Medium description: | Robert Cawdrey appears before Court of High Commission on charges that "he preached against certain things contained in the Book of Common Prayer. that he omitted the administration of the sacraments, and that he omitted parts of the book" (Roberts, 1968)
"Cawdrey admitted to not using the sign of the cross in the sacrament of baptism: of saying 'you'instead of 'thou': of having administered bread and wine to communicants 'some standing, some sitting, some kneeling'; of having omitted 'In sure and certain hope of the resurrection to eternal life' in the burial of the dead; and of having said (six weeks earlier at a lecture at Uppingham) the Book of Common Prayer was 'a vile book. fie on it'". (Roberts, 1968) |