Understanding McLuhan/Understanding McLuhan (1996)(Voyager)[Mac-PC].iso/pc/mcluhan.dxr/09013_Field_TCGG T778.txt

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movement was related to the centralism of the print process.
But no further example of the power of print to enhance central
power need be sought beyond the Act of Uniformity of
Elizabeth in 1559. The bill was opposed in the Lower House of
Convocation on the ground that no government could possess
“authority to treat of or to define whatever concerns the faith,
the sacraments and ecclesiastical discipline . . .” But liturgy and
church observance were an easy mark for print, depending as
they long had on book form. As from June 24, 1559, the
Prayer Book of 1552 was to be “in full force and effect,” all
ministers being thenceforth “bounden to say and use the
Matins, Evensong, celebration of the Lord’s Supper and
administration of each of the sacraments, and all their
common and open prayer” as these are in the book “and none
other or other wise.”