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The Latest Protestant Eruption

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2025

Abstract

From the narrow majority by which the House of Commons lately rejected the Revised Book of Common Prayer it has been argued—by Bishops Barnes and Welldon and Sir William Joynson Hicks—that the English nation still remains Protestant at heart and loyal to the Reformation.

The conclusion may or may not be true; the argument is manifestly unsound. The Times, in its grief, has been at pains to analyse the voting by which the Commons reached its decision. It finds that the New Prayer Book was favoured by a considerable majority of the Members representing English constituencies. The groups representing Ulster, Scotland and Wales all disapproved of the new Book with overwhelming majorities.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © 1928 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers

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