(b) (Opening Exhortation) 66 Delete were put to open penance, and punished in this world"; insert "were put to open penance, and did humbly submit themselves to undergo punishment in this world." (c) (In sentence from Deut. xxvii. 19)— Delete "letteth ; insert "hindreth, stoppeth, or perverteth. (d) (Exhortation)— Delete "he shall poure down rain upon the sinners, fire and brimstone, storm and tempest; this shall be their portion to drink"; insert "for upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and a horrible tempest; this shall be their portion to drink." [After the Psalter,1 "The whole Book of Psalmes collected into English metre, by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others, conferred with the Hebrew, with apt notes to sing them withall. Set forth and allowed to be sung in all churches, of all the people together, before and after morning and evening prayer, and also before and after sermons; and moreover in private houses, for their godly solace and comfort, laying apart all ungodly songs and ballads, which tend onely to the nourishing of vice, and corrupting of youth. "James 5: If any be afflicted, let him pray: and if ́any be merry, let him sing psalmes. Colossians 3: Let the word of God dwell plenteously in you, in all wisedome, teaching and exhorting one another in psalmes, hymns, and spirituall songs, singing into the Lord in your hearts. "Printed by Thomas Buck, and Roger Daniel, printers to the Universitie of Cambridge. 1637." A few specimens may be given : The song of S. Ambrose, called Te Deum "We praise thee, God, we knowledge thee the onely Lord to be," &c. 1 "In the English book the Psalter is entitled The Psalmes of DAVID, in the old translations, printed as they shall be said or sung in churches.” The symbole or creed of Athanasius, called Quicunque vult (beginning)— "What man soever he be that salvation will attain The catholick belief he must before all things retain," &c. The Psalmes of David in metre. They have annotative headings. Thus, Beatus vir, Psalm i. T. S. "This psalme is set first as a preface to exhort all godly men to studie and meditate the heavenly wisdome : for they be blessed that so do; but the wicked contemners thereof at length shall come to misery. "The man is blest that hath not bent to wicked read his eare." Psalm c. is the well-known "All people that on earth do dwell." The initials are C. J. H. But Psalm c. differs somewhat, and Psalm cxxiv. considerably, from the versions now in use in Scotland. Those at cxxiv., "Now Israel may say," are W. W. After the Psalms. A song to be sung before morning prayer. T. B. "Praise ye the Lord ye Gentiles all," with metrical Gloria Patri. A song to be sung before evening prayer, "Behold, now give heed," &c., with metrical Gloria Patri. A prayer to the Holy Ghost "Come, holy Spirit, the God of might, Comforter of us all," &c. This has verses which may have the more inclined King Charles to leave out the whole series : "Lord, keep our king & his councill, and give them will and might To persevere in thy Gospel, O blessed Spirit of truth, keep us Keep us from sects & errors all, Da pacem Domine "Give peace in these our dayes, O Lord, Great dangers are now at hand; Thine enemies with one accord Christ's name in every land Seek to deface, Root out and rase Thy true right worship indeed. Be thou the stay, Lord, we thee pray, Thou help'st alone in all need," &c. C. The Dalmeny Prayer-Book, containing, in the handwriting of King Charles I., the latest alterations and additions approved by his Majesty for the Scottish Book. This is a thick quarto entitled "The Booke1 of Common Prayer and administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and1 Ceremonies of the Church of England. London. Printed by Robert Barker, Printer to the King's most Excellent Majesty: And by the Assignes of John Bell, 1637." It bears on its title page the arms of Charles I. marshalled for England-viz., 1st and 4th France and England, 2nd Scotland, 3rd Ireland. The volume was purchased by the Earl of Rosebery at the sale at which so many treasures belonging to the late Duke of Hamilton were disposed of. One might have fancied from this that it was a copy of the Liturgy as altered for Scotland, sent to James, Marquess of Hamilton (afterwards the first Duke of Hamilton), who was the King's Commissioner to the Glasgow Assembly of 1638; 1 These words are printed in red ink. 2 The alterations and additions in this volume (though in very few par. ticulars differing from those previously sent) must therefore have been written into the book subsequently both to Archbishop Laud's letter printed above, and to the transcript of the alterations in the Lambeth Book, since both of these date from 1636. but this is not the case, as the following letter, which is kept with the volume, and which I have Lord Rosebery's leave to print, makes clear : Private. 16 ONSLOW Crescent, BROMPTON, June 5th, 1856. MY DEAR LORD DUKE,-Thirty years since I accidentally met at a sale at the auction mart where I purchased a large quantity of old theology, a volume of exceeding interest, being a 4to edition of the Book of Common Prayer with alterations and additions on the autograph of King Charles I. The history of the controversies relating to the Book of Common Prayer is one of the deepest interest, and the introduction of it into Scotland has always excited the attention of the historian and the divine. Charles I. manifested an interest equal to that of his predecessor, James, for an uniform worship, and promoted the revival of an Act authorizing certain Bishops in Scotland to prepare a Book of Common Prayer. The Scottish Bishops carefully examined and revised the Liturgy, taking as their model the First Book of Common Prayer of Edward VI. Many points of difference, however, are admitted; and the copy I possess will shew that they, in a great degree, emanated1 from the King himself. The interest felt by the Sovereign is displayed by a most rigid attention even to typographical errors of the volume, and the colour of the ink in which the names of the Saints or the months of the year are to be printed. I hold this volume to be eminently precious, as it is the instrument which led to the abolition of Episcopacy in Scotland, to the establishment of the Solemn League and Covenant, and the invasion of England by the Scotch army. The attempt of Charles in 1633 to introduce the Liturgy into Scotland failed: it was renewed in 1636, and proved productive of consequences which tended to overthrow the Constitution in Church and State, and ultimately led to the death of Charles. The folio edition of 1637, known as the Scotch Book of 1 Mr Pettigrew's word is too strong: "had, every one of them, the deliberate approval of the King" would have been more exact. d C. Prayer, shews that the additions and alterations herein made in the autograph of the King and by his own command have been accurately attended to. There is scarcely a variation. Many years since I shewed this book to Mr Pickering, the bookseller of Piccadilly, who published facsimiles of different editions of the C. Prayer, and he offered me £100 for it. I think I understood that he wished it for Lord Ashburnham's collection. I did not then desire to part with it, and I promised him that, should I dispose of it, he should have the refusal. He is dead, and I am under no promise or obligation to Lord A. It has occurred to me as an exceedingly interesting book for your Grace's valuable collection, and I venture therefore to propose it to your Grace before I offer it to Lord A. or any one else, as I do not wish to retain it longer. Ever your Grace's most faithful and obliged Servt. T. J. PETTIGREW.1 To His Grace The DUKE OF HAMILTON AND BRANDON T. J. Pettigrew. &c., &c., &c. A slip in Mr Pettigrew's handwriting has the note: "Scotch tumults, &c., upon the introduction of the Book of Common Prayer. See 'Varney Papers,' p. 202. Published by the Camden Society." The most likely theory as to the history of the volume before Mr Pettigrew picked it up is that it was the final copy sent by the King to John Spottiswood, Archbishop of S. Andrews and Primate of Scotland, on whom lay the chief responsibility of introducing the Liturgy in Scotland. Apart from the King's deep interest in the matter from a religious point of view, there were political reasons for Spottiswood receiving these directions from the King himself. Already there may have been audible some of the murmurs, soon to rise into a roar, that Laud had taken it upon him to make more, and other, alterations than the 1 A notice of "Thomas Joseph Pettigrew (1791-1865), surgeon and antiquary," is in the Dictionary of National Biography. A |