The 1662 Book of Common Prayer is the traditional and well loved prayer book of the Anglican Church, used daily in homes and churches throughout the world. Its phrases and vocabulary are widely ...

Experts have discovered a 1527 Book of Hours belonged to Thomas Cromwell It is identical to prayer books owned by Anne Boleyn and Catherine of Aragon It featured in a painting by Hans Holbein the ...

The prayer books are in English rather than Latin when it was "new and contentious", said Mr Croft, adding they could have been "dangerous". "Just a few miles away in Canterbury, Protestants were ...