A History of the Book of Common Prayer

Several other figures – including Hamon L'Estrange, Anthony Sparrow, and Thomas Elborow – published histories of the prayer book later in the century.

[2]: 81  Palmer's work was appraised as "virtually an eighteenth-century book" by later Anglican liturgist Stanley Morison, who noted the influence of studies by the French Edmond Martène and Italian Francesco Antonio Zaccaria from the preceding century.

Morison credited William Maskell's 1844 The Ancient Liturgy of the Church of England for initiating a modern form of English liturgical studies.

[2]: 82 [1]: xliii Liturgist John Henry Blunt, in his 1866 The Annotated Book of Common Prayer, positively acknowledged the works by Palmer, Maskell, and Philip Freeman as large studies of the Book of Common Prayer, but lauded Procter's work as "the most trustworthy and complete" account of English liturgy that remained compact.

[2]: 82 [3] Frere's revision was part of a number of similar historical studies, such as F. E. Brightman's The English Rite, which were produced by members of the Alcuin Club in the early 20th century.

[5]: 9–11, 213–214  Frere had previously edited reprints of medieval Sarum service books for the Henry Bradshaw Society and Cambridge University Press; he would go on to become the Bishop of Truro.