[4] Overall, Accounts of the Churchwardens, etc., p. 67.
[5] Ibid., p. 68. There exist among the MSS. of the British Museum many English renderings of parts of the Mass and the Divine Service, anterior to the Book of Common Prayer, with musical notation. These will shortly be discussed by Mr. W. H. Frere in the Journal of Theological Studies.
[6] C.C.C.C. MSS. 106, fo. 495, cited in Gasquet and Bishop, Edward VI. and the Book of Common Prayer, p. 147, from Cooper's Annals of Cambridge, ii. p. 18.
[7] Cardwell, Synod., p. 420; Strype, Cranmer, vol. i. p. 155. The petition of the clergy expressly says that this had been done ex mandato convocationis. Cranmer's notes on the proceedings, given in Cardwell, make them say that "by the commandment of King Henry VIII. certain prelates and other learned men were appointed to alter the service in the Church." It is probably an instance of two ways of regarding the same thing, and is not uninstructive.
[8] I venture on this suggestion as to the character of the much discussed "Windsor Commission," but it is beside my subject to debate the point. It seems to reconcile the many assertions that the Prayer-book was prepared by authority of Convocation with other assertions that all was done by a committee appointed by the Crown. See the preceding note. The statements are collected in Gasquet and Bishop, pp. 148-156.
[9] See Gasquet and Bishop, p. 178, and the notes of the debate on the Sacrament printed by them from MS. Reg. 17 B. xxxix., in their Appendix v. pp. 403, 404.
[10] The Interim of 1548 was an attempt of Charles V. and the Diet of Augsburg to grapple with this state of things, and was so far analogous to the English Act of Uniformity, and a precedent for it.
[11] See the letters of Micronius and Utenhovius to Bullinger, Orig. Lett, pp. 568, 570, 587. The patent for the incorporation and protection of the congregation is given in French by Collier, Records, vol. ii. no. lxv. The date is July 24, 1550, and a non obstante clause bars any interference "par aucun statute, acte, ordonance, provision, ou restriction, faits publietz, ordonnez, ou pourveus au contraire."
[12] I Mariae, sess. 2, cap. 2. Gibson, p. 304.
[13] And even this with some freedom. See Machyn's Diary, April 6 and 7, 1559. Jewel wrote to Peter Martyr on April 14: "Itaque factum est ut multis iam in locis missae etiam invitis edictis sua sponte ceciderint." Zurich Letters, ep. vi.