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    The Acts of Uniformity Their Scope and Effect
    The Acts of Uniformity Their Scope and Effect
    The Acts of Uniformity Their Scope and Effect
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    The Acts of Uniformity Their Scope and Effect

    By T. A. (Thomas Alexander) Lacey

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      The Acts of Uniformity Their Scope and Effect - T. A. (Thomas Alexander) Lacey

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Acts of Uniformity, by T.A. Lacey

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org

      Title: The Acts of Uniformity Their Scope and Effect

      Author: T.A. Lacey

      Release Date: May 2, 2009 [EBook #28659]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ACTS OF UNIFORMITY ***

      Produced by Elaine A. Laizure

      The Acts of Uniformity

      Their Scope and Effect

      By

      T. A. LACEY, M.A.

      VICAR OF MADINGLEY

      RIVINGTONS

      34, KING STREET, COVENT GARDEN

      LONDON

      1900

      Price One Shilling: net

      NOTE

      The following paper, read at Oxford before certain members of the University, in November, 1899, is published at the request of some who heard it.

      THE ACTS OF UNIFORMITY

      The Acts of Uniformity are incidents in a great movement. They are far from being the most important of its incidents. Their importance has perhaps been exaggerated, and their purport is commonly misunderstood. My object is to place them in their true relation to other incidents. It is useless to study them apart; they cannot be understood except as details of a connected history. I shall confine myself, however, to a narrow, question: assuming the general history, I shall ask how the several Acts of Uniformity come into it, with what purpose and with what ultimate effect. To study immediate effects would be to engage in too wide an inquiry.

      We owe thanks to the men who drafted the statutes of the sixteenth century for their long argumentative preambles. These are invaluable as showing the occasion and purpose of the Acts. We shall not go to them for an uncoloured record of facts—their unsupported assertions will hardly, indeed, be taken as evidence for facts at all; but they tell us to what facts the legislator wished to call attention, and in what light he would have them regarded. The preamble of the first Act of Uniformity is among the most illuminating, and with its help we can assemble the facts in relation to which the purport of the Act must be determined.

      We are in the year 1548. Important changes in matters of religion had taken place; greater changes were in prospect. The processions before High Mass on Sundays and Festivals, conspicuous and popular ceremonies, had been stopped on rather flimsy grounds, and a Litany in English substituted—the English Procession, as it was called. Many images in the churches had been destroyed, as superstitious; the censing of those remaining had ceased. The peculiar ceremonies of Candlemas, Ash Wednesday, and Palm Sunday had been omitted in many places. A chapter of the Bible in English was being read after the lessons at Mattins, and at Evensong after Magnificat.

      It was not very clear by what authority these innovations had been made. There had been royal proclamations and injunctions; episcopal injunctions and orders on visitation. There was another change, perhaps the most striking of all, in which Parliament had intervened. The first Act of the first Parliament of Edward VI. required the administration of the Holy Sacrament of the Altar

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