A compendious history of the Catholick church from the year 600 untill the year 1600 shewing her deformation and reformation : together with the rise, reign, rage, and begin-fall of the Roman AntiChrist : with many other profitable instructions gathered out of divers writers of the several times, and other histories / by Alexander Petrie ...

22. In this Missal is now neither such ex∣hortation, nor such a prayer, as followeth; and therefore I may say of Ra∣ban, as Corn. Lauriman in his Epist. nuncup. said of Io. Beleth, These things may argue his antiquity, which he writeth were done in the Church every where in his time; of which things a great part is so abolished and extinct, that no footstep thereof now appears; for which cause some have heretofore des∣pised him, as if he had written false things; whereas he is for the same, the more to be commended, since hence we may learn what they did of old, and how much our times are different from antiquity. But neither doth Beleth mention any exhortation to praise, nor such a prayer, so that those were a∣bolished before his time; and in place thereof, he mentioneth Secreta and the Prefaces chap. 43; and in the next chap. Secreta is so called, because it is se∣cretly pronounced. So the people may not hear nor know it; and chap. 45. he saith, the Prefaces are ten in number; and Lauriman addeth, in the mar∣gine, there are eleven of them. Walaf. Strabo loc. cit. saith, Who made the Prefaces and the Actio (which the Romans call the Canon) it is unknown unto me; but that it is augmented not once, but often, we know by the parts which are added. So here are novations upon novations, and frequent chan∣ges from the Missal of Gregory.

Notes

• A Thanksgi∣ving is omit∣ted.