{"product_id":"book-of-common-prayer","title":"[BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER]","description":"\u003cp\u003eA very handsome copy of this Book of Common prayer from the Laudian heyday, completed with the Psalter, both charmingly printed in Black letter, in a beautiful contemporary Royal binding with the arms of Charles I. The binding is similar in style to one in the British library shelfmark c47k4 also with Charles royal arms, on a work dated 1635, with a sem é of tools and large blocked corner-pieces. It is possible the binding was made for use in one of the Royal chapels. In 1633 Land was appointed Archbishop of Canterbury and for the next seven years he applied his considerable energies to the promotion of a national church that in its liturgy, its discipline and canons was sacramental without being Catholic and protestant without being puritan. His efforts ended in apparent ignominious failure on the scaffold, but though he could not force the establishment of his principles during his lifetime, the Anglican church he envisaged was the one to which it eventually became. The Booke of Common prayer contains,  A proclamation for the authorizing an uniformitie of the Booke of Common Prayer to bee used throughout the Realme.  This proclamation was put into practise with the production of a Book of Common Prayer for Scotland with disastrous results.  King Charles was firmly of a mind to extend Anglican forms to Scotland, particularly as expressed in the Book of Common Prayer, and the great majority of the Scottish people were equally determined to resist. Charles was not one for compromise, and so had the Scottish Bishops, with the approval of Archbishop William Laud, draw up a Book of Common Prayer for Scotland. This Book was promulgated in 1637 and was immediately denounced by the Scottish people; it was never even put into use  The Book of Common Prayer for Scotland (1637). It caused riots on its first use in St. Giles Church in Edinburgh. \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n  The English Book of Common Prayer was the first single manual of worship in a vernacular language directed to be used universally by, and common to, both priest and people  . one of the greatest of all liturgical rationalizations  (PMM) \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n A very beautiful contemporary Royal binding.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"[BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57816161124687,"sku":"L2214","price":5250.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/IMG_20191018_143158-scaled.jpg?v=1781794896","url":"https:\/\/sokol-books-ltd.myshopify.com\/products\/book-of-common-prayer","provider":"Sokol Books Ltd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}