Free and Candid Disquisitions is an anonymously published 1749
pamphlet written and compiled by
John Jones, a Welsh clergyman of the
Church of England. The work promoted a series of reforms to the church and the Book of Common Prayer that Jones hoped would allow the more
Protestant and independent
Dissenters to be reintegrated into the church. Jones's proposals included shortening the Sunday
liturgies, removing
Catholic ritual influences, and providing improved
hymns and
psalms. Several responding texts were written, both lauding and criticizing Jones's work. While the proposals were not accepted by the Church of England, Jones's suggested alterations to the prayer book and advocacy of privately published liturgies influenced several Dissenter
liturgical texts and early editions of the American
Episcopal Church's prayer book. The pamphlet remained a major influence on proposed liturgical changes in the Church of England until the 19th-century
Tractarian movement. (Full article...)
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