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Proper Lessons to be read for the first Lessons, both at Morning and Evening prayer on the Sundaies throughout the year : and for some also the second Lessons.

	Mattens.	Evensong
Sundaies
of
Advent
Advent	Isaiah 1	Isaiah 2
1
	5	24
2
	25	26
3
	30	32
4
Sundaies
after
Christmas	37	38
The
first	41	43
2
Sundaies	44	46
after the	51	53
Epiphanie.	55	56
The
first	57	58
2	59	64
	Gen.	Gen.
3	1	2
4	3	6
5	9	12
Septuagesima
Sexagesima
Quinquagesima

	Mattens.	Evensong.
First
Sunday
in Lent	Gen. 19	Gen. 22
2	27	34
3	39	42
4	43	45
5	Exod. 3	Exod. 5
6	9	10
Easter
Day	Exod.	Exod.
1.	12	14
Lesson.
	Rom. 6	Acts 2
2. Lesson
Sundaies
after Easter
First	Numb.	Num.
Sunday	16	22
2	23	25
3	Deut. 4	Deut. 5
4	6	7
5	8	9
Sunday
after
	Deut. 12	Deut. 13
Ascension
	Deut.	Prov.
Day	16	2
Whitsunday
1.	Acts 10 from verse 34. to the end.	Acts 19 unto
Lesson.
		verse 21.
2. Lesson.

Trinitie	Mattens.	Evensong.
Sunday.
1.	Gen. 18	Joshua 1
Lesson.
	Mat. 3
2. Lesson.
Sundaies
after Trinitie.
		Evensong.
	Mattens.	Joshua
First		23
2	Joshua	Judges
3	10	5
4	Judges	1
5	4	Sam. 3
6	1
7	Sam. 2	13
8
9	12	17
10		2
11	15	Sam. 21
12	2
13	Sam. 12	24
14		1
15	22	Kings 17
16	1
17	Kings 13	19
18
	18	22
		2
	21	Kings 9
	2
	Kings 5	18
	10	23
		Jerem.
	19	22
	Jerem.
	5	36
		Ezek.
	35	14
	Ezek.
	2	18
	16	24
	20

Sundaies	Mattens.	Evensong.
after
Trinitie	Dan.	Dan.
19	3	6
20	Joel	Micah
21	2	6
22	Hab.	Prov.
23	2	1
24	Prov.
25	2	3
26
	11	12
	13	14
	15	16
	17	19
Lessons
proper for some holy-daies.
	Mattens.	Evensong.
St.	Prov.	Prov.
Thomas	23	24
the Apostle
Nativitie	Isaiah	Isaiah
of	9	7, from
Christ		verse 10 unto
1.	Luke
Lesson.	2 unto	the end.
		Titus
2.	verse 15.	3,
Lesson.
		from verse 4
	Prov.
St. Steven	28	unto 9.
1.	Acts
Lesson.	6, from
2.		Eccles. 4
Lesson.	verse 8 to	Acts
		7, from
	chap. 7.
		verse 30
	verse 30.
		unto 55.

	Mattens.	Evensong.
	Eccles.	Eccles.
S. John	5	6
1. Lesson.	Rev. 1	Rev. 22
	Exod.	Jer.
2. Lesson	1	31 unto
Innocents
		verse 18
Day
Circumcision		Deut
	Gen. 17	10
Day
		from verse
1. Lesson.
	Rom. 2	12 unto the
2. Lesson.		end.
Epiphanie	Isaiah 60
		Colos. 2
1. Lesson.	Luke 3 unto
2. Lesson.	verse 23.	Isaiah 49
	Being as was	John 2 unto
	supposed	verse 12.
Conversion
	the sonne of
of S. Paul
	Joseph.
1. Lesson.
2. Lesson.	Wisdom 1	Wisdom 2
	Acts 22 unto	Acts 26
Purification
of	verse 22
	Wisdom	Wisdom
the Virgin	4	6
Marie
Annunciation
of our Ladie	Eccles. 2	Eccles. 3
Wednesday	Hosea	Hosea
	13	14
afore Easter
Thursday
	Dan.	Jerem. 31
afore Easter	9
Good
Friday		Isaiah 53
	Gen.
	22

	Mattens.	Evensong.
Easter Even	Zech. 9	Exod. 13
Munday
in
Easter week	Exod. 16	Exod. 17
1.
Lesson.	Matt. 28	Acts 3
2. Lesson.
Tuesday	Exod.	Exod.
in	20	32
Easter week	Luke 24 unto verse 13	1 Cor. 15
	Eccles.
1. Lesson.	4
	Eccles.	Eccles.
2. Lesson.	7	5
		Eccles.
		9
S.	Deut.
Marke	10
Philip		2
and		Kings 2
Jacob
Ascension
Day	Gen. 11 unto
Munday
in	verse 10	Num. 11
	1
Whitsun-	Cor. 12	from verse 16
	1
weeke	Sam. 19	unto 30
1.
Lesson.	from verse 18
		Deut. 30
	unto the end
2.
Lesson.
Tuesday	Acts
in	14
		Acts 15 unto
Whitsun-
	Mal.	verse 36
weeke	3
	Matt. 13	Mal. 4
S.
Barnabe		Matt. 14 unto
2 Lesson.		verse 13
S.
John
Baptist
1. Lesson.
2. Lesson.

	Mattens.	Evensong.
S. Peter
1.	Acts 3	Acts 4
Lesson.	Ecclus.	Ecclus.
S.	5	8
Bartho-
lomew	Ecclus.	Ecclus.
S.	35	49
Matthew

	Mattens.	Evensong.
All Saints
1.	Wisdom 3	Wisdom 5
Lesson.
	unto verse 13	unto verse 17
	Wherefore
2.	blessed is the
Lesson		Rev. 19 unto
	barren
	Hebr.	verse 17
	11 unto
	chapt 12.
	verse 7

Proper Psalmes on certain daies.

	Mattens.	Evensong.
Yule,	19	84
Or	45	110
Christmas Day.	85	132

	Mattens.	Evensong.
Pasch,	2	113
Or	57	114
Easter day.	111	118

	Mattens.	Evensong.
Ascension
Day.
	8	24
	15	68
	21	108

Whitsunday.	Mattens.		Evensong.
	45		104
	47		145

The
Table for the order of the Psalms
to
be said at Morning and Evening Prayer
Dayes	Psalmes	Psalmes
	for morning	for Evening
	Prayer.	Prayer.
of the	1, 2,	6, 7,
	3, 4, 5	8
Moneth.
1	9, 10, 11	12, 13, 14
2	15, 16, 17	18
3	19, 20, 21	22, 23
4	24, 25, 26	27, 28, 29
5	30, 31	32, 33, 34
6	35, 36	37
7	38, 39, 40	41, 42, 43
8	44, 45, 46	47, 48, 49
9	50, 51, 52	53, 54, 55
10	56, 57, 58	59, 60, 61
11	62, 63, 64	65, 66, 67
12	68	69, 70
13	71, 72	73, 74
14	75, 76, 77	78
15	79, 80, 81	82, 83, 84, 85
16	86, 87, 88	89
17	90, 91, 92	93, 94
18	95, 96, 97	98, 99, 100, 101
19	102, 103	104
20	105	106
21	107	108, 109
22	110, 111, 112, 113	114, 115
23	116, 117, 118	119 Inde 4. [119:1-32]
24	Inde 5. [119:33-72]
		Inde 4. [119:73-104]
25
	Inde 5. [119:105-144]
26		Inde 4. [119:145-176]
	120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125
27
	132, 133, 134, 135	126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131
28
	139, 140, 141	136, 137, 138
29
	144, 145, 146	142, 143
30
		147, 148, 149, 150

In the text above, the numerals are shown all in Arabic, although most (including all chapter numbers) were in Roman in the original. References to books of the Bible have been modernized. Thanks to David Webb, who provided an electronic copy of much of this lectionary.

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