Editing Book of Common Prayer (section)

===Changes made in Scotland===
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[[File:Title page 1637 Scottish Prayer Book.png|thumb|right|Laud's abortive 1637 Prayer book]]
In 1557, the Scots Protestant lords had adopted the English Prayer Book of 1552, for [[reformed worship]] in Scotland. However, when [[John Knox]] returned to Scotland in 1559, he continued to use the ''Form of Prayer'' he had created for the English exiles in [[Geneva]] and, in 1564, this supplanted the ''Book of Common Prayer'' under the title of the ''[[Book of Common Order]]''.

Following the accession of King [[James VI and I|James VI of Scotland]] to the throne of England his son, King [[Charles I of England|Charles I]], with the assistance of Archbishop Laud, sought to impose the prayer book on Scotland.{{sfn|Perry|1922}} The [[Scottish Prayer Book (1637)|1637 prayer book]] was not, however, the 1559 book but one much closer to that of 1549, the first book of Edward VI. First used in 1637, it was never accepted, having been [[Jenny Geddes|violently rejected]] by the Scots. During one reading of the book at the Holy Communion in [[St Giles' Cathedral]], the [[Walter Whitford|Bishop of Brechin]] was forced to protect himself while reading from the book by pointing loaded pistols at the congregation.{{sfn|Durston |1998|p= 27}} Following the [[Wars of the Three Kingdoms]] (including the [[English Civil War]]), the [[Church of Scotland]] was re-established on a [[presbyterianism|presbyterian]] basis but by the Act of Comprehension 1690, the rump of [[Scottish Episcopal Church|Episcopalians]] were allowed to hold onto their [[benefice]]s. For liturgy, they looked to Laud's book and in 1724 the first of the "wee bookies" was published, containing, for the sake of economy, the central part of the Communion liturgy beginning with the offertory.{{sfn|Perry|1922|loc=Chapter 4}}

Between then and 1764, when a more formal revised version was published, a number of things happened which were to separate the Scottish Episcopal liturgy more firmly from either the English books of 1549 or 1559. First, informal changes were made to the order of the various parts of the service and inserting words indicating a sacrificial intent to the Eucharist clearly evident in the words, "we thy humble servants do celebrate and make before thy Divine Majesty with these thy holy gifts which we now OFFER unto thee, the memorial thy Son has commandeth us to make;" secondly, as a result of Bishop Rattray's researches into the liturgies of St James and St Clement, published in 1744, the form of the invocation was changed. These changes were incorporated into the 1764 book which was to be the liturgy of the [[Scottish Episcopal Church]] (until 1911 when it was revised) but it was to influence the liturgy of the [[Episcopal Church (United States)|Episcopal Church in the United States]]. A new revision was finished in 1929, the ''[[Scottish Prayer Book (1929)|Scottish Prayer Book 1929]]'', and several alternative orders of the Communion service and other services have been prepared since then.