Editing Book of Common Prayer (section)

====1833–1906====
[[File:Edward Bouverie Pusey.jpg|thumb|left|215px|[[Edward Bouverie Pusey]], a leader of the [[Oxford Movement]]]]
By the 19th century, pressures to revise the 1662 book were increasing. Adherents of the [[Oxford Movement]], begun in 1833, raised questions about the relationship of the Church of England to the apostolic church and thus about its forms of worship. Known as [[Tractarians]] after their production of ''[[Tracts for the Times]]'' on theological issues, they advanced the case for the Church of England being essentially a part of the "Western Church", of which the Roman Catholic Church was the chief representative. The illegal use of elements of the Roman rite, the use of candles, vestments and incense –&nbsp;practices collectively known as [[Ritualism in the Church of England|Ritualism]]&nbsp;– had become widespread and led to the establishment of a new system of discipline, intending to bring the "Romanisers" into conformity, through the [[Public Worship Regulation Act 1874]].{{sfn|Carpenter|1933|p=234}} The Act had no effect on illegal practices: five clergy were imprisoned for contempt of court and after the trial of the much loved Bishop [[Edward King (English bishop)|Edward King]] of Lincoln, it became clear that some revision of the [[liturgy]] had to be embarked upon.{{sfn|Carpenter|1933|p=246}}

One branch of the Ritualism movement argued that both "Romanisers" and their Evangelical opponents, by imitating, respectively, the Church of Rome and Reformed churches, transgressed the Ornaments Rubric of 1559 ("... that such Ornaments of the Church, and of the Ministers thereof, at all Times of their Ministration, shall be retained, and be in use, as were in this Church of England, by the Authority of Parliament, in the Second Year of the Reign of King Edward the Sixth"). These adherents of ritualism, among whom were [[Percy Dearmer]] and others, claimed that the Ornaments Rubric prescribed the ritual usages of the [[Sarum Rite]] with the exception of a few minor things already abolished by the early reformation.

Following a royal commission report in 1906, work began on a new prayer book. It took twenty years to complete, prolonged partly due to the demands of the [[First World War]] and partly in the light of the 1920 constitution of the [[Church Assembly]], which "perhaps not unnaturally wished to do the work all over again for itself".{{sfn|Neill|1960|p=395}}