Layman Edward Stephens published a book in 1696 that spurred a movement of suggested revisions to the Church of England's legally mandated liturgy, the 1662 Book of Common Prayer. The movement's proposals generally sought to "shorten and unify the service". Inspired by Stephens, William Whiston forwarded his own more unorthodox revisions in 1713, part of a trend that saw such proposals increasingly alter the Anglican prayer book in accordance with Arian and Unitarians theologies. However, these early revisions ultimately had little influence on later Nonconformist liturgies. However, a set of Unitarian prayer book revisions by Samuel Clarke which were edited and published after his death by Theophilus Lindsey would heavily influence over a third of all English Dissenters liturgies for 80 years.
English Unitarian attempts to revise the Anglican prayer book continued into the 19th century. Lindsey's editions in particular remained a dominant influence in English Unitarian service books. However, some Unitarian liturgies – including John Prior Estlin's 1814 General Prayer-Book – were derived from the 1662 prayer book independent of Lindsey's work. Despite their departure from Trinitarian orthodoxy, English Unitarian revisions often featured only conservative changes in hopes of limiting division between Unitarians and the Church of England. In 1861, Thomas Sadler and James Martineau published Common Prayer for Christian Worship, initiating a departure from utilizing the Anglican prayer book as the basis of English Unitarian worship. However, some Anglican influences survived within Sadler and Martineau's text and five of the 40 English Unitarian liturgical books published from 1861 until the middle of the next century were derived from the Anglican prayer book.
At age 24, Freeman pressed King's Chapel to adopt a revised prayer book. On 20 February 1785, the proprietors voted to create a committee composed of seven men to report on Freeman's alterations. Drawing upon Clarke and Lindsey's work, Freeman worked with Hazlitt on a prayer book which was then put to a vote by the proprietor's of King's Chapel. Freeman wrote to his father before the vote, saying that he was optimistic that he had the necessary support but would resign from his position as pastor should the prayer book vote fail. On 19 June, Freeman's prayer book was adopted by a 20–7 majority. "Thus," Francis William Pitt Greenwood said in his sermon at Freeman's funeral, "the first Episcopal church in New England became the first Unitarian church in the New World."
The 1785 prayer book's preface held that "no Christian, it is supposed, can take offence at, or find his conscience wounded" by the King's Chapel liturgy, and that "the Trinitarian, the Unitarian, the Calvinist, and the Arminian will read nothing in it which can give him any reasonable umbrage." Despite this, there was dissent and controversy over the liturgy's publication. With Freeman still not ordained, he applied for ordination in the new Anglican Episcopal Church in 1786. This application was rejected by Bishops Samuel Seabury and Samuel Provoost after Freeman refused to assent to the Episcopalians' own prayer book and the Trinitarian theology within it.
The congregation decided to ordain Freeman themselves, devising and performing their own "solemn and appropriate form" in November 1787, with the senior churchwarden performing the laying on of hands on Freeman. This event ended King's Chapel's association with the Episcopal Church. Samuel J. May wrote that Freeman was isolated during his early ministry through his exclusion from the Episcopal Church and poor integration with nearby Congregationalist ministers who were "embarrassed" by Freeman's use of a prayer book and liturgies. Freeman retired from ministry in 1826.
Under the guidance of assistant minister Samuel Cary, a second edition of the liturgy was published in 1811 which included services from other congregations and reintroduced prayers removed in the 1785 edition. Greenwood oversaw three revisions between 1828 and 1841, which sought to improve the prayer book's private devotional functionality and introduced over 100 hymns to the psalter. Theses additions were subsequently removed in the 1918 sixth edition by senior minister Howard N. Brown. This version would remain largely unchanged through 1980, though minister Joseph Barth introduced services from 1955 to 1965 which were likely influenced by his Catholic upbringing. The congregation also borrowed liturgical concepts from the Catholic Church's Second Vatican Council reforms.
Many Unitarian revisions of the Anglican prayer book drew upon Lindsey's editions, mirroring the 1662 prayer book's structure if not always its verbiage. The English Unitarian revisions of the period from 1774 until 1851 demonstrated little evidence that their compilers were learned in liturgics, though their Unitarian theology was strongly expressed. A commonality among Unitarian liturgical texts was their Communion offices which expressed an extreme sacramentarian or memorialist theology of the Eucharist.
Clarke's 1724 manuscript of alterations to the 1662 prayer book were generally Unitarian and Nontrinitarian, with all Trinitarian formulae modified or removed. Clarke made these alterations with a pen within his personal copy of the prayer book. The alterations including deleting the Gloria Patri and replacing it with his own doxology that only addressed God the Father. He also rewrote portions of the Litany to direct prayers away from the Holy Spirit towards the Father. The Nicene Creed was replaced with a psalm; the Athanasian Creed was removed. Clarke first proposed his alterations to the baptism office in 1712, leaving the sign of the cross as an option and introducing the 1689 Liturgy of Comprehension's permission that parents might serve as sponsors.
Clarke's ordinal deleted Trinitarian references at the conclusion of prayers. He also adjusted the formulae for the ordinations of priests and bishops, changing the impositions of hands to prayers. The hymn "Come Holy Ghost" in the ordination of priests was supplanted with a psalm, while the wording in the consecratory rite for the episcopate of "fall to Prayer" was made "offer up our Prayers".
Lindsey's 1774 prayer book, which incorporated both his own and Clarke's alterations to the 1662 prayer book, was tonally Unitarian with some Puritan influence. In order to prevent the interpretation that a priest could forgive sins, the absolution at both Mattins and Evensong are both replaced with the Collect for Purity and the Communion office is rewritten as a prayer for God's forgiveness. The Te Deum, Benedicite, Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis were all removed. Additionally, the prefaces, Athanasian Creed, catechism, ordinal, and some collects were removed. The virgin birth of Jesus was rejected as "unhistorical" and Satan no longer mentioned within the Litany. Like Clarke, Lindsey presumed that ante-Nicene Christians subscribed to Unitarian views, thus preserving the Apostles' Creed in this revision. However, Lindsey eventually removed the Apostles' Creed from his church services in 1789.
Lindsey's prayer book emphasized the Daily Office, drawing upon medieval Catholic practices and establishing non-Eucharistic offices as the norm for Unitarian worship. The Communion office—sans the Prayer of Humble Access, Lord's Prayer, and Prayer of Thanksgiving—was always led by Mattins. Lindsey similarly removed references to sacrifice and the Second Coming. Offices for private baptism, the "Baptism of those of Riper Years", and confirmation were removed and the matrimonial office altered to included a longer exhortation. Some psalms were excised, with Isaac Watts writing most of the 131 hymns and metrical psalms which were added.
While Lindsey's omissions were extensive, they were not entirely unusual among contemporary prayer book abridgments. It was not uncommon for 18th-century English printers trying to keep expenses down to delete material not conducive to devotional usage. Additionally, some of the material removed in the original 1774 revised prayer book were reintroduced in Lindsey's later editions, including within the 1791 edition that brought back offices for adult baptism and ordination as well as a catechism.
The first edition of the King's Chapel liturgy closely followed the amendments within Clarke's prayer book. Freeman's 1785 preface acknowledges that "great assistance hath been derived from the Judicious corrections of the Reverend Mr. Lindsey" and his prayer book revised according to "the truly pious and justly celebrated Doctor Samuel Clarke". The Trinitarian Gloria Patri was deleted, as were the Nicene and Athanasian Creeds. As political considerations, "A Prayer for the King's Majesty" is replaced by "A Prayer for the Congress of the United States" and the prayer for High Court of Parliament became "A Prayer for the Great and General Court", with kingdom supplanted by Commonwealth in the latter. Freeman's low churchmanship and the congregation's egalitarianism saw minister replace priest and ordinance replace sacrament. A catechism written by Priestley, who relocated to preach in Pennsylvania towards the end of his life, was included for teaching children.
Greenwood reported that the first edition of the King's Chapel liturgy was immediately published after its approval and used until 1811, when it was supplanted with the amended second edition. Greenwood, replacing Freeman as pastor, guided the next three revisions; the 1828 third edition added further changes that were themselves unchanged in the 1831 fourth edition, the latter of which added family services, prayers, and devotional hymns. Greenwood also helmed a fifth edition in 1841. Over the course of his revisions, Greenwood introduced over 100 hymns to the psalter including those by Watts as well as Charles and John Wesley.
In the 1918 sixth edition, Brown removed almost all of Greenwood's additions. In the same edition, Brown introduced the Didache—a previously lost early Christian text rediscovered in 1900–to the prayer book, though Scovel believed this addition was never used during King's Chapel services. The 1925 seventh edition differed very little from the sixth, with minor alterations to language within the Communion service. Though not formally published, a notional "eighth edition" developed between 1955 and 1965 under minister Joseph Barth, introducing additional services such as the imposition of ashes on Ash Wednesday. Barth and his services were likely influenced by his Catholic upbringing.
The latter forms remained in use through 1980, by which time the minister utilized the Common Lectionary. This lectionary would be formally integrated into the 1986 ninth edition, as would Evensong and several accreted services including midweek prayers. The entire psalter according to the King James Version with minor Revised Standard Version-based changes and more than 30 hymns were also included in this revision. Most of the 1662 prayer book's language was retained, but the revising committee made "modest changes" to remove male generic terms.
While few ministers followed Lindsey in resigning from the Church of England, many shared his theology and considered his 1774 prayer book a modernization of the 1662 liturgy. Through the 19th century, new editions of Lindsey's prayer book and derivatives were printed, with the Athanasian Creed remaining their primary objection. With Lindsey's prayer book as inspiration, 15 liturgies based on the 1662 prayer book were published in England between 1792 and 1854 with similar Unitarian "modernizations". Peaston assessed these liturgies as "remarkable for the rationality of their thought, and the tediousness of their expression. They would seem indeed to have been in the tradition of John Locke."
John Wesley created his own revision of the 1662 prayer book in 1784 for American Methodists entitled The Sunday Service of the Methodists in North America. Wesley, who considered the 1662 prayer book strong in its "solid, scriptural, rational Piety", is known to have been interested in producing a revised prayer book since 1736. Clarke, Lindsey, Jones, and Whiston are among the prayer book revisionists that Wesley explicitly named in his personal writings and Wesley was familiar with Lindsey through the Feathers Tavern Association. While Wesley never said whether he read Lindsey's prayer book, the 1784 Sunday Service contained many parallels with the 1774 revision, including omitting a confirmation rite.
After approving the 1785 liturgy, members of King's Chapel held a measure of expectation that other American Anglican congregations would follow their lead in issuing their own revised prayer books. Rector at Trinity Church Samuel Parker had pressed for liturgical changes beyond those related to politics at the Middletown Convocation in August 1785, with Seabury agreeing that some of the liturgical changes adopted at Trinity Church would be part of the new prayer book. The Unitarians of King's Chapel hoped that this new prayer book would match their theology, though it is unclear if the Middletown Convocation had access to the chapel's prayer book. The Episcopal Church authorized a committee with broad powers to revise a prayer book. This committee included William White, a Pennsylvanian clergy who favoured Locke's thought. The adoption of Freeman's liturgy at King Chapel spurred White to privately acknowledged the King's Chapel congregation's actions as irregular, with White defending Trinitarian orthodoxy but also admitting his own desires that the Episcopal Church's revised prayer book remove non-scriptural doctrines and creeds.
The Episcopal Church committee published their proposed prayer book on 1 April 1786. The text reflected English Deist influence and featured substantial Unitarian leanings. This proposed prayer book removed the Nicene and Athanasian Creeds, omitted the "He descended into hell" from the Apostles' Creed, and reduced praise to the Trinity. While the proposed Episcopal book was certainly a more orthodox, conservative revision than the King's Chapel prayer book and featured fewer omissions than Wesley's liturgy, Wesley's work was more explicit in expressing Trinitarian doctrine. Concurring with Seabury and Edward Bass, Parker took a hardline position against the 1786 proposed prayer book's "irregularly made revisions"; historian Paul V. Marshall attributes this to Parker's familiarity with the King's Chapel prayer book. The 1786 proposed text did not last and a more conservative prayer book revision was approved by the General Convention in 1789 and introduced in 1790.
Maxwell 1949, pp. 16–17, 31–32 - Maxwell, William D. (1949). The Book of Common Prayer and the Worship of the Non-Anglican Churches (PDF). Friends of Dr. William's Library. Oxford: Oxford University Press – via Project Canterbury. http://anglicanhistory.org/bcp/maxwell1949.pdf
Stephen's 1696 text was entitled Liturgies of the Ancients represented, as near as well be, in English forms, with a Preface concerning the Restitution of the most Solemn Part of the Christian Worship in the Holy Eucharist, to its Integrity, and just Frequency of Celebration. Whiston, who was more liturgically sophisticated than Stephens, published The Liturgy of the Church of England, reduced nearer to the Primitive Standard in 1713.[2]
Maxwell 1949, pp. 17–18 - Maxwell, William D. (1949). The Book of Common Prayer and the Worship of the Non-Anglican Churches (PDF). Friends of Dr. William's Library. Oxford: Oxford University Press – via Project Canterbury. http://anglicanhistory.org/bcp/maxwell1949.pdf
Peaston 1959; Long 1986, p. 513 - Peaston, A.. E. (1 January 1959). "The Revision of the Prayer Book by Dr. Samuel Clarke". Transactions of the Unitarian Historical Society. 12 (1): 27 – via ProQuest. https://www.proquest.com/openview/42ec81a562ff925b6440049f14429a52/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=1820202
Despite Scovel giving the date of original publication for The Scriptural Doctrine of the Trinity as 1719,[5] it is generally given as 1712.[6] Clarke was regularly involved in philosophical and doctrinal discussion, particularly Newtonianism through his association with Isaac Newton. Despite public retracting his views and ceasing writing on the Trinity under threat of censure by Convocation, Clarke appears to have privately continued rejecting Trinitarianism.[7]
Scovel 2006, p. 214; Encyclopædia Britannica 1911 - Scovel, Carl (2006). "King's Chapel and the Unitarians". In Hefling, Charles; Shattuck, Cynthia (eds.). The Oxford Guide to the Book of Common Prayer: A Worldwide Survey. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-529762-1.
Vailati & Yenter 2021 - Vailati, Ezio; Yenter, Timothy (Winter 2021). "Samuel Clarke". In Zalta, Edward N. (ed.). Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/clarke/
Jasper 1989, p. 14 - Jasper, R.C.D. (1989). The Development of the Anglican Liturgy, 1662–1980. London: Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge.
Scovel 2006, p. 214; Peaston 1959 - Scovel, Carl (2006). "King's Chapel and the Unitarians". In Hefling, Charles; Shattuck, Cynthia (eds.). The Oxford Guide to the Book of Common Prayer: A Worldwide Survey. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-529762-1.
Peaston 1959; Jasper 1989, p. 15 - Peaston, A.. E. (1 January 1959). "The Revision of the Prayer Book by Dr. Samuel Clarke". Transactions of the Unitarian Historical Society. 12 (1): 27 – via ProQuest. https://www.proquest.com/openview/42ec81a562ff925b6440049f14429a52/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=1820202
Jasper 1989, p. 15 - Jasper, R.C.D. (1989). The Development of the Anglican Liturgy, 1662–1980. London: Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge.
Clarke died in 1729. His prayer book was donated to the British Library by his son, also named Samuel Clarke, in 1768.[14] John Jones, a disciple of Clarke, anonymously published Free and Candid Disquisitions in 1749. Here, Jones called on Convocation to approve a revised prayer book Dissenters could support but encouraged unofficial revisions should official channels fail.[15]
Peaston 1959; Cuming 1969, p. 178 - Peaston, A.. E. (1 January 1959). "The Revision of the Prayer Book by Dr. Samuel Clarke". Transactions of the Unitarian Historical Society. 12 (1): 27 – via ProQuest. https://www.proquest.com/openview/42ec81a562ff925b6440049f14429a52/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=1820202
Jasper 1989, p. 17; Spinks 2006, p. 519; Maxwell 1949, p. 33 - Jasper, R.C.D. (1989). The Development of the Anglican Liturgy, 1662–1980. London: Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge.
Ney 2021, pp. 149–150 - Ney, David (June 2021). "The Genesis of the Unitarian Church and the Book of Common Prayer". Anglican and Episcopal History. 90 (2). Austin, TX: Historical Society of the Episcopal Church. ProQuest 2557870193 – via ProQuest. https://www.proquest.com/docview/2557870193
Cuming 1969, pp. 177–178; Long 1986, p. 514; Westerfield Tucker 1996, p. 244 - Cuming, G. J. (1969). A History of Anglican Liturgy (1st ed.). London: St. Martin's Press, Macmillan Publishers.
Jasper 1989, p. 17 - Jasper, R.C.D. (1989). The Development of the Anglican Liturgy, 1662–1980. London: Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge.
Long 1986, p. 514; Ney 2021, p. 150 - Long, A.J. (1986). "Unitarian Worship". In Davies, J.G. (ed.). The New Westminster Dictionary of Liturgy and Worship. Philadelphia: Westminster Press. ISBN 0-664-21270-0.
Ney 2021, p. 152 - Ney, David (June 2021). "The Genesis of the Unitarian Church and the Book of Common Prayer". Anglican and Episcopal History. 90 (2). Austin, TX: Historical Society of the Episcopal Church. ProQuest 2557870193 – via ProQuest. https://www.proquest.com/docview/2557870193
Peaston 1940, p. 83 - Peaston, A.. Elliott (1940). The Prayer Book Reform Movement in the XVIIIth Century. Oxford: Basil Blackwell & Mott Ltd. – via Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/prayerbookreform0000peas/page/n5/mode/2up
Ney 2021, p. 152 - Ney, David (June 2021). "The Genesis of the Unitarian Church and the Book of Common Prayer". Anglican and Episcopal History. 90 (2). Austin, TX: Historical Society of the Episcopal Church. ProQuest 2557870193 – via ProQuest. https://www.proquest.com/docview/2557870193
Long 1986, p. 514 - Long, A.J. (1986). "Unitarian Worship". In Davies, J.G. (ed.). The New Westminster Dictionary of Liturgy and Worship. Philadelphia: Westminster Press. ISBN 0-664-21270-0.
Maxwell 1949, p. 20 - Maxwell, William D. (1949). The Book of Common Prayer and the Worship of the Non-Anglican Churches (PDF). Friends of Dr. William's Library. Oxford: Oxford University Press – via Project Canterbury. http://anglicanhistory.org/bcp/maxwell1949.pdf
Ledger-Lomas 2013, p. 214 - Ledger-Lomas, Michael (September 2013). "Unitarians and the Book of Common Prayer in Nineteenth-Century Britain". Studia Liturgica. 43 (2). SAGE Publications: 211–228. doi:10.1177/003932071304300202. S2CID 165907637. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F003932071304300202
Ledger-Lomas 2013, pp. 211–212 - Ledger-Lomas, Michael (September 2013). "Unitarians and the Book of Common Prayer in Nineteenth-Century Britain". Studia Liturgica. 43 (2). SAGE Publications: 211–228. doi:10.1177/003932071304300202. S2CID 165907637. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F003932071304300202
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Sadler had previously ministered at Little Portland Street Chapel, a Unitarian congregation that utilized a liturgy derived from Lindsey's recension.[30]
Scovel 2006, p. 214; Harvard Square Library - Scovel, Carl (2006). "King's Chapel and the Unitarians". In Hefling, Charles; Shattuck, Cynthia (eds.). The Oxford Guide to the Book of Common Prayer: A Worldwide Survey. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-529762-1.
Chorley 1930, p. 60; Scovel 2006, p. 214 - Chorley, E. Clowes (1930). The New American Prayer Book: Its History and Contents. New York City: The Macmillan Company.
King's Chapel was also known as First Episcopal Church.[33]
Harvard Square Library - "Freeman, James (1759–1835)". Cambridge, MA: Harvard Square Library, First Parish in Cambridge. Archived from the original on 6 April 2022. Retrieved 5 February 2023. https://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/biographies/james-freeman-1759-1835/
Independent Country, Independent Church; Scovel 2006, p. 214 - Independent Country, Independent Church: American Independence, James Freeman, and King's Chapel's 1780s Theological Revolution. Boston: King's Chapel. Retrieved 5 February 2023. http://www.kings-chapel.org/religioushistoryexhibit.html
Greenwood 1833, p. 135 - Greenwood, Francis William Pitt (1833). A History of King's Chapel, in Boston, the First Episcopal Church in New England: Comprising Notices of the Introduction of Episcopacy Into the Northern Colonies. Boston: Carter, Hendee & Company. https://books.google.com/books?id=tQATAAAAYAAJ
Chorley 1930, p. 60 - Chorley, E. Clowes (1930). The New American Prayer Book: Its History and Contents. New York City: The Macmillan Company.
Trinity Church was the only Anglican congregation in Boston to remain open during the whole American Revolutionary War. To "preserve public tranquility", the liturgy was modified to excise references to the British king.[38]
Suter & Cleveland 1949, p. 23 - Suter, John Wallace; Cleveland, George Julius (1949). The American Book of Common Prayer: Its Origin and Development. New York City: Oxford University Press.
Chorley 1930, p. 60 - Chorley, E. Clowes (1930). The New American Prayer Book: Its History and Contents. New York City: The Macmillan Company.
Scovel 2006, pp. 214–215; Greenwood 1833, p. 136 - Scovel, Carl (2006). "King's Chapel and the Unitarians". In Hefling, Charles; Shattuck, Cynthia (eds.). The Oxford Guide to the Book of Common Prayer: A Worldwide Survey. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-529762-1.
"History of Reforms" - "The Book of Common Prayer: History of Reforms". Independent Country, Independent Church: American Independence, James Freeman, and King’s Chapel’s 1780s Theological Revolution. Boston: King's Chapel. Retrieved 5 February 2023. http://www.kings-chapel.org/prayerbookreforms.html
Freeman's theological shift was unlike many of his New England Congregationalist contemporaries who approached Unitarianism through Arianism. Freeman, in regular correspondence with English Unitarians, would first adopt Socinianism before fully embracing Unitarian theology.[43] /wiki/Socinianism
"The History of the Prayer Book" - "The History of the Prayer Book". Boston: King's Chapel. Archived from the original on 6 February 2023. Retrieved 5 February 2023. http://www.kings-chapel.org/prayerbookexhibit-575815-647828.html
Greenwood 1833, p. 138 - Greenwood, Francis William Pitt (1833). A History of King's Chapel, in Boston, the First Episcopal Church in New England: Comprising Notices of the Introduction of Episcopacy Into the Northern Colonies. Boston: Carter, Hendee & Company. https://books.google.com/books?id=tQATAAAAYAAJ
"The History of the Prayer Book"; Wolff 1921 - "The History of the Prayer Book". Boston: King's Chapel. Archived from the original on 6 February 2023. Retrieved 5 February 2023. http://www.kings-chapel.org/prayerbookexhibit-575815-647828.html
Harvard Square Library - "Freeman, James (1759–1835)". Cambridge, MA: Harvard Square Library, First Parish in Cambridge. Archived from the original on 6 April 2022. Retrieved 5 February 2023. https://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/biographies/james-freeman-1759-1835/
Scovel 2006, p. 214 - Scovel, Carl (2006). "King's Chapel and the Unitarians". In Hefling, Charles; Shattuck, Cynthia (eds.). The Oxford Guide to the Book of Common Prayer: A Worldwide Survey. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-529762-1.
Greenwood notes that three of the opposing votes came from proprietors who had worshipped exclusively at Trinity Church since 1776.[49]
Harvard Square Library - "Freeman, James (1759–1835)". Cambridge, MA: Harvard Square Library, First Parish in Cambridge. Archived from the original on 6 April 2022. Retrieved 5 February 2023. https://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/biographies/james-freeman-1759-1835/
Freeman's 1787 ordination has also been appraised as the "formal beginning of Unitarianism in New England."[51] Peaston also held that King's Chapel was the first New World Unitarian congregation.[52]
Chorley 1930, p. 62 - Chorley, E. Clowes (1930). The New American Prayer Book: Its History and Contents. New York City: The Macmillan Company.
Scovel 2006, p. 215 - Scovel, Carl (2006). "King's Chapel and the Unitarians". In Hefling, Charles; Shattuck, Cynthia (eds.). The Oxford Guide to the Book of Common Prayer: A Worldwide Survey. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-529762-1.
Harvard Square Library - "Freeman, James (1759–1835)". Cambridge, MA: Harvard Square Library, First Parish in Cambridge. Archived from the original on 6 April 2022. Retrieved 5 February 2023. https://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/biographies/james-freeman-1759-1835/
Greenwood 1833, pp. 140–141 - Greenwood, Francis William Pitt (1833). A History of King's Chapel, in Boston, the First Episcopal Church in New England: Comprising Notices of the Introduction of Episcopacy Into the Northern Colonies. Boston: Carter, Hendee & Company. https://books.google.com/books?id=tQATAAAAYAAJ
Chorley 1930, p. 62 - Chorley, E. Clowes (1930). The New American Prayer Book: Its History and Contents. New York City: The Macmillan Company.
Harvard Square Library - "Freeman, James (1759–1835)". Cambridge, MA: Harvard Square Library, First Parish in Cambridge. Archived from the original on 6 April 2022. Retrieved 5 February 2023. https://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/biographies/james-freeman-1759-1835/
Harvard Library - "Student mathematical textbook of James Freeman, 1774: James Freeman's manuscript, September 25, 1774". Colonial North America at Harvard Library. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Library. Archived from the original on 8 February 2023. Retrieved 9 February 2023. https://colonialnorthamerica.library.harvard.edu/spotlight/cna/catalog/990052150670203941
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Scovel 2006, p. 216 - Scovel, Carl (2006). "King's Chapel and the Unitarians". In Hefling, Charles; Shattuck, Cynthia (eds.). The Oxford Guide to the Book of Common Prayer: A Worldwide Survey. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-529762-1.
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Scovel 2006, p. 216 - Scovel, Carl (2006). "King's Chapel and the Unitarians". In Hefling, Charles; Shattuck, Cynthia (eds.). The Oxford Guide to the Book of Common Prayer: A Worldwide Survey. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-529762-1.
Scovel 2006, pp. 216–217 - Scovel, Carl (2006). "King's Chapel and the Unitarians". In Hefling, Charles; Shattuck, Cynthia (eds.). The Oxford Guide to the Book of Common Prayer: A Worldwide Survey. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-529762-1.
Wakefield 1985, p. 17 - Wakefield, Dan (22 December 1985). "Returning to Church". New York Times – via New York Times Archives. https://www.nytimes.com/1985/12/22/magazine/returning-to-church.html
Long 1986, p. 513 - Long, A.J. (1986). "Unitarian Worship". In Davies, J.G. (ed.). The New Westminster Dictionary of Liturgy and Worship. Philadelphia: Westminster Press. ISBN 0-664-21270-0.
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Maxwell 1949, p. 6 - Maxwell, William D. (1949). The Book of Common Prayer and the Worship of the Non-Anglican Churches (PDF). Friends of Dr. William's Library. Oxford: Oxford University Press – via Project Canterbury. http://anglicanhistory.org/bcp/maxwell1949.pdf
Ney 2021, pp. 137, 152–153 - Ney, David (June 2021). "The Genesis of the Unitarian Church and the Book of Common Prayer". Anglican and Episcopal History. 90 (2). Austin, TX: Historical Society of the Episcopal Church. ProQuest 2557870193 – via ProQuest. https://www.proquest.com/docview/2557870193
Ney 2021, p. 136 - Ney, David (June 2021). "The Genesis of the Unitarian Church and the Book of Common Prayer". Anglican and Episcopal History. 90 (2). Austin, TX: Historical Society of the Episcopal Church. ProQuest 2557870193 – via ProQuest. https://www.proquest.com/docview/2557870193
Maxwell 1949, p. 20 - Maxwell, William D. (1949). The Book of Common Prayer and the Worship of the Non-Anglican Churches (PDF). Friends of Dr. William's Library. Oxford: Oxford University Press – via Project Canterbury. http://anglicanhistory.org/bcp/maxwell1949.pdf
Cuming 1969, p. 176 - Cuming, G. J. (1969). A History of Anglican Liturgy (1st ed.). London: St. Martin's Press, Macmillan Publishers.
Ney 2021 - Ney, David (June 2021). "The Genesis of the Unitarian Church and the Book of Common Prayer". Anglican and Episcopal History. 90 (2). Austin, TX: Historical Society of the Episcopal Church. ProQuest 2557870193 – via ProQuest. https://www.proquest.com/docview/2557870193
Scovel 2006, p. 214 - Scovel, Carl (2006). "King's Chapel and the Unitarians". In Hefling, Charles; Shattuck, Cynthia (eds.). The Oxford Guide to the Book of Common Prayer: A Worldwide Survey. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-529762-1.
Cuming 1969, p. 176; Jasper 1989, p. 14 - Cuming, G. J. (1969). A History of Anglican Liturgy (1st ed.). London: St. Martin's Press, Macmillan Publishers.
Jasper 1989, p. 15 - Jasper, R.C.D. (1989). The Development of the Anglican Liturgy, 1662–1980. London: Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge.
Bradshaw 1971, p. 106 - Bradshaw, Paul F. (1971). The Anglican Ordinal: Its History and Development From the Reformation to the Present Day. Alcuin Club Collections No. 53. London: Alcuin Club, Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge.
Disney's copy of Clarke's work was held in the British Museum's collection by 1949.[78] Both Jasper and Paul F. Bradshaw refer to a manuscript copy in the British Library for their details of Clarke's alterations.[79] /wiki/British_Museum
Cuming 1969, p. 178 - Cuming, G. J. (1969). A History of Anglican Liturgy (1st ed.). London: St. Martin's Press, Macmillan Publishers.
Ney 2021, pp. 152–153 - Ney, David (June 2021). "The Genesis of the Unitarian Church and the Book of Common Prayer". Anglican and Episcopal History. 90 (2). Austin, TX: Historical Society of the Episcopal Church. ProQuest 2557870193 – via ProQuest. https://www.proquest.com/docview/2557870193
Long 1986, p. 514 - Long, A.J. (1986). "Unitarian Worship". In Davies, J.G. (ed.). The New Westminster Dictionary of Liturgy and Worship. Philadelphia: Westminster Press. ISBN 0-664-21270-0.
Ney 2021, p. 155 - Ney, David (June 2021). "The Genesis of the Unitarian Church and the Book of Common Prayer". Anglican and Episcopal History. 90 (2). Austin, TX: Historical Society of the Episcopal Church. ProQuest 2557870193 – via ProQuest. https://www.proquest.com/docview/2557870193
Marshall 2004, p. 144 - Marshall, Paul Victor (2004). One, Catholic, and Apostolic: Samuel Seabury and the Early Episcopal Church. New York City: Church Publishing Company. ISBN 0-89869-447-7.
Long 1986, p. 514 - Long, A.J. (1986). "Unitarian Worship". In Davies, J.G. (ed.). The New Westminster Dictionary of Liturgy and Worship. Philadelphia: Westminster Press. ISBN 0-664-21270-0.
Cuming 1969, p. 179 - Cuming, G. J. (1969). A History of Anglican Liturgy (1st ed.). London: St. Martin's Press, Macmillan Publishers.
Marshall 2004, p. 117 - Marshall, Paul Victor (2004). One, Catholic, and Apostolic: Samuel Seabury and the Early Episcopal Church. New York City: Church Publishing Company. ISBN 0-89869-447-7.
Ney 2021, p. 153 - Ney, David (June 2021). "The Genesis of the Unitarian Church and the Book of Common Prayer". Anglican and Episcopal History. 90 (2). Austin, TX: Historical Society of the Episcopal Church. ProQuest 2557870193 – via ProQuest. https://www.proquest.com/docview/2557870193
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Unitarian Neville Chamberlain utilized the phrase "Peace for our time", a modified form of the phrase "peace in our time" which appears in the 1662 prayer book. It is possible that his familiarity with the phrase came from its retention within Lindsey's recension of the Book of Common Prayer and modified appearance within later Unitarian service books.[89] /wiki/Prime_Minister_of_the_United_Kingdom
The title page of the 1785 prayer book gave the full title as A Liturgy Collected Principally from the Book of Common Prayer for The Use of the First Episcopal Church in Boston; Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David and states it was printed by Peter Edes of State Street.[90] /wiki/Peter_Edes
Harvard Square Library - "Freeman, James (1759–1835)". Cambridge, MA: Harvard Square Library, First Parish in Cambridge. Archived from the original on 6 April 2022. Retrieved 5 February 2023. https://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/biographies/james-freeman-1759-1835/
Chorley 1930, p. 61 - Chorley, E. Clowes (1930). The New American Prayer Book: Its History and Contents. New York City: The Macmillan Company.
Chorley 1930, p. 62 - Chorley, E. Clowes (1930). The New American Prayer Book: Its History and Contents. New York City: The Macmillan Company.
Peaston 1940, p. 85 - Peaston, A.. Elliott (1940). The Prayer Book Reform Movement in the XVIIIth Century. Oxford: Basil Blackwell & Mott Ltd. – via Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/prayerbookreform0000peas/page/n5/mode/2up
Scovel 2006, p. 215 - Scovel, Carl (2006). "King's Chapel and the Unitarians". In Hefling, Charles; Shattuck, Cynthia (eds.). The Oxford Guide to the Book of Common Prayer: A Worldwide Survey. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-529762-1.
Scovel 2006, p. 215 - Scovel, Carl (2006). "King's Chapel and the Unitarians". In Hefling, Charles; Shattuck, Cynthia (eds.). The Oxford Guide to the Book of Common Prayer: A Worldwide Survey. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-529762-1.
"The History of the Prayer Book" - "The History of the Prayer Book". Boston: King's Chapel. Archived from the original on 6 February 2023. Retrieved 5 February 2023. http://www.kings-chapel.org/prayerbookexhibit-575815-647828.html
Greenwood 1833, p. 139 - Greenwood, Francis William Pitt (1833). A History of King's Chapel, in Boston, the First Episcopal Church in New England: Comprising Notices of the Introduction of Episcopacy Into the Northern Colonies. Boston: Carter, Hendee & Company. https://books.google.com/books?id=tQATAAAAYAAJ
"The History of the Prayer Book" - "The History of the Prayer Book". Boston: King's Chapel. Archived from the original on 6 February 2023. Retrieved 5 February 2023. http://www.kings-chapel.org/prayerbookexhibit-575815-647828.html
The title of an 1844 psalter, listed in the 38th edition, is given as A Collection of Psalms and Hymns for Christian Worship.[100]
Scovel 2006, p. 216 - Scovel, Carl (2006). "King's Chapel and the Unitarians". In Hefling, Charles; Shattuck, Cynthia (eds.). The Oxford Guide to the Book of Common Prayer: A Worldwide Survey. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-529762-1.
"The History of the Prayer Book" - "The History of the Prayer Book". Boston: King's Chapel. Archived from the original on 6 February 2023. Retrieved 5 February 2023. http://www.kings-chapel.org/prayerbookexhibit-575815-647828.html
The full title of the 1986 ninth edition King's Chapel prayer book is Book of Common Prayer According to the Use in King's Chapel.[103]
Scovel 2006, pp. 216–217 - Scovel, Carl (2006). "King's Chapel and the Unitarians". In Hefling, Charles; Shattuck, Cynthia (eds.). The Oxford Guide to the Book of Common Prayer: A Worldwide Survey. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-529762-1.
Spinks 2006, p. 519 - Spinks, Bryan D. (2006). "Anglicans and Dissenters". In Wainwright, Geoffrey; Westerfield Tucker, Karen B. (eds.). The Oxford History of Christian Worship. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 519. ISBN 978-0-19-513886-3.
Cuming 1969, pp. 192–193 - Cuming, G. J. (1969). A History of Anglican Liturgy (1st ed.). London: St. Martin's Press, Macmillan Publishers.
Westerfield Tucker 1996, p. 244 - Westerfield Tucker, Karen B. (July 1996). "John Wesley's Prayer Book Revision: The Text in Context" (PDF). Methodist History. 34 (4). Archived (PDF) from the original on 17 April 2022 – via General Commission on Archives and History, United Methodist Church. https://archives.gcah.org/bitstream/handle/10516/6101/MH-1996-July-Tucker.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
In total, 54 liturgies were published in England between 1713 and 1854. The majority were from Nonconformists and some were formulated independently from the 1662 prayer book. While some of the liturgies share of their primary objectives with those of Clarke and Lindsey, others were focused on pan-Protestant "comprehension" through the excision of "Romanism".[108] /wiki/Romanism
Spinks 2006, p. 519 - Spinks, Bryan D. (2006). "Anglicans and Dissenters". In Wainwright, Geoffrey; Westerfield Tucker, Karen B. (eds.). The Oxford History of Christian Worship. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 519. ISBN 978-0-19-513886-3.
Westerfield Tucker 1996, p. 230 - Westerfield Tucker, Karen B. (July 1996). "John Wesley's Prayer Book Revision: The Text in Context" (PDF). Methodist History. 34 (4). Archived (PDF) from the original on 17 April 2022 – via General Commission on Archives and History, United Methodist Church. https://archives.gcah.org/bitstream/handle/10516/6101/MH-1996-July-Tucker.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
Westerfield Tucker 1996, pp. 234, 244 - Westerfield Tucker, Karen B. (July 1996). "John Wesley's Prayer Book Revision: The Text in Context" (PDF). Methodist History. 34 (4). Archived (PDF) from the original on 17 April 2022 – via General Commission on Archives and History, United Methodist Church. https://archives.gcah.org/bitstream/handle/10516/6101/MH-1996-July-Tucker.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
Jasper 1989, p. 19 - Jasper, R.C.D. (1989). The Development of the Anglican Liturgy, 1662–1980. London: Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge.
Westerfield Tucker 1996, p. 244 - Westerfield Tucker, Karen B. (July 1996). "John Wesley's Prayer Book Revision: The Text in Context" (PDF). Methodist History. 34 (4). Archived (PDF) from the original on 17 April 2022 – via General Commission on Archives and History, United Methodist Church. https://archives.gcah.org/bitstream/handle/10516/6101/MH-1996-July-Tucker.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
Spinks 2006, p. 519 - Spinks, Bryan D. (2006). "Anglicans and Dissenters". In Wainwright, Geoffrey; Westerfield Tucker, Karen B. (eds.). The Oxford History of Christian Worship. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 519. ISBN 978-0-19-513886-3.
Marshall 2004, pp. 126–129 - Marshall, Paul Victor (2004). One, Catholic, and Apostolic: Samuel Seabury and the Early Episcopal Church. New York City: Church Publishing Company. ISBN 0-89869-447-7.
Suter & Cleveland 1949, p. 23; Marshall 2004, p. 142 - Suter, John Wallace; Cleveland, George Julius (1949). The American Book of Common Prayer: Its Origin and Development. New York City: Oxford University Press.
Pullan 1901, pp. 285–286 - Pullan, Leighton (1901). Newbolt, W.C.E.; Stone, Darwell (eds.). The History of the Book of Common Prayer. The Oxford Library of Practical Theology (3rd ed.). London: Longmans, Green, and Co. http://archive.org/details/historybookcomm00pullgoog
Calcote 1977, p. 289; Marshall 2004, p. 14 - Calcote, A. Dean (September 1977). "The Proposed Prayer Book Of 1785". Historical Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church. 46 (3). Historical Society of the Episcopal Church: 275–295. JSTOR 42973565. https://www.jstor.org/stable/42973565
Calcote 1977, p. 289 - Calcote, A. Dean (September 1977). "The Proposed Prayer Book Of 1785". Historical Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church. 46 (3). Historical Society of the Episcopal Church: 275–295. JSTOR 42973565. https://www.jstor.org/stable/42973565
Pullan 1901, pp. 285–286 - Pullan, Leighton (1901). Newbolt, W.C.E.; Stone, Darwell (eds.). The History of the Book of Common Prayer. The Oxford Library of Practical Theology (3rd ed.). London: Longmans, Green, and Co. http://archive.org/details/historybookcomm00pullgoog
Pullan 1901, pp. 285, 299 - Pullan, Leighton (1901). Newbolt, W.C.E.; Stone, Darwell (eds.). The History of the Book of Common Prayer. The Oxford Library of Practical Theology (3rd ed.). London: Longmans, Green, and Co. http://archive.org/details/historybookcomm00pullgoog
Greenwood 1833, p. 136 - Greenwood, Francis William Pitt (1833). A History of King's Chapel, in Boston, the First Episcopal Church in New England: Comprising Notices of the Introduction of Episcopacy Into the Northern Colonies. Boston: Carter, Hendee & Company. https://books.google.com/books?id=tQATAAAAYAAJ
Pullan 1901, pp. 285–286 - Pullan, Leighton (1901). Newbolt, W.C.E.; Stone, Darwell (eds.). The History of the Book of Common Prayer. The Oxford Library of Practical Theology (3rd ed.). London: Longmans, Green, and Co. http://archive.org/details/historybookcomm00pullgoog
Marshall 2004, pp. 160–161 - Marshall, Paul Victor (2004). One, Catholic, and Apostolic: Samuel Seabury and the Early Episcopal Church. New York City: Church Publishing Company. ISBN 0-89869-447-7.
Marshall 2004, pp. 144–145 - Marshall, Paul Victor (2004). One, Catholic, and Apostolic: Samuel Seabury and the Early Episcopal Church. New York City: Church Publishing Company. ISBN 0-89869-447-7.
Pullan 1901, pp. 285–286; Suter & Cleveland 1949, p. 23 - Pullan, Leighton (1901). Newbolt, W.C.E.; Stone, Darwell (eds.). The History of the Book of Common Prayer. The Oxford Library of Practical Theology (3rd ed.). London: Longmans, Green, and Co. http://archive.org/details/historybookcomm00pullgoog
As the Episcopal Church hoped that English bishops might consecrate some of its clergymen, the English episcopates' staunch opposition to the proposed 1786 American prayer book proved decisive in its ultimate rejection.[127]