The First Book of Common Prayer of Edward Vi: And, the Ordinal of 1549 Together With the Order of the Communion, 1548

The First Book Of Common Prayer Of Edward VI: And, The Ordinal Of 1549 Together With The Order Of The Communion, 1548 by Henry Baskerville Walton. This 1869 reprint presents the first reformed English Prayer Book issued under Edward VI in 1549, here printed in full with the accompanying 1548 Order of the Communion and the 1549 Ordinal. Edited by Walton, with an introduction by Peter Goldsmith Medd, this edition reproduces Whitchurch's edition as the standard text, with careful collations of other contemporary impressions. The volume includes Walton's Preface and Medd's Introduction, detailing the convergences and revisions of the English liturgy prior to 1549, and outlining the sequence of Matins, Evensong, the Communion, and the Ordinal, together with notes on later revisions (1552; 1559) and the broader Reformation context. An Advertisement describes typography, collations, and extant copies, and the work supplies a valuable apparatus for scholars of English liturgy and ecclesiastical history. It stands as a crucial reference for understanding the beginnings of the English Reformation in liturgical form.