THE BROAD CHURCH ON RITUALISM.
ITO THF: EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."]
SIR, —In your last number, in the article headed " The Broad Church on Ritualism," you refer to the First Prayer-book of King Edward VI. That book, no doubt, deserves to be studied by all who are interested in the ritual controversy ; but as it -was not printed, and had no authority from Convocation or Parliament, till after the end of the second year of King Edward VI., it is idle to refer to it as explaining the Ornaments Rubric, which speaks plainly of " ornaments " " in use in " -(not after) the second year of Edward VI." Any clergyman performing divine service during that year would have been guided by the rubrics of some previous book, and the present rubric, dating from 1662, seems to point back to such a hook ?
What was it ?—I am, Sir, &c., E. S. D.
[There is no need to discuss the point raised by our corre- spondent. We believe that the Ornaments Rubric does refer to the First Prayer-book of Edward VI., and this has been judi- cially decided. The argument of " E. S. D." would prove that
the Ornaments Rubric refers to the ritual in use by authority of Parliament before 1549,—that is, to the full ritual of the Mass.—En. Spectator•.]
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