accurately informed, are nevertheless precluded from consulting the huge volumes of Strype, Le Plat, or Wilkins, it was thought that a mere hand-book like the present, if fairly put together, would be rendering as important service to the Church at large as some of the analogous elucidations of the Book of Common Prayer. It will be found, on collating this edition with that of 1851 or with the American reprint of 1852, that while the bulk of the volume is enlarged by only a few pages, a considerable amount of fresh matter has been incorporated here and there; especially in the two chapters which relate to the construction and revision of our present code of Articles. CAMBRIDGE, 26 May, 1859. TABLE OF CONTENTS. General cry for Reformation in the fifteenth century Guiding principle of the English Reformation Revolutionary or 'Anabaptist' faction General disquiet of the Church Origin of the Ten Articles (1536) Remonstrance of the Lower House of the Southern Convo- 41, 42 51 (notes) CHAPTER IV. Controversies among Reformers respecting Baptism (1552) . No change effected in the Formularies the Art. respecting the Lord's Supper, |