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1500Tower of London
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1516Thomas More's Utopia
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1518Songs written by Henry VIII
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1518Catherine of Aragon's pregnancy
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1526First printed Bible in English
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1539Dissolution of the Monasteries
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1547Edward VI's diary
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1549Book of Common Prayer
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1553Letter from Elizabeth I
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1563John Foxe’s Book of Martyrs
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1567The First National Lottery
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1577Elizabethan dress codes
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1580Handwritten recipe
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1580Evidence of Royal Scots
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1582Beginnings of an English Dictionary
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1588Speech by Elizabeth I
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1590Spenser, The Faerie Queene
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1592Marlowe, Doctor Faustus
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1595A cure for drunkenness
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1597Shakespeare’s Richard III
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Intro
After separating from the Roman Catholic Church, the Church of England needed an English-language service book that reflected the new religious order. Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, led a committee that compiled the first edition of the Book of Common Prayer in 1549. An act of parliament made its use obligatory for centuries to come, apart from two short periods under Queen Mary and Oliver Cromwell. The version in general use today derives from a revision made in 1661–2.
On these pages
The English words of the Anglican marriage ceremony appear on these pages. At the foot of the right-hand page is the phrase with thys ring I thee wed. Other familiar phrases include my wedded housband, my wedded wife and so long as you both shall live. The spellings may have changed, but the words have not.
Shelfmark: C.25.l.14.(1.).
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