The LITANY to be said or sung in the midst of the CHURCH.* The PRIEST goeth from out of his seat into the Body of the CHURCH, and (at a low desk before the Chancel door, called the Fald-stool,) kneels, and says or sings the LITANY. See the Prophet Joel, chap. ii. 17.

Injunct. Elizab. XVIII. A. D. 1559. Spar. Artic. p. 23. Cardwell's Documentary Annals, X. p. 46. vol. I. Bishop Andrewes' Notes upon the Liturgy, p. 23 at the end of Nichols on the Common Prayer.

UPON THE

BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER

OF THE

CHURCH OF ENGLAND.

BY ANTHONY SPARROW, D.D.

SOMETIME LORD BISHOP OF NORWICH

A NEW EDITION.

OXFORD:

JOHN HENRY PARKER.

MDCCCXL.

B.D.J

EDITOR'S PREFACE.

NTHONY SPARROW, Bishop suc

cessively of Exeter and Norwich,

was born at Depden in Suffolk, and was educated at Queen's College, Cambridge, of which Society he became scholar and fellow. In 1643 he was ejected, with the rest of the body, for their loyalty to King Charles in refusing the Covenant. Soon afterwards he accepted the Rectory of Hawkenden in his own county, but was again ejected, when he had held it only five weeks, for

a