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English Orders for Consecrating Churches in the Seventeenth Century
Together with Forms for the Consecration of Churchyards, the First Stone of a Church, the Reconciliation of a Church and the Consecration of Altar Plate

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Having set aside the Catholic liturgical books, the Protestant Church of England then found itself on occasion obliged to recreate certain rites as necessity arose. The volume aims at presenting a considerable number of these from manuscript and printed sources, and is furnished with ample appendices.

The complexity of material involved suggests the usefulness of listing the acts and the sources drawn upon.

  1. Consecration of a chapel at Langley, Beckenham, Kent, in 1607, from Oxford, Bodleian Library, Rawlinson MS C.868 (SC 12703).
  2. Consecration of a parish church and churchyard at Fulmer, Buckinghamshire, in 1610, from a manuscript in private hands collated with London, Lambeth Palace, Wharton MS 577, f. 185; with addenda from Lambeth, Gibson MS 929, ff. 83-84.
  3. Consecration of a chapel at Hatfield, c. 1608-1613, by William Barlow, Anglican Bishop of Lincoln, from London, Lambeth Palace, Gibson MS 929, fol. 86.
  4. Consecration of the churchyard of St Olave's, London, in 1612, from London, St Paul's Cathedral, Register of the Anglican Bishop Edmund Grindal (1559-1570) et al., f. 398.
  5. Consecration of a chapel at Edmonton, in 1615, from London, St Paul's Cathedral, Register of the Anglican Bishop Grindal et al., fol. 401v. See also Jeremy Collier, An Ecclesiastical History of Great Britain, Part II, Book VIII, London, 1714, vol. II, p. 709 (ECBB 3328C11; ESTC 145339).
  6. Consecration of a parish church and churchyard at Dulwich, Surrey, in 1616, from London, Lambeth Palace, Register of the Anglican Archbishop George Abbot, vol. I, ff. 288-290, and Cambridge, St John's College, L.16, p. 17.
  7. Consecration of a chapel at East Greenwich, Kent, in 1616/17, from Oxford, Bodleian Library, Tanner MS 127* (SC 9953), ff. 174r-176r.
  8. Consecration of a chapel at Chantmarle in 1619, from John Hutchins, History of Antiquities of [...] Dorset, 2nd ed. 1813, vol. III, p. 299 (NSTC H3397).
  9. Consecration of a chapel at Peartree, Hampshire, in 1620, from Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College, MS 389, pp. 1-42; Cambridge, University Library, MS Ff.5.25; MS Gg.1.29; Cambridge, St John's College, MS L.16.
  10. Consecration of a chapel at Willoughby House, Warwickshire, in 1620, from Oxford, Bodleian Library, Rawlinson MS D.818 (SC 13586), ff. 118-119.
  11. Dedication of a chapel at Serjeants' Inn, London, in 1621, from London, Lambeth Palace, Register of the Anglican Archbishop George Abbot, vol. II, ff. 256v-257; Cambridge, St John's College, MS L.16, p. 92.
  12. Consecration of a chapel at Lincoln's Inn, London, in 1623, from Oxford, Bodleian Library, Tanner MS 176 (SC 10002), ff. 133-134.
  13. Consecration of a chapel at Wyke Champflour, Somerset, in 1624, from London, British Library, Harley MS 3795, f. 9-12v.
  14. Consecration of St Catherine Cree, London, in 1630/31, from William Prynne, Canterburies Doome, John Macock & Richard Spark, London, 1646 [Wing P3917], p. 14; Henry Wharton (ed.), History of the Troubles [...] of [...] William Laud, [Richard] Chiswell, London, 1695 [Wing L586], p. 339.
  15. Consecration of a chapel at Peterhouse, Cambridge, in 1632/33, from London, Lambeth Palace, Wharton MS 577, f. 193-211; Cambridge, St John's College, MS L.16, p. 47.
  16. Consecration of a chapel at Risley, Derbyshire, in 1632, from London, Lambeth Palace, Register of the Anglican Archbishop George Abbot, vol. III, ff. 167-172v.
  17. Consecration of a chapel at Mersham Hatch, Kent in 1632, from London, Lambeth Palace, Register of the Anglican Archbishop George Abbot, vol. III, ff. 130-131v; Cambridge, St John's College, MS L.16, p. 100.
  18. Consecration of the parish church at Abbey Dore, Here- fordshire, in 1634/35, from a privately owned MS and London, British Library, Additional MS 15645, f. 24v-26r; London, Lambeth Palace, Wharton MS 577, f. 117-149; Cambridge, St John's College, MS L.16, p. 51.
  19. Consecration of St John's church, Leeds, Yorkshire, in 1634, from London, Lambeth Palace, Wharton MS 577, pp. 149-162.
  20. Consecration of a chapel at Crewe, Cheshire in 1635 from British Library, Harley MS 2176, ff. 9-23.
  21. Consecration of a chapel and churchyard at Meltham Yorkshire in 1651, from York, Register of the Anglican Archbishop Accepted Frewen (1661-1664) et al., ff. 159v-161r, and Joseph Hughes, The History of the Township of Meltham nr Huddersfield, J. Crossley, Huddersfield, 1866, pp. 20ff.
  22. Consecration of a church, a form used by the Anglican William Juxon, Bishop of London (1633-1660) then Archbishop of Canterbury (1660-1663), from Oxford, Bodleian Library, Tanner MS 372 (SC 10199), ff. 1-12v.
  23. Consecration of a chapel at Ware Park, County Durham, [1660-1672], from London, British Library, Additional MS 29586, ff. 26-28b.
  24. Consecration of a chapel at Auckland Castle, County Durham, in 1665, from London, Lambeth Palace, Gibson MS 929, f. 85.
  25. A general form for the dedication or consecration of churches and chapels from the late seventeenth century, edited from London, British Library, Harley MS 3795, ff. 37-47v, and Durham, Cathedral Chapter Library, Hunter MS. 83.
  26. Consecration of a burial ground in Dublin in 1667, from Dublin, Trinity College, MS 647 (formerly F.1.7), ff. 119-121.
  27. Consecration of a private chapel at London House, Aldersgate Street, in London in 1672, from London, British Library, Harley MS 3795, ff. 31-35v; Cambridge, St John's College, MS L.16, f. 111; London, St Paul's Cathedral, Register of the Anglican Bishop Humphrey Henchman (1663-1675), fol. 192.
  28. Consecration of the chapel at Emmanuel College, Cambridge in 1677, from London, Lambeth Palace, Gibson MS 939, n. 14, pp. i-ix.
  29. Consecration of a chapel at Bromley, Kent in 1697, from London, Lambeth Palace, Gibson MS 929, n. 82, pp. 1-6.

Appendices:

  1. Certificate of dedication of the parish church at Woodham Walter, Essex, in 1564, from London, St Paul's Cathedral, Register of the Anglican Bishop Grindal, et al., f. 55.
  2. Opening of a chapel at Blackfriars, London, in 1597 and 1617, from London, St Paul's Cathedral, Register of the Anglican Bishop Grindal et al., ff. 292, 425v.
  3. Reconciliation of Lincoln Cathedral in 1669 from A Century of Sermons, [...] John Hachet Plume, London, 1675 [Wing H169], p. xxxi.
  4. Consecration of an altar at Wolverhampton in 1635 from [William Prynne], A Quench Coale, [Richt Right Press, Amsterdam], 1637 [STC 20474], p. 196; Henry Burton, For God, and the King: The Summe of Two Sermons, [Felix Kingston?], London, 1636, p. 161 (STC 4141).
    1. Consecration of altar plate in the late seventeenth or early eighteenth century, from London, Lambeth Palace, Wharton MS 577, pp. 105-108.
    2. Consecration of altar plate in the mid to late seventeenth century, from London, British Library, Harley MS 3795, ff. 20-21v; London, Lambeth Palace, Wharton MS 577, p. 113; and Cambridge, St John's College, MS L.16, p. 62.
    3. Consecration of altar plate at Lincoln College, Oxford in 1636 from a privately owned manuscript, cf. Oxford Historical Society vol. XLVII, Collectanea IV (1905), p. 148.
    4. Consecration of plate and ornaments at Christ Church, Oxford in 1636 from Oxford, Bodleian Library, Rawlinson MS D.399 (SC 15315), ff. 280r-280v.
    5. Consecration of plate at Axe, Somerset, in 1637 from James Peller Malcolm, Londinium Redivivum, J. Nichols, London, 1802-1807, vol. I (1802), p. 62 (NSTC M796).
    6. Consecration of plate at Windsor in 1637 from Oxford, Bodleian Library, Ashmole MS 1108 (SC 7386), ff. 107-107b.
    7. Consecration of plate by William Laud, from William Prynne, Canterburies Doome, John Macock & Richard Spark, Lon- don, 1646 [Wing P3917], p. 65; Henry Wharton (ed.), History of the Troubles [...] of [...] William Laud, [Richard] Chiswell, London, 1695 [Wing L586], p. 313.
    8. Consecration of chalice and paten at Wells Cathedral by Peter Mews, Anglican Bishop of Bath & Wells 1672-1684, from Cambridge, St John's College, MS L.16, pp. 68-69.
    9. Consecration of a paten in 1678 taken from Cambridge, St John's College, MS L.16, pp. 63-64.
    10. Consecration of plate and linen in 1681 from Hardy Bertram McCall, Richmondshire Churches, Elliott Stock, London, 1910, p. 29.
    11. Consecration of plate ascribed to William Juxon, from R. Tisdale, The Form of Dedication and Consecration of a Church or Chapel, John Hartley, London, 1703, p. 211 (ECBB 1319Tl; ESTC 124840).
  5. A list of consecrations of churches and churchyards by Anglican ministers in seventeenth century England. The volume concludes with additional notes and with indexes.
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