11Abigail Adams to John Adams, 16 January 1795 (Adams Papers)
The Book of Common Prayer,
12Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 24 June 1791 (Adams Papers)
combines allusions to John Gay’s fable “The Shepherd and the Philosopher,” line 3; Job, 5:26; Psalms, 22:26 (as rendered in the Book of Common Prayer); and Matthew, 20:1–16.
13Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church to the Church of England Archbishops and Bishops, 26 June 1786 (Jay Papers)
consistent with our civil Constitutions; and we have made no alterations or omissions in the Book of Common Prayer but such as that consideration prescribed, and such as were calculated to remove objections, which it appeared to us more conducive to union and general content to obviate, than to dispute. It is well known, that many...
14To John Adams from Granville Sharp, 21 January 1786 (Adams Papers)
...forgo the usual oaths of allegiance for American candidates. Through his correspondence with Franklin, Sharp continued to monitor the Episcopal general convention’s revisions to the Book of Common Prayer and liturgy, observing that “America is not the only part wherein Protestant Episcopacy is likely to be extended, when the rights of election are better understood.” Sharp’s reassurances to...
15Royall Tyler to John Adams, 15 October 1785 (Adams Papers)
A Liturgy, Collected Principally from the Book of Common Prayer, for the Use of the First Episcopal Church in Boston, No. 18938), which their Unitarian pastor, James Freeman, prepared by removing Trinitarian passages from the Book of Common Prayer, following the reformed liturgy made by Dr. Samuel Clarke of London (
16Extracts of John Baynes’s Journal, 27 August–15 September 1783 (Franklin Papers)
Abridgement of the Book of Common Prayer:
17To Benjamin Franklin from Jonathan Williams, Sr., 3 April 1783 (Franklin Papers)
Abridgement of the Book of Common Prayer
18To Benjamin Franklin from David Hartley, 3 May 1782 (Franklin Papers)
“Give peace in our time, O Lord,” a quotation from the morning prayer (Mattins) of The Book of Common Prayer.
1986. A Bill Annulling Marriages Prohibited by the Levitical Law, and Appointing the Mode of Solemnizing Lawful Marriage … (Jefferson Papers)
, 81–5), according to whose terms TJ himself was married, required not only a license but also “thrice publication of banns according to the rubric in the book of common prayer”; only ministers could perform the ceremony, though in the event that a parish should not have a minister, the clerk or reader could act in his place.
20To Benjamin Franklin from Christopher Baldwin, 18 December 1778 (Franklin Papers)
Abridgement of the Book of Common Prayer