@SummersideVicar Edward Caswall toured Ireland in the 1850s before he became a Catholic, precisely to settle his mind about vernacular participation. He said most services in larger Anglican churches were pretty inaudible.
@WalkerMarcus Newman says in the Development of Doctrine that only terror of purgatory is enough to produce sufficient clergy, given how crap it all is …
@HandMissals This was preserved in the English Books of Common Prayer - the couple went up to ‘The Lord’s Table’ from the ‘body’ of the Church. Communion was compulsory until 1645. This may have helped preserve rood screens and chancels.