England, Church of.

A Forme of Common Prayer, together with an order of Fasting: for the auerting of Gods heavy visitation vpon many places of this Kingdome...Bonham Norton and John Bill, 1625, lacking initial and final blank, woodcut initials, [STC 16540; Mendham C235]--Articles Agreed upon by the Archbishops and Bishops...in the yeere 1562... Bonham Norton and John Bill 1628, [STC 10051; Mendham C207]--[Constitutions and Canons.] Capitula sive constitvtiones ecclesiasticæ per Archiepiscopum, episcopos, & reliquum clerum Cantuariensis...Christopher Barker, 1599 [STC 10067; Mendham C238]--Articuli per Archiepiscopum, episcopos & reliquum clerum Cantuariensis...A[bel] I[effes], ?1585 [STC 4584; Mendham C268]--Aduertisements partely for due order in the publique administration of common prayers, and vsing the holy Sacraments: and partely for the apparell of all persons ecclesiasticall... Thomas Dawson, 1584 [STC 10032.5; Mendham C201]; followed by a leaf with early manuscript notes--Iniunctions giuen by the Queenes Maiestie. Anno Dom. 1559. The first yeere of the raigne of our soueraign Lady Queene Elizabeth. [Robert Barker, 1600], title page within woodcut border [McKerrow & Ferguson 165], [STC 10110; Mendham C249], issued with STC 10133, which is lacking final blank--Articles vvhereupon it was agreed by the archbishops and bishops of both prouinces, and the whole cleargie: in the conuocation holden at London in the yeere of our Lord God 1562... R. Bradock for Robert Barker, 1605, title page with lace ornament, [STC 10047.3; Mendham C205];  8 works in one volume, 4to, contemporary vellum, modern card case, some slight soiling to leaves and binding, a few tears, binding somewhat stained

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The first work is an adaptation of STC 16505 (A fourme to be vsed in common prayer twise a weeke, during this tyme of mortalitie...), which was an important part of the shift in post-Reformation worship introducing changes to the daily Book of Common Prayer, with special forms of prayer to be said on particular days of the week addressing the concerns of the kingdom as a whole.