Scottish Prayer Book (1929)

The first such production was the 1549 Book of Common Prayer, traditionally considered the work of Thomas Cranmer, which replaced both the missals and breviaries of Catholic usage.

[5] Among these liturgies were the Communion service and canonical hours of Matins and Evensong, with the addition of the Ordinal containing the form for the consecration of bishops, priests, and deacons in 1550.

[10][11] The Scottish rejection of the 1637 prayer book is considered a distant cause to the English Civil War and the resulting Puritan Protectorate under Oliver Cromwell.

[13]: 56  Non-jurors followed these Laudian attempts with their own "Communion Office" in 1718, which introduced the Summary of the Law as an alternative to the Decalogue, alongside other revisions.

[14]: 94  By the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries, the usage of the 1662 English prayer book was still predominant but had lost favor due to the introduction of hymns extending the typical three Sunday services–Matins, the Litany, and the Communion Office–to over two hours in total.

[15]: 52  These alterations, resulting in the removal of Psalm 119 from public services, were considered "an attempt to pander to sickly sentiment" by proponents of the 1662 prayer book.

The Benedicite is also presented, with the option to alternatively recite the Benedictus es, a hymn also derived from the Song of the Three Holy Children.

[15]: 57–58 [19] Following its regular usage by the Edinburgh Theological College in the years preceding the 1929 prayer book, the evening service of Compline was introduced to supplement Evensong.

[15]: 65 [1]: 34 The Scottish Episcopal Church approved several alternative and trial use liturgies to supplement the 1929 prayer book, primarily for usage in the celebration of Holy Communion.

[22] The versions of the Holy Communion offices present in the approved editions of the Book of Common Prayer produced by the Episcopal Church in the United States follow the 1764 Scottish recension.