E.V.

_Feast of St, Michael and All-Angels._--The difficulty started

by "K.M.P." (No. 13, p. 203.), with regard to the double second

lessons for the Feast of St. Michael and All-Angels, is easily

resolved by comparing the Table of Proper Lessons before and after

the last review of the _Prayer Book_ in 1662; from which it

will be seen, that the proper _second_ lessons were then

appointed for the first time, while the old second lessons for Sept.

29. were retained, either from inadvertence, or to avoid the

necessity of disarranging all the subsequent part of the calendar.

The present first lessons, Gen. xxxii., and Dan. x. v. 5., at the

same time took the place of the inappropriate chapters, Eccles.

xxxix. and xliv., which had been appointed for this day in Queen

Elizabeth's Prayer Book, 1559.

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