24 FEBRUARY 1950, Page 18

The Rite' of Confirmation

SIR,—" The second Prayer Book of Edward VI. . . did not contain the rite of confirmation, and made no reference to confirmation. . . . The rite of confirmation first appeared in the Prayer Book of Queen Eliza- beth." So your correspondent, Mr. Thomson. How did he come to overlook both in the First and also in the Second Prayer Books of Edward VI " Confirmacion, wherein is conteined a Catechisme for children," which include the rite of confirmation?—Yours faithfully,