Excerpt from The Prymer, or Lay Folks' Prayer Book, Vol. 1: Text It will be borne in mind, that in accordance with the rules of our Society, all contractions have been expanded in italics; all words and letters in red ink in the original appear in Clarendon type and all additional matter not in the ms. (except the marginal verse numbers) is printed within square brackets 1 The collations with the' Vulgate have been added to save the reader the trouble of referring constantly to the Latin text. The verse numbering of the Psalms refers to the Book of Com mon Prayer: those of the Lessons and Canticles follow the Vulgate. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.