[MR] Good Research - Period Prayer Books

[Towey, Brian]

Friends and neighbors,

Somebody at anglican.org has done a lot of work putting the first English
prayer books on the Web, including historical notes.  Five of them date from
before 1600:

Exhortation & Litany (1544)   
Published under the reign of Henry VIII

1549 Book of Common Prayer    
The first Book of Common Prayer, under Edward VI

Merbeke's Book of Common Prayer Noted (1550)   
The Book of Common Prayer put to music

1552 Book of Common Prayer    
The second Prayer Book of Edward VI

1559 Book of Common Prayer 
The Elizabethan Book 

Go to http://justus.anglican.org/resources/bcp/bcp.htm and scroll down a
bit.

Your servant,

Charles Fleming
mka Brian Towey
"Miror Otium Negotium Multum Requirare"