...expressions as might be specially obnoxious to her Catholic subjects, such, for example, as the prayer, "From the tyranny of the bishop of Rome and all his detestable enormities, good Lord, deliver us." When the book was fixed up to the queen's liking, it was presented to both...

...alteration of " Head " to " Governor "; but the deprecation was struck out of the Litany which read, " From the tyranny of the Bishop of Rome and all his detestable enormities, good Lord, deliver us." The queen retained, against the protest of bishops, an altar, crucifix, and...

...all which were then retained in this Church, when yet, in her very Litany she pray'd to be delivered from the Tyranny of the Bishop of Rome, and all his detestable enormities ; I dare appeal to all the truly Learned whether they are not exactly agreeable to the most Primitive...

...patriarchs and prophets . . ,' were asked to 'pray for us,' and a little further on was the petition, 'From the tyranny of the Bishop of Rome and all his detestable enormities, Good Lord, deliver us.' In another and more pleasing way, the introduction of new petitions bears testimony...

...In the Litany the following petition found in both the 200 261 Edwardian Prayer Books was omitted " from the tyranny of the bishop of Rome and all his detestable enormities, good Lord deliver us." 4. In the Communion service the two clauses of administration found in the first...

...usurped and foreign power." At the Elizabethan revision of the Prayer Book (1559), too, the clause, " from the tyranny of the bishop of Rome, and all his detestable enormities " (Good Lord deliver us), was omitted from the Litany. This very moderate attitude of the English Church...

...found faulty or wanting. Why, then, perchance some one will ask, was that grand old petition omitted, " From the tyranny of the Bishop of Rome, and all his detestable enormities, Good Lord, deliver us " ? For the simple reason, in truth, that it was no longer necessary. Finally...

...Then kneeled Dr. Taylor down, and held up both his hands, and said, " Good Lord, I thank thee; and from the tyranny of the Bishop of Rome and all his detestable errors, idolatries and abominations, good Lord deliver us! And God be praised for good King Edward!"...

...embers of Smithfield were hardly cooled, the petition (in the First Prayer Book) to be delivered " from the tyranny of the bishop of Rome, and all his detestable enormities " was removed from the Litany. In 1560 the Prayer Book was published in Latin; and in the same year...

...points of view. Not only did it contain for the first time the petition in the Litany for deliverance from " the tyranny of the Bishop of Rome and all his detestable enormities," but the Eucharist was definitely stated to be only a memorial, and the Real Presence was implicitly...