in 12mo, for J. Smith in the Strand. The smaller is by far the scarcer volume of the two; having been printed, one may reasonably suspect, for the Bishops and Clergy who had joined the movement in Scotland. The Sacramental portion for the Lord's Supper is inserted by Brett in his Collection of Liturgies, 1720, under the designation of the New Communion-Office. To the 8vo. edition will be sometimes found attached Private Devotions, before, at, and after the Christian Sacrifice, by a Primitive Catholic; but constituting no part of the book.

The present edition is printed from the 8vo, compared throughout with the 12mo. They run word for word the same, except that a few typographical inaccuracies in the 8vo, (if that was, as probably it was, the original) are corrected in the 12mo. On the fly-leaf of a copy of the 8vo, belonging to the Editor, is a MS. note, as follows: "Mr. Deacon drew up this Form, but Mr. Collier new translated the Eucharistical Thanksgiving before the words

of Institution; as I have seen by a paper in Mr. (afterwards Dr.) Deacon's own handwriting." The volume thus annotated came from the Library of the late Dr. Bowdler of Swansea; and the note is probably from the pen of his father, Mr. Bowdler, of Bath. On the authenticity of the fact there may be more than one opinion. Brett, and not Deacon, has been more generally regarded as the chief author of the Nonjurors' Offices: but Bishops Gadderer and Campbell, there is little doubt, assisted, as well as Collier; and Bishop Rattray, though not at hand, would scarcely fail of contributing his advice.

X. DEACON'S DEVOTIONS.

Whether Deacon was or was not concerned in the compilation of the Offices of 1718, he was the man who afterwards introduced changes, by far the most extensive of any, into the congregational worship of the Nonjurors: a circumstance the more remarkable, because his name appears subscribed to the intermingled copy of

the Prayer-Book at Sion College, deprecating a departure from the Office as then arranged and accredited. In 1734, however, Deacon published anonymously an 8vo. volume of more than 500 pages, comprising a Complete Collection of Devotions, both Public and Private, in two parts: the first part reserved for the Public Offices of the Church; the second extending to a Method of Daily Private Prayer: to the latter part being also added a Justification of the Undertaking, in extracts from eminent Divines of different Communions; together with an Essay to procure Catholic Communion upon Catholic Principles, attributed to Dr. Brett.

Supplementary to the Collection of Devotions, Deacon also published, but not till 1747, another volume, of similar form and size, entitled, A Full, True, and Comprehensive View of Christianity, &c. laid down in Two Catechisms, a Shorter and a Longer; with a Discourse on the best method of instructing Youth, prefixed. An Advertisement of five pages at the end supplies some corrections (chiefly verbal)

to the Devotions published thirteen years before.

Of these two volumes, the Editor has reprinted the Public Devotions from the first; followed by the corrections from the second.

There is a thickish tract, Jacobite and Nonjuring Principles freely Examined, in a Letter to the Master-Tool of the Faction at Manchester, with remarks on the Two Catechisms of Dr. Deacon, by J. Owen, 1748, 8vo:-a tissue of sheer abuse, mentioned only for censure and contempt.

XI. DEACON'S LITANY AND PRAYERS.

Meanwhile the current had set in for change; and Deacon's Form became the more popular Office of the two. Since the death of Spinkes, the chief opponent of Collier on the question of the Usages, in 1727, the more moderate party had gradually diminished in numbers. The few that were left now quietly fell in with Deacon, who was thus induced to go a little further; and in 1746 published

an 8vo. pamphlet of fifty pages, divided into three parts:-1. The Form of Admitting a Convert into the Communion of the Church: 2. A Litany, together with Prayers in behalf of the Catholic Church: 3. Prayers on the Death of Members of the Church, and an Office for those who are deprived of the advantage of receiving the Sacrament, &c. Of these three parts, the first and last were never published but once, so far as the Editor is aware; nor, on perusal, has he thought them fit for insertion, as scarcely coming under the character of Public Services. But the second has been published occasionally for the use of the remnant of the Nonjurors assembling in one or two of the larger towns Northward and a copy of an edition printed at Shrewsbury, 1797, 8vo. with a Preface, (a copy corrected in ink by the writer of the Preface,) being compared with the original of 1746, has furnished a satisfactory reprint; placed, merely for convenience of size, at the end of the 2nd volume.

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Southey says (Book of the Church, 1825, 8vo.