after 1662 in terms of interpretation.8 Despite this, the 1662 Book of Common Prayer has had something of a normative status within the Church of England for most of its history and bore a familial relationship to all other Anglican liturgies, at least until the 1970s. In the Church of England itself, the 1662 Book of Common Prayer was the principal ‘official’ liturgy until the introduction of Common Worship in 2000, since the Alternative Service Book defined itself as a supplement to, rather than