Answers to Questions on the Prayer Book
1. 1549. 1551 (repealed 1553). 1559 (Latin 1560). Suppressed 1644. Revived 1660. Revised 1661, and first used August 24th, 1662. (Blunt's Annotated Book of Common Prayer ; Ed., Riving- tons 1866-:- Chronological Table.)-2. The Litany in English; published June 11th, 1544 (Ibid).-3. In "The Visitation of the 8ick."-4. On the Title Page. " . . Rites, and Ceremonies of the Church according to the use of the Church of England'- 9. The earliest English Canon on the subject (Synod of Westminster, 1200) orders no marriage without banns thrice published in church. Our present canon forbids a minister to celebrate matrimony Without banns or licence on pain, of suspension. The proper place for the publication of banns is now before the Offertory at Holy Communion. It was so printed in the rubric till 1819, when the Oxford Press altered it to direct that banns shall be published after Second Lesson either, at Morning or Evening Prayer. Their object Was to bring the rubric into agreement with 26 Geo : ij. c. 33, 51. But the rule there only refers to cases where there is no Morning Service (Ibict 262).-6. By Archbishop Davidson to the Church Assembly on July 2nd, 1928. (See report of motion by the Archbishop of York passed by the Church Assembly on l'ebruarY 5tb, 19304-7, In the Preface to the Ordinal.-8. yowhere.-9. It is said that St. Ambrose and St. Augustine sang It at the Baptism of the latter, A.D. 386. 10. In the Accession Service.-11. In the Wender of Proper Lessons, at the Annun- mation.-12. The Annexed Bciok, attached to the Act of Unit formity, 1662: Or the Sealed Books; which were copies of it, niade by order of Parliament for the use of Cathedral Chapters, and the Courts of Westminster. (Ibid xliii.)-13. The " Amen " I5. omitted after the Prayer following the Lord's Prayer in the L.SZIY.But it always was, and still should -be. said there.- (This Mistake is usually made by choirs and people, but (tie corrected in the 1928 Prayer Book.) (Rev. L. Pullen, History of Book of Common Prayer, p. 1784- .
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