Excerpt from Monumenta Ritualia Ecclesiae Anglicanae, Vol. 1 of 3: The Occasional Offices of the Church of England According to the Old Use of Salisbury the Prymer in English and Other Prayers and Forms With Dissertations and NotesA long time has passed away since the last words of the above preface were written, very earnestly indeed I now desire humbly to repeat them.I am anxious to express my sincere thanks to the Delegates and Secretary of the Clarendon Press for the me which has been taken in printing these books, and for their unvarying kindness in consider ing every suggestion which I proposed.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.