Excerpt from An Historical and Explanatory Treatise: On the Book of Common Prayer Having been a member of the Ritual Commission of 1870, and of the Committee appointed by the Com mission to revise the Table of Lessons, I took upon myself when the new Lectionary had been authorised by Act of Parliament, to explain it in a short treatise, entitled The New Table of Lessons explained That treatise was not submitted to my colleagues before publication; but having reason to believe that it has been generally approved by them, I have ap pended the greater part of it to the present work, in the hope that it may be of permanent use. A short account of the proceedings of the Ritual Commission is given in Chapter III. 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.