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Free and Candid Disquisitions

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The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/August 3, 2024  by Gog the Mild (talk) 18:43, 24 June 2024 (UTC)



Free and Candid Disquisitions is an anonymously published 1749 pamphlet written and compiled by John Jones, a Welsh Church of England clergyman. The work promoted a series of reforms to the church and the Book of Common Prayer that Jones hoped would allow the more Protestant and independent Dissenters to be reintegrated into the church. Jones's proposals included shortening the Sunday liturgies, removing Catholic ritual influences, and providing improved hymns and psalms. Several responding texts were written, both lauding and criticizing Jone's work. While the proposals were not accepted by the Church of England, Jones's suggested alterations to the prayer book and advocacy of privately published liturgies influenced several Dissenter liturgical texts and early editions of the American Episcopal Church's prayer book. The pamphlet remained a major influence on proposed liturgical changes in the Church of England until the 19th-century Tractarian movement. (Full article...)
 * Most recent similar article(s): Order of Brothelyngham on April 1, 2024 (British religious history)
 * Main editors: Pbritti
 * Promoted: June 8, 2024
 * Reasons for nomination: Recently promoted and the 275th anniversary of the pamphlet's publication is this year.
 * Support as nominator. ~ Pbritti (talk) 05:35, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Coordinator note: The character limits for TFA blurbs are between 925 and 1,025 including spaces. The draft blurb above is 904 characters and needs expanding if the nomination is to be valid. Thanks. Gog the Mild (talk) 17:45, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Fixed. ~ Pbritti (talk) 20:31, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
 * support an interesting topic, and not one seen too often on the main page. ... sawyer  * he/they *  talk  11:57, 17 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Support 750h+ 16:02, 18 June 2024 (UTC)