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also taken place so late as A. D. 1841, at the consecration of Wilmcote Chapel, Warwickshire, the Bishop of Worcester taking part in it; the same year at Leeds, the Archbishop of York and bishop of the diocese, the Bishops of Ross, Argyle, and New Jersey taking part in it; also in A. D. 1842, at the consecration of the Church of the Holy Cross, Leeds; a. D. 1843, at St. James's Church, Enfield; "in 1845, at the installation of the Bishop of Fredericton, the bishop in his episcopal robes, with his crozier borne before him;" in 1850, at the consecration of the Church of St. Barnabas, Pimlico, many of the clergy of the diocese of London attending; and on the Feast of St. Andrew, from the school-house to the Church of St. Andrew in Wells-street.

I have now, in a rapid manner, glanced at the ceremonial of the Church, and shown that it is not only in her written and unwritten. laws ordered, but that from the Reformation, even down to the present day, her ceremonial

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is grand and imposing, and that those priests and laymen who practise more than is ordered are retarding the full return to rubrical and ceremonial exactness so much to be desired, being guilty equally of breaking her commands, which are not grievous, as are those who refuse to obey them altogether.

The following are the chief works from which

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Beauty of Holiness. Dr. Bisse.

Siege of Lichfield. Gresley.

A. Knox's Remains.

Archbishop Cranmer's Defence against
Gardiner.

Laud's Conference with Fisher.

Todd's Life of Cranmer.

Brogden's Safeguards.

Canons.

St. Chrysostom.

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