&c. Fast during the Plague. 1625.
The "Prayer for the Parliament" appears for the first time in this form.
Form, &c. Fast. War and Pestilence. 1626.
Form, &c. Fast. War. 1628.
Forme of Prayer, &c. for averting God's heauy Visitation, &c. 1636.
This is the form which was attacked by Burton and Prynne, and on which a charge was raised against Laud.
Form, &c. Fast. Plague. 1640
Form, &c. Fast. War. Oxford, 1643.
This is the form authorised by Charles I. to be used at the commencement of the war. It is frequently alluded to by the Parliamentary writers of the period. The House of Commons had ordered a monthly fast, and Charles commanded that the second Friday in every month should be set apart for the same purpose. This form was to be used on such occasions.
Form, &c. Fast. Oxford, 1643.
The same as the preceding, but a different edition, one being in black-letter, the other in Roman. Both were printed in Oxford, and in the same year.
A Collection of Prayers and Thanksgivings used in His Majesties Chapel and in his Armies, upon occasion of the late Victories against the Rebels. Oxford, 1643.
This was reprinted at York in 1644.
The Cavaliers' New Common Prayer Booke, unclasp't. Reprinted at London, with some briefe and necessary Obseruations to refute the Lyes and Scandalls that are contained in it. 1644.
This is a reprint of the preceding form, with a scurrilous preface and observations. The prayers are given as they stand in the Royal form, but with parenthetical sentences of a most abusive character after almost every paragraph. Thus, after the clause, "Pity a despised Church," the authors add, "You mean the prelates and their hierarchy." After the next clause, "and a distracted State," they add, "made so by your wicked party." In one of the thanksgivings, after "Glory be to God," we have, "Your mock prayers defraud Him of His glory." Then, after the words "We praise thee, we bless thee," &c., from the Communion Office, we have, "Softly, lest you want breath, and thank the old Common Prayer Book for that."
Private Forms for these Sad Times. Oxford, 1645.
A Form of Thanksgiving, to be used the Seventh Day of September, thorowout the Diocese of Lincoln, and in the Jurisdiction of Westminster.
This remarkable form has no date, but it was put forth by Williams, then Bishop of Lincoln and Dean of Westminster, in the year 1641. The House of Commons had ordered a day of Thanksgiving; but they were greatly offended with Williams, on account of this form, and, instead of going to St. Margaret's Church as usual, where it was ordered to be read, they attended divine service, after their own fashion, in the chapel of Lincoln's Inn.
A Supply of Prayers for the Ships of this Kingdom that want Ministers to pray with them agreeable to the Directory, &c. London. Published by authority.
A Presbyterian form, and the only one ever published by men who decried all forms. It was put forth, as the preface admits, because the sailors clung to the Book of Common Prayer.
Prayers to be used in the Armies. 1648.
A Form of Prayer used at His Majesties Chapel at the Hague. 1650.
Prayers for those who mourn, &c. 1659.
Form of Common Prayer, to be used on the Thirtieth of January, &c. 1661.
This form differs materially from that subsequently put forth by Convocation, with the revised Prayer Book of 1662. There was also another form still earlier, in the year 1661, in which some singular and obnoxious petitions relative to Charles I. were found.
A Form of Prayer with Thanksgiving, to be used on the 29th of May, 1661.
The original edition. It differs from that which was sanctioned by Convocation and published in 1662.
Form of Prayer, &c. June 12. Fast during a Dearth. 1661.
Form, &c. Fast during a Sickness. 1661.
Form, &c. Fast, to implore a Blessing on the Naval Forces. April 5, 1665.
Form, &c. Thanksgiving for Victory by Naval Forces. July 4, 1665.
Form, &c. Fast, on occasion of the Fire of London, 1666.
Form, &c. Thanksgiving for Victories at Sea. 1666.
Form, &c. Fast. 1674.
Form, &c. Fast. 1678.
Form, &c. Fast. Dublin, 1678.
Form, &c. Fast. Dublin, 1679. To seek Reconciliation with God, and to implore Him that he would infatuate and defeat the Counsels of the Papists our Enemies. By the Lord Lieutenant.
Form, &c. Fast. 1680.
Form, &c. Thanksgiving. 1683. For the discovery of Treason.
Form, &c. Thanksgiving. 1685.
Form of Prayer with Thanksgiving for 29th May, 1685.
First edition of this reign. It was altered by the authority of the Crown.
Form of Prayer, &c. January 30, 1685.
First edition of this reign.
Form of Prayer, &c. February 6, 1685.
The accession service of James II.
A Form or Order of Thanksgiving, to be used, &c. in behalf of the King, the Queen, and the Royal Family, upon occasion of the Queen's being with Child. 1687.
This form was the occasion of much comment at the time.
A Form of Prayer with Thanksgiving, &c., for the Birth of the Prince. 1688.
A Form, &c. Fast. 1689.
A Form, &c. Fast. 1690.
A Form, &c. Fast. 1694.
A Form, &c. Fast. 1714. Thanksgiving on the Accession of George I.
Bristol.
Minor Notes
Chair Moving.—Recent occurrences made me look back at Glanvill's Blow at Modern Sadducism, and I observed that in his account of the "Dæmon of Tedworth," who was supposed to haunt the house of Mr. Mompesson, and who was the original of Addison's "drummer," it is stated that on the 5th November, 1662, "in the sight and presence of the company, the chairs walked about the room," p. 124.
Epitaph on Politian in the Church of the Annunciation at Florence.—
"Politianus in hoc tumulo jacet Angelus, unum
Qui caput, et linguas (res nova) tres habuit."
