A NARRATIVE OF EVENTS CONNECTED WITH THE PUBLICATION OF THE Tracts for the Times With an Introduction and Supplement extending to the Present Time BY WILLIAM PALMER 99 66 ORIGINES LITURGICÆ," A TREATISE ON THE CHURch of christ," RIVINGTONS WATERLOO PLACE, LONDON MDCCCLXXXIII. юн PREFACE. THE work of which the following is a reprint, received some attention at the period of its publication in 1843, when several thousand copies were in circulation in England; and a still larger number in America. It happened to be connected with important events in the Oxford Movement of 1833, which have however been almost forgotten; and the work itself has become a rarity. A wish has been expressed in various quarters, arising from a recent publication of mine in the Contemporary Review (May, 1883) on the "Oxford Movement,” that, as the last surviving member of the English Church who took part in the initiation of that movement, I should discuss the subject at greater length, and in connexion with the "Narrative" here reprinted. That narrative, it is true, was compiled to meet a peculiar exigency of the Church (happily no longer existing); but will, it is hoped, furnish a convenient basis, from its historical character, for further and fuller observations on the progress of the movement |