in the Breviary. Other devotions are added, and the book opens with instructions in the principles of religion and the precepts of the Church, which latter are especially valuable as showing precisely what was taught by the High Churchman of that day. Briefly they are these:

'I To observe the Festivals & Holy-daies appointed. 2 To keep the Fasting daies with devotion & abstinence. To observe the Ecclesiastical Customs & Ceremonies 'established & that without frowardness or contradiction. 4 To repair unto the publick Service of the Church for 'Mattens & Evensong with other holy offices at times ' appointed, unless there be a just and unfeigned cause to 'the contrary. 5 To receive the Blessed Sacrament of 'the Body and Blood of Christ with frequent devotion, & 'three times a year at least, of which times Easter to be ' alwaies one. And for the better preparation thereunto as occasion is to disburthen and quiet our conscience of those sins that may grieve us, or scruples that may 'trouble us to a learned and discreet Priest, & from him ' to receive advice & the benefit of Absolution.'

It seems remarkable that a book so moderate in tone should have excited such wrathful indignation; probably one reason may have been that at this inopportune moment Lady Falkland, who was known to have been much under the influence of Dr. Cosins, gave her allegiance to the Church of Rome. Far from this having been in any way his desire, it was a source of deepest distress to him, not the less because the proximate cause was his unwillingness to receive her confession. While he doubted, questioned, delayed, having retired into the country to consider the matter, she, discouraged and perplexed by his uncertain. attitude, was received into the Church of Rome by Lord Ormonde's chaplain in the stable; it being a capital offence for a convert to be received in the house of a recusant.

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