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had been deliberately reinstated in the Book of
Common-prayer, one rather fails to see. He does
not, indeed, in so many words forbid the use of a
cope or vestment, but the surplice is the only vesture
the wearing of which he prescribes. The truth is
that, in common with most of Elizabeth's bishops,
his sympathies were with the Puritans, and he was
bent upon using all his power as Ordinary to eliminate
every gesture, every custom, every outward semblance,
even in trifling matters, of conformity to usages of
the olden time. The " Ornaments rubric," which,
as heretofore mentioned, the queen insisted upon
having re-introduced into the Prayer-book, was very
unpalatable to the reformers, and it is curious to
note the special pleading employed to reconcile themselves
to it. Sandys (afterwards Grindal's successor)
writes to Parker :— " Our gloss upon this text is,
that we shall not be forced to use them, but that
others in the meantime shall not convey them away,
but that they may remain for the queen." If a
"gloss " like this had been put upon any rubric by
the opposite party, it would assuredly have been
characterised as disingenuous and Jesuitical, or designated
by any other opprobrious epithet that most
readily suggested itself.
The Archbishop gives a sort of grudging permission
that where the churches are very small the
minister might say the Morning and Evening office
"in his accustomed stall in the
;
queere " but in
all other cases " a decent low pulpit was to be
erected and made in the body of the church out of
hande, wherein the minister shall stande with his