Footnote

The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA or DP.LA) does not know about Mr. Feasey (of the last post) but it does know about Mr. Micklethwaite, turning up 6 items; 4 versions of reference 3 and two others. But not the Westminster Abbey book, so one of the 360 or so copies printed has yet to find its way into the digital maw of DPLA.

'The ornaments of the rubric' was originally priced at 5 shillings, that is to say 25 pence in current coin, and went through several editions. With DPLA offering at least one, good quality copy online.

I have yet to work out what the theme of the work is. Maybe after breakfast.

PS: some time later: the work turns out to be an earnest and learned tract about the ornaments and furnishings which are permitted in churches of the Anglican Community. With the general idea being to restore the status quo of the second year of the reign of King Edward VI, as per the introduction to the Book of Common Prayer. A sort of catalogue raisonné of the ornaments and furnishings which should be found in our parish churches. With my only quibble being that the relevant (penultimate) paragraph of the Act of Uniformity enacted by Elizabeth I to be found in my copy of the book in question reproduces the sense but not the exact words quoted by Micklethwaite and I can't find the corresponding bit of the new Act of Uniformity enacted by Charles II which follows immediately after. So a relic of theological disputes a century dead. Or maybe not? Maybe this sort of stuff is still meat and drink to all those ladies and second career types (like the present incumbent at Canterbury) flooding into the Anglican priesthood.

Reference 1: https://dp.la/.

Reference 2: Westminster Abbey, historically described - Feasey, Micklethwaite and Bell - 1899.

Reference 3: The ornaments of the rubric - Micklethwaite, J. T. - 1898.