this was accomplished are clearly stated by the Speaker of the House of Commons in the address which he made to the King from the bar of the House of Lords on May 19, 1662. “In order to this work,” he said, “Church ornaments were first taken away; then the means whereby distinction or inequality might be upheld amongst ecclesiastical governors; then the forms of common prayer, which as members of the public body of Christ’s Church were enjoined us, were decried as superstitious, and in lieu thereof