Royal Warrant - Discontinuing State Services In the Book of Common Prayer [1859-01-17]

Royal Warrant - Discontinuing State Services In the Book of Common Prayer [1859-01-17]

Liturgy

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Royal Warrant of Queen Victoria discontinuing the services for November 5, January 30, and May 29 and directing their removal from the Book of Common Prayer.

Queen Victoria

The Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review: 1859 January to June Inclusive (London, 1859), 194.

1859-01-17

England

Victoria R.

Whereas by Our Royal Warrant of the 21st day of June 1837, in the first year of Our Reign, We commanded that certain Forms of Prayer and Service made for the 5th day of November, the 30th day of January, and the 29th day of May, should be forthwith printed and published, and annexed to the Book of Common Prayer and Liturgy of the United Church of England and Ireland, to be used yearly on the said days, in all Cathedrals and Collegiate Churches and Chapels, in all Chapels of Colleges and Halls within Our Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and Dublin, and of Our Colleges of Eton and Winchester, and in all Parish Churches and Chapels within those parts of Our United Kingdom called England and Ireland:

And whereas in the last Session of Parliament Addresses were presented to Us by both Houses of Parliament, praying Us to take into Our consideration the propriety of discontinuing the said Forms of Prayer and Service made for the 5th day of November, the 30th day of January, and the 29th day of May, with a view to their discontinuance:

And whereas We have taken into Our consideration the said Addresses, and have considered and weighed the several matters therein contained, and have determined that the use of the said Forms of Prayer and Service shall be discontinued:

Now therefore Our Will and Pleasure is, that so much of Our said Royal Warrant of the 21st day of June 1837, in the first year of Our Reign, as is hereinbefore recited, be revoked, and that the use of the said Forms of Prayer and Service made for the 5th of November, the 30th of January, and the 29th of May, be henceforth discontinued in all Cathedral and Collegiate Churches and Chapels, in all Chapels of Colleges and Halls
within Our Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and Dublin, and of Our Colleges of Eton and Winchester, and in all Parish Churches and Chapels within the parts of Our United Kingdom called England and Ireland, and that the said Forms of Prayer and Service be no longer printed and published with, or annexed to, the Book of Common Prayer and the Book of Common Prayer of England and Ireland.

Given at Our Court at St. James’s the 17th of January 1859, in the 22nd year of Our Reign.

By Her Majesty’s Command,
S. H. WALPOLE.

Spencer Walpole (Secretary of State for the Home Department)

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