...And with reference to our immediate subject, we are told in the Preface to our Common Prayer, that " heretofore there hath been great diversity in saying...Hereford Use, and some the Use of Bangor, some of York, some of Lincoln." It would seem owing to that want of any distinctive religious principle, and that...

...of 437 — 526. CHAPTER II. The Prayer-Book in the Reign of Edward VI. [AD 1547—1553-] ' And where heretofore there hath been great diversity in saying...: some following Salisbury use, some Hereford use, some the use of Bangor, some of York, and some of Lincoln : Now from henceforth all the whole realm...

...the shortness thereof, and for the plainness of the Order, and for that the Rules be few and easy. And whereas heretofore there hath been great diversity...within this Realm ; some following Salisbury Use, (19.) some Hereford Use, and some the Use of Bangor, some of York, some of Lincoln ; now from henceforth...

...ediFIRST saith, the papists (his men) are herein as covetous and faulty DERI !S. — as ours. and where heretofore there hath been great diversity in saying...churches within this realm, some following Salisbury use, tyc.] Nulla res magis discipline mores ab ecclesia depulit, quam inordinata diversitas officii. Quamobrem...

...iii. 561 ; Hardwick, p. 206. '1 Preface to the Book of 1549 : " And whereas heretofore there hath heen great diversity in saying and singing in Churches within this Realm, some following Salisbury Use, &c., henceforth the whole realm shall have but one Use." So also the title-page : " The Book of &c....

...CHURCH OP THE PEOPLE. old Fathers, and a great deal more commodious than that which of late was used." " And whereas, heretofore, there hath been great diversity*...Hereford use, and some the use of Bangor, some of York, some of Lincoln ; now from henceforth all the whole realm shall have but one use." THE MONTH. NEVEU...

...preface to the first Prayer Book of Edward the Sixth (1549), are the following words :— " And where, heretofore, there hath been great diversity in saying...realm, some following Salisbury use; some Hereford use; some the use of Bangor; some of York; and some of Lincoln. Now from henceforth all the whole realm...

...the words of the Prayer Book, there had been great diversity in saying and singing in the churches of this realm, some following Salisbury use, some Hereford use, and some the use of Bangor, some of York, some of Lincoln. It was a grand idea, to determine upon the adoption of one use for the entire Church....

...entitled, ' Concerning the Service of the Church.' ' And whereas heretofore (ie previously to 1549) there hath been great diversity in saying and singing...Hereford Use, and some the Use of Bangor, some of York, some of Lincoln; now from henceforth all the whole realm shall have but one Use.' These we may consider...

...of the Book of Common Prayer, and not to revert to the earlier variety of " uses," some churches " following Salisbury use, some Hereford use, and some the use of Bangor, some of York, some of Lincoln." There is an obvious convenience in having the new occasional offices like the old...