(To THE EDITOR Of THE "SPECTATOR."]
SIR,—I am most grateful to you for so kindly inserting my letter last week, and in reply to the note you appended I do not wish to add one word of my own ; but I should feel obliged if you would kindly let me quote the words that Bishop
Gardner actually used about the First Prayer-book. In a letter to the Privy Council he says:— " He had deliberately considered of all the Offices contained in the Common Prayer book, and all the several branches of it : that though he could not have made it in that manner, had the matter been referred unto him, yet that ho found such things therein as did very well satisfy his conscience ; and therefore, that he would not only execute it in his own person, but cause the same to be officiated by all those of his diocese."
The quotation is made from Heylin's "Reformation," L 209, Eccles. Hist. Soc., and is referred to by Blunt in the "Annotated Book of Common Prayer."—I am, Sir, &c.,
W. H. ABRAHAM.
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