Bibliography for Students of the Book of Common Prayer

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A. Editions of the Prayer Book Text

In addition to the following scholarly printed texts, Charles Wohlers’s outstanding website The Book of Common Prayer has excellent digital texts and links to online scans of various editions of the BCP from many times and from around the Anglican Communion.

[Brightman 1921]
The English Rite. Edited by F. E. Brightman. 2 vols. London: Rivingtons, 1915. Rev. ed., 1921. Facsimile repr. Farnborough: Gregg, 1970.

A mighty work, still not superseded, giving verbatim texts of 1549, 1552, and 1662 in parallel columns, with changes between them indicated with different typefaces. All serious researchers must take account of its historical introduction, though in some details it needs correction in the light of more recent literature.
The first edition gave a substantial list of “Addenda and Corrigenda” (vol. 1, pp. ccxxvii–ccxxx). The straightforward corrigenda were incorporated at their proper places in the second edition, but it is still important to consult the expanded list of “Addenda” at the same place (pp. ccxxvii–ccxxx). Some of these were already noticed in the first edition and remain quite important. For example, at pp. 294–95, in the collect for Lent I, Brightman’s text for the BCPs of 1549 and 1552 reads “thy godly monicions.” But among the addenda we find the following: “P. 294 c. 2 l. 36. ‘monicions’ is read only in the ed. of 1549 here used: in the rest it is ‘motions.’ P. 295 c. 1 l. 7. ‘monicions’ is read in one other ed. of 1552: in the rest it is ‘motions.'” The reading mocions, which is found in other modern editions of 1549 and 1552, is almost certainly the one intended by Cranmer and his fellow compilers.

[Cummings 2011]
The Book of Common Prayer: The Texts of 1549, 1559, and 1662. Edited by Brian Cummings. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.

A very fine complete edition, following original spelling, of an early printing of the 1662 BCP, together with the most important sections of 1549 and 1559, as well as selected later texts. Helpful introduction, bibliography, and annotations.

[Gibson 1910]
The First and Second Prayer-Books of King Edward the Sixth. Introduction by by E. C. S. G[ibson]. Everyman’s Library 448. London: Dent, 1910.

A handy edition, with original spellings, of the 1549 and 1552 BCPs. The Introits, Collects, Epistles, and Gospels of 1549 are given in full. Those of 1552 (which omits Introits altogether) are given only when different from 1549.

[Booty 1976]
The Book of Common Prayer, 1559: The Elizabethan Prayer Book. Edited by John E. Booty. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia for the Folger Shakespeare Library, 1976. Repr. with new foreword by Judith D. Maltby, 2005. [Publisher’s site]

Frequently referred to in the scholarly literature. Essential for its annotations, biblical index, and for Booty’s substantial essay on the history of the 1559 BCP.

[Donaldson 1954]
Donaldson, Gordon. The Making of the Scottish Prayer Book of 1637. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1954.

Includes the standard scholarly edition of the ill-fated 1637 Scottish BCP.

[Fawcett 1973]
The Liturgy of Comprehension, 1689: An Abortive Attempt to Revise the Book of Common Prayer. Edited by Timothy J. Fawcett. Alcuin Club Collections 54. Southend-on-Sea: Mayhew-McCrimmon, 1973.

Excellent edition and study of the failed revision proposed after the Glorious Revolution, which was intended to win moderate Presbyterians back to conformity.

[Directory for Public Worship 1645]
A Directory for the Publique Worship of God, throughout the Three Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland; Together with an Ordinance of Parliament for the taking away of the Book of Common-Prayer and for establishing and observing of this present Directory throughout the Kingdom of England and Dominion of Wales. London: Evan Tyler, Alexander Fifield, Ralph Smith, and John Field, 1644 [= 1645]. Complete scan: HathiTrust Digital Library (last visited March 6, 2026). HTML transcription: Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership (EEBO-TCP), University of Michigan Library (last visited March 6, 2026).

[Firth and Rait 1911]
An Ordinance for taking away the Book of Common Prayer, and for establishing and putting in execution of the Directory for the publique worship of God [January 4, 1644/5], to which is appended the text of A Directory for Publique Prayer, Reading the Holy Scriptures, Singing of Psalmes, Preaching of the Word, Administration of the Sacraments, and other parts of the Publique Worship of God, Ordinary and Extraordinary. In Acts and Ordinances of the Interregnum, 1642–1660, edited by C. H. Firth and R. S. Rait, 1:582–607. 3 vols. London: His Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1911. HTML transcription: British History Online (last visited March 6, 2026).

[Breward 1980]
The Westminster Directory, being a Directory for the Publique Worship of God in the Three Kingdomes. Edited with an introduction by Ian Breward. Grove Liturgical Studies 21. Bramcote: Grove Books, 1980.

The Directory of 1645 was not, of course, an edition of the Book of Common Prayer, but rather the framework for public worship devised by the Westminster Assembly and imposed by an act of the Long Parliament that suppressed the BCP. The original printing is available in a scan. The usual edition of reference in scholarly work is Firth and Rait 1911. Breward 1980 is a convenient student text, based on a single printed copy in the British Library.

[Grisbrooke 1958]
Grisbrooke, W. Jardine. Anglican Liturgies of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Alcuin Club Collections 40. London: SPCK, 1958.

Eucharistic texts produced by Non-Jurors and and Scottish Episcopalians. Includes a full text of the 1764 Scottish Communion Service. Excellent historical discussion and commentary.

[Wigan 1962]
The Liturgy in English. Edited by Bernard Wigan. London: Oxford University Press, 1962.

Texts of all Anglican Eucharists, plus the influential Church of South India liturgy, down to the Canadian revision of 1959.

[Marshall 1989–90]
Prayer Book Parallels: The Public Services of the Church Arranged for Comparative Study. Edited by Paul V. Marshall. 2 vols. New York: Church Hymnal Corporation, 1989–90.

All American BCP revisions down to 1972 in parallel columns, with original sources in the leftmost column, on the model of Brightman 1921.

B. Historical Studies of the Prayer Book

B-01. General Histories

[Avis 2015]
Avis, Paul. “Prayer Book Use and Conformity.” In The Oxford Handbook of Anglican Studies, edited by Mark Chapman, Sathianathan Clarke, and Martyn Percy, 125–38. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.

[Cuming 1982]
Cuming, Geoffrey J. A History of Anglican Liturgy. 2nd ed. London: Macmillan, 1982.

The indispensable standard history. Not infallible.

[Cuming 1983]
———. The Godly Order: Texts and Studies Relating to the Book of Common Prayer. Alcuin Club Collections 65. London: SPCK, 1983.

Excellent collection of articles supplementary to Cuming 1982.

[Griffiths 2002]
Griffiths, David N. The Bibliography of the Book of Common Prayer, 1549–1999. London: The British Library, 2002.

Not a bibliography of writings about the BCP, but of editions of the BCP itself published across the globe and in host of languages. An astonishing achievement of research.

[Hefling and Shattuck 2006]
Hefling, Charles, and Cynthia Shattuck, eds. The Oxford Guide to the Book of Common Prayer: A Worldwide Survey. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.

Wide-ranging collection of essays, many by eminent BCP scholars, covering the whole history and contemporary reality of Anglican worship. Uneven in quality, especially in bibliographical information; many essays skip over the traditional BCP and concentrate on recent liturgical revisions.

[Jacobs 2013]
Jacobs, Alan. The Book of Common Prayer: A Biography. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2013.

A short, lively history of the BCP; something even for experts to learn here — even if other parts of the book may irritate them. The author has a website to supplement the text: http://bookofcommonprayer.tumblr.com/

[Jasper 1989]
Jasper, R. C. D. The Development of Anglican Liturgy, 1662–1980. London: SPCK, 1989.

[Platten and Woods 2012]
Platten, Stephen, and Christopher Woods, eds. Comfortable Words: Polity and Piety and the Book of Common Prayer. SCM Studies in Liturgy and Worship. London: SCM Press, 2012.

Papers given at a conference marking the 350th anniversary of the 1662 BCP, covering the whole historical range. Brief, incisive, and helpful for recent bibliography.

B-02. The Prayer Book in the Church of England

B-02.1. Cranmer’s Liturgical Work

[Duffy 1993]
Duffy, Eamon. “Cranmer and Popular Religion.” In Thomas Cranmer: Churchman and Scholar, edited by Paul Ayris and David Selwyn, 199–215. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1993.

[Jeanes 2008]
Jeanes, Gordon. Signs of God’s Promise: Thomas Cranmer’s Sacramental Theology and the Book of Common Prayer. London: T. and T. Clark, 2008.

[MacCulloch 1996]
MacCulloch, Diarmaid. Thomas Cranmer: A Life. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1996.

[Null 2006a]
Null, Ashley. Thomas Cranmer’s Doctrine of Repentance: Renewing the Power to Love. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. → Google Books preview.

Essential in its totality. But for the BCP see especially the section “Repentance in the Liturgy,” 236–45.

[Null 2006b]
Null, Ashley. “Thomas Cranmer and the Anglican Way of Reading Scripture.” Anglican and Episcopal History 75, no. 4 (December 2006): 488–526. → JSTOR.

See esp. from p. 506 onwards, starting with the section headed “The Founding Anglican Formularies.”

[Ratcliff 1956]
Ratcliff, E. C. “The Liturgical Work of Archbishop Cranmer.” Journal of Ecclesiastical History 7 (1956): 189–203.

B-02.2. The Tudor Prayer Books

[Booty 1981]
Booty, John E. “Communion and Commonweal: The Book of Common Prayer.” In The Godly Kingdom of Tudor England: Great Books of the English Reformation, edited by John E. Booty, 139–216. Wilton, CT: Morehouse-Barlow, 1981.

[Bowers 2000]
Bowers, Roger. “The Chapel Royal, the First Edwardian Prayer Book, and Elizabeth’s Settlement of Religion, 1559.” The Historical Journal 43, no. 2 (June 2000): 317–44.

Uses musical evidence to show that at Elizabeth I’s accession the royal court assumed that the BCP of 1549, not 1552, would be restored.

B-02.3. The Grand Debate: Conformity, Puritanism, “Laudianism,” 1559–1645

[Buchanan 2009]
The Hampton Court Conference and the 1604 Book of Common Prayer. Edited by Colin Buchanan. Joint Liturgical Studies 68. London: Alcuin Club and the Group for Renewal of Worship, 2009.

[Durston 2006]
Durston, Christopher. “By the Book or With the Spirit: The Debate Over Liturgical Prayer During the English Revolution.” Historical Research 79, no. 203 (February 2006): 50–73.

[Kim 2011]
Kim, Joong-Lak. “The Scottish-English-Romish Book: The Character of the Scottish Prayer Book of 1637.” In The Experience of Revolution in Stuart Britain and Ireland: Essays for John Morrill, edited by Michael J. Braddick and David L. Smith, 14–32. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.

[Lake 1993]
Lake, Peter. “The Laudian Style: Order, Uniformity, and the Pursuit of the Beauty of Holiness in the 1630s.” In The Early Stuart Church, 1603-1642, edited by Kenneth Fincham, 161–85. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1993.

[Lane 2005]
Lane, Calvin. “The Evolution of Early Stuart Conformist Thought: The Liturgical Theology of John Donne.” Reformation and Renaissance Review 7 (2005): 223–48.

ith. “‘By this book’: Parishioners, the Prayer Book and the Established Church.” In The Early Stuart Church, 1603–1642, edited by Kenneth Fincham, 115–37. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1993.

[Maltby 1998]
Maltby, Judith. Prayer Book and People in Elizabethan and Early Stuart England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

A brilliant performance, identifying a non-Puritan, non-Laudian core of the Church of England under Elizabeth and James I that was loyal to a mainstream tradition of BCP worship.

[Maltby 2003]
Maltby, Judith. “Suffering and Surviving: The Civil Wars, the Commonwealth and the Formation of ‘Anglicanism,’ 1642–1660.” In Anglicanism and the Western Christian Tradition: Continuity, Change and the Search for Communion, edited by Stephen Platten, 122–43. Norwich: Canterbury Press, 2003.

[Maltby 2004]
Maltby, Judith. “‘The Good Old Way’: Prayer Book Protestantism in the 1640s and 1650s.” In The Church and the Book, edited by R. N. Swanson, 233–58. Studies in Church History 38. Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer for the Ecclesiastical History Society, 2004.

[McCullough 2012]
McCullough, Peter. “Absent Presence: Lancelot Andrewes and 1662.” In Comfortable Words: Polity, Piety, and the Book of Common Prayer, edited by Stephen Platten and Christopher Woods, 49–68. London: SCM Press, 2012. → Platten and Woods 2012. → Google Books full preview.

2014]
Spinks, Bryan. “Durham House and the Chapels Royal: Their Liturgical Impact on the Church of Scotland.” Scottish Journal of Theology 67 (2014): 379–99.

[Stephens 2011]
Stephens, Isaac. “Confessional Identity in Early Stuart England: The Prayer Book Puritanism of Elizabeth Isham.” Journal of British Studies 50 (2011): 24–47.

A subtle corrective/supplement to the thesis of Maltby 1998 about Prayer Book conformity: Stephens identifies a “moderate Puritan” position that conformed to the BCP without endorsing it.

[Turrell 2008]
Turrell, James F. “Uniformity and Common Prayer.” In A Companion to Richard Hooker, edited by W. J. Torrance Kirby, 337–66. Leiden: Brill, 2008. Google Books preview.

B-02.4. The 1662 Prayer Book

[Cummings 2012]
Cummings, Brian. “The 1662 Prayer Book.” In Comfortable Words: Polity and Piety and the Book of Common Prayer, edited by Stephen Platten and Christopher Woods, 98–120. London: SCM Press, 2012. → Platten and Woods 2012.

[Ratcliff 1962]
Ratcliff, E. C. “The Savoy Conference and the Revision of the Book of Common Prayer.” In From Uniformity to Unity: 1662–1962, edited by Geoffrey F. Nuttall and Owen Chadwick, 89–148. London: SPCK, 1962.

B-02.5. Non-Jurors and Non-Conformists

Cuming 1982 (under B-01 above), pp. 128–46: “Branching Off the Via Media.”

Fawcett 1973. (under A above): The failed “Liturgy of Comprehension.”

Grisbrooke 1958 (under A above): Non-Juror and Scottish Episcopalian liturgies.

Jasper 1989 (under B-01 above), chap. 2: “The Non-Jurors and Their Influence” (pp. 28–39).

B-02.6. The Long Eighteenth Century

[Gregory 2009]
Gregory, Jeremy. “‘For All Sorts and Conditions of Men’: The Social Life of the Book of Common Prayer during the Long Eighteenth Century: or, Bringing the History of Religion and Social History Together.” Social History 34 (2009): 29–54.

[Jacob 2007]
———. “Conducting Worship.” In The Clerical Profession in the Long Eighteenth Century, 1680–1840, 173–202. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.

[Jacob 2012]
Jacob, William. “Common Prayer in the Eighteenth Century.” In Comfortable Words: Polity and Piety and the Book of Common Prayer, edited by Stephen Platten and Christopher Woods, 83–97. London: SCM Press, 2012.

Jasper 1989 (under B-01 above): chap. 1 “1662 and the Eighteenth Century” (pp. 1–27).

[White 2011]
White, Laura Mooneyham. Jane Austen’s Anglicanism. Farnham: Ashgate, 2011. See esp. chap. 1: “Jane Austen’s Religious Inheritance: The Georgian Church” (pp. 9–37); and chap. 2: “Jane Austen as an Anglican and Anglicanism in the Novels” (pp. 39–73).

B-02.7. Nineteenth-Century England

[Graber 1993]
Graber, Gary W. Ritual Legislation in the Victorian Church of England: Antecedents and Passage of the Public Worship Regulation Act, 1874. San Francisco: Mellen Research University Press, 1993. (Published version of the author’s 1991 Wycliffe College, Toronto, ThD thesis.)

[Hammond 1977]
Hammond, Peter C. “The Church.” In The Parson and the Victorian Parish, 72–107. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1977.

[Jasper 1954]
Jasper, R. C. D. Prayer Book Revision in England, 1800–1900. London: SPCK, 1954.

Jasper 1989 (under B-01 above), chap. 3: “The Nineteenth Century” (pp. 40–72).

B-02.8. Revision in the Twentieth-Century Church of England

[Graber 2016]
Graber, Gary W. “Restoring Order in the Church: The Royal Commission on Ecclesiastical Discipline (1904-1906).” In Reformation Worlds: Antecedents and Legacies in the Anglican Tradition, edited by Sean A. Otto and Thomas P. Power, 163–77. Studies in Church History 13. New York: Peter Lang, 2016.

[Gray 2005]
Gray, Donald. The 1927–28 Prayer Book Crisis. Alcuin/GROW Liturgical Studies 60-61. Norwich: SCM Canterbury Press, 2005.

Jasper 1989 (under B-01 above), chap. 4: “1900–1920” and subsequent chapters (pp. 73ff.).

[Maiden 2007]
Maiden, John G. “Discipline and Comprehensiveness: The Church of England and Prayer Book Revision in the 1920s.” In Discipline and Diversity, edited by Kate Cooper and Jeremy Gregory, 377–87. Studies in Church History 43. Woodbridge: Boydell Press for the Ecclesiastical History Society, 2007.

[Maiden 2009]
Maiden, John G. National Religion and the Prayer-Book Controversy, 1927–1928. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2009.

B-03. The Prayer Book in North America

[Armitage 1922]
Armitage, W. J. The Story of the Canadian Revision of the Prayer Book. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1922.

Exhaustive account of the 1918/1922 Canadian revision. (Surprisingly long for a revision that made so few changes!)

[Blott 1998]
Blott, William R. Blessing and Glory and Thanksgiving: The Growth of a Canadian Liturgy. Toronto: Anglican Book Centre, 1998.

[Buchanan 2006]
Buchanan, Colin. “The Winds of Change.” In The Oxford Guide to the Book of Common Prayer: A Worldwide Survey, edited by Charles Hefling and Cynthia Shattuck, 229–38. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. → Hefling and Shattuck 2006.

A short account of the 1959/1962 revision of the Holy Communion. Unfortunately the only substantial published account of any aspect of this book.

[Hebb 2010]
Hebb, Ross N. “Seabury and Inglis and the 1662 Book of Common Prayer.” In Samuel Seabury and Charles Inglis: Two Bishops, Two Churches, 61–82. Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2010.

[Northup 1993]
Northup, Lesley Armstrong. The 1892 Book of Common Prayer. Lewiston: Mellen, 1993.

Important study of the American 1892 revision.

C. Studies of Liturgical Rites

C-01. Commentaries on the Whole BCP, General Overviews, Collected Studies of Various Rites

C-01.1 Commentaries on the Whole BCP

[Blunt 1899]
Blunt, John Henry, ed. The Annotated Book of Common Prayer. London: Rivingtons, 1866 (many numbered and dated editions that are really unaltered reprints) → archive.org. Rev. and enlarged ed., preface dated October 1884 → archive.org (the scan is of an 1888 reprint). Re-issue with additions and corrections, London: Longmans, Green, 1899 → Scan of 1907 repr. at archive.org. American edition of the 1884 rev. ed., with “An Introductory Notice on the American Book of Common Prayer” by Frederick Gibson, New York: Dutton, 1884 → archive.org.

Anglo-Catholic slant; some pre-critical liturgical scholarship; but often very useful. The helpful marginal scriptural references in the first edition were for some reason omitted in the 1884 revised and enlarged edition and its reprints.

[Daniel 1901]
Daniel, Evan. The Prayer-Book: Its History, Language, and Contents. 20th ed. rev. and enlarged. London: Wells, Gardner, Darton, 1901. → archive.org.

The very best one-volume commentary available. It’s the one that most often has the answer I’m looking for to a question about an individual term, concept, or reference. Excellent and thorough in its analyses of individual rites. Extremely helpful for glosses of archaic and technical vocabulary. Now somewhat dated in its historical sections, but even these have much of enduring use and value.

[Procter and Frere 1905]
Procter, Francis. A New History of the Book of Common Prayer with a Rationale of its Offices. Rev. and rewritten by W. H. Frere. 1901. 3rd impr. with corrections, London: Macmillan, 1905. (No alterations in subsequent reprints.) → archive.org.

Still extremely useful, though superseded in details.

[Shepherd 1950]
Shepherd, Massey Hamilton, Jr. The Oxford American Prayer Book Commentary. New York: Oxford University Press, 1950.

Reproduction of the 1928 American BCP (and the revised 1943 lectionary) with learned commentary on facing pages; useful for the whole BCP tradition.

C-01.2 General Overviews and Reference Works

[Clarke 1933]
Clarke, W. K. Lowther, ed. Liturgy and Worship: A Companion to the Prayer Books of the Anglican Communion. With the assistance of Charles Harris. Corr. repr. London: SPCK, 1933.

Essays by various authors on the history of the BCP and on individual rites. A collection of permanent value.

[Harford et al. 1925]
Harford, George, Morley Stevenson, and J. W. Tyrer, eds. The Prayer Book Dictionary. London: Pitman, 1912; rev. ed. 1925. → Scan of 1st ed. at archive.org.

C-01.3 Collections with Studies of Various Rites; Works on General Principles of the BCP

[Billett 2023]
Billett, Jesse D. “The Scriptural Catholicity of the Prayer Book.” Anglican Way, new ser., 2, no. 6 = Issue 6 (Advent 2023): 34–49. Magazine website (paywall). PDF download.

This article is based on a paper I gave in Savannah, Georgia, in 2018 as part of a conference of the Prayer Book Society of the USA. The published version was adapted by the editor of Anglican Way from a copy of my original script, without the benefit of some revisions that I would have wished to introduce had I realized that it was in danger of publication. An audio recording of the original paper can be heard here: https://anglicanway.org/audio-drs-joan-odonovan-george-westhaver-jesse-billet-pbs-conference-2017/.

[Brook 1965]
Brook, Stella. The Language of the Book of Common Prayer. London: Deutsch, 1965.

Illuminating study of the BCP from the perspective of linguistics and style.

[Dowden 1902]
Dowden, John. The Workmanship of the Prayer Book in its Literary and Liturgical Aspects. 2nd ed. rev. and enlarged. London: Methuen, 1902. (Later “editions” are unaltered reprints.) → archive.org.

[Dowden 1908]
———. Further Studies in the Prayer Book. London: Methuen, 1908. → archive.org.

Two very influential collections of essays on particular aspects of the Prayer Book’s rites. Still very rewarding to consult.

[Stevenson and Spinks 1991]
Stevenson, Kenneth, and Bryan Spinks, eds. The Identity of Anglican Worship. Harrisburg, PA: Morehouse Publishing, 1991.

[Wright 1989]
Wright, J. Robert. Prayer Book Spirituality. New York: Church Hymnal Corporation, 1989.

Extremely useful anthology of excerpts from “classical” Anglican writers relevant to individual rites in the BCP.

C-02. Calendar and Liturgical Year

[Cressy 2003]
Cressy, David. “God’s Time, Rome’s Time, and the Calendar of the English Protestant Regime.” Viator 34 (2003): 392–406.

C-03. Table of Lessons

[Keble 1833]
[Keble, John]. Sunday Lessons: The Principles of Selection. Tracts for the Times 13. London: Rivingtons, 1833. [Wikisource] [Internet Archive]

[Olsen 2011]
Olsen, Derek: An excellent series of blog posts on the development and principles of the Prayer Book Office lectionary:

The Daily Office Lectionary of the 1549 and 1552 BCPs (May 28, 2011)
On the 1552 Daily Office Lectionary: Further Changes (May 31, 2011)
Elizabeth’s Lectionary (June 4, 2011)
Corrections to Lectionary Posts (June 12, 2011)
Proper Lessons, 1549–1559 (June 17, 2011)
Elizabeth’s Lectionary Cont. (June 21, 2011)
Elizabeth’s Lectionary: Payoff (July 13, 2011)

[Willis 1958]
Willis, Geoffrey G. “The Historical Background of the English Lectionary of 1955.” Journal of Ecclesiastical History 9 (1958): 73–86.

C-04. Morning and Evening Prayer

[Billett 2018]
Billett, Jesse D. “A Spirituality of the Word: The Medieval Roots of Traditional Anglican Worship.” Pro Ecclesia: A Journal of Catholic and Evangelical Theology 27, no. 2 (Spring 2018): 157–79.

[Bradshaw 2013]
Bradshaw, Paul F. “The Daily Offices in the Prayer Book Tradition.” Anglican Theological Review 95 (2013): 447–60.

[Bray 2018]
Bray, Samuel L. “And (Apart from Your Grace) There Is No Health in Us.” The North American Anglican. June 18, 2018. https://northamanglican.com/and-apart-from-your-grace-there-is-no-health-in-us/

[Guiver 2001]
Guiver, George. “Company of Voices: Daily Prayer and the People of God. Rev. ed. Norwich: Canterbury Press, 2001; repr. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2008. See pp. 115–25: “After the Great Upheaval.”

[Middleton 1995]
Middleton, Arthur. Towards a Renewed Priesthood. Leominster: Gracewing, 1995. See pp. 49–64: “The Daily Office.”

[Pauley 2011]
Pauley, John-Bede. “The Monastic Quality of Anglicanism: Implications for Understanding the Anglican Patrimony.” In Anglicans and the Roman Catholic Church: Reflections on Recent Developments, edited by Stephen E. Cavanaugh, 161–83. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2011.

C-05. Collects

[Devereux 1965]
Devereux, James A. “Reformed Doctrine in the Collects of the First Book of Common Prayer.” Harvard Theological Review 58, no. 1 (1965): 49–68.

An interesting study. I took issue with a couple of its conclusions in C-01 Billett 2023.

[Dudley 1994]
The Collect in Anglican Liturgy: Texts and Sources, 1549–1980. Edited by Martin R. Dudley. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1994.

[Gray 2007]
Gray, Donald. “Cranmer and the Collects.” In The Oxford Handbook of English Literature and Theology, edited by in Andrew Hass, David Jasper, and Elisabeth Jay, 563–74. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.

[Gray 2010]
———. “The Anglican Collect.” In The Collect in the Churches of the Reformation, edited by Bridget Nichols, 50–66. London: SCM Press, 2010.

C-06. Epistles and Gospels

[Curry 1985]
Curry, David P. “Doctrinal Instrument of Salvation: The Use of Scripture in the Prayer Book Lectionary.” In The Prayer Book: A Theological Conference Held at St. Peter’s Cathedral, Charlottetown, P.E.I., June 25th–28th, 1985, 29–70. Charlottetown, PE: St. Peter’s Publications, [1985].

C-07. Holy Communion

[Billett 2022]
Billett, Jesse D. “As the Church Says or As the Bishops Do? The Prohibition of the Eucharist in Ontario During the COVID-19 Lockdown.” Anglican Way, new ser., 1, no. 1 = Issue 01 (Advent 2021 and Hilary 2022): 10–29. Magazine website (paywall). PDF download.

My own response to the shockingly ignorant theological rationale that was offered by the bishops in the Ecclesiastical Province of Ontario to justify their draconian prohibition of celebrations of the Eucharist under public health restrictions imposed by the government in March 2020. The tone is bracing to say the least, but I stand by every word of it. Although it was occasioned by the crisis of a particular historical moment, the paper necessarily explored some themes of ongoing relevance, including the continuity of Anglican approaches to “spiritual communion,” canonical discipline regarding minimum numbers of communicants at the Eucharist, and how the Prayer Book tradition treats all liturgical celebrations as, in some sense, “vicarious.”

[Buchanan 1982/2009]
Buchanan, Colin. What Did Cranmer Think He Was Doing? 2nd ed. Grove Liturgical Studies 7. Bramcote: Grove Books, 1982; repr. as a chapter in An Evangelical Among the Anglican Liturgists, 71–113. Alcuin Club Collections 84. London: SPCK, 2009.

An important and influential study explaining the development of the BCP Holy Communion between 1548 and 1552 in the light of what can be known about Cranmer’s Eucharistic theology.

[Dunbar 2011]
Dunbar, Gavin. “Like Eagles in This Life: A Theological Reflection on ‘The Order for the Administration of the Lord’s Supper or Holy Communion’ in the Prayer Books of 1559 and 1662.” In The Book of Common Prayer: Past, Present and Future; A 350th Anniversary Celebration, edited by Prudence Dailey, 85–105. London: Continuum, 2011.

[Jeanes 2008]
Jeanes, Gordon. Signs of God’s Promise: Thomas Cranmer’s Sacramental Theology and the Book of Common Prayer. London: T. and T. Clark, 2008.

[Sykes 1990]
Sykes, Stephen. “Cranmer on the open heart.” In This Sacred History, edited by D. S. Armentrout, 1–18. Cambridge, MA: Cowley Publications, 1990.

[Sykes 1995]
Sykes, Stephen. “Love Bade Me Welcome.” In Unashamed Anglicanism, 49–63. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1995.

An ingenious analysis of the celebrated poem “Love (III)” by George Herbert (1593–1633) in terms of the “two steps forward, one step back” movement of the Holy Communion in the 1559/1604 BCP.

C-07 (a). Useful Ecumenical Studies

[Gese 1981]
Gese, Hartmut. “The Origin of the Lord’s Supper.” In Essays on Biblical Theology, 117–40. Translated by Keith Crim. Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing House, 1981.

C-08. Baptism

[Cressy 1997]
Cressy, David. “Baptism as Sacrament and Drama.” In Birth, Marriage, and Death: Ritual, Religion, and the Life-Cycle in Tudor and Stuart England, 97–123. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Jeanes, Gordon. Signs of God’s Promise: Thomas Cranmer’s Sacramental Theology and the Book of Common Prayer. London: T. and T. Clark, 2008.

Jones, Simon. “‘Outward Ceremony and Honourable Badge’: The Theological Significance of the Sign of the Cross in the Baptismal Liturgies of the Church of England and Scottish Episcopal Church.” In The Serious Business of Worship: Essays in Honour of Bryan D. Spinks, edited by Melanie C. Ross and Simon Jones, 143–58. New York: T&T Clark International, 2010.

Spinks, Bryan. Reformation and Modern Rituals and Theologies of Baptism: From Luther to Contemporary Practices. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2006.

Stevenson, Kenneth. The Mystery of Baptism in the Anglican Tradition. Harrisburg, PA: Morehouse, 1998.

Sykes, Stephen. “Baptism Doth Represente Unto Us Oure Profession.” In Cranmer: A Living Influence for 500 Years, edited by Margot Johnson, 122–43. Durham: Turnstone Ventures, 1990.

C-09. Confirmation

Jeanes, Gordon. Signs of God’s Promise: Thomas Cranmer’s Sacramental Theology and the Book of Common Prayer. London: T. and T. Clark, 2008.

Spinks, Bryan. Reformation and Modern Rituals and Theologies of Baptism: From Luther to Contemporary Practices. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2006.

Stevenson, Kenneth. The Mystery of Baptism in the Anglican Tradition. Harrisburg, PA: Morehouse, 1998.

Sykes, Stephen. “Baptism Doth Represente Unto Us Oure Profession.” In Cranmer: A Living Influence for 500 Years, edited by Margot Johnson, 122–43. Durham: Turnstone Ventures, 1990.

C-10. Matrimony

Cressy, David. “Nuptial Vows.” In Birth, Marriage, and Death: Ritual, Religion, and the Life-Cycle in Tudor and Stuart England, 336–49. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Stevenson, Kenneth. “The Anglican Prayer Book Traditions, 1549–1929.” In Nuptial Blessing: A Study of Christian Marriage Rites, 134–52. Alcuin Club Collections 64. London: SPCK, 1982.

C-11. Visitation of the Sick

[Gusmer 1974]
Gusmer, Charles W. “The Prayer Book and Healing.” In The Ministry of Healing in the Church of England: An Ecumenical-Liturgical Study, 60–90. Alcuin Club Collections 56. Great Wakering: Mayhew-McCrimmon, 1974.

Highly critical of the BCP rites for Visitation of the Sick. Proposes new directions based on then-current liturgical thought and clinical practice.

C-12. Burial

Cressy, David. “Ritual and Reformation.” In Birth, Marriage, and Death: Ritual, Religion, and the Life-Cycle in Tudor and Stuart England, 396–429. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Keble, John. “On the Burial Office.” In Letters of Spiritual Counsel and Guidance, 223–32. Edited by R. F. Wilson. 2nd ed. Oxford: Parker, 1870.

Rowell, Geoffrey. “Reformation and Post-Reformation Rites.” In The Liturgy of Christian Burial: An Introductory Survey of the Historical Development of Christian Burial Rites, 74–98. Alcuin Club Collections 59. London: SPCK, 1977.

[Wolffe 2000]
Wolffe, John. Great Deaths: Grieving, Religion, and Nationhood in Victorian and Edwardian Britain. Oxford: Oxford Univeristy Press for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2000.

C-13. Churching of Women

Cressy, David. “Purification, Thanksgiving and the Churching of Women in Post-Reformation England.” Past and Present 141 (1993): 106–46.

Ray, Donna F. “A View from the Childwife’s Pew: The Development of Rites around Childbirth in the Anglican Communion.” Anglican and Episcopal History 69 (2009): 443–73.

C-14. Commination Service

Beadle, Liam. “No Imposition: The Commination and Lent.” Faith & Worship 82 (Lent 2018): 16–30. Journal website (open access).

Bray, Samuel L. “Ashes in a Time of Plague.” The North American Anglican. January 6, 2021. https://northamanglican.com/ashes-in-a-time-of-plague/.

Martin, Donald Jay. “Ash Wednesday in Tudor England: A Study of Liturgical Revision in Context.” PhD diss., University of Notre Dame, 1978.

Maurice, Frederick Denison. “Commination Service.” In The Church a Family: Twelve Sermons on the Occasional Services of the Prayer-Book, 192–211. London: Parker, 1850. archive.org.

Stevenson, Kenneth W. Worship: Wonderful and Sacred Mystery. Washington, DC: Pastoral Press, 1992. See pp. 159–87: “The Origins and Development of Ash Wednesday.”

C-15. Ordinal

Bradshaw, Paul F. The Anglican Ordinal: Its History and Development from the Reformation to the Present Day. Alcuin Club Collections 53. London: SPCK, 1971.

Bradshaw, Paul F. “Ordinals.” In The Study of Anglicanism, edited by Stephen Sykes, John Booty, and Jonathan Knight, 155–65. Rev. ed. London: SPCK, 1998.

C-16. State Services

Lacey, Andrew. “The Office for King Charles the Martyr in the Book of Common Prayer, 1662–1685.” Journal of Ecclesiastical History 53, no. 3 (July 2002): 510–26. DOI: 10.1017/S0022046901008740 (as of 2026-01-23, leads to an error page). PDF download made available by the author at academia.edu.

D. Combined Bibliography in Author/Date Order

Reformatting in progress (2026-04-02). Apologies for the absence of italicized titles, functional links, etc.

[Armitage 1922]
Armitage, W. J. The Story of the Canadian Revision of the Prayer Book. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1922.

[Avis 2015]
Avis, Paul. “Prayer Book Use and Conformity.” In The Oxford Handbook of Anglican Studies, edited by Mark Chapman, Sathianathan Clarke, and Martyn Percy, 125–38. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.

[Beadle 2018]
Beadle, Liam. “No Imposition: The Commination and Lent.” Faith & Worship 82 (Lent 2018): 16–30. Journal website (open access).

[Billett 2018]
Billett, Jesse D. “A Spirituality of the Word: The Medieval Roots of Traditional Anglican Worship.” Pro Ecclesia: A Journal of Catholic and Evangelical Theology 27, no. 2 (Spring 2018): 157–79.

[Billett 2022]
Billett, Jesse D. “As the Church Says or As the Bishops Do? The Prohibition of the Eucharist in Ontario During the COVID-19 Lockdown.” Anglican Way, new ser., 1, no. 1 = Issue 01 (Advent 2021 and Hilary 2022): 10–29. Magazine website (paywall).

[Billett 2023]
Billett, Jesse D. “The Scriptural Catholicity of the Prayer Book.” Anglican Way, new ser., 2, no. 6 = Issue 6 (Advent 2023): 34–49. Magazine website (paywall).

[Blott 1998]
Blott, William R. Blessing and Glory and Thanksgiving: The Growth of a Canadian Liturgy. Toronto: Anglican Book Centre, 1998.

[Blunt 1899]
Blunt, John Henry, ed. The Annotated Book of Common Prayer. London: Rivingtons, 1866 (many numbered and dated editions that are really unaltered reprints) → archive.org. Rev. and enlarged ed., preface dated October 1884 → archive.org (the scan is of an 1888 reprint). Re-issue with additions and corrections, London: Longmans, Green, 1899 → Scan of 1907 repr. at archive.org. American edition of the 1884 rev. ed., with “An Introductory Notice on the American Book of Common Prayer” by Frederick Gibson, New York: Dutton, 1884 → archive.org.

[Booty 1976]
The Book of Common Prayer, 1559: The Elizabethan Prayer Book. Edited by John E. Booty. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia for the Folger Shakespeare Library, 1976. Repr. with new foreword by Judith D. Maltby, 2005. [Publisher’s site]

[Booty 1981]
Booty, John E. “Communion and Commonweal: The Book of Common Prayer.” In The Godly Kingdom of Tudor England: Great Books of the English Reformation, edited by John E. Booty, 139–216. Wilton, CT: Morehouse-Barlow, 1981.

[Bowers 2000]
Bowers, Roger. “The Chapel Royal, the First Edwardian Prayer Book, and Elizabeth’s Settlement of Religion, 1559.” The Historical Journal 43, no. 2 (June 2000): 317–44.

[Bradshaw 1971]
Bradshaw, Paul F. The Anglican Ordinal: Its History and Development from the Reformation to the Present Day. Alcuin Club Collections 53. London: SPCK, 1971.

[Bradshaw 1998]
Bradshaw, Paul F. “Ordinals.” In The Study of Anglicanism, edited by Stephen Sykes, John Booty, and Jonathan Knight, 155–65. Rev. ed. London: SPCK, 1998.

[Bradshaw 2013]
Bradshaw, Paul F. “The Daily Offices in the Prayer Book Tradition.” Anglican Theological Review 95 (2013): 447–60.

[Bray 2018]
Bray, Samuel L. “And (Apart from Your Grace) There Is No Health in Us.” The North American Anglican. June 18, 2018. https://northamanglican.com/and-apart-from-your-grace-there-is-no-health-in-us/

[Bray 2021]
Bray, Samuel L. “Ashes in a Time of Plague.” The North American Anglican. January 6, 2021. https://northamanglican.com/ashes-in-a-time-of-plague/.

[Breward 1980]
The Westminster Directory, being a Directory for the Publique Worship of God in the Three Kingdomes. Edited with an introduction by Ian Breward. Grove Liturgical Studies 21. Bramcote: Grove Books, 1980.

[Brightman 1921]
The English Rite. Edited by F. E. Brightman. 2 vols. London: Rivingtons, 1915. Rev. ed., 1921. Facsimile repr. Farnborough: Gregg, 1970.

[Brook 1965]
Brook, Stella. The Language of the Book of Common Prayer. London: Deutsch, 1965.

[Buchanan 1982/2009]
Buchanan, Colin. What Did Cranmer Think He Was Doing? 2nd ed. Grove Liturgical Studies 7. Bramcote: Grove Books, 1982; repr. as a chapter in An Evangelical Among the Anglican Liturgists, 71–113. Alcuin Club Collections 84. London: SPCK, 2009.

[Buchanan 1993]
Buchanan, Colin. “Confirmation.” In Growing in Newness of Life: Christian Initiation in Anglicanism Today, edited by David R. Holeton, 104–26. Toronto: Anglican Book Centre, 1993.

[Buchanan 2006]
Buchanan, Colin. “The Winds of Change.” In The Oxford Guide to the Book of Common Prayer: A Worldwide Survey, edited by Charles Hefling and Cynthia Shattuck, 229–38. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. → Hefling and Shattuck 2006.

[Buchanan 2009]
The Hampton Court Conference and the 1604 Book of Common Prayer. Edited by Colin Buchanan. Joint Liturgical Studies 68. London: Alcuin Club and the Group for Renewal of Worship, 2009.

[Clarke 1933]
Clarke, W. K. Lowther, ed. Liturgy and Worship: A Companion to the Prayer Books of the Anglican Communion. With the assistance of Charles Harris. Corr. repr. London: SPCK, 1933.

[Cressy 1993]
Cressy, David. “Purification, Thanksgiving and the Churching of Women in Post-Reformation England.” Past and Present 141 (1993): 106–46.

[Cressy 1997]
Cressy, David. Birth, Marriage, and Death: Ritual, Religion, and the Life-Cycle in Tudor and Stuart England. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.

[Cressy 2003]
Cressy, David. “God’s Time, Rome’s Time, and the Calendar of the English Protestant Regime.” Viator 34 (2003): 392–406.

[Cuming 1982]
Cuming, Geoffrey J. A History of Anglican Liturgy. 2nd ed. London: Macmillan, 1982.

[Cuming 1983]
Cuming, Geoffrey J. The Godly Order: Texts and Studies Relating to the Book of Common Prayer. Alcuin Club Collections 65. London: SPCK, 1983.

[Cummings 2011]
The Book of Common Prayer: The Texts of 1549, 1559, and 1662. Edited by Brian Cummings. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.

[Cummings 2012]
Cummings, Brian. “The 1662 Prayer Book.” In Comfortable Words: Polity and Piety and the Book of Common Prayer, edited by Stephen Platten and Christopher Woods, 98–120. London: SCM Press, 2012. → Platten and Woods 2012.

[Curry 1985]
Curry, David P. “Doctrinal Instrument of Salvation: The Use of Scripture in the Prayer Book Lectionary.” In The Prayer Book: A Theological Conference Held at St. Peter’s Cathedral, Charlottetown, P.E.I., June 25th–28th, 1985, 29–70. Charlottetown, PE: St. Peter’s Publications, [1985].

[Daniel 1901]
Daniel, Evan. The Prayer-Book: Its History, Language, and Contents. 20th ed. rev. and enlarged. London: Wells, Gardner, Darton, 1901. → archive.org.

[Devereux 1965]
Devereux, James A. “Reformed Doctrine in the Collects of the First Book of Common Prayer.” Harvard Theological Review 58, no. 1 (1965): 49–68.

[Directory for Public Worship 1645]
A Directory for the Publique Worship of God, throughout the Three Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland; Together with an Ordinance of Parliament for the taking away of the Book of Common-Prayer and for establishing and observing of this present Directory throughout the Kingdom of England and Dominion of Wales. London: Evan Tyler, Alexander Fifield, Ralph Smith, and John Field, 1644 [= 1645]. Complete scan: HathiTrust Digital Library (last visited March 6, 2026). HTML transcription: Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership (EEBO-TCP), University of Michigan Library (last visited March 6, 2026).

[Donaldson 1954]
Donaldson, Gordon. The Making of the Scottish Prayer Book of 1637. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1954.

[Dowden 1902]
Dowden, John. The Workmanship of the Prayer Book in its Literary and Liturgical Aspects. 2nd ed. rev. and enlarged. London: Methuen, 1902. (Later “editions” are unaltered reprints.) → archive.org.

[Dowden 1908]
Dowden, John. Further Studies in the Prayer Book. London: Methuen, 1908. → archive.org.

[Dudley 1994]
The Collect in Anglican Liturgy: Texts and Sources, 1549–1980. Edited by Martin R. Dudley. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1994.

[Duffy 1993]
Duffy, Eamon. “Cranmer and Popular Religion.” In Thomas Cranmer: Churchman and Scholar, edited by Paul Ayris and David Selwyn, 199–215. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1993.

[Dunbar 2011]
Dunbar, Gavin. “Like Eagles in This Life: A Theological Reflection on ‘The Order for the Administration of the Lord’s Supper or Holy Communion’ in the Prayer Books of 1559 and 1662.” In The Book of Common Prayer: Past, Present and Future; A 350th Anniversary Celebration, edited by Prudence Dailey, 85–105. London: Continuum, 2011.

[Durston 2006]
Durston, Christopher. “By the Book or With the Spirit: The Debate Over Liturgical Prayer During the English Revolution.” Historical Research 79, no. 203 (February 2006): 50–73.

[Fawcett 1973]
The Liturgy of Comprehension, 1689: An Abortive Attempt to Revise the Book of Common Prayer. Edited by Timothy J. Fawcett. Alcuin Club Collections 54. Southend-on-Sea: Mayhew-McCrimmon, 1973.

[Firth and Rait 1911]
An Ordinance for taking away the Book of Common Prayer, and for establishing and putting in execution of the Directory for the publique worship of God [January 4, 1644/5], to which is appended the text of A Directory for Publique Prayer, Reading the Holy Scriptures, Singing of Psalmes, Preaching of the Word, Administration of the Sacraments, and other parts of the Publique Worship of God, Ordinary and Extraordinary. In Acts and Ordinances of the Interregnum, 1642–1660, edited by C. H. Firth and R. S. Rait, 1:582–607. 3 vols. London: His Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1911. HTML transcription: British History Online (last visited March 6, 2026).

[Gese 1981]
Gese, Hartmut. “The Origin of the Lord’s Supper.” In Essays on Biblical Theology, 117–40. Translated by Keith Crim. Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing House, 1981.

[Gibson 1910]
The First and Second Prayer-Books of King Edward the Sixth. Introduction by by E. C. S. G[ibson]. Everyman’s Library 448. London: Dent, 1910.

[Graber 1993]
Graber, Gary W. Ritual Legislation in the Victorian Church of England: Antecedents and Passage of the Public Worship Regulation Act, 1874. San Francisco: Mellen Research University Press, 1993. (Published version of the author’s 1991 Wycliffe College, Toronto, ThD thesis.)

[Graber 2016]
Graber, Gary W. “Restoring Order in the Church: The Royal Commission on Ecclesiastical Discipline (1904-1906).” In Reformation Worlds: Antecedents and Legacies in the Anglican Tradition, edited by Sean A. Otto and Thomas P. Power, 163–77. Studies in Church History 13. New York: Peter Lang, 2016.

[Gray 2005]
Gray, Donald. The 1927–28 Prayer Book Crisis. Alcuin/GROW Liturgical Studies 60-61. Norwich: SCM Canterbury Press, 2005.

[Gray 2007]
Gray, Donald. “Cranmer and the Collects.” In The Oxford Handbook of English Literature and Theology, edited by in Andrew Hass, David Jasper, and Elisabeth Jay, 563–74. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.

[Gray 2010]
Gray, Donald. “The Anglican Collect.” In The Collect in the Churches of the Reformation, edited by Bridget Nichols, 50–66. London: SCM Press, 2010.

[Griffiths 2002]
Griffiths, David N. The Bibliography of the Book of Common Prayer, 1549–1999. London: The British Library, 2002.

[Grisbrooke 1958]
Grisbrooke, W. Jardine. Anglican Liturgies of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Alcuin Club Collections 40. London: SPCK, 1958.

[Guiver 2001]
Guiver, George. “Company of Voices: Daily Prayer and the People of God. Rev. ed. Norwich: Canterbury Press, 2001; repr. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2008.

[Gusmer 1974]
Gusmer, Charles W. “The Prayer Book and Healing.” In The Ministry of Healing in the Church of England: An Ecumenical-Liturgical Study, 60–90. Alcuin Club Collections 56. Great Wakering: Mayhew-McCrimmon, 1974.

[Hammond 1977]
Hammond, Peter C. “The Church.” In The Parson and the Victorian Parish, 72–107. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1977.

[Harford et al. 1925]
Harford, George, Morley Stevenson, and J. W. Tyrer, eds. The Prayer Book Dictionary. London: Pitman, 1912; rev. ed. 1925. → Scan of 1st ed. at archive.org.

[Hebb 2010]
Hebb, Ross N. “Seabury and Inglis and the 1662 Book of Common Prayer.” In Samuel Seabury and Charles Inglis: Two Bishops, Two Churches, 61–82. Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2010.

[Hefling and Shattuck 2006]
Hefling, Charles, and Cynthia Shattuck, eds. The Oxford Guide to the Book of Common Prayer: A Worldwide Survey. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.

[Jacob 2007]
Jacob, William. “Conducting Worship.” In The Clerical Profession in the Long Eighteenth Century, 1680–1840, 173–202. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.

[Jacob 2012]
Jacob, William. “Common Prayer in the Eighteenth Century.” In Comfortable Words: Polity and Piety and the Book of Common Prayer, edited by Stephen Platten and Christopher Woods, 83–97. London: SCM Press, 2012.

[Jacobs 2013]
Jacobs, Alan. The Book of Common Prayer: A Biography. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2013.

[Jasper 1954]
Jasper, R. C. D. Prayer Book Revision in England, 1800–1900. London: SPCK, 1954.

[Jasper 1989]
Jasper, R. C. D. The Development of Anglican Liturgy, 1662–1980. London: SPCK, 1989.

[Jeanes 2008]
Jeanes, Gordon. Signs of God’s Promise: Thomas Cranmer’s Sacramental Theology and the Book of Common Prayer. London: T. and T. Clark, 2008.

[Jones 2010]
Jones, Simon. “‘Outward Ceremony and Honourable Badge’: The Theological Significance of the Sign of the Cross in the Baptismal Liturgies of the Church of England and Scottish Episcopal Church.” In The Serious Business of Worship: Essays in Honour of Bryan D. Spinks, edited by Melanie C. Ross and Simon Jones, 143–58. New York: T&T Clark International, 2010.

[Keble 1833]
[Keble, John]. Sunday Lessons: The Principles of Selection. Tracts for the Times 13. London: Rivingtons, 1833. [Wikisource] [Internet Archive]

[Keble 1870]
Keble, John. “On the Burial Office.” In Letters of Spiritual Counsel and Guidance, 223–32. Edited by R. F. Wilson. 2nd ed. Oxford: Parker, 1870.

[Kim 2011]
Kim, Joong-Lak. “The Scottish-English-Romish Book: The Character of the Scottish Prayer Book of 1637.” In The Experience of Revolution in Stuart Britain and Ireland: Essays for John Morrill, edited by Michael J. Braddick and David L. Smith, 14–32. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.

[Lacey 2002]
Lacey, Andrew. “The Office for King Charles the Martyr in the Book of Common Prayer, 1662–1685.” Journal of Ecclesiastical History 53, no. 3 (July 2002): 510–26. DOI: 10.1017/S0022046901008740 (as of 2026-01-23, leads to an error page). PDF download made available by the author at academia.edu.

[Lake 1993]
Lake, Peter. “The Laudian Style: Order, Uniformity, and the Pursuit of the Beauty of Holiness in the 1630s.” In The Early Stuart Church, 1603-1642, edited by Kenneth Fincham, 161–85. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1993.

[Lane 2005]
Lane, Calvin. “The Evolution of Early Stuart Conformist Thought: The Liturgical Theology of John Donne.” Reformation and Renaissance Review 7 (2005): 223–48.

[MacCulloch 1996]
MacCulloch, Diarmaid. Thomas Cranmer: A Life. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1996.

[Maiden 2007]
Maiden, John G. “Discipline and Comprehensiveness: The Church of England and Prayer Book Revision in the 1920s.” In Discipline and Diversity, edited by Kate Cooper and Jeremy Gregory, 377–87. Studies in Church History 43. Woodbridge: Boydell Press for the Ecclesiastical History Society, 2007.

[Maiden 2009]
Maiden, John G. National Religion and the Prayer-Book Controversy, 1927–1928. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2009.

[Maltby 1993]
Maltby, Judith. “‘By this book’: Parishioners, the Prayer Book and the Established Church.” In The Early Stuart Church, 1603–1642, edited by Kenneth Fincham, 115–37. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1993.

[Maltby 1998]
Maltby, Judith. Prayer Book and People in Elizabethan and Early Stuart England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

[Maltby 2003]
Maltby, Judith. “Suffering and Surviving: The Civil Wars, the Commonwealth and the Formation of ‘Anglicanism,’ 1642–1660.” In Anglicanism and the Western Christian Tradition: Continuity, Change and the Search for Communion, edited by Stephen Platten, 122–43. Norwich: Canterbury Press, 2003.

[Maltby 2004]
Maltby, Judith. “‘The Good Old Way’: Prayer Book Protestantism in the 1640s and 1650s.” In The Church and the Book, edited by R. N. Swanson, 233–58. Studies in Church History 38. Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer for the Ecclesiastical History Society, 2004.

[Marshall 1989–90]
Prayer Book Parallels: The Public Services of the Church Arranged for Comparative Study. Edited by Paul V. Marshall. 2 vols. New York: Church Hymnal Corporation, 1989–90.

[Martin 1978]
Martin, Donald Jay. “Ash Wednesday in Tudor England: A Study of Liturgical Revision in Context.” PhD diss., University of Notre Dame, 1978.

[Maurice 1850]
Maurice, Frederick Denison. “Commination Service.” In The Church a Family: Twelve Sermons on the Occasional Services of the Prayer-Book, 192–211. London: Parker, 1850. archive.org.

[McCullough 2012]
McCullough, Peter. “Absent Presence: Lancelot Andrewes and 1662.” In Comfortable Words: Polity, Piety, and the Book of Common Prayer, edited by Stephen Platten and Christopher Woods, 49–68. London: SCM Press, 2012. → Platten and Woods 2012. → Google Books full preview.

[Middleton 1995]
Middleton, Arthur. Towards a Renewed Priesthood. Leominster: Gracewing, 1995.

[Northup 1993]
Northup, Lesley Armstrong. The 1892 Book of Common Prayer. Lewiston: Mellen, 1993.

[Null 2006a]
Null, Ashley. Thomas Cranmer’s Doctrine of Repentance: Renewing the Power to Love. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. → Google Books preview.

[Null 2006b]
Null, Ashley. “Thomas Cranmer and the Anglican Way of Reading Scripture.” Anglican and Episcopal History 75, no. 4 (December 2006): 488–526. → JSTOR.

[Olsen 2011]
Olsen, Derek: An excellent series of blog posts on the development and principles of the Prayer Book Office lectionary:
* The Daily Office Lectionary of the 1549 and 1552 BCPs (May 28, 2011)
* On the 1552 Daily Office Lectionary: Further Changes (May 31, 2011)
* Elizabeth’s Lectionary (June 4, 2011)
* Corrections to Lectionary Posts (June 12, 2011)
* Proper Lessons, 1549–1559 (June 17, 2011)
* Elizabeth’s Lectionary Cont. (June 21, 2011)
* Elizabeth’s Lectionary: Payoff (July 13, 2011)

[Pauley 2011]
Pauley, John-Bede. “The Monastic Quality of Anglicanism: Implications for Understanding the Anglican Patrimony.” In Anglicans and the Roman Catholic Church: Reflections on Recent Developments, edited by Stephen E. Cavanaugh, 161–83. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2011.

[Platten and Woods 2012]
Platten, Stephen, and Christopher Woods, eds. Comfortable Words: Polity and Piety and the Book of Common Prayer. SCM Studies in Liturgy and Worship. London: SCM Press, 2012.

[Procter and Frere 1905]
Procter, Francis. A New History of the Book of Common Prayer with a Rationale of its Offices. Rev. and rewritten by W. H. Frere. 1901. 3rd impr. with corrections, London: Macmillan, 1905. (No alterations in subsequent reprints.) → archive.org.

[Ratcliff 1956]
Ratcliff, E. C. “The Liturgical Work of Archbishop Cranmer.” Journal of Ecclesiastical History 7 (1956): 189–203.

[Ratcliff 1962]
Ratcliff, E. C. “The Savoy Conference and the Revision of the Book of Common Prayer.” In From Uniformity to Unity: 1662–1962, edited by Geoffrey F. Nuttall and Owen Chadwick, 89–148. London: SPCK, 1962.

[Ray 2009]
Ray, Donna F. “A View from the Childwife’s Pew: The Development of Rites around Childbirth in the Anglican Communion.” Anglican and Episcopal History 69 (2009): 443–73.

[Rowell 1977]
Rowell, Geoffrey. “Reformation and Post-Reformation Rites.” In The Liturgy of Christian Burial: An Introductory Survey of the Historical Development of Christian Burial Rites, 74–98. Alcuin Club Collections 59. London: SPCK, 1977.

[Shepherd 1950]
Shepherd, Massey Hamilton, Jr. The Oxford American Prayer Book Commentary. New York: Oxford University Press, 1950.

[Spinks 2006]
Spinks, Bryan. Reformation and Modern Rituals and Theologies of Baptism: From Luther to Contemporary Practices. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2006.

[Spinks 2012]
Spinks, Bryan D. “The Transition from ‘Excellent Liturgy’ to Being ‘Too Narrow for the Religious Life of the Present Generation’: The Book of Common Prayer in the Nineteenth Century.” In Comfortable Words: Polity and Piety and the Book of Common Prayer, edited by Stephen Platten and Christopher Woods, 98–120. London: SCM Press, 2012. → Platten and Woods 2012.

[Spinks 2014]
Spinks, Bryan. “Durham House and the Chapels Royal: Their Liturgical Impact on the Church of Scotland.” Scottish Journal of Theology 67 (2014): 379–99.

[Stephens 2011]
Stephens, Isaac. “Confessional Identity in Early Stuart England: The Prayer Book Puritanism of Elizabeth Isham.” Journal of British Studies 50 (2011): 24–47.

[Stevenson 1982]
Stevenson, Kenneth. “The Anglican Prayer Book Traditions, 1549–1929.” In Nuptial Blessing: A Study of Christian Marriage Rites, 134–52. Alcuin Club Collections 64. London: SPCK, 1982.

[Stevenson 1992]
Stevenson, Kenneth W. Worship: Wonderful and Sacred Mystery. Washington, DC: Pastoral Press, 1992.

[Stevenson 1998]
Stevenson, Kenneth. The Mystery of Baptism in the Anglican Tradition. Harrisburg, PA: Morehouse, 1998.

[Stevenson and Spinks 1991]
Stevenson, Kenneth, and Bryan Spinks, eds. The Identity of Anglican Worship. Harrisburg, PA: Morehouse Publishing, 1991.

[Sweeney 2010]
Sweeney, Sylvia A. An Ecofeminist Perspective on Ash Wednesday and Lent. New York: Peter Lang, 2010.

[Sykes 1990]
Sykes, Stephen. “Baptism Doth Represente Unto Us Oure Profession.” In Cranmer: A Living Influence for 500 Years, edited by Margot Johnson, 122–43. Durham: Turnstone Ventures, 1990.

[Sykes 1990]
Sykes, Stephen. “Cranmer on the open heart.” In This Sacred History, edited by D. S. Armentrout, 1–18. Cambridge, MA: Cowley Publications, 1990.

[Sykes 1995]
Sykes, Stephen. “Love Bade Me Welcome.” In Unashamed Anglicanism, 49–63. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1995.

[Turrell 2005]
Turrell, James F. “‘Until Such Time As He Be Confirmed’: The Laudians and Confirmation in the Seventeenth-Century Church of England.” The Seventeenth Century 20 (2005): 204–22.

[Turrell 2008]
Turrell, James F. “Uniformity and Common Prayer.” In A Companion to Richard Hooker, edited by W. J. Torrance Kirby, 337–66. Leiden: Brill, 2008. Google Books preview.

[White 2011]
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Medieval and Anglican Liturgy

by Jesse D. Billett

Bibliography for Students of the Book of Common Prayer

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