Grindall on Certain Rites

Edmund Grindall, then Archbishop of York, issued this injunction to his province in 1571: No persons to wear beads, or pray either in Latin or English upon beads or knots, or any other like superstitious thing; nor to burn any candle in the church superstitiously upon the feast of the Purification; nor superstitiously to make upon themselves the sign of the cross, when they first enter into any church to pray; nor to say the “De profundis” for the dead;

Baptism and Eucharist – by the book

Writing in 1571, the Archbishop of York Edmund Grindall said:

“…for the ministration of the communion bread, they should not deliver it unto the people into their mouths, but into their hands; nor should use at the ministration of the communion, any gestures, rites, or ceremonies, not appointed by the book of common prayer; as crossing, or breathing over the sacramental bread or wine; nor any showing or lifting up of the same to the people, to be by them worshiped or adored, nor any such like; nor should they use any oil, or chrism, tapers, spittle, or any other [Roman Catholic] ceremony in the ministration of the sacrament of baptism.”