Book of Common Prayer
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The Book of Common Prayer is the title of a number of related prayer books used in the Anglican Communion and by other Christian churches historically related to Anglicanism. The first prayer book, pu
A 1760 printing of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer, printed by John Baskerville
Thomas Cranmer (1489–1556), editor and co-author of the first and second Books of Common Prayer
Cranmer's prayer book of 1552
Title page of the 1662 Prayer Book
Book of Common Prayer (1662)
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The 1662 Book of Common Prayer is an authorised liturgical book of the Church of England and other Anglican bodies around the world. In continuous print and regular use for over 360 years, the 1662 pr
Book of Common Prayer
…Following the tumultuous events surrounding the English Civil War, when the Prayer Book was again abolished, another revision was published as the 1662 prayer book. That edition remains the official prayer book of the Church of England, although throughout the later 20th century, alternative forms that were…
Cover page to the 1662 Book of Common Prayer, as printed by John Baskerville for Cambridge in 1762
Compilers of the first Book of Common Prayer, including Cranmer
John Cosin, prominent Laudian during the Savoy Conference and notator of the Durham Book
King William III and Queen Mary II, the Calvinist monarchs who replaced James II during the Glorious Revolution