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Rh Thus, even if the Rubric could be shown to refer to the ornaments used under the book, it cannot be honestly limited to those ornaments that are mentioned in that book; for many that were used are not mentioned (as altar-lights), some even that were indispensable are not mentioned (as the linen altar cloth). And in these omissions it follows the missals of Sarum, Bangor, York, and Hereford.

Nor, indeed, does this reference of the Rubric to the First Prayer Book give much help to those who oppose ceremonial. For, besides allowing such gestures as crossing and knocking upon the breast, the Book orders the albe with vestment or cope, and tunicles for ‘the Supper of the Lord and the Holy Communion, commonly called the Mass,’ the rochet, cope or vestment and pastoral staff for the bishop, the chrisom-cloth, the corporas cloth, and wafer-bread. It implies the use of further ornaments in giving directions for unction, reservation for the sick, and the burial of and Mass for the dead. It is not, therefore, surprising that Bonner used the book, and that Gardiner expressed his approval of it.

But, as a matter of plain fact, the Ornaments Rubric does refer behind even the First Prayer Book to the ‘second year’ of Edward, before that book had come into use, before one single ornament could have been abrogated by that book.