The booke of common prayer, and administration of the sacraments. . And other parts of divine service for the use of the Church of Scotland.
Episcopal Church in Scotland
Category
Books
Date
1637
Materials
Place of origin
Scotland
Collection
Wallington, Northumberland
NT 3018753
Summary
Bibliographic description
Imperfect: wanting a titlepage and with many mutilated leaves. Wallington copy ends at 2K6 and has catchword 'Certaine' on 2K6v. manuscript on endpaper (bookseller's notes?): 'Church of Scotland Prayer Book 1637 no title followed by The Psalter, Edinburgh 1636. Interleaved throughout with blank paper on which are extensive notes [in seventeenth-century hands], derived from medieval writers, the fathers & from 17th century protestant writers, upon the text itself. The compilers have read widely & the notes contain many interesting passages in earlier writers. From Lord Aldenham's library S.T.C. 16606 Cat9'. With a sheet of black-bordered notepaper laid in at C7.. Provenance: manuscript inscription 'G.M. Trevelyan Cambridge Feb. 1938' and manuscript (hand of GMT) 'given by him to the National Trust Library at Wallington May 1958. This Prayer Book, which Charles and Laud tried to force on the Scots, proved the match which lighted the Great Civil War in Britain ...'. Binding: Nineteenth-century (?) full leather binding; blind tooled to form borders; marbled endpapers; gilt lettered direct onto spine: 'Book of common prayer Church of Scotland 1637'.
Provenance
Gift from Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan 3rd Bt
Makers and roles
Episcopal Church in Scotland William Laud (1573-1645) Archbishop of Canterbury