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<html> <head> <title>The Book of Common Prayer</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <link href="BCP.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> <style type="text/css"> <!-- .style1 {font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif} .style2 { font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: smaller; } --> </style> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" link="#FF0000" vlink="#0000FF" alink="#CC66CC" leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4"> <tr> <td width="45" rowspan="2" bgcolor="#666666"><strong><font color="#CCCCCC" face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"> <img src="comprose_sm.gif" width="45" height="44"> </font></strong></td> <td width="100%" bgcolor="#666666"><font color="#CCCCCC" face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"> <strong>The Book of Common Prayer</strong> </font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#CCCCCC"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="2"> <tr> <td align="center" width="14%"><font size="-1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="bcp.htm">United States</a></font></td> <td align="center" width="14%"><font size="-1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="england.htm">England</a></font></td> <td align="center" width="14%"><font size="-1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="Scotland.htm">Scotland</a></font></td> <td align="center" width="14%"><font size="-1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="Ireland.htm">Ireland</a></font></td> <td align="center" width="14%"><font size="-1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="Wales/Wales.htm">Wales</a></font></td> <td align="center" width="14%"><font size="-1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="canada.htm">Canada</a></font></td> <td align="center" width="14%"><font size="-1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="world.htm">World</a></font></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> </table> <br> <p align="center"> </p> <table width="750" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="4"> <tr> <td colspan="2" valign="top"><div align="center"> <p><img src="BCP_Title1.gif" width="150" height="200"><img src="BCP_Title2.gif" width="150" height="200"></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> </div></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="275" valign="top" class="Verdana"> <p><strong>Books of Common Prayer from:</strong></p> <p><a href="bcp.htm">The Episcopal Church (USA)</a><br> <a href="england.htm">Church of England</a><br> <a href="Scotland.htm">Episcopal Church of Scotland</a><br> <a href="Ireland.htm">Church of Ireland</a><br> <a href="Wales/Wales.htm">Church in Wales</a><br> <a href="canada.htm">Anglican Church of Canada</a><br> <a href="world.htm">Rest of the World</a></p> <p><a href="history.htm">BCP History</a> (Books <em>about</em> the Book of Common Prayer) <br> <a href="languages.html">BCP Languages</a>: Listing of all known online BCP's in languages other than English <br> <a href="Whats_new.htm">What's New</a> on this website <br> <a href="copyrights.html">A note about copyrights</a></p></td> <td valign="top" class="Georgia"> <p>The Book of Common Prayer is one of the major works of English literature. Since its introduction in the mid-1500's it has exerted enormous influence on the religious and literary lives of all who speak the English language. The Book of Common Prayer has gone through a number of editions, not only in England where it originated, but in all the places where the various Churches of the Anglican Communion are now active. </p> <p>We present here several dozen Books of Common Prayer, and related works, from all over the Anglican Communion. 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