Abstract
The Book of Common Prayer also set the seal on the devastating assault on regional cults of the saints which so characterized the regime of the duke of Somerset. The Book of Common Prayer was the keystone of a new, national, religious culture. A statute was passed the following year requiring the bishops of Wales and Hereford to provide Welsh translations of the Bible and the Book of Common Prayer. The Book of Common Prayer co-opted and extended the custom, requiring all England to pray for its sovereign. The antiphonal intercessions and priestly collects of the Book of Common Prayer were one important weapon in the armoury of the established Church; the Book of Homilies. But the Book of Common Prayer heralded a newly intense relationship between the crown and the counties of England and Wales, reinforced by the set sermons commissioned by the government and purchased by the parishes.
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