WORSHIP IN THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND. By A. J. B. BERESFORD HOPE, M.P., AUTHOR OF THE ENGLISH CATHEDRAL OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.' SECOND EDITION. LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET. 1875. PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION. my IN presenting to the world a Second Edition of offering towards the solution of the ceremonial question within the Church of England, I have not much to add. I have carefully gone through the book, and corrected whatever mistakes I found. Of these the most important is the assertion on the authority of Nicholls' incorrect translation of the Latin original, that Cosin, in a description of the English Communion service, describes the proper dress of the celebrant to be a "surplice and hood." This statement was in contradiction both to Cosin's own assertions elsewhere, and to his personal practice. Reference, however, to the original, shows that what Cosin really wrote was "superpelliceo cum casula sive capa," i.e. in a "surplice with chasuble (vestment) or cope." It is a curious fact that, as I show, the judges in the Purchas case selected the simultaneous use of the surplice and chasuble as an instance of an impossibility, from not realising that the latter might be worn over the former. In so doing they forgot another rubric of 1549, which assigns (besides the rochet) the "surplice or albe," and the "cope or vestment," to bishops at celebrations and "all other ministrations." January, 1875. |
