Excerpt from Collected Tracts on Ritual, Vol. 1 King Edward notes in his Journal, June 23rd, 1550, that the sheriff of Essex enforced Ridley's orders which touched the plucking down of superaltaries, altars, and such like ceremonies and abuses, and on Nov. 19th, 1550 there were letters sent to every bishop to pluck down altars.31 The letter itself witnesses that on Nov. 24th, 1550, the altars within the more part of the churches of the realm were already taken down.32 Day, Bp. Of Chichester, received this letter Nov. 29th, and was imprisoned for disobeying it, Dec. 11th, The Order was judicially enforced in the Consistory Court of Goodrich, Bp. Of Ely (one of the framers of the Prayer Book) on Dec. 7th, The last of the old popish bishops appointed by Henry viii.was deprived on Oct. L0th, 1551, so that all resis tance from that quarter ceased more than twelve months before the second Prayer Book came into use, viz., Nov. Lst, 1552. Mean time, on Easter Eve, 1551, the Greyfria/rs' Chronicle (p. 69) relates then was the table removed, and set beneath at the vail north and south. Wriothesley's Chronicle, however (p. Gives a somewhat different version: this year against Easter the Bishop of London altered the Lord's table that stood where the high altar was, and he removed the table beneath at the steps into the middest of the upper quire in Paule's, and set the ends east and west, the priest standing in the middest at the Communion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.