St. Luke the Evangelist.

St. Simon and St. Jude the Apostles.
All Saints.

St. Andrew the Apostle.

The Nativity of our LORD JESUS CHRIST.
The two days next following Christmas Day.
Easter Monday.

Easter Tuesday.
Whit-Monday.
Whit-Tuesday.

The Three Political Festivals.

Any General Thanksgiving Day specially appointed.

Note-These are divided into principal Feast Days, and Festivals of the 2nd Class. The principal Feast Days have double Vespers on the Vigil, or Eve, before; first, at half-past three, and secondly, at half-past seven o'clock, except in the cases specified in the Table of Vigils, &c. The 2nd Class of Festivals have only Vigil Vespers at half-past three (in choirs only.) Neither have more than the half-past three o'clock Vespers on the day of the Festival. The principal Feast Days are-Easter Day, Easter Monday and Tuesday; Ascension Day, Whit-Sunday, Whit-Monday and Tuesday; Trinity Sunday, and Christmas Day, and the two days following Christmas Day; also any of the above, and likewise the King's and Queen's Birth-days, falling on a Sunday (only,) except the Annunciation falling on Palm Sunday, and not including ordinary Sundays. Any of the Feasts of the 2nd Class falling upon week-days of Lent, Wednesdays, Fridays, or Saturdays, in Advent, Ember Days, or other Fast Days, are not observed as Feasts that year, though the Collect of the Feast Days may be added, and also the Epistle and Gospel used, if there be none specially belonging to the Fast Day. The Annunciation falling on Palm Sunday, the Collect only of the former to be added. The three Political Festivals, and any special General Thanksgiving Festival, have no Vespers, either on the day, or before, except when either of them falls upon a Sunday, in which case an Evening as well as Morning form of Prayer, appropriate to the festival, shall be used. Some feasts have no Vigil, as the following table shows; and two or more feasts coming together, as at Easter, Whit-Sunday, &c., the Vigil and Ante-Vespers for one shall serve for all.-Ordinary Sundays, though not principal Feast Days, have double Vespers notwithstanding, except when one falls on the 26th of December.*

* The reader will observe that I have changed the dates of the Commemorations of the Holy Innocents, of St. Thomas, St. Stephen, St. John the Evangelist, and St. Matthias. My reasons are these, (though I am well aware of what are sometimes advanced as reasons for their being placed as we find them ;) the portions of scripture referring to, and used on, these Feasts, carry internal evidence that they are inconsistently placed; and some of them, upon the old plan, interfere with Fast Days, which, if possible, should be avoided. Therefore I put the Holy Innocents a few days after the Epiphany, when we may suppose that Herod, finding that he was "mocked" by the "wise men," issued his savage order; St. Thomas, and St. Stephen, so that they may always come after Easter Tuesday; St. John the Evangelist, so that it may correspond with the part of the 21st chapter of his gospel, selected as the gospel of the day; and St. Matthias at what we may suppose, referring to the suicide of Judas, a probable time of his election, (taking Easter as falling on the latest day possible, the 25th of April, to prevent occasional confusion.) There is, however, another day, the Annunciation, which I have not touched, being so much mixed up with our legal and other transactions, which I would place in October, being between the Nativity of the Virgin and Advent. The present day has nothing but a too scrupulous exactness as to time to support it-I say too scrupulous, because we might, upon such a principle, keep the first day of

A TABLE OF THE VIGILS, FASTS, AND DAYS OF ABSTINENCE, TO BE OBSERVED IN THE YEAR.

NOTE-That if any of these Feast Days fall upon a Monday, then the Vigil or Feast Day shall be kept upon the Saturday, and not upon the Sunday next before it; and note also, that on Christmas Eve, the Vigil is to be only observed as far as Vespers, and Litany, with Sermon being performed, and the Fast is to be kept on the first preceding open day. These also are Days of Fasting and Abstinence.

The Week-Days of Lent.

The Ember Days, being the Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday before the Sunday next after the 14th of September.

The Three Rogation Days, being the Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday before Holy Thursday, or the Ascension of OUR LORD.

All the Saturdays in the year, except Christmas Day, (which falling upon a Saturday, there shall be no Ante-Sunday Vespers; but the half-past seven o'clock Vespers on the Friday evening shall serve for both days.)

The 30th day of January, the day of the Martyrdom of King Charles I. Any specially appointed Fast Days.

Note These Fast Days are divided into three classes, viz. :

FIRST CLASS, (Fasting.)

Ash-Wednesday (double Vespers, half-past three, and half-past seven.) Passion Week, commencing the eve before Palm Sunday, and ending after first Vespers on Easter Eve, (double Vespers throughout, except Palm Sunday, which is not included as a fast day.)

The 30th of January, (double Vespers in Cathedrals and Collegiate Churches only.)

Any special General Fast, (double Vespers.)

Note-On these solemn days of humiliation and fasting, the chanting and singing shall be performed in a minor key without the organ.

the Feast of Pentecost on Saturday, and make Lent begin six days later, and include the Sundays, together with several other things which will occur to the reader. At all events, I have proposed that it shall not not interfere with Lent Fasts.

SECOND CLASS. (Abstinence.)

The other Week-Days of Lent.

Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays in Advent.

Ember Days.

THIRD CLASS. (Abstinence.)

All the other Vigils, &c., not in the preceding Classes.

LESSON S.

There are few who do not acknowledge the propriety of a revision of the Lessons; yet there seems to be a great want of suggestion concerning them. It would take me, though I have thought a great deal on the subject these twenty years, a month to go fully into the subject, which time cannot now be given to it, the question about the temporalities of the Church being pressing. I am sorry that last year Mr. Uvedale Price, of part of whose suggestions it will be seen I have availed myself, spoke so diffidently, in his clever pamphlet, of his abilities for the task, for I know very few so equal to it, or with such a fund of ecclesiastical knowledge. The outline of my plan is this:-To have proper Lessons (1st and 2nd both) for all Sundays, Feasts, and Fasts, (including the 27th Sunday after Trinity;) to exclude some, both in the Old and New Testament, which, from certain expressions, are inexpedient to be read, (as the 35th chapter of Genesis, and the 7th chapter of the 1st Corinthians;) and on some ordinary days also, from their proximity to Christmas, Easter, v. c., to have proper lessons, as sometimes they are, upon the present plan, very much out of keeping with the season. For the rest of the year I would make a careful selection from the Old and New Testament, and also include some from the Apocryphal Books, (but not all now admitted,) which contain a great deal of useful matter, both as to morals and history, though unfortunately some of them contain passages highly objectionable. I think all Episcopalians (at least) would regret the disuse of the book of Ecclesiasticus for instance.

For principal Fast Days, and for Funerals. Beethoven's Chant. Note.-The Miserere and De profundis may be chanted, or sung as a Service.

For Fast Days of the 2nd Class

For Athanasian Creed on Trinity Sunday in the Communion Service

Chant by Purcell; or Chant by Attwood.

Humphries's Grand Chant.

THE ORDER FOR MORNING PRAYER WITH COMMUNION.

(Half-past 11 o'clock.)

¶ First the minister shall chant, (if | ¶ Then, all kneeling down, the people in a cathedral or collegiate church,) or read, one, or more, of these sentences, &c. &c. (as in the Book of Common Prayer.)

+ Vide my observations upon the Articles, for an explanation of this phrase.

* Some slight alterations are required in these Rubrics; in the term " 'naughty life," in that part referring to a canon; and, instead of" standing at the north side," I would say, "kneeling."