12 DECEMBER 1903, Page 24

The Reformation Settlement. By F. McMullan and Guy Ellis. (Sands

and Co. is. 6d.) —The compilers of this epitome give the titles and objects of the statutes which were passed by Parlia- ment between 23 Henry VIII. (1532) and the 35 Elizabeth (1593), and a summary of the Constitutions and Canons of 1603. "The question of supremacy and the substitution of the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper for the sacrifice of the Mass were the essential points at issue." They note one or two curious details. The inhabitants of Calais had to submit to the ordinances passed in this country ; the statute of 23 Eliz. cap. 1 enacts a penalty of 200 marks "for every person who shall sing or say Mass." The compilers remark that " the identity of the New Communion Service and the Mass seems to have been then unsuspected."