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Revd Gordon Plumb wrote:
>
> I move 5 miles up the road to Barton on Humber
Whether there was a Use of Lincoln is a more ticklish question, and one
which I am approaching circumspectly. There is some evidence, but
frustratingly little. The former Lindsey Diocese would probably have been
strongly influenced by York, and the southern parts of the Lincoln Diocese
itself certainly came to adopt the Sarum Use.
The whole issue arise because of Cranmer's preface to the Book of Common
Prayer, where he writes:
And where heretofore, there hath been great diuersitie in saying and synging
in churches within this realme : some folowyng Salsbury vse, some Herford
vse, some the vse of Bangor, some of Yorke, and some of Lincolne : Now from
hencefurth, all the whole realme shall haue but one vse.
Why he wrote this is somewhat mysterious, but it must be for rhetorical
effect. It should be remembered that he was mostly translating his earlier
Latin version, which omits Lincoln:
... plus quam babilonica linguarum confusio videri possit, dum alij vsum
Sarisburensem, alij Harfordensem, alij Bangorensem, alij Eboracensem
emulantur, et religiosorum tam multifarie cohortes suum queque seorsim
habuerint vsum, nunc in vnum eundemque vsum ecclesie omnes per vniuersum
hoc regnum facile coalescent.
But even that was adapted from the preface to the reformed Breviaries of
Cardinal Quignon [Quinones]. This seems to be the relevant passage from the
1535 Breviary:
Diuersitas enim officij ; festi dominicae, et ferialis diei consistit in
mutatione inuitatorij, et hymnorum ad matudinum, et vesperam, et tertiae
lectionis et orationis, caetera sunt eiusdem rationis vtrobique.
The 1549 Act of Uniformity further complicates the picture, by omitting
Hereford:
Where of long time there has been had in this realm of England and in Wales
divers forms of common prayer, commonly called the service of the Church;
that is to say, the Use of Sarum, of York, of Bangor, and of Lincoln; and
besides the same now of late much more divers and sundry forms and fashions
have been used in the cathedral and parish churches of England and Wales, as
well concerning the Matins or Morning Prayer and the Evensong, as also
concerning the Holy Communion, commonly called the Mass, with divers and
sundry rites and ceremonies concerning the same, and in the administration
of other sacraments of the Church: and as the doers and executors of the
said rites and ceremonies, in other form that of late years they have been
used, were pleased therewith, so others, not using the same rites and
ceremonies, were thereby greatly offended.
John Briggs
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