But Lyke a Christmas Game

Book of Common Prayer. London: Richard Grafton, 8 March 1549.

We will not receive the new service, because it is but like a Christmas game; but we will have our old service of Mattins, Mass, Evensong and procession in Latin, not in English.

–  Parishioners of Sampford Courtenay in Devon, Whitsunday, 1549.

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