Excerpt from Monumenta Ritualia Ecclesiae Anglicanae, Vol. 3 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 NotesWe do not know when the first opposers sprang up of these laws and customs of the Church. N ci ther do we know how early the canonical hours were settled. Some would say by popes Damasus, or Gelasius, or Gregory: but these it is quite cer tain did nothing more than popes in after times that is, reform or correct the services which they found already in observance.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.