AND EXPLANATORY TREATISE

ON THE

Book of Common Prayer.

BY

WILLIAM GILSON HUMPHRY, B.D.

PREBENDARY OF ST PAUL'S, AND VICAR OF ST MARTIN'S IN THE FIELDS.
WESTMINSTER.

SIXTH EDITION.

CAMBRIDGE:

DEIGHTON, BELL, AND CO.

LONDON: GEORGE BELL AND SONS.

1881.

Cambridge:

PRINTED BY C. J. CLAY, M.A.

AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.

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CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

Of the Ancient Liturgies, and the Liturgical Books in

use at the time of the Reformation .

CHAPTER II.

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