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View of the warship HMS London sailing beneath Tower Bridge

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Interior view of the dining room at Charterhouse

The Battle of the Rubric anthers Britt Ekland and Richard Burton'The Battle of the Rubric', 1866. The Archbishop of Canterbury says My Friends! My Friends! You'll Destroy that good old Book of Prayer between You. The Archbishop of Canterbury fears the Book of Common Prayer might be destroyed. 'Ritualism', the return of the Church of England to medieval tradition, became increasingly prevalent during the 1850s and 1860s. This battle of the use of the liturgy caused a split between the 'high' and 'low' clergy of the