[22] Preface concerning the Service of the Church.
[23] It is provided for, as is well known, by the Act of Uniformity, 13 & 14 Car. II.
[24] See, in proof of this, the admirable letter, which, by the kind permission of the Rev. J. B. Dyke, late Precentor of Durham, I have placed in the Appendix.
[25] See note M, p. 49, of Mr. Skinner's recent 'Plea for the threatened Ritual of the Church of England.'
[26] Skinner, p. 48. Archbishop Grindal, and Bishop Sandys (1571-76) urged their destruction.
[27] 1636. "Must other churches have copes, because such is the guise of cathedrals?" St. Giles' in the Fields and St. Leonard's, Shoreditch, are named in 1640. An Act of 1644 orders copes to be sold in parish churches.—(Hierurgia Anglicana, p. 164.)
[28] It is very remarkable, on the other hand, that, as was pointed out in the recent debate in Convocation, Cosin, and others of the revisers, especially Archbishop Sheldon, still made inquiry in their Visitations, not as to the other vestments, but the surplice only. The only solution would seem to be, that, personally, they wished the vestments restored, but, finding no response to their wishes, fell into the usual track of Visitation Articles.
[29] Life of Cosin, prefixed to his Works, in the "Anglo-Catholic" Library.
[30] By Bishop Warburton, it is said, circ., 1770.
[31] It is remarkable that the Canons which are contrariant to the Rubric have no existence in the Irish Canons passed in their Convocation in 1634. The 7th Canon is "All ministers shall use and observe the orders, rites, ornaments, and ceremonies prescribed in the Book of Common Prayer, and in the Act of Uniformity printed therewith, as well in saying of Prayers as in administration of the Sacrament." (See Mr. Baker's letter to the 'Church Review,' March 17, 1866). The same canon enforces the surplice and hood for deans, canons, &c., for Prayers, without mentioning the Holy Communion.