[14] Venetian State Papers, vol. vii. p. 57. Easter Day fell on March 26 that year. The particulars reported by il Schifanoya are interesting. On the morrow of St. George's Day, he reports again, mass for the dead was said for the chapter of the Garter in the usual manner, but the Epistle and Gospel were said in English. Ibid., p. 74.
[15] Zurich Letters., ep. xii.
[16] See Caldwell, Conferences, pp. 19-21, and 47-54, 2nd ed.
[17] S.P. Dom. Eliz., vol. vii. no. 46. See below, p. 26, and Appendix.
[18] So all authors; I can find no evidence of the date.
[19] Nor was it so annexed in fact. Cardwell is here in error (Conferences, p. 30), and his mistake has been generally followed. If there were any doubt on the subject, it would be dispelled by the fact that in 1661 the House of Commons sought the Book annexed to the Act, not of 1559, but of 1552. See below, p. 21.
[20] See the Bishop of Chester's speech against the Bill, in Cardwell, Conferences, p. 116: "Marke, my lordes, this short discourse, I beseech your lordshippes, and yee shall perceave, that all catholike princes, heryticke princes, yea, and infidells, have from tyme to tyme refused to take that upon them, that your lordshippes go about and chalenge to do." Collier, vol. ii. p. 430, conjectures that the rubric about kneeling at Communion was omitted by the committee of revisers, and restored while the Bill was passing through Parliament; but there is no evidence on either point. The letter of Guest, to which he refers, probably belongs to an early stage of the revision, and contemplates other and more striking variations from the Book as finally revised. See especially the paragraphs in Cardwell, Conferences, p. 51.
[21] See Clay, Liturgies, etc., of Queen Elizabeth, pp. xii. seqq.
[22] Clarendon, History, vol. iii. p. 747, 8vo, ed. 1707.
[23] Ibid., p. 771.