for the QUEEN; and the insertion of the prayers for the QUEEN and the Clergy, which now stand at the end of the Morning and Evening Services, in the English PrayerBook, together with the Collect, "O God, whose nature and property," etc., among the prayers at the end. There were also some RUBRICAL changes; the CALENDAR of LESSONS was settled; and the COMMUNION SERVICE was amended in a few important particulars.

15. RECEPTION of this LITURGY BY THE ROMANISTS. So little reason had the Romanists to complain of the doctrine and discipline thus set forth in our formularies, that they continued to attend the services of the REFORMED CHURCH during the early part of Elizabeth's reign; and were only restrained by an excommunicating BULL1 of

1 A Bull was a rescript, generally on parchment, used from a very ancient period by the Popes. The Bull properly means the seal, being derived from the Latin word bulla, and was made of gold, silver, lead, and wax. On one side were the heads of Peter and Paul-on the other the Pope's name, and year of his pontificate. Bulls denouncing Queen Elizabeth and her abettors, and consigning them to Hell-fire," were sent with the Spanish Armada, 1588.

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PIUS V., which was drawn forth by the QUEEN's refusal to acknowledge his su

premacy.

16. ATTACKS ON THIS PRAYER-BOOK. Subsequently, the PRAYER-BOOK and the discipline of the REFORMED COMMUNION were not only attacked by the ROMANISTS, but were assailed even more virulently by the exiles who returned to England after the MARIAN PERSECUTION.

17. NAME OF THESE, AND ORIGIN OF THAT NAME. From affecting a high degree of purity in their religious worship, in which they conformed to the ecclesiastical institutions of GENEVA, they were distinguished by the name of Puritans. They at first were

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1 Pius V. was Pope from 1566 to 1572. The present Pope Pius IX.-(whose name was Mastai Ferretti), was elected June 16, 1846.

Mem. The title of Pope, or Papa, was originally given to all Bishops. It was first adopted by Hyginus, 138 A.D. Pope Boniface III. persuaded Phocas, Emperor of the East, to issue an order restricting the title to the prelates of Rome, A.D. 606. The first act of temporal sovereignty was by Adrian I. having money coined in his name, 780. The first who kept an army was Leo IX., 1053. The words "Lord Pope" were struck out of all English books in 1541.

members of the ESTABLISHED CHURCH, but afterwards became separatists on account of several ceremonies, that were by the rigidness of those times (ELIZABETH, JAMES I., and CHARLES I.) severely insisted upon." Bishop Sanderson.

18. The (so called) MILLENARY PETITION. The efforts of the Puritans were in some degree paralyzed by the energetic opposition of QUEEN ELIZABETH; but on the accession of JAMES I., their grievances were set forth in the MILLENARY PETITION, so called from its professing to bear the signatures of more than a thousand (Latin mille) ministers, which were however in fact under 750.

19. COMPLAINTS MADE in this PETITION. As far as the LITURGY was concerned, the petition objected to SAINTS'-DAYS' SERVICES, to the reading of the APOCRYPHA, to bowing at the name of JESUS, to the sign of the CROSS in BAPTISM, to GODFATHERS and GODMOTHERS, to CONFIRMATION, to kneeling at the LORD'S SUPPER, to the giving of the RING in MARRIAGE, to the "longsomeness of the daily service, and some minor mat

ters.

20. KING JAMES I.'s 1 RECEPTION OF THE PETITION. In order to discuss the validity of these objections, the KING held a CONFERENCE at HAMPTON COURT in January 1604, at which were present nine Bishops and as many other CHURCH dignitaries on the one side, and four PURITAN divines on the other. The discussion lasted three days, and though most of the demands of the PURITANS were rejected as unreasonable, some important points were conceded, and a revised translation of the Bible, resulting in our present authorized Version, was enjoined. The first perfect edition of the ENGLISH BIBLE was finished Oct. 4, 1535, the present "authorized" copy in 1611. The Great Polyglot Bible in 1657.

21. CHANGES MADE AT THIS TIME IN THE LITURGY. The most important changes were

He was the son of leading points of

1 James reigned from 1603 to 1625. Mary, Queen of Scots. Some of the his reign were, union of the two crowns, 1603; Gunpowder Plot, 1605; Present translation of the Bible, 1611; and in the same year Baronets were first created. Shakspeare died 1616; Raleigh beheaded 1618. Queen Anne, James' wife, died 1619.

an addition to the RUBRIC or ABSOLUTION; the insertion of all the forms of THANKSGIVING at the end of the LITURGY, except the general one; the completion of the CATECHISM by affixing the explanation of the two SACRAMENTS; and the prohibition of any but a lawful minister from administering BAPTISM. 22. RECEPTION of these concessions by the NONCONFORMISTS — their renewed discontent. The NONCONFORMISTS appeared to be tolerably satisfied with the result of this CONFERENCE; but in the beginning of the reign of CHARLES I.1 the strictness and severity, with which LAUD 2 enforced the doctrine and discipline of the CHURCH again kindled the

1 Charles I., son of James I., reigned 1625 to 1649: some leading events were, his marriage with Henrietta of France, 1625; death of Lord Bacon, 1626; Duke of Buckingham assassinated, 1628; Hampden's Trial, 1637; Strafford beheaded, 1641; commencement of the Civil War, 1642,- battles therein, Worcester, Sept. 13, 1642; Edge Hill fight, Oct. 23, 1642; Newbury (Lord Falkland killed), 1643; Marston Moor, July 3, 1644; Newbury, second battle, Oct. 10, 1644; Naseby, June 14, 1644; King Charles executed, January 30, 1649.

2 Archbishop Laud, born at Reading 1573, educated at St. John's College; in 1628 succeeded Buckingham as Prime Minister; beheaded Jan. 10, 1645.