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| | Anglican Society--President's Corner |
 | | Queen Mary restored the Sarum Use throughout her reign from 1553 to 1558; one GTS Sarum Missal dates from this period (1555), and the last Sarum Missal was printed in 1557. |
 | | Even upon the eve of the Reformation itself, the Sarum Use, or at least the Divine Office according to it, was enjoined by the Convocation of Canterbury in 1534 or 1542 (sources differ) to be followed exclusively throughout the southern province, although it is doubtful that this injunction was ever fully enforced. |
 | | The Use of Sarum, then, was a rather exuberant, elaborate, beautiful, and especially well arranged adaptation of the Western or Roman Rite that was gradually adopted by most of the rest of England as well as much of Wales, Scotland, Ireland, and even some places on the continent. |
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