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Excerpt from Judgment Delivered by the Right Hon. Sir Robert Phillimore, D. C. L., Official Principal of the Court of Arches: In the Cases of Martin V. Mackonochie and Flamank V. Simpson
The terms rite and ceremony, as used in the first Prayer Book, and from thence imported into our present Prayer Book, are terms, so to speak, of ecclesiastical and ritual art, and must be construed with reference to their use in con temporaneous and other works of writers upon ritual, unless they receive a different meaning from a comparison of other passages or parts in the Prayer Book or Statute in which they are found.
I must, therefore, refer at length to the preface in our Prayer Book, entitled.
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