Bibles in 

 Churches was inserted in the Injunctions of 1536. In 1538 

 Cranmer ordered that Matthew's Bible should be supplied 

 everywhere in Churches. And on July 31, 1547, there was 

 an Injunction of Edward VI. put forth which ordered that 

 each parish should " provide within three moneths one 

 Boke of the whole Bible of largest volume in English (i.e., 

 the Great Bible which had been published in 1539) 

 the same to be sette upp in some convenient place within the 

 Churche." At the same time it was ordered that a 

 translation of Erasmus' Paraphrase on the New Testament 

 should "within one twelvemonth " be set up in all Churches. 

 This was repeated in 1559. 



In 1571, after the death of Bishop Jewel (of Salisbury), 

 Archbishop Parker wrote commending his Defence of the 

 Apology, and urging that it should be placed in Parish 

 Churches where it had not been already procured. And in 

 1609 Archbishop Bancroft ordered that Jewel's collected 

 works should be placed in Churches in addition to Erasmus' 

 Paraphrase. 



In 1571 Archbishop Parker had ordered that Foxe's Book 

 of Martyrs should be placed " in the common halls of Arch- 

 bishops, Bishops, Deans, Archdeacons, and Heads of 

 Colleges," &c. And in 1684 the publishers of a new edition 

 obtained a promise from King Charles II. that Parker's 

 order should be revived. 



The Whole Duty of Man was published soon after the 

 Restoration. Its authorship is unknown. It attained an 

 elevation only next to the Bible and the Book of Common 

 Prayer. It was recommended by Bishops to be used instead 

 of sermons, and young clergymen were advised to persuade 

 every family in their parishes to read it three times a year. 



It will be noticed from what has been said that, although it 

 was ordered that some of these volumes were to be set up in 



