EDITOR'S PREFACE (1904) IN the Preface to the Second Part of this work, published in the year 1903, it is said: The original Hierurgia Anglicana of 1848 contained certain extracts which fall under the heads of Ritual and Discipline, as contrasted with Ceremonial. These, with one or two exceptions, have not been included in either of the Parts of the present edition; possibly, they might form the basis of a Third Part of Hierurgia Anglicana.' The following pages contain the original matter thus referred to, with a very considerable amount of addition. In fact, fully three-quarters of the contents of this Third Part of the work have been added to the nucleus of original matter contained in the old Hierurgia Anglicana of 1848. As in the previous parts, the newly-added extracts are marked by asterisks. The Editor's thanks are tendered as follows:-to the Rev. C. N. Gray, Vicar of Helmsley, Yorks, for permission to make use of his collection of extracts from a wide range of sources relating to Confession and Absolution, published in a pamphlet entitled, Confession as taught by the Church of England; to the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, and to the Rev. T. P. Morgan, for kindly allowing the reproduction of the Irish Form of Consecration of Churches, published by that Society under Mr. Morgan's editorship; to the Editor of The Guardian, for his courtesy in permitting the article on The Kalendar of the Book of Common Prayer, by the Rev. F. E. Warren, Hon. Canon of Ely, to be reprinted; and lastly, to the Most Reverend William Dalrymple Maclagan, Lord Archbishop of York, and Messrs. Longmans, Green and Co., for permission to reproduce the English Archbishops' Answer to the Apostolic Letter of Pope Leo XIII. on English Ordinations. This Answer contains much that is worthy of permanent record; and for this reason it has been included in this work. In regard to the inclusion of the Irish Form of Consecrating Churches in this Part III., it seems well to say that, in this as in other cases, as also in Parts I. and II. of this work, the aim has been to give evidence not only from 'English' sources, strictly speaking, but also from other 'Anglican' sources, as stated on the Title-Pages of the work. Certain reviewers of the previous Parts of Hierurgia Anglicana have fallen into the error of restricting the term Anglican' to the English Church, which is in fact but a portion of a greater whole. The Editor desires to point out, with a view to possible criticism, that the extracts given in the following pages might, in many instances, have been largely increased in number. The exigencies of space have forbidden this possible extension. It is therefore to be understood, in the case of this Part, as also in that of the two previous Parts, that only samples are recorded. The Hierurgia Anglicana in none of its Parts, as now completed, presents the whole evidence there is more to be given, if need be, and as research yields its fruits. The original work of 1848 consisted of but one-third of the matter included in this new edition, as a reference to the asterisked' passages shows. None of the illustrations in this volume appeared in the original edition. The Editor's thanks are due to Messrs. Macmillan and Co. for their kind permission to reproduce the illustrations of Bishop Wren's Mitre, and Bishop Harsnett's Brass, from Green's Short History of the English People, Vol. III.; also to Messrs. Barkentin and Krall, for permission to reproduce the illustration of the Standard Candlesticks of St. Paul's Cathedral. At the close of this volume will be found two Supplementary Indexes to the whole Three Parts of the work; the first giving references to unusual and uncommon words, the second to the various authors and authorities from which the extracts are quoted. VERNON STALEY. INVERNESS, N.B., June 1904. |