dleburgh, 1586) in parallel columns: and now, to leave nothing undone that might tend towards completeness, the Editor reprints the edition of Waldegrave at full length.

It may be here just worth observing, that in the Library of the University of Cambridge is preserved a copy of the first Middleburgh edition, corrected throughout with a pen; and, as some have supposed, for Waldegrave. But this is a mistake. The MS. emendations agree neither with that nor with any other edition yet discovered; nor can a doubt exist, after due comparison, that the three editions of Schilders are all of them subsequent to the dateless edition of Waldegrave. Copies of all four editions exist in the Archiepiscopal Library at Lambeth.

II. THE NEW BOOK OF SCOTLAND.

The Liturgy attributed, though unwarrantably, to Archbishop Laud, made its first and last appearance in Scotland, as the Ritual of the Episcopal Church, in 1637. On the cessation of the troubles that ensued, (that is to

say, some seven years afterwards,) the New Book issued as a sort of remembrance from the Kirk: one of the hundred modifications (in fact, a very brief abstract) of Calvin's Geneva Prayer-Book, or rather of Knox's Book of Common Order; and so far answering to the Puritan Prayer-Book in England. There are copies in the British Museum, and in the Bodleian Library at Oxford.

III. K. EDWARD VI. COMMUNION OFFICE.

The two Books of Common Prayer, promulgated in the reign of King Edward the Sixth, (1549 and 1552,) were preceded by the Order of Communion, 1548. Of this (which we may perhaps call the first Protestant Form of Worship in the Church of England) nothing more need be said at present, but that reprints are given in Sparrow's Collection, in L'Estrange's Alliance, in Wilkins's Concilia, in Cardwell's Two Books Compared, in Clay's Common Prayer Illustrated, and in Ketley's Liturgies of K. Edward VI. edited for the Parker Society.

Then followed the first Prayer-Book; containing, of course, among other things, the Communion-Service; but quite another Form from the Order of Communion which had appeared the year before. This is printed, merely as an extract from the Book of Prayer, in the Appendix to Dr. Hickes's Two Treatises on Priesthood and Episcopal Order, 1707, 8vo; and in the Appendix to Maskell's Ancient Liturgy of the Church of England, 1846, 8vo. The edition of Dr. Hickes is accompanied by curious notes, chiefly references to the Latin version of Hales, (or Alexander Alesius,) printed at Leipsic in 1551. The portion which relates directly to the Consecration and Administration of the Sacrament is also published in Dr. Brett's Collection of Liturgies used in the Celebration of the Holy Eucharist, 1720, 8vo.

Founded upon this, (the Communion-Office of the first Prayer-Book,) yet by no means identical, is the Form and Manner of the Holy Communion, printed by the Non-Jurors in London, 1717, 12mo, as preliminary to their

own; and here reprinted. The alterations will be found, on examination, frequent; and sometimes of a character to affect, if not the doctrine, at least the method of the ordinance: for which there can be little doubt the book was used till the year after, if not longer; and sometimes, as would appear from passages subjoined in the present edition, with the allowance of MS. variations.

IV. RATTRAY'S LITURGY OF JERUSALEM.

Dr. Rattray was Bishop of Dunkeld, in Scotland; and one of the straitest of the Nonjurors, who sided with Hickes and Collier in the controversy about the Usages, and in the separation that ensued. At the request of a friend, the Rev. R. Lyon, he prepared, in Greek and English, The Ancient Liturgy of the Church of Jerusalem; being the Liturgy of St. James, restored to its original purity, with the Clementine Liturgy, and parts of the Liturgies of St. Mark, St. Chrysostom, and St. Basil, exhibited in parallel columns which was

published after his decease, 1744, 4to. At the end of the Appendix he gives the Ancient Liturgy of Jerusalem, with additions from the Scottish Office of 1637, and rubrics suited to modern times and uses: which is here reprinted, as exhibiting the source from which the Communion-Office of almost every Church has been derived, not merely in the arrangement, but in the mode and language of Administration.

This is certainly the Office, to which Bishop Dunbar alludes; when, as Primus, addressing his brethren on the Bench, in 1743, to ascertain their sentiments about the Usages, he says: "I know not if it will be convenient, at this time, to enjoin the use of the Scottish Communion-Office, though it ought to be recommended. One more primitive and excellent," he adds, "which cost Dr. Rattray much labour, and which he has left in a very fair MS., may one day be published, and received with universal admiration."

The late Bishop Jolly, of Moray, in the Ap