Excerpt from The Lesser Hours of the Sarum Breviary OF standing and kneeling IN quire. - All shall stand throughout the Service, except during the' sing ing of a Responsory or Alleluia, when they may sit. Also it is permitted to sit during the Lections; and when the Psalmody is very long it is permitted to every alternate Clerk to sit. 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.