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This major new reference work sets out to describe and record the five thousandknown editions of the Anglican Book of Common Prayer that have appeared inthe 450 years since the first book was published.

Most of these were in English, especially the original 1549 Book of CommonPrayer, whose 450th anniversary was celebrated three years ago, and its 1552successor which was commemorated in 2002. These early editions have aparticular association with Lambeth Palace and Archbishop Thomas Cranmer,whose genius did so much to mould their pioneer liturgies. The total number ofeditions includes about 1,200 translations from English into some two hundredother languages and dialects. Some of these were for immigrant minorities; manymore were for missionary use overseas, and two were prepared for use as anindirect means of promoting royal marriages. Yet another was thought to be so heretical that it had to be ceremonially burned at Lambeth Palace by order of the then Archbishop of Canterbury.

Each book is given a full biographical description, with notes on thecircumstances of its publication. Editions of the American Episcopal Prayer Bookand English prayer-book editions in American libraries are also described in detail.The information is made accessible by indexes of publishers, printers, translators,and promoters, and also of languages, scripts and short titles.

The authorDavid Griffiths studied bibliography and worked for many years as Team Rector of Windsor, after which his ministerial work took him to Reading as Archdeacon ofBerkshire. He studied at Reading University, his thesis being entitled The Translationof the Book of Common Prayer, which led to 10 years of research on the Englisheditions of the prayer book as well as its foreign translations.

The Bibliography of theBook of Common Prayer1549-1999

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Editorial 4Obituaries—

Canon Henry Burgess, PhD. 5Margot Thompson 6

The Chairman writes……about the New Constitution 8

The New Board of Trustees 9Ichabod—The Glory is Departed

by Stephen Beet 10What is the BCP? The Rev’d Dr. Peter Toon

reports on a disturbing development 12Branch Profile—Coventry 14The Prayer Book Today for the Clergy

Tomorrow. by Raymond Chapman 15Prayer Book Church of the Month—

St Just-in-Penwith 16Letters to the Editor 18Reviews 22Disconnected Jottings 24Reports from the Branches 25Notice of Meeting 27Forthcoming Branch Events 28Branch Contacts 30

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Oh dear, Auntie!

THERE WAS AN ITEM on Feedback (Radio 4’sprogramme that airs listeners’ opinionsand complaints) in the latter part of last

year when a lady from the Home Countieswrote in complaining of the extreme rarity ofthe Book of Common Prayer being used for theSunday morning worship on Radio 4. The ladyconcerned—I am afraid I did not catch hername, but am willing to bet she was one of ourmembers—explained that she was not able toget to church so easily these days and that,anyway, her church had abandoned the BCP infavour of something modern which she did notlike. There must be thousands of elderly peoplein similar situations who would welcome afamiliar Sunday service on the wireless.

The BBC spokesman—sorry, spokesperson—said that they had to cater for all tastes, and theBCP was used in so few churches these days thatthey only had a BCP service very occasionally.

Surely, the majority of listeners to the Sundaymorning service on Radio 4 must be from thesenior ranks of the citizens of the country. Sowould it not be more sensible to provide aservice that will be appreciated by thatcongregation. I am not saying thatdenominations other than the C of E should notget a look in, but so often the service (with‘worship songs’) seems to be aimed at a youngaudience which does not have the difficulties in

getting to church that are experienced by theelderly or disabled.

I generally try to listen to the Radio 4 Sundayworship just after 8 o’clock while getting mybreakfast before going to church. I always hopethat it just might be taken from the Book of CommonPrayer. As my hope is usually in vain, I am liable toget extremely excited when the continuityannouncer tells me that we shall be getting theBCP. Imagine my delight on the Sunday afterChristmas when the announcer said, “Thismorning’s service is from the Book of Common Prayer.”

“Yippee!” I thought and turned up thevolume. It started OK; there was the GeneralConfession and I thought “Ah, Matins!” Thencame the Absolution—but it was NOT theabsolution from the BCP or anything like it—nothous, thees or thys and so short it was over inabout ten seconds. There were no Venite, TeDeum or Benedictus but, at least, there was theJubilate, sung to Benjamin Britten’s splendidsetting. The Apostles Creed was there and one ortwo other extracts from the BCP, but it was somucked about that its description as a BCPservice must have contravened the TradeDescriptions Act!

Is it a wonder that the BCP gets a badreputation when it gets mucked about with likethis? Had I not known the BCP fairly well, Iwould have thought “Well, if that is the Book ofCommon Prayer, you can keep it!” How manylisteners will have been given totally the wrongimpression by this appalling “Act of Worship”?When can we have the REAL Book of Common Prayer,please, Auntie?

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OGod whose blessed Son was manifested that he might destroy theworks of the devil, and make us the sons of God, and heirs ofeternal life; Grant us, we beseech thee, that, having this hope, we

may purify ourselves, even as he is pure; that, when he shall appear againwith power and great glory, we may be made like unto him in his eternaland glorious kingdom; where with thee, O Father, and thee, O HolyGhost, he liveth and reigneth, ever one God, world without end. Amen

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Canon Henry JamesBurgess, PhD.

CANON HARRY BURGESS, who was bornat Ormskirk in 1908, and was ordainedin 1936, was 95 years old when he died

at Bromley on 3rd December. He was aconvinced Protestant Evangelical, of thetraditional kind, and was a lover of the Book ofCommon Prayer.

As such, he was a warm supporter of thePrayer Book Society, and was the author ofthree of its esteemed publications, ‘Why PrayerBook Morning Prayer?’ (1985), ‘Why Prayer BookCollects?’ (1986) and ‘Prayer Book Spirituality’ (1987).

He had also a lifelong devotion to Christianeducation, which he pursued both through theparochial ministry and in other ways. He wasdiocesan schools adviser in the diocese ofRochester from 1955 to 1961 and diocesandirector of education in the diocese of Sheffieldfrom 1970 to 1975. His PhD thesis was on thework of the National Society, and formed thebasis of his book ‘Enterprise in Education’ (SPCK,1954, reprinted 1970). The National Society,which was founded in 1811 and is still active,founded the National Schools (church schools,in which the principles of the national churchwere to be taught).

Also, it was under Harry’s chairmanship thatthe teacher-training colleges of St. Paul and St.Mary at Cheltenham were united, and provideda Christian basis for the future University ofGloucestershire. The fact that the University ofGloucestershire is now trying to abolish itsundergraduate course in theology seems a sadbetrayal of trust, and it is to be hoped that ajudicial enquiry may prevent this.

Those modern Evangelicals who supposethat the language of the Prayer Book is anobstacle to the communication of the gospel,would do well to reflect on the fact thatsomeone so deeply committed to Christianeducation and so expert in it as Harry Burgess,thought that the Prayer Book was an importantaid in this very task, of communicating thegospel.

ROGER BECKWITH

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OF RECOGNITION. Even if you are not aregular Easter card sender please givethese REAL EASTER CARDS somethought. Your support in this newventure helps your Society fight forthe Book of Common Prayer.

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MARGARET THOMPSON (or Margot asshe was widely known) was loved byall as a friend and as a sort of ‘Queen

Mum’ character inside the Prayer Book Society.She appeared to be frail and serene yetseemingly indestructible. Her industry in thecause was monumental and she applied herencyclopaedic knowledge in ‘everyday’ situationsas well as in those seemingly remote andacademic. Many saw her as a dear “sweet” ladybut when the occasion demanded she could betruly formidable.

I first got to know Margot as a real personrather than as an enquirer on the other end of atelephone when, in 1982, she asked me for aninterview in connection with a book of mine,The Good Church Guide, which Penguin were aboutto publish. What she wrote as a result wasintended as a feature article in The Daily Telegraphbut the article was pushed off the newspaper’spages by Argentina’s invasion of the Falklands.Sheila and I developed a warm friendship withMargot whose husband, Laurie, had died ofcancer ten years earlier—in June 1972. Margotshared our love for Cranmer’s rolling cadencesand his incomparable gift to the Englishlanguage in the Book of Common Prayer. She becamean enthusiastic member of the Prayer BookSociety and in mid-1987 became joint Hon.Secretary (with the late Miranda Gwyer)becoming sole Hon. Secretary from January1988—remaining so for the next ten years and acommittee member for a period after that.

Margaret Frances Thompson, elder daughterof Mr. and Mrs. W.H. Burrows, was born inWallasey on Cheshire’s Wirral peninsula on 29thDecember 1914. When she was seven years oldthe family moved to Hendon in North WestLondon where her father, a businessman, becameorganist and choirmaster at St. John’s church. Itwas at St. John’s, Hendon that Margot wasbaptised, confirmed and, much later, married.

When Margot left school she trained as asecretary and joined Amalgamated Press whereshe soon began contributing to the Shipping Wondersof the World and acted as a sub editor on FilmPictorial. She obtained a notable scoop in 1937

conducting the first exclusive interview withAlfred Hitchcock who, by then 17 years into hiscareer, had already become a successful moviedirector. In 1938 Margot described the actorRonald Reagan as having ‘a promising future’!

Also working on Film Pictorial was LaurenceThompson whom she married in St. John’sHendon during an air raid in September 1940.The long wail of the “All Clear” serenaded themas they came out of the church at the conclusionof their wedding. It was not long before Laurieand she were parted by his Army service overseasand her’s with the Friend’s Relief Service, a war-time Quaker organisation.

After the War their babies were born—Alisonin 1947 and Lesley in 1954 but Margot hadmanaged, once peace came, to become theWomen’s Editor on the Reynolds News. She usedher husband’s Christian name for her nom deplume—Margot Lawrence—substituting a ‘w’ forthe ‘u’. Freelance writing thereafter became thenorm for her.

During this time she wrote The Complete Guide toWedding Etiquette which achieved great success andalso sections of an updated edition of Mrs Beeton’sBook of Household Management. Articles for all mannerof newspapers, magazines and BBC radio’sWomen’s Hour poured forth.

In 1971 she published Shadow of Swords—abiography of Dr. Elsie Inglis who became adoctor in 1892 and worked among the Serbnation. Margot, too, gave her help in a varietyof ways, a generation later, resulting in theSerbian Orthodox Patriarch and bishopsbestowing upon her The Order of St. Sava.

In 1980 she published Flyers and Stayers—a bookwhich told of the world’s greatest rides fromAlexander’s taming of Bucephalus to the firstwoman to win a gold medal in the OlympicThree-Day-Event. Margot learned to ride as achild and rode regularly throughout her lifeuntil nearly 80. Even then she helped for manyyears at her local group of ‘Riding for theDisabled’—doing so well into her 80s—eventually having to be stopped as she was nolonger covered by the group’s insurance! Shewas a great Shakespearean buff and wrote

Sweet? Yes–Formidable CertainlyAnthony Kilmister looks at the life and times of Margot Thompson

extensively on him. Raymond Chapman says sheput it to him that the question of Richard IIabout Bolingbroke riding his favourite horse—‘How went he under him?’ (Act V, Scene V)was a question any horseman wouldautomatically ask and that only a moment laterdoes the reply distress him. As ProfessorChapman commented it was typical of her acutemind and her ability to see connections—whichis one of the major academic virtues.

And that academic virtue was evident in hercontributions to The Oxford Companion to the EnglishLanguage (OUP, 1992) which involved manyleading scholars. For this Margot wrote on theBible, Biblical English and House Style—thelatter showing her wide experience of printingand publishing. It was another example of thecatholicity of her knowledge and of her abilities.

One could never accuse Margot of being‘politically correct’. She was a no-nonsenseperson and the originator of the description‘Nanny State’. In an ‘Opinion’ article for TheDaily Telegraph in the early 1980’s she argued thatthe welfare state behaves like a nanny so thatwhenever anything goes wrong, people turn tothe ‘nanny state’ to make it better.

In the same way Margot was firmly opposedto the ordination of women to the priesthood(and even more to the episcopate) and shortlyafter General Synod voted for women-priests in1992 Margot became a member of the NationalExecutive Committee of The Third ProvinceMovement which campaigns for a separateProvince within the C of E to accommodatepeople of all shades of churchmanship whocannot accept the validity of women-priests.Margot, like her fellow committee members, feltthat such a non-territorial Province should haveits own Archbishop, bishops and canon law.

But for readers of this journal Margot’senthusiasm for the aims and aspirations of thePrayer Book Society rings more bells thananything else. Branch members will recall hervisits to them and certainly the advice andguidance that she made readily available to allwho called on the telephone. The crucial pointto emphasise is that for huge numbers of peopleMargot was the first point of contact with theSociety and that she handled a massive volumeof work without clerical support is a tellingtribute to her stamina and enthusiasm.

In 1989 Charles Moore (then the Editor ofThe Spectator) had the idea of a Thomas CranmerSchools Competition and secured the agreementof The Prince of Wales to present the CranmerAwards that December. The Spectator and thePrayer Book Society would jointly sponsor this.Details were made known when Charles Moore(then a Trustee of the Society) addressed ourAGM that year. Liaison with a team from TheSpectator had been going on quietly prior tothis announcement—being maintained on theSociety’s part by Margot, David Martin andmyself. The Awards that year were a spectacularsuccess. It was Margot who engaged regionalfestivals of music and drama in the process-which provided the breakthrough into nearnational coverage. Where there were gaps shebrought our Branches into the equation. For tenyears or so Margot was the dynamo behind thisunique way of encouraging children to embracethe Prayer Book in a way that would remainwith them for ever.

Margot had an itch for scribbling and I actedas the Master of Ceremonies for the launch, in2001, of her book on the tragic story of Samoafollowing the island’s discovery. Entitled Sail theFierce Wind it told of Robert Louis Stevenson andothers in the South Seas at that time. The bookwas a splendid achievement for a woman in herlate eighties. The drama of the launch party Ishall long remember—for in the middle of herspeech Margot fainted at my feet and anambulance had to be called. One could arguethat she was never quite the same from then onand certainly she slowed down—but by nomeans totally. Although herself on the Protestantside of “Middle stump C of E” she was stillcontributing book reviews to the Catholic Heraldright up to a few weeks before her death.Margot had an excellent grasp of Latin andcorrected her GP when he misused a Latinphrase. She spoke French and Serbo-Croat andindeed two days before she died she received aChristmas gift and letter from the French pen-friend with whom she had corresponded sinceher schooldays. She silently read the letter inFrench and simultaneously translated it aloudinto English! But does anything about Margotsurprise us any more? What a character andwhat a loss for us all—but our loss is heaven’sgain.



OUR NEW CONSTITUTION came fullyinto effect on the 1st January 2004. Theeagle eyed amongst you who read small

print will have noticed that we now have a newregistered charity number and are now acompany limited by guarantee. The changeoverhad to be delayed until the end of the financialyear to avoid the expense of an additional audit.Your Board has been using the waiting periodto get ready.

The purpose of the change is to give the PBSa structure at the centre which works better sothat we may campaign more effectively for ourObjects, give the branches a better service fromthe centre and meet more readily theincreasingly complex regulatory burdens placedon charities.

The first concern of the Board has been toput in place new management arrangements.We have a Chief Executive to manage and co-ordinate everything. We have appointed twoFinance Directors to mark our determination tocontrol our finances. Central and branch bankaccounts are being moved to Lloyds TSB whoprovide internet banking access to our FinanceDirectors to all accounts for monitoring. Weintend thereby to reduce substantially theauditing costs we have had to bear in recentyears. Because we are now a company limitedby guarantee, the Secretary has to administer acentral register of members; if you are not onthe company register, by law you are not amember. New support arrangements are inplace for the Secretary. New IT has beeninstalled to run membership and finances. TheBoard communicates by intranet and e-mail. Wehave an IT Director with the expertise to ensurethis is done effectively. The Board is holdingadditional meetings by conference call, as wellas meeting regularly. To preserve our historicrecords we have appointed a Director asArchivist and Remembrancer, who is again aprofessional in that area. We propose to lodgeour records in an appropriate nationallibrary/archive with a thirty year restriction andaccess to scholars. There is a very real danger in

a society run by volunteers from their homesthat large parts of their documentary historywill go missing. We need to ensure that theachievements of the Prayer Book Society do notavoid the attention of future historians. A newmembership leaflet is now available. Theadmirable Branch Secretaries Manual, devisedand written by Neil Inkley, is to be revised tofit new arrangements. The new volume willhave a wider scope and will be called ThePrayer Book Society’s Operations Manual, andwill include, inter alia, the new constitution, arevised Financial Procedures Manual, and moreextensive legal advice on Public Worship. TheBoard of PBS Trading Ltd has been re-constitutedso as to have a small executive board ofmembers who are also board members of thecharity and to set in train once more an effectivemail order operation. Our publications, bothmagazines and other items whether dealt withby the charity or Trading, are being reviewed.The Regional Trustees further assume a doubleresponsibility of ensuring the representation ofbranch views at the heart of the PBS.

But effective management is only theessential first step, which we want to, and will,achieve very quickly.

That step has only one purpose: the moreeffective achievement of the Society’s Objects.We have two Directors, both members of theGeneral Synod, to focus on campaigning andpublicity. We have two Directors for ordinandsand their training. We have a Director for theCranmer Awards. The IT Director, with me,assumes further responsibility for strategy.

How do we best achieve our objects? Howdo we get the BCP more in regular use—andfor the principal Sunday service? How do wehalt the suppression of Morning Prayer? Howdo we persuade the Bishops? These are verydifficult issues which have vexed everyoneinvolved since the PBS began. But the contextkeeps changing: different people and issuesemerge.

Your Board is thinking hard and preparingour approach.

The Chairman writes……about the new constitution


There are very real practical issues—howdiffusely or how narrowly we pursue ourObjects; how vigorous or courteous we shouldbe to our opponents. The Book of CommonPrayer has many friends, some of whose viewson some other issues are sometimes surprising.The Church of England, let alone the AnglicanCommunion, is a strange and elusive monster to

Leeds branch since 1992. John’s other interestsinclude rugby union and opera.IAN WOODHEAD: Finance Director

Ian spent 30 years in the Metropolitan Policebefore retiring with the rank of Detective

Chief Superintendent and was later involved inarmy security. He has been chairman of theSalisbury branch since 1997. He has been achurchwarden and is a bellringer activelyinvolved in instructing young bellringers and infundraising.PRUDENCE DAILEY: Campaigning and PublicRelations

Abusiness systems analyst for an internationalretail chain. Prudence is a member of the

General Synod. She is actively involved inpolitics, having been a district councillor and aParliamentary Candidate; her other interestsinclude choral singing, sewing and jewellerymaking.PATRICK MARTIN: Campaigning and Public Re-lations; Regional Trustee for the Western Region

Aretired (Consultant) Ophthalmic Surgeon(Royal Eye Infirmary, Plymouth) Patrick is a

member of General Synod, and for two termsserved as a churchwarden. Since retirement hehas been involved with fox-hunting andcountryside pursuits.NICK BRADBURY: Strategy & IT

Global IT Information manager for atelecommunications company with a young

family, Nick has been a member since 1987and is a committee member of the Oxfordbranch where he recently ran a trialquestionnaire to obtain members’ opinions.PETER BOLTON: Chairman of PBS Trading;Regional Trustee for the Midlands Region

Until recently Head of department in a verylarge and successful comprehensive school

and a former GCSE chief examiner. He has been

ROGER EVANS: Chairman (non-executive), strategyand public matters

Abarrister specialising in ecclesiastical law.M.P. for Monmouth 1992-7. He is a former

member of the Ecclesiastical Committee ofParliament 1992-7 and was Parliamentary UnderSecretary of State, Department of Social Security1994-7. Chairman of the Friends of FriendlessChurches.JOHN SERVICE: Chief Executive: overall co-ordination of the programme and administration

John’s background is in publishing andprinting. A member of the Society since 1980

he has been chairman of the Oxford branchsince 1986 and was Treasurer of the PBS from1997 to 2003. He is also a churchwarden.THE REV’D. PROFESSOR RAYMOND CHAPMAN: DeputyChairman: theology, ordinands and training

Emeritus Professor of English in the Universityof London and a priest in the Diocese of

Southwark. He is President of the AnglicanAssociation, Chairman of the Irish LiterarySociety and a fellow of the English Association.He has published a number of books and articleson academic and devotional subjects.MARGARET POINTER: Secretary: membershipadministration

Aretired SRN (St Thomas’s Hospital, London)and since 1994 Churchwarden and parish

administrator at St George’s Headstone, Harrow.She is a member of the Nightingale Fellowship,Forward in Faith, and the Friends of NorthwickPark Hospital and of St Luke’s Hospice.JOHN WIMPRESS: Finance Director; RegionalTrustee for North East Region

Arecently retired University Careers Adviserand former naval officer he is Treasurer of

The Friends of Ripon Cathedral and co-ordinator of its Guides and Welcomers. He hasbeen secretary and treasurer of the Ripon and

catch hold of and persuade.However, Prayer Book Society members do

not want ruminations over how to succeed: youwant results and demonstrable progress. YourBoard is at work.

ROGER EVANS

WE INVITE YOUR PRAYERS FOR OUR BOARD.

The new Board of Trustees and their special responsibilities


THE DEAN OF EASTCHURCH hasdiscontinued Choral Matins. Now the all-important Sung Eucharist would be

celebrated weekly rather than on the first Sundayof the month. It had been a long and painfulstruggle for the dean, the Very Reverend HugoHastemenot but worth all the effort. The newlycreated ‘Worship Committee’ would make afinal decision of course (and they could take theblame if things went wrong!) but, as he wascontinually pointing out, people needed to benourished by ‘sacrament’ as well as word, eventhough nobody really believed in the ‘RealPresence’ these days, did they?

Ten years earlier, things had been verydifferent at Eastchurch Minster. It had been sobackward-looking and the services had attractedquite the wrong ‘type’ of people. The new deanhad had to be very careful in dealing with someof those people. There had been the twomatriarchs of the congregation, the Misses Pugh-Critchleigh, both so faithful and so generous intheir hospitality to the Dean and MrsHastemenot when they had first arrived. Theyhad made their views on the Alternative ServiceBook perfectly clear and so very generously paidfor the organ restoration. One could not riskupsetting the formidable Major Percival Beste-Chetwode, V.C. either. He had single-handedlytaken the surrender of 15,000 Japanese in 1945and always read the lessons at Matins andEvensong. There had been no question ofintroducing the Good News Bible while theMajor was alive. He seemed to have had apeculiar ‘hold’ over both the Lord Lieutenantand the Bishop. Rumour had it he had been theBishop’s fag at school and that he knew farmore than was good for him. The same couldbe said for that dreadful man, The Reverend SirGuy Thorogood, patron of seven livings in thediocese. It was scandalous that in this day andage such a man could have held so muchpower. Even the Bishop had been in awe of SirGuy. He had had vast private means and beenpatron of The Prayer Book Society, whom healways had round for drinks and no doubt thatwas where all that plotting against the dean.

Ichabod—The Glory a member of the Council of the HistoricalAssociation, secretary of the Coventry Branch for20 years and is the secretary of a PCC. He writeson architectural history.CHARLES FARROW: Archivist & Remembrancer,Regional Trustee for the Eastern Region

Afreelance Historical Researcher and Fellow ofthe Institute of Legal Executives (retired)

and Council member of Norfolk & NorwichArchaeological Society and Norfolk RecordSociety. He has been successively Secretary,Editor and Chairman of Norfolk Family HistorySociety and has served on the Conservation AreaAdvisory Committee of Norwich City Council. STEPHEN PAXTON: Cranmer Awards

Deputy Head of the Sixth Form College ofSurbiton High School, the venue of this

year’s Cranmer Awards of which he has beenMC for the last three years. Chairman of theLondon and Southwark branch since 2002Stephen was previously for eight years Chairmanof the Bath & Wells branch. He was assistantsecretary of the PBS 2002-3.THE REV’D PAUL THOMAS: Ordinands & training;Regional Trustee for South East Region

Born into a farming family in Wales Paul readHistory and Anglo Saxon at the University of

Wales followed by postgraduate study in Musicand Politics. He trained for the Ministry atCuddesdon and is serving his title in the Parishof Wanstead.STEPHEN EVANS: Press & publicity; RegionalTrustee for the West & Central Region

From a long-established family farmingbackground and with company experience in

the construction industry. Stephen is a localcouncillor. He sings with his young children inthe choir of St Laurence, Ludlow and contributesat Deanery and Diocesan level. He is the long-standing secretary of the Hereford branch andhas recently helped re-form the Worcesterbranch.IAN LANG: Regional Trustee for the North WestRegion

Ian works in a local magistrates’ court. He hasbeen a member of the PBS for ten years and is

the chairman of the Liverpool branch.

Members of the Board of Trustees (continued)


took place. If it had notbeen for that unfortunateincident in the Closewhich Sir Guy had

witnessed late at night whilst driving past in hisBentley! Well, the least said about that thebetter; Mrs. Hastemenot became quite overcomeby the very thought of it.

Still, they were all dead and buried now andcould do no further harm or hold up the‘missionary work’ in Eastchurch.

The Master of the Choristers had remainedthe only obstacle to ‘reform’. Dr. PharaohCharmwell, L.R.A.M. F.R.C.O., had been incharge of the music at Eastchurch for forty-sixyears and was immovable in his views. Despitethe Dean managing to close the Cathedral ChoirSchool, Dr. Charmwell had maintained such anexcellent standard. The dean had hoped theclosure of the school would have marked theend of the choir but Dr. Charmwell hadmanaged to get his boys from the localcomprehensive. Even the dean had to be carefulas far as the good Doctor was concerned. He’dbeen at school with the dean’s father, the lateArchdeacon Hastemenot and there was alwaysthe possibility he had witnessed thatunpleasantness in the changing rooms whichhad been so successfully hushed up.

Then there were Dr. Charmwell’s dreadfulchoir boys. They were always so loyal, well-behaved and reverent with their choirmaster butso rude to the dean. How sacrilegious of thatboy to put the beautifully-bound A.S.B., used forthe Parish Eucharist, where the dean had foundit. When he had complained to Dr. Charmwell,the man had rudely replied that that was wherethe boys always put any rubbish or litter theyfound lying around.

On another occasion the dean had asked oneof the senior boys if Dr. Charmwell ever treatedthem badly? and enquired as to what exactly didgo on at Dr. Charmwell’s frequent tea-parties.Unfortunately the boy had replied by askingthe health of Mrs. Hastemenot, adding that hehoped she had quite recovered from her recentexposure in the close! Upon reflection, the deandecided not to pursue that subject and sent theboy away by quietly slipping a fiver into hispocket!

The dean had then turned his attention to

easier targets. Those dreadful members ofForward in Faith were easy to deal with nowthat Canon Richmond had retired. It would ‘nolonger be convenient for logistical reasons’ forthem to hold their meetings in the cathedral andthat was the end of the matter. As for thosedubious characters who said they came toMatins to hear the music, the dean suspectedthey only came to admire the choirboys. He hadmanaged to get rid of two by reminding themhe read the newspapers ‘very carefully indeed’!

The dean had recently taken delight in beingextremely ‘direct’ to the Secretary of the PrayerBook Society when she saw fit to complain thathe had cancelled Matins and substituted an extraSung Eucharist That rude woman had been verypersistent, always complaining that the Book ofCommon Prayer was not correctly followed andloudly shouting ‘Ghost’ when the Dean insistedon having the congregation say ‘Spirit’ in theGrace. Thankfully she had stopped attendingsince being told she had no business leaving hermagazines in the vestry. The PBS was nowcompletely ineffective, so much so that the deanand the bishop had decided to becomemembers, the bishop even taking on the role ofPatron.

Last month, happily, Dr Charmwell had beenlaid to rest amid great pomp and ceremony. TheWorship Committee had quickly appointed MsPrudence Wasteful and charged her with thecreation of Music Group and Girls’ Choir.

When the dean had announced that Matinswould be discontinued for ‘an experimentalperiod’ he had received the expected few lettersfrom the known troublemakers. Now themission of the cathedral could go ahead. Mrs.Hastemenot was free to ‘test her vocation’, safein the knowledge that the last witness to thatunfortunate incident in the close was dead andburied. The dean was sure she would make anexcellent priest.

Only in the dark hours of the night did hehave any regrets. He wondered why the childSamuel entered his dreams uttering the word‘Ichabod’? However, when he awoke, healways put it down to the port wine and cheesehe and Mrs Hastmenot had had for supper.

STEPHEN BEET

is Departed


WHAT IS THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER? Theanswer until recently wasstraightforward in the Anglican

Communion of Churches. It is an edition inEnglish or another language of that PrayerBook which wasapproved by King andParliament in Englandin 1662 for use in theChurch of England andin the British Empire.Later, each of theprovinces of theAnglican Communioneither prepared its ownedition of the BCP 1662to relate to the publicrealities of its regionand culture, or itsimply used the BCP1662 itself.

From the 1970sanother type of PrayerBook emerged in theAnglican Family, thatwhich may be called “A Book of AlternativeServices”. This contained multiple Rites for HolyCommunion and several for the Daily Office.The Rites themselves were usually offered inboth contemporary language and traditionallanguage. In England we are familiar with thisnew genre through The Alternative Service Book (1980)replaced by Common Worship (2001).

Behind the scenes during the last thirty or soyears there has been a determined effort bysome liturgists and bishops in the West/Northof the Anglican Communion to redefine“Common Prayer” (see for full details Chapter2, “Common”, of my recent book, CommonWorship Considered, a Liturgical Journey Examined,Edgeways Books, 2003). Because of theconfidence generated by this process of

redefining Common Prayer in terms of structureand shape with basic minimal ingredients, theSynods of some member Churches of theAnglican Communion have decided to transferthe title, “The Book of Common Prayer”, from

the historic, classiceditions of The Book ofCommon Prayer (1662 orbased upon it) to amodern “Book ofAlternative Services”.

It will not be asurprise to learn that itwas in the USA that thismajor and far-reachinginnovation began. Thereappeared in 1979 whatwas called “The Book ofCommon Prayeraccording to the use ofthe Episcopal Church”and the publicitysurrounding it stated thatit was the new edition ofthe American Prayer

Book, which appeared first in 1789 and wasminimally edited in 1892 & 1928. However,anyone who opened this new Book dated 1979knew that it was not a new edition of thehistoric, classic Prayer Book, for it belongedinstead to the new genre, the “Book ofAlternative Services”. Instead of doing what theChurch of England did and retaining The Book ofCommon Prayer and placing alongside it, but lowerthan it, a “Book of Alternative Services”, theEpiscopal Church redefined “Common Prayer”.From now on, this expression did not refer to afamiliar and historic Book with set texts forpublic prayer, which had been hallowed byconstant use, but rather it referred to a Book inwhich were certain basic and minimal commonstructures and ingredients. Further, the Episcopal

The Rev’d Dr. Peter Toon

What is the BCP?The Rev’d Dr. Peter Toon

reports on a disturbing new development


Church by this innovation dramatically rejectedthe historic Formularies and adopted new ones(Prayer Book & Ordinal) and thus its doctrinalbasis for worship, doctrine and discipline wasalso changed.

Regrettably, there was little if anycondemnation from outside the USA of whatwas both an act of piracy and an innovation inworship and doctrine, and so it is not surprisingthat other provinces in part or in wholefollowed the example of the American EpiscopalChurch—e.g., the Church in Wales in 1984, theChurch in the West Indies in 1995 and theChurch in Ireland in 2004.

With respect to the English edition of TheBook of Common Prayer for use in the Church inWales (1984) it has been said that it is amodern prayer book in traditional language. Wemay add that there are some grammaticalmistakes here and there where new texts havebeen created in supposed traditional language.Mistakes apart, this is not the traditional Book of1662; but rather a new Book wherein theservices are of a modern structure/shape with amixture of traditional and modern contents, buteverything is in so-called traditional language.Alongside it, there were official AlternativeServices in modern English & Welsh but theseare being incorporated into a new edition ofthe Book of Common Prayer in 2004 in both Englishand Welsh. Thus the BCP of 2004 will looknothing like the BCP before 1984.

The Book of Common Prayer: The Church of the Provinceof the West Indies (1995) is very different from theBCP of 1662. First of all, it is in contemporarylanguage and secondly the structure and contentof its Rites are modern, like the Rite Twocontemporary language provision of theAmerican 1979 Prayer Book. Though the BCP1662 is still used on a few Islands in a fewchurches by a bishop’s permission, the classicBCP is no longer the Formulary of the Church.

The Church of Ireland gives up the GhostIn May 2004, the Church of Ireland will beginto use its own new Book of Common Prayer according tothe use of the Church of Ireland. Unlike the West IndianBook but like the American Book (and also likethe English Common Worship) it contains Rites both

in traditional and contemporary language. Thusthere are two basic forms of the Service of HolyCommunion, one based on the text of the BCPof 1662 and one following the modern structureand contents. The latter has three EucharisticPrayers and many variations for season andcircumstance. The former has dropped the useof “the Holy Ghost” preferring “the HolySpirit”. Also there are two basic forms ofMorning & Evening Prayer, one based on theBCP 1662 and one similar to the modern Rite inthe American & West Indian Prayer Books.

At the official website of the Irish Church weread that: “The Church is again to have oneunifying Book of Common Prayer, including within itscovers material in both traditional andcontemporary language. It is to be hoped thatparishes which hitherto have worshipped moreor less exclusively in one idiom will now, atleast occasionally, try out material which is in adifferent style from what they normallyexperience.” Here the conversion of the title“Book of Common Prayer” is fully evident.There was a time not long ago when the IrishChurch had one Prayer Book, its own edition ofthe basic BCP of 1662. This went through twoeditions, those of 1871 and 1926. Then camethe era of trial, experimental and new servicesduring which time the Irish Church producedthe Alternative Prayer Book (1984) and then theAlternative Occasional Services (1993). Now selectionsfrom the two streams, the BCP & the innovative,are bound together into one volume and theold, traditional name of The Book of Common Prayeris used for the new collection. This new Bookalso becomes the chief Formulary of the IrishChurch.

I predict that this trend—of pirating thename—will soon be taken up by provinces inAfrica and Asia. When this occurs, the historicuse of the title The Book of Common Prayer will beused only by a tiny minority in the British Isles,North America and Australia. We must act nowto prevent this development!

The Rev’d Dr. Peter Toon, M.A., D.Phil.,Oxon.<[email protected] >

Priest-in-charge of Christ Church, Biddulph Moorand St Anne’s, Brown Edge, Staffs.)


COVENTRY DIOCESE covers most of theold county of Warwickshire. Its industrialbelt runs down through Nuneaton to

Coventry and all their satellites, but the southstretching from Leamington Spa, Kenilworth andWarwick to Stratford-upon-Avon and theCotswold edge tells a different tale. The branchmembership reflects this, too, and recruiting hasbeen most effective south of the diocesan ironcurtain between old industry and more firmlybased prosperity. The branch is almost wholly acreation of the 1980s; the present secretary recallsbeing given then a list of seven names of‘members’ in the diocese only to discover that hewas the only living person on the list. Now thereare some hundred members. It holds a big serviceof choral evensong each year in Hampton Lucychurch with a visiting choir and well knownpreacher and expects to attract a congregation ofalmost a hundred followed by the usual aprèsEvensong cakes and propaganda. September bringsa social evening in an attractive venue when aband of members produce fabulous food andwines after which there is a speaker. Recent yearshave brought a stained glass maker, a sympatheticMethodist scholar and the National chairman.Members have a chance to discuss ideas andbranch problems. We have a tradition ofsupporting churches who are struggling againstofficial indifference by trying to bring inmembers to their services. At one remote Prayer

Book church in a tiny parish our annual visit toEvensong is made memorable by its phenomenalposition and teas provided by the congregationwho in return get full pews, a good volume ofsinging and an officiant which we provide.

The branch has an energetic and innovativecommittee which involves itself in projects. Ithas visited the bishop, last year it produced anupdated and complete list of Prayer Bookservices (see Faith and Heritage 2002), and weenjoyed our first committee dinner this year.Branch members can’t quite fill a coacheconomically but we have an annual DIY outingwhere members drive themselves to a group ofchurches of note in an adjoining diocese. Lastyear we presented new ordinands with PrayerBooks and we sometimes subsidise churcheswho need prayer books. One member deals withthe branch’s not inconsiderable advertisingbudget and beards editors in their lairs, ensureswe appear on local radio and that our leafletsare in churches.

With all this we would be foolish tounderestimate the difficulties we, in commonwith so many other branches, face in continuingto recruit and make the voice of the PBS heardin the pews, to convert the tragically misguidedand occasionally pick up the pieces left byclerical duplicity.

PETER BOLTON

Branch Profile—Coventry


ADAY CONFERENCE for ordinands and newclergy was held at Exeter College, Oxfordon 15 November 2003. Thirteen came to

learn more about the Book of Common Prayer andhow it should be used in the ministry of theChurch today. We began with a service of HolyCommunion in the College chapel, celebrated bythe Chaplain, the Rev’d Dr Mark Birch, whogave generous support at the planning stage andduring the day. The programme of addresseswas opened by the distinguished writer FayWeldon, who spoke wittily and eloquently aboutthe excellence of the Book of Common Prayer. In therest of the morning there were talks by CanonProfessor Roy Porter on the history anddevelopment of the Prayer Book to 1662 andthe Rev’d Dr Roger Beckwith on the doctrinewhich it contains. After a good lunch in thecollege hall, the afternoon began with a talk bythe Rev’d Professor Raymond Chapman on thelanguage of the Prayer Book as it relates towider issues about the language of liturgy. TheRev’d Martin Garner, Rector of Ewelme, and theRev’d Paul Thomas, Assistant Curate ofWanstead, spoke about the pastoral use of the

Prayer Bookand invitedgeneraldiscussion. Itwas valuableto hear theviews of anexperiencedparish priestand of onewho isrecentlyordained butalreadydeeply intoparish work.After teathere was

time for further questions and discussion beforeevensong in the chapel.

What emerged from the day was evidencethat while the Book of Common Prayer is nottotally neglected in the theological colleges, atleast in Oxford, there is not much instruction inits history and its continuing place as thestandard of worship and doctrine in the Churchof England. It as also clear that there is agenuine desire among some ordinands and newclergy to be better informed about it, and agrowing appreciation of its importance. Theemphasis of the conference was on the livingreality of the book rather than on its literary andcultural qualities. The approach was a positivepresentation of its virtues and not an attack onall other orders of service, although inevitablythere were critical comments about aspects ofCommon Worship. The success of the day owedmuch to the preliminary work by John Serviceand Paul Thomas and the Society is grateful tothem and to those who gave their time to comeand speak.

The future of the Book of Common Prayer lies withthe next generation, led by the clergy inparishes and in the training colleges and courses.While lay parishioners may find it hard to maketheir desire for it prevail against anunsympathetic incumbent, a parish priest canmore easily take his flock in the right direction.It is to be hoped that this first venture will leadto many more, but this must depend largelyupon local Branches. Advice and guidance frompast experience will be gladly given, but thosewho carried through the day at Oxford cannothope to work all over the country. Local action,with knowledge of the regional colleges andcourses, and the availability of speakers, canmake this one of the most important newinitiatives of the Prayer Book Society. We hopeto hear from you.

RAYMOND CHAPMAN

The Prayer Book Today for the clergyof Tomorrow

The Rev’d Professor Raymond Chapman

in the form of a record of a tax valuation of 1254 when thevalue of the benefice was assessed at £8.

At least four churches are thought tohave stood on the site and parts of thecruciform church (Easter sanctuary, piscinaand sedile) built in 1334 can still be seenincorporated into 14th and 15th centuryadditions. The completed cruciform churchwas dedicated on the 13th July 1336 aspart of Bishop Grandisson of Exeter’s‘progress’ around Cornwall. He dedicated thenew building and rededicated the site. For200 years this date was kept as a specialFeast Day, in fact a public holiday enforcedby law. But as so many of these feast daysfell close together, making it difficult insome places to gather the harvest

LOCATED IN the westernmost of the nineancient hundreds of Cornwall, St. Just-in-Penwith or Lanuste, ‘Church-site of St. Just’ has

been described as being ‘set in a granite and greenstonecountry of windswept treeless farm tenements and black, carncrowned moors’. Founded by Saint Just, one of thesons of a 5th century Cornish King Gerient I,the site has seen Christian worship for overfifteen hundred years, providing the religiousfocus for the small farms and fishingcommunities in the parish.

Evidence of the Church’s great antiquityabounds; the Selus memorial stone commemoratingSaint Just’s brother, Selevan, dates from the late5th or early 6th century; a length of cross shaftdecorated by Cornish craftsmen in the Hiberno-Saxonstyle dated towards the end of the 8th or early 9thcentury; and an associated holy well and amediaeval playing place or Plên-an-Gwary. Theearliest written evidence about the Church survives


Prayer Book Church of the MonthSt. Just-in-Penwith Parish Church

West Cornwall

Below:The Selus m

Below:A packed church for Prayer Book HolyCommunion. Right:The Sanctuary.

successfully, an Act of 1536 declareda prohibited period and moved thefeast days within it. St. Just’s Feastcame within this period and wasaccordingly transferred to the Sundaynearest All Saints’ Day. Today St. JustFeast is still actively celebratedcombining, as it does, leisure pursuitswith religious observance and folkloricritual.

Inside the Church the first thingthat strikes the visitor’s eye is the wayin which the interior walls have hadtheir plaster removed to reveal theCornish random rubble style ofconstruction; a style which isaccentuated by the pitch lining andblack pointing of the natural granite which has heightened

the effect of being at one with the mostbeautiful moorland and cliff scenery in oneof the wildest and most picturesque parts ofCornwall.

Unusually for Cornish Churches, thedressed stone of the internal arches, pillarsand their capitals are formed fromlimestone, thought to have been shaped bymasons from Brittany with which the areahas many long-standing connections. Someof the capitals have angels bearing theshields and arms of de Beaupré, Bray andFitz Ive, three wealthy families intimatelyconnected with the 1334 church. The largeeast windows of the North and South Aisleare remarkable.

The fine secco wall paintings of ‘St. Georgeand the Dragon’ and ‘Christ of the Trades’ datefrom the 15th century. During theReformation everything colourful anddecorative was considered popish anddeemed inappropriate, and instructionswere given for them to be covered withwhitewash. This didn’t happen in St. Justuntil Puritan days when the parishionersbowed to convention and covered themwith lime wash. More coats would havebeen added over the centuries so thepaintings stayed hidden until the majorrestoration of the Church in 1865.

This part of the world played host to thePrayer Book Rebellion of 1549. The Cornishwere outraged—literally up in arms—about

the new Book of Common Prayer that was written inEnglish. They petitioned the King saying that thenew service was, “Like a Christmas game . . . we willhave our old service of Mattins, Mass, Evensong and Processionin Latin as it was before. And so we the Cornish men (whereofcertain of us understand no English) utterly refuse this newEnglish.” Cranmer failing to understand that fromearly times Latin had been used for the bulk ofthe service but the Creed, Commandments andother parts of the Liturgy had been celebrated inCornish.

Today, all services at St Just Parish Church arefrom the Book of Common Prayer. (in English. . . Ed.)

ANDREW BURTAndrew Burt is a local historian who has just

written a full history of St. Just Church


The Lady Chapel with its stained glass window.The four main lights of the windowdepict (from L to R) The Adoration of the Magi, (St Matthew 2:11) The ChildJesus in the Temple with the doctors of the Law (St Luke 2:46),The feeding ofthe five thousnd (St John 6:9) and Jesus blesses the children (St. Mark 10:16)

Below:The Rev’d Stephen Leach, vicar of St Just andChairman of the Prayer Book Society’s Truro Branch,delivering his sermon at the St. Just Feast service ofHoly Communion.

memorial stone

The Bishop of SalisburyFrom Mr. C. Pierpoint of Llandrindod Wells

Sir,I was appalled by the letter from the Rev’d Dr. J.R. H. Railton in your Advent issue in connectionwith Nick Bradbury’s interview with the Bishopof Salisbury in your previous issue. For my partI congratulate Mr Bradbury for his expose of theBishop’s pomposity and deviousness and alsoyou as editor for publishing it.

The Prayer Book Society as a whole andRaymond Chapman in particular have madestrenuous efforts to get across the fact that some“traditional” parts of Common Worship are nota substitute for the Book of Common Prayer.Clearly the message has not yet reached Dr.Railton or the thousands(?) of parish priests towhom he refers in his letter.

Accusations of arrogance, ignorance andparanoia are a bit rich considering the attitudeof the mis-named liberals who have attacked thePrayer Book Society so savagely over the lastthirty years. But the gloves are now off, Dr.Railton, and I suspect that he will be readingand hearing more, not less a là Bradbury, in thenear future.

Yours sincerely,Christopher Pierpoint

Not the Business of the P.B.S.

From Mr. J. R. Moore of Chudleigh Knighton,Devon.

Sir,The Exeter branch sent out an invitation in Julyto a “Service, Seminar & Social Occasion” to be held in September. The purpose was to“Study the future of the Church of England and

our Society’s role in it”. The speakers were tobe Neil Inkley and Mrs. Margaret Brown.On arriving at the hotel it was announced thatthe afternoon address would be given by Dr. the Rev’d Roger Beckwith in the event of Mrs.Brown’s ill Health. The subject would be “the Christian Faith and the Third ProvinceMovement”. I soon realised that most of the 35or so members present were also supporters ofthe Forward in Faith movement as I was facedwith a stony silence when I pointed out that thesubject had nothing to do with the Prayer Book Society.

It seems to this member that there is anucleus of senior officers both nationally and inthe branches to whom the preservation of amale priesthood is of greater importance thanthe use of the BCP—especially as the so called‘Traditionalist’ F i F movement have a minorityof churches using it. The situation as it is shouldbe quietly accepted and that the PBS in its own influential way could achieve at least some of itsobject.

Yours faithfully,John R. Moore

“Knowledge is Power!”

From Mr J. Allport of Beccles, Suffolk.

Sir,I would like to respond to your editorial ofAdvent 2003; “I KNOW MY RIGHTS!”

The editorial suggests not many of we layChristians in the Anglican Church know ourrights when it comes to the choice of liturgy;and ensuring a congregation retain the service oftheir choice. But happily in most cases therelationship between the priest and thecongregation is excellent. The editorialencourages members of the congregation whowant to preserve Book of Common Prayer services totell their PCC members, better still to stand forthe PCC.

Right, we are on the PCC and the DeanerySynod, because we perhaps think our Vicar’sservices are too Evangelical for our tastes; andthere your editorial stops.

Of course as it must be with every church;here in North Suffolk where the majority of


Letters to the Editor

Letters from readers are welcomed. The editorreserves the right to edit submissions.Opinions expressed do not necessarilycorrespond with those of the editor

or of the Prayer Book Society as a whole.

congregations number between 15 and 30;every church member is extremely precious, andwhile we have got to be attracting newmembership, we have a primary responsibilityof care for faithful BCP Christians andtraditionalists, which the Anglican Churchrecognises.

The worse case scenario for a little countryparish church is when one or two of the faithfulfew start saying, “I am not happy with the services, I amthinking of leaving”. Then; we the PCC want toknow we can put that right in double quicktime. But, more importantly, how?

To achieve that, we require the knowledge.What we need is a series of easily assimilatedarticles on the up-to-date rights and procedures.For instance as I understand it: If you live in theparish, you have a common law right to go andattend every or any service. If you live in theparish, or are a regular church attender, youhave a right to go on the Church Electoral Roll.If you are on the Church Electoral Roll you havea Seat, a Voice and a Vote.

The ‘Worship and Doctrine’ Measure of I974 sets outthe powers and duties of the PCC andincumbent in regard to the choice of services.This ought to be obtainable from HMSO but isout of print. There is also an explanatory leafletobtainable from Church House bookshop priced50p, or by post 75p. The title is ‘Public Worship inthe Church of England.’ I wonder how many of yourmembers are aware of these leaflets?

If your member does get elected to theDeanery Synod, who will briefhim as to his powers and duties,and give him a copy of StandingOrders?

Why not give some space inyour quarterly journal to a seriesof short explanatory articles insimple form, dealing withcontentious matters at PCC level.

Step forward a legal white knight!Yours sincerely,John Allport QGM, BEM A PCC Secretary.

I realise that my editorial had itsshortcomings, but the idea was tostimulate discussion. Thank you fortaking up the challenge, Mr. Allport, Ihope you are the first of many. I have

been on the PCC, Deanery and Diocesan Synods for anumber of years, and it was the comparative paucity ofPBS members on such bodies that spurred me to writethat piece in the last Journal. Ed.

A Case of “We told you so”?

From Mrs. J. Mans of Pinner, Middlesex

Sir,We in the Prayer Book Society have alwaysknown that watered-down liturgy was likely tolead to watered-down doctrine and watered-down morality. We as a race have indeedoffended against God’s holy laws, and we haveindeed followed too much the devices anddesires of our own hearts. We are, in fact, nowreaping what we have sown. I am sure therewill be many (myself included) who will nowbe reviewing previous tolerant attitudes in thelight of what now seems to have been theinevitable outcome.

It is tempting to say ‘we told you so’, but inthe current climate of confusion and anxiety wemust work with all our might for the return ofthe Prayer Book for main services. We need toget back on track, and I believe each and everymember of the PBS needs to use this unhappytime as an opportunity to press this messagehome.

We cannot sit back and do nothing. Thereare powerful forces at work in the UK. Anyone


Liturgical Laugh by Phud

No, it’s not one of our YouthGroup; it’s our new Bishop

in doubt about this should visit the website ofInclusive Church (www.inclusivechurch.net).This is a legally constituted organisation whichis promoting unscriptural behaviour behind thesmokescreen of ‘inclusiveness’. A large numberof churches (clergy, PCCs and individuals) havesigned their declaration of belief which states‘....in the ordering of our common life to openthe ministries of deacon, priest and bishop tothose so called to serve by God, regardless oftheir sex, race or sexual orientation’. My localparish church is among them, and I know anumber of congregation members are veryunhappy about this.

With this in mind, would it be a good ideafor the PBS to produce a handbill or a leaflet,appropriately worded, aimed at those who feelthe time has come to take stock of what hashappened and to get back to some basics, soclearly defined in the Book of Common Prayer?Some clergy obviously need reminding of thevows taken at their ordination, some clearlyneed reminding (if they ever took them onboard in the first place) of the Articles ofReligion. A number of Bishops seem to needreminding of a thing or two as well, but asmost of us do not move in such exalted circleswe have to start somewhere. Perhaps if eachmember could have a small bundle of leafletsthey could be distributed to disaffectedchurchpeople (we must all know some!) as itseems we must work from within if no firmline is going to be taken by those in authority.

Yours faithfully,Jill Mans.

Can anyone help us?From Mr. R Simpson of Toller Fratrum, Dorset

Sir,I am writing for advice on the matter of theliturgical integrity of the Book of Common Prayer andCommon Worship.

As a small Dorset country church with aregular and faithful congregation committed toregular worship using only the Book of CommonPrayer, we are feeling very uncomfortable as weare being put under pressure to accept CommonWorship elements as part of our Book of CommonPrayer services. Recently we had an instance of a

Common Worship epistle reading being insistedupon during our service of Holy Communion,against our wishes and at the expense of thecorrect BCP reading for the day. Apparently thismeans less work for the preacher in that it savesextra work in preparing a separate sermon basedon a BCP related epistle, when most others inour Team Ministry area are either using CommonWorship components in their services, or havingservices based entirely on the Common Worshipbook.

I am sure that many other churches will beexperiencing the same mixture of integrities,whether intentional or otherwise. We as a bodyfind it unacceptable, as we are designated as aBCP only church.

Could you please advise us? What technicallyis the legal position, if there is one, in such aninstance? .

Yours faithfully,Roger SimpsonChurchwarden

The Scottish Prayer BookFrom The Secretary of the Scottish Prayer BookSociety

SirI was very interested in the Ven. David Griffiths’article on the bibliography of the Book of CommonPrayer in the last issue of’ the Journal. However Ithink that his remarks on the 1929 Scottish PrayerBook should, perhaps, be clarified slightly.

It is not true to say that the use of the 1929Scottish Prayer Book only became widespread inScotland after it was adopted by the AmericanEpiscopal Church. In fact the Scottish prayerbook which the American church adopted andfrom which the present American Prayer Book isderived, was that of 1764. It is certainly truethat for most of’ the C19th the majority ofScottish Episcopal churches used the English1662 Book of Common Prayer; the Scottish Liturgywas mainly confined to the Episcopal heartlandin the north-east of the country. The 1929revision of’ the Scottish prayer book came aboutas a consequence of the growth of a feeling ofScottish identity among the educated classes inthe country early in the last century. This bookquickly became popular. It is this Book which


the Scottish Prayer Book Society exists to defend.Such defence became necessary with thepublication of the modern language version ofthe Scottish liturgy in 1980.

Another point in the same article puzzled mesomewhat. When writing about James VII & II’sviews on a French translation of the Book ofCommon Prayer Mr. Griffiths comments thishappened “very early in his reign (long beforeJames abandoned the Church of England)” Iwould be interested to know quite what ismeant by this as I had thought that James hadalready abandoned the Church of England whilehe was Duke of York. His public refusal to takethe sacrament according to the Anglican rite atEaster 1671 made his conversion to Romeobvious to all.

Yours sincerely,Mrs. P. R. Fleetwood

Robert Southey’s Traditions live on inBristolFrom Mrs. J. D. Morris of Bristol.

Sir,Roger Beckwith’s mention of Robert Southey inhis article in the Trinity issue of the Journal,prompts me to write that those of us at ChristChurch (City) Bristol, the church which Southey

attended, are still using The Book of Common Prayerhe so loved, in sung services, accompanied bythe organ under which his family pew waslocated, and enhanced by a choir of men’s andboys’ voices. How fortunate we are!

Southey’s family lived around the cornerfrom the church at number 9 Wine Street, andhe was christened at the church, where hisfather, Robert, was Churchwarden. His amusingand informative letters tell us that following theCollect on Sundays, and when not talking to hisbrother Tom, his attention often strayed duringthe sermon to the Book of Revelations, thisbeing his ‘favourite part of the Christianreligion’. Today a plaque marks the site of thehouse where the Southey family lived.

He mentions, too, the old quarter-boys,missing for a time following the rebuilding ofthe church in 1791 (and owing, he says ‘toWine Streeters having no taste for the arts’).However they were subsequently retrieved andrestored to strike the quarter-hours as they didin Southey’s day. New generations of childrenstill wait expectantly, in the arms of parentswho must themselves have waited, for themagical moment when the boys lift up theirarms to strike.

Yours sincerely,Mrs. J D MorrisHon. Membership Secretary, Bristol Branch


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John Moses (Editor) “One Equal Light—ananthology of the writings of John Donne”, with aForeword by Rowan Williams,Canterbury Press, 2003, 352pp, £20,ISBN 1 85311 540 1

Having been Deanof St Paul’s forten years, John

Donne died in 1631aged 59, a goodly agefor those days. Twoyears later was publishedthe first collection of hispoems and in 1640 anedition of 70 sermons.Ever since then hisworks have been re-issued, biographies and critiques written.

His fascination for us stems from the manand his intellect. As a man he resembles StAugustine of Hippo in having sinned muchwhen young and then become a greatchurchman. He lived in a world grappling withgreat theological, scientific and moral questions.A world of strict codes and loose lives. As man,poet and then preacher he tries to reconcileopposites, resolve the conflict of carnal andspiritual longings, to integrate the worlds ofreality and imagination. In this he was thefounder of the metaphysical school of poets, aninfluence which has lasted to this day. Hispoetry was, and to some still is, difficult in itsirregular rhythms and ellipses and in itsallusiveness.

Donne wrote in the Golden Age of Englishwriting and as our poet archbishop says in hisForeword, he “has the capacity to deposit aphrase in the mind that will echo for years”. Asdoes the Prayer Book, the King James Bible andShakespeare.

Dr Moses, the present Dean of St Paul’s, hasput together an anthology of extracts from hispredecessor’s works. There is an excellentintroduction: “the man and his meaning”,“poet, propagandist and preacher” and “dean”.

There are one thousand quotations of which800 from the sermons. He classifies these in thetwo parts, Humanity (5) section and Divinity(16), spread over up to 20 groups of items. TheContents pages are an essential guide and enableus to browse or to follow Donne’s thoughts onany aspect of Life and Spirit.

Thus, the section on “The Work of Christ”gives us six groups:

Incarnation: including “Annunciation” fromDonne’s sonnet sequence “La Corona”.

The Representative Man: has two extractsincluding the following:

“God tooke into his mercie, all mankinde inone person: As intirely, as all mankinde was inAdam, all mankinde was in Christ; and as theseale of the Serpent is in all, by originall sinne,so the seale of God, Christ Jesus, is on us all, byhis assuming our nature.”

Nativity: “The manger cradled infant, Godbelow” followed by “Nativitie” from La Corona.And then, from Divine Meditation XIII:

“Though the Church doe now call Twelf-dayEpiphany, because upon that day Christ wasmainfested to the Gentiles, in those Wise menwho came then to worship him, yet the AncientChurch called this day, (the day of Christ’sbirth) the Epiphany, because this day Christ wasmanifested to the world, by being born this day.Every manifestation of Christ to the world, tothe church, to a particular soule, is an Epiphany,a Christmas Day.”

“Sacrifice for Sin”, 22 items including onlythe last 5 lines of sonnet 5 of La Corona.Nonetheless, some interesting and useful “bites”which will leave those new to Donne gaspingfor more.

If you wish to pick a complete poem orsermon, then other collections will be required.If you wish to pick a topic and read whatDonne has to say about it in verse and sermon,then the present book will prove a delightfultreasure house. For those of us who alreadyknow Donne’s works, the book gives a valuablenew way of getting into the mind of this greattheologian, poet and preacher.

DAVID DENDY


Reviews

CDs of Boy Singers.

1. THE BETTER LAND Great BoySopranos. Recorded 1914 to 1944.Amphion PHI CD 158

2. THE BETTER LAND VOLUME 4Great Boy Sopranos. Recorded1927 to 1954. Amphion PHI CD 168

3. ONCE WERE ANGELS. Thetradition of Boy Trebles (1964-89)Griffin GCCD 4040

EACH CD CONTAINS a variety of piecessung by many boy soloists and we hear agradual change of voice from boy soprano

to treble. My parents loved the boy soprano voices of

Ernest Lough and the others who were so muchin vogue in the days of the shellac 78 rpmrecord. Some popularity remains and these threeCDs show us a wide range of the boys’ setpieces. Ask anyone who remembers the goldenage of the boy soprano why they were soenamoured of the genre and, if not fumblingfor words, they will say “it’s nice”. These boys,lifted by Thalben-Ball and others from the choirstalls, were transferred to “Friday-night is MusicNight” and similar programmes of light enter-tainment. Together with singers of operettas andcornettists They delighted and charmed.

Choristers have been likened to birds—forcenturies the choirboys of cathedrals in German-speaking cities have been called Domspätzen—Cathedral sparrows. In these three CDs 13% aresongs to do with birds! Little boys with pipingvoices certainly give that impression.

However, these lads did have considerabletalent, waybeyond what isnow transferred toCD. Ifcomparisons areto be made itmust be withequivalent femalevoices of the samerecording period,

that is, acousticuntil 1926, electricbut still 78s untilthe coming of the33 (vinyl.).Whoever thesinger, the earlyrecords, evenwhen transferredto CD, can only beof historic interest and cannot compete in otherways with the superb stereo quality we havecome to expect.

The third CD is more recent and therecordings are in stereo. This makes for atremendous improvement in quality. However,even with more recent records, away from hischurch environment the boy singer competeswith the professional soprano and this is a pity:

a boy attempting aSchubert Lied oran Aria from anOratorio cannotcompare to amature womanwith twenty ormore yearsexperience andmusical education.

On these CDs there are many sentimentalsongs, some lieder, many arias from Handel,Mendelsohn, et al. The sentimental songs“work” because that is what attracted a hugepublic to the boy sopranos of the day. Thechurch solos work on the modern CD and makefor pleasant listening.

If you regret the disappearance of that typeof boy’s voice and its repertoire, buy these CDs.If you feel that Harnoncourt’s use of boysoloists in Bach Cantatas was a dreadful mistake,you will find on these interpretations of theBaroque even more embarrassing! Thebreathiness, the straining for high notes, theneutral colour of the voice and the lack ofemotional understanding, whether in Lieder orreligious depth in the church solos, suggest thatboys should be kept in the church choir withsolos such as that in the Allegri Miserere.

DAVID DENDY


“No Thanks!” or “Yes, Indeed!”A COMMINATIONOr Denouncing of God’s Anger

and Judgements against Sinners.

In earlier years, the serviceof Commination in the Bookof Common Prayer was regularly

heard in out churches, andparticularly in the Season ofLent. Sadly many would objectto it today, because it confessesGod’s cursing against sinnersand our cry for mercy.

The need of such repentanceis overdue in these days, whenthe breaking of the TenCommandments is morerampant than ever, and the veryexistence of sin is largelyrejected. And this when theevidence of it is all before usand around us.

Why should we avoid theexpressing of God’s cursing ofsinners? We must face the factthat it occurs again and againin the bible; and we recall 1 Timothy 1:15 “This is a faithfulsaying and worthy of all acceptation, thatChrist Jesus came into the world to savesinners; of whom I an chief”, andGalatians 3:13 “Christ hath redeemedus from the curse of the law, being madea curse for us.”

Little wonder that the Rev’dH. I. Bailey in his “Liturgy”links every sentence of theCommination with its Biblereference. Is it not ofsignificance that a Service ofCommination is omitted fromCommon Worship?

In his book “Through the PrayerBook, An Exposition”, Dr. DysonHague wrote:

“We do not know of any service inthe Prayer Book that has been more

generally objected to, and more roundlydemonised by the laity than ourCommination Service. It is common tohear men say: I will not go to church onAsh Wednesday to curse my neighbours,nor to hear somebody else cursing them.Of course, the idea is a complete mistake.It is not a service for cursing ourneighbours. No one curses anyone, itwould be utterly out of place for a poorsinful human to do so, especially whenour blessed Lord and Saviour has said,“Judge not that ye be not judged.” Whatis done is this. The minister, after asimple explanation of the reason for it,reads the general sentences of God’s cursingagainst impenitent sinners and asks thepeople to answer every sentence, Amen. Itmust be remembered that we live in anage when the sense of sin has almostvanished.

“The whole service is obviouslyintended to awaken the sense of guilt, andat the same time to declare the gloriousGospel of the grace of God. We questionwhether in the whole compass of thePrayer Book there is to be found a servicemore fervent, more scriptural, moretouching in its pathos, more searching inits appeal, and one that is more calculatedto arouse the impenitent and leadunconverted souls to Christ.”

The Service of Comminationis, of course, in union withArticle 9: “Of Original or Birth-sin” and Article 15 “Of Christalone without Sin”, both ofwhich are completely provedfrom scripture, as shown byBailey’s “Liturgy”. (The articles,again, are omitted fromCommon Worship. Why?)

STANLEY WARD.A Service of Comminationfollowing Morning Prayer will beheld for the Chelmsford Branch atSt Mary’s Church,Writtle at 11a.m. on Saturday 20th March,taken by the Vicar, the Rev’dMichael Jones. Details from:David Martin, 01371 820591.


Global Warming?

We are indebted to CanonIan Pulford of Charlton

Kings near Cheltenham who hassent a copy of Letter From Home, asplendid little magazine that heproduces four times a year. Inhis Christmas issue there is ashort piece entitled Global Warming(see below) which we thoughtmight amuse PBS Journal readersand remind them of lesscomfortable times.

DisconnectedJottings

Christmas Day, 1871. As I lay awake praying in theearly morning, I thought Iheard the sound of distantbells. It was an intense frost. Isat down in my bath upon asheet of thick ice which brokein the middle into large pieceswhilst sharp points and jaggededges stuck all around thesides of the tub like chevaux defrise, not particularly com-forting to naked thighs andloins, for the keen ice cut likebroken glass. The ice waterstung and scorched like fire. Ihad to collect the floatingpieces of ice and pile them ona chair before I could thaw thesponge in my hands for it wasa mass of ice. The morningwas most brilliant.The churchwas very cold in spite of tworoaring stove fires.

The Rev’d Francis Kilvert


An Autumn Event inDevon

EXETER BRANCH MEMBERStravelled across Devon to

participate in a day of lectures anddiscussions held at the ThurlestoneHotel near Kingsbridge. Aftergreetings by the Branch Chairman,Lt. Col. A. J. M. Drake, coffee wasserved and our first talk was givenby our former National Vice-Chairman, Mr. Neil Inkley, underthe intriguing title “Where have wegot to? How did we get there andwhat can we do about it?” Hetraced the changes in our liturgyover past years and emphasised theimportance of the Society’s work inour Branches, Parishes and pews. Itis here that our victory can be wonif we keep the Parishes autonomousand strong. Many requests weremade for copies of this talk togetherwith its stories and humorousillustrations.

After an enjoyable finger buffet

lunch, we settled down for a talk onThe Third Province. Originally Mrs.Margaret Brown was to speak but,due to her illness, Dr. RogerBeckwith kindly deputised for her atshort notice. He pointed out theaims and advantages of the Third

Province andencouragedmembers to readfurther from theliterature provided.

Beforeafternoon tea weheld an OpenForum and invitedmembers tocontribute to thediscussion withwritten and oralquestionsconcerning ChurchLife. The Speakerswere joined byMr. Charles

Farrow, Chairman of the NorwichBranch and a Trustee of the Societyand The Venerable Robin Ellis,Branch member and formerlyArchdeacon of Plymouth. Mr.Farrow’s presence and help on thisPanel were much appreciated as hecame at short notice.

The day ended with Evensong inThurlestone Parish Church by kindpermission of the Rector, CanonAndrew Girling, who took theservice, assisted by the Rev’d KShafee. We were joined by Mr.Patrick Martin, our own SW Trustee,who had to attend the DiocesanConference earlier in the day.

Some Thurlestone parishionersattended the service, as did amember of the Rochester Branch, onholiday in the area.

There followed some longjourneying home after a veryenjoyable occasion.

JOAN URWIN

Reportsfrom theBranches

Over 100 members attended theOxford Branch visit to BroughtonCastle near Banbury for theirautumn meeting, being joined bymembers of Peterborough andCoventry Branches. After a tourround the castle and tea, allatended choral evensong inBroughton Church adjoining thecastle.There was a choir drawnfrom the Benefice with addedstrength from members of thePBS. Above: PBS membersadmiring some of the English CivilWar relics in Broughton Cadstle.Left: “Have a care!” (Civil Warequivalent of “Aaaa-ten-shun!”).Trooper Horne (A. K. A. Oxfordbranch Hon.Treasurer GeoffreyHorne) tries out a lobster-tailcavalry helmet and a breast-platefor size. In his left hand he holds apartizan.

[Photos: Judith Burman

Seen at the Exeter Branch Autumn meeting; (left toright) Charles Farrow, Lt. Col. A. J. M. Drake, ExeterBranch Chairman,The Rev’d Dr. Roger Beckwith, andNeil Inkley, Hon Sec./Treasurer of Blackburn Branch.

Oxford Branch’s NineLessons and Carols

HALF-PAST THREE on the 20thDecember saw a new venture

for the Oxford Branch when about ahundred people came to St.Michael’s at the North Gate, in the

Salisbury’s Advent CarolService

THE SALISBURY BRANCH held itsAdvent Carol Service again this

year at the Church of St. Martin,Barford St. Martin, near Wilton,courtesy of the vicar, the Rev’d JohnStaples.

Bell ringers who were all branchmembers, rang the church bellsbefore the beginning of the service,which consisted of Advent carolsand lessons read by members of thebranch, the youngest reader beingMiss Thea Bradbury, the nine-year-old daughter of Vice Chairman ofthe Society, Nick Bradbury.

The resident organist, Mr. DavidDavies, played for the carols and avoluntary and solo music of J. S. Bach.

Appreciation of the well-attendedservice was expressed on all sides andmembers who wished were able tohave lunch at the nearby Barford Inn.

Ian Woodhead, Salisbury Branch

chairman, said ‘It was probably thebest Advent carol service we havehad so far. It was good to see youngchildren attending with their parentsand the church was full.’

JOY RABBETS

News from LichfieldBranch

ABOUT 30 MEMBERS attendedthe Annual Dinner at the Moat

House Hotel, Acton Trussell. After adelicious meal, we were edified andentertained by the speaker, the Rev’dHugh Baker of the Peel parishes.

Earlier in the year, the AGM washeld at Berwick House, nearShrewsbury, home of Mr and Mrs R.Angell-James. This was followed byEvening Prayer at the church, wherethe lessons were read beautifully bythe winner and runner-up in the

Lichfield Cranmer Awardscompetition. Afterwards, we enjoyedan excellent buffet supper atBerwick House.

Tremendous PR Coup forNorwich Branch

NORWICH BRANCH gainedvaluable publicity for they

Scoiety when they succeesed ingetting Anne Robinson (of WeakestLink fame) to be a judge for theirCranmer Awards heat recently. Notonly did the lady judge, but shealso wrote a splendid piece abouther experience in her weeklycolumn in the Sunday Telegraph. Aphotographer from the Eastern DailyPress attended and we are indebtedto them for their kind permission touse two of their photos of thissplendid occasion. (see opposite)


More Reports fromthe Branches

The Oxford PBS Ad Hoc Choir had some twenty-one members (drawnmainly from the Oxford Branch) who overflowed the choir stalls at StMichael’s slightly.They had less than an hour’s rehearsal before theservice, having met together for the first time at 2.00 p.m. thatafternoon.They were conducted by Dr. David Dendy, a member of theBranch committee.The service will be held again on Saturday 18thDecember 2004 at 3.30pm. [photo:Ann Dendy

centre of Oxford, for a traditionalcarol service. A choir was formedfor the service from members of theP.B.S., and lessons were read byvolunteers—mostly laity, but theninth read by Rev’d Dr. RogerBeckwith.

The carols were the traditionalfavourites, but the choir sang aPolish carol, ‘On the night when Jesuscame’, which was new to mostpeople, and ‘While Shepherds Watched’was sung to a ‘West Gallery’ settingfrom Puddletown in Dorset;combining the traditional with theunfamiliar.

As it was the Saturday afternoonbefore Christmas, several peoplecame ‘off the street’, includingvisitors from Spain, and a couplefrom Germany who stayed not justfor the service but for the mulledwine and mince pies afterwards.

The Branch’s thanks go not onlyto the volunteers and helpers, butJohn Oxlade, the skilful organist,Rev’d Hugh Lee who took theservice and made his churchavailable to us, and the memberswho turned out in strength to goeven unto Bethlehem to see the Babelying in a manger.

JOHN MITCHELL

Norwich Branch proved that they are not "The Weakest Link" when their President, Greville Howard, arrangedfor Anne Robinson to judge the Branch Heat of the Cranmer Awards, and present the prizes. The usual eightcontestants suddenly soared to thirty four, drawn from nine Schools. Anne Robinson had a hard task in judgingthe Junior and Senior sections, so good were the contestants. She is seen (left) giving the famous wink, andflanked by the two winners, David Wigy, (Junior) and Samuel Hinton (Senior,) both from Norwich School.Right: For the benefit of the Press, a contestant posed in front of the full team, who are left to right, GrevilleHoward,Anne Robinson, Charles Farrow, Branch Chairman, and Alison Wilson, Branch Committee Member.


NOTICE:On Saturday, 3rd April 2004, 3 meetings will be held at St. Mary Abbot’s Church Hall,

Vicarage Gate, Kensington, London at 11.15 a.m.:

(1) The 62nd & final Executive Council of the old charity:

AGENDA:will be limited to these 3 items ONLY

(i) Motion [the Chairman] to receive and approve the final Annual Report and the samebe laid before the AGM;

(ii) Motion [the Treasurer] to receive and approve final audited Accounts for the lastFinancial year of the old charity to 31st December 2003 and the same be laid beforethe AGM;

(iii) The giving of thanks for the services of the Executive Council

(2) The Annual General Meeting of the old charity

AGENDA:will be limited to these 2 items ONLY

(i) Motion [the Chairman]: the final Annual Report for the last year of the old charity beapproved and adopted;

(ii) Motion [the Treasurer]: the final audited Accounts for the last Financial year of theold charity to 31st December 2003 be approved and adopted.

No further Notice of this last meeting of the Executive Council or of the last AGM will be given

So soon as these meetings have been concluded, there will be held :

(3) a Meeting of the Branches’ Representative Council of the new charityBranch Committees are urged to appoint as soon as possible their voting member

and another member to the BRC.The Chairman of the new charity will take the chair for the first item of business, the electionby the BRC of its own Chairman. The remainder of the agenda is then for the BRC. The Boardwill be ready to submit a Report to the BRC. The Board invites the BRC specifically for itsviews on the venue of the first full AGM in 2005 and subsequent years thereafter.

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FEBRUARY

ASH WEDNESDAY, 25TH BRISTOL

5.30pm. at The Lord Mayor’s Chapel;Choral Eucharist with the impositionof Ashes, with choir of BristolGrammar School.

MARCH

SUN. 14TH BIRMINGHAM

10.30am. at St George’s Church,Edgbaston. Choral Matins followedby A.G.M. and buffet lunch.

SAT. 20TH CHELMSFORD.11 a.m. at St Mary’s Church Writtle:Morning Prayer followed by theService of Commination. Details:David Martin, � 01371 820 591.

SUN 21ST OXFORD

3.00 p.m. Commemoration ofThomas Cranmer’s Martyrdom,Evensong in St Michael-at-the-NorthGate, followed by wreath-laying atthe Martyrs’ Memorial and Tea.Members of all Branches welcome.

SAT. 27TH BATH & WELLS.Starting at 10.45am. in the CareyRoom, The Old Deanery, Wells. PBSDay and AGM. 12 noon: Matins inthe Cathedral Quire conducted bt FrRobert Webb; organist RobertJohnson. 1.00 pm. Lunch. 2.00pm;The Selby Lecture given by Rev’dDr. Francis Bridger, Principal ofTrinity College, Bristol.

SAT. 27TH HEREFORD

2.00 p.m. at the Forbury ChapelLeominster. Branch AGM. For

further details contact the BranchSecretary.

SAT. 27TH SALISBURY

2.15 pm at Dinton Village Hall.Branch AGM. Speaker Fay Weldon-Fox. Tea, followed by Evensong atAll Saints Church conducted by Rev’dJohn Staples.

SUN 28TH BATH & WELLS WITH

BRISTOL.11.00am at Bath Abbey; ChoralMatins in commemoration ofCranmer’s Martyrdom. Followed bylunch in the Pump Room.

SUN. 28TH CHICHESTER

11.15am. at Milland near Liss, WestSussex: Sung Matins and HolyCommunion for Passion Sunday.

Celebrant: The Rev’d David Brown,Preacher: Prof. the Rev’d RaymondChapman. Followed by lightrefreshments. Milland borders on theDioceses of Guildford, Winchesterand Portsmouth so members ofthose Branches will be made verywelcome. Details from Ada Zahoui� 01273 463 139.

APRIL

FRI. 23RD BRISTOL

7.30pm. At Christ Church, BroadStreet, Bristol. AGM with address byFr. Robert Britton. Followed by lightrefreshments and an evening service.

MAY

FRI. 7TH BATH & WELLS

Starting at 10.30am at Abbey House,Glastonbury. Quiet Day to beconducted by Bishop Michael Ball.(Cost £12.00 including coffee, lunchand tea.)

SAT. 8TH SALISBURY

2.15pm. at Puddletown Village Hall.Speaker: Dr. D. Stevens followed bytea and Evensong in the Church ofSt. Mary the Virgin conducted byRev’d J. V. Walton

SAT. 8TH CHELMSFORD

3.00 p.m. Annual Service of EveningPrayer at Little Clacton St James.Preacher: The Rev’d John Turner,who is a member of the Branch.

SAT. 15TH ROCHESTER

1.15pm. in the Lady Chapel,Rochester Cathedral; Branch AGM.2.00pm. Speaker: The Rev’d Dr.Peter Mullen. 3.15pm. CathedralChoral Evensong. All members andfriends welcome; contact George orJoanna Comer � 01732 461 462.

SAT. 22ND CARLISLE

11.30 a.m. St. Mary’s Church,Kirkby Lonsdale; Annual Festival andA.G.M. Preacher Rev’d Fr. RonaldCroft, Parish Priest of St. Hilda’sChurch, Prestwich. Service to besung by the Thomas Cranmer Choir.Lunch and A.G.M. in local Institute.(Tickets required). The lovelyNorman church of St. Mary’s hasmagnificent windows and the viewfrom the churchyard was painted byTurner and admired by Ruskinhence, Ruskins View.

SAT. 22ND COVENTRY

3p.m. at Hampton Lucy nearStratford-upon-Avon. ChoralEvensong. Preacher: The Rev’d DrAndrew Lenox-Conyngham

SAT 22ND HEREFORD

Inaugural Annual Lecture given bythe Hereford Diocesan BranchChairman, the Revered Neil Spencer,B.A., A.L.A., Dip. App. Theo. On‘The History and Development ofthe Prayer Book’. We intend tohold this in the afternoon followedby tea nearby. We should bedelighted to welcome Membersfrom other branches and for furtherdetails of venue, exact timing etc.please ’phone either Rev’d NeilSpencer (01981 500257) or Mrs. R.Harvey on 01497 831 555.

JUNE

SAT. 12TH CHESTER

3.00pm. at St Mary’s Church,Astbury. Evensong and Sermonfollowed by refreshments and ashort talk on the architecture of thechurch by Prof. Andor Gomme.Ample parking at Village Hall.


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The RegionalTrustees

The Rev’d Paul Thomas: South East—Canterbury, Chichester, Guildford, London,Rochester, Southwark, Overseas’ Members. Patrick Martin: South West—Bath & Wells,Exeter, Portsmouth, Salisbury, Truro,Winchester.Charles Farrow: Eastern—Chelmsford, Ely,Norwich, St Albans, St. Edmundsbury &Ipswich.Stephen Evans: West & Central—Bristol,Gloucester, Hereford, Oxford, Worcester;North & South Wales.Peter Bolton: Midlands—Birmingham,Coventry, Derby, Leicester, Lichfield,Lincoln, Peterborough.John Wimpress: North East—Bradford,Durham, Newcastle, Ripon & Leeds,Sheffield, Southwell, Wakefield, York.Ian Lang: North West—Blackburn, Carlisle,Chester, Liverpool, Manchester, Sodor &Man, Ireland.

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DERBY: Mr. K. C. Kelsey, PavilandGrange, Church Broughton, Derby-shire. DE65 5DA � 01283 585454ELY: Mr. Simon King, 27 North Brink,Wisbech, PE13 1JR. � 01945 585384EXETER: Mrs. F O. Urwin, 36 CoombeMeadows, Chillington, Kingsbridge,Devon TQ7 2JL.GLOUCESTER: The Rev’d ChristopherMulholland, The Rectory, Leighterton, Tetbury, GL8 8UW. � 01666 890283GUILDFORD: Mr. R. Plowright, 218 Con-naught Road, Brookwood, Woking,Sy, GU24 0AH � 01483 476735HEREFORD: Mr. Stephen Evans, OnnyCottage, 70 Onibury, Craven Arms,Salop SY7 9AZ.� 01584 856444LEICESTER: Mrs. B. Samson, Yew TreeHouse, School Lane, Peggs Green,Coleorton, LE67 8HT.LICHFIELD: Mrs. Christine Cavenagh-Mainwaring, Whitmore Hall, Whit-more, Newcastle under Lyme, Staffs. ST5 3HW. � 01782 680 478(MEMBERSHIP) Mr. E Moore, 10 Anson Drive,Walton-on-the Hill, Staffs., ST17 0LT � 01785 662 175LINCOLN: Mr. P Manser, Tyto, Crowder’sRow, 5 Sudbrooke Road, ScothernLN2 2UX. � 01673 861554LIVERPOOL: Mr. J. P White, ‘Ashness’, 2Kildare Close, Hale Village, Nr. Liver-pool L24 5SA � 0151 425 4245MANCHESTER: Mr. G. Wood 65 AugustaClose, Rochdale, Lancs. OL12 6HS.� 01706 359454NEWCASTLE: Mrs. Rosemary Hall, 23 Beatty Ave., Newcastle-upon-TyneNE2 3QN � 0191 285 7534NORWICH: Mr. C. Robins, Cathedral View,48 Christchurch Rd., Norwich NR2 3NE. � 01603 507958OXFORD: Mr. John Dearing, 27 ShermanRoad, Reading RG1 2PJ. � 0118 958 0377(MEMBERSHIP): Mr. Roy Denison, 24 Penny Piece,Goring-on-Thames, Reading, RG8 9BY� 01491 873313OXFORD UNIVERSITY: Mr. Marcus Walker,Oriel College, Oxford OX1 4EW.� 07762 18 37 20PETERBOROUGH: Mrs. M. Stewart, The Sycamores, 3 Oakham RdWhissendine, Rutland LE15 7HA� 01664 474353PORTSMOUTH: Mr. A.Cazalet, Folly House,Church Lane, Hambledon, Hants,PO7 4RT. � 02392 632732RIPON & LEEDS: Mr. J. R. Wimpress,Bishopton Grove House, Bishopton,Ripon HG4 2QL. � 01765 600888ROCHESTER: Mr. G. Comer, 102Marlborough Crescent, Sevenoaks,Kent TN13 2HR � 01732 461462.

ST. ALBANS: Miss C. P Cawood, 2 Churchhill Court, Green Lane,Northwood, Middx, HA6 2RY. � 01923 824 217ST. EDMUNDSBURY & IPSWICH: Mr. J.G.S. Hill,119 Westley Road, Bury St. Edmunds,IP33 3SA. � 01284 763022.SALISBURY: Mrs. Lesley Scott, FloweryBottom, Loscombe, Bridport, DorsetDT6 3TL. � 01308 488 408SHEFFIELD: The Rev’d Cyril Roberts, TheRectory, Pontefract Road, Snaith,Goole, DN14 9JS. � 01405 860866SODOR & MAN: Mrs. C. Salisbury Jones, 7 The Parade, Castletown, Isle of ManIM9 1LG. � 01624 824467SOUTHWARK: —See LONDON above.SOUTHWELL: Mrs. June Williamson, 16Woodland Drive, Southwell, NottsNG25 0DA. � 01636 814859TRURO: Mr, J. Searle, Windlebury,Halvarras Park, Playing Place, Truro,Cornwall TR3 6HE. � 01872 862360WAKEFIELD: Cllr Frank McManus, 97Longfield Road, Todmorden, Lancs.OL14 6ND. � 01706 816652WORCESTER: Mrs. Monica Wood, 11Ombersley Rd. Worcester, WR3 7BW. � 01905 20185CHANNEL ISLANDS: —See WINCHESTER above.OVERSEAS MEMBERS: Mrs.Sally Tipping,Woodland Cross Cottage, Woodland Head, Yeoford, Crediton,Devon EX17 5HE.

AFFILIATED BRANCHES:IRELAND: The Rev’d T. Dunlop, 12Mount Aboo Park, Belfast, BT1 0DJ.� 0289 061 2989NORTH WALES: The Rev’d Neil Fairlamb,5 Tros-yr-afon, Beaumaris, Anglesey,LL58 8BN. � 01248 811 402SOUTH WALES: Dr. J.H.E. Baker, 56 BridgeStreet, Llandaff CF5 2YN.� 0292 057 8091SOUTH AFRICA: Mr. L. Powell, 41 VanVrede Street, Bothsig, CP7441, SouthAfrica.

SISTER SOCIETIES:AUSTRALIA: Dr. Ruth Frappell, 22 IngalaraAvenue, Wahroonga, NSW2076.Mr. F Ford, PO Box 2, Heidelberg,Victoria 3084.Mrs. Joan Blanchard, 96 DevereuxRoad, Beaumont 5066, SouthAustralia.CANADA: The Prayer Book Society ofCanada, Mr. Michael Edward, PearsieFarm (RRI), Belfast, Prince EdwardIsland, Canada COA IAOSCOTLAND: Mrs. Paula R. Fleetwood, 32Crompton Avenue, Glasgow G44 5TH.UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: The Prayer BookSociety, P O. 35220, Philadelphia,Pennsylvania 19128, U.S.A.

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