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Elizabethan prayer

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03 April 2012

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From Barry Ferguson

Sir, — I note that a Grace thanking God for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee was published on Monday 12 March (News, 16 March).

Your readers may like to know that on a panel in the medieval rood-loft gallery of St Mary’s, Ather­ington, north Devon, there is a reson­ant prayer that celebrates Queen Eliza­beth I (which I have set to music): “O Lord, save thy Church, our gracious Queen Elizabeth, and send us truth and peace in Christ. Amen.”

BARRY FERGUSON
2 Hawkesdene, Shaftesbury
Dorset SP7 8NT

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