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textus restitutus were the object of the Society.
My attention was in the first instance drawn to the British
Museum MS. (our text B) by Mr. Maskell's extracts from it
in the notes to his Ancient English Liturgies. It was one
of the first books I asked for on my next visit to the Reading-
room, and, besides its curious ritual information, I was much
struck by the fact that it was the only document I had met
with that enables us to know the prayers which the unlearned
of our forefathers used at mass, and by the light it threw upon