Copyright and Acknowledgments

Singing the Song: © copyright 1999 this compilation and some of the contents Simon Kershaw

Singing the Song builds on a number of other works and I am grateful for permission to use portions of them. In the first place, my thanks to Br Tristam ssf, for permission to include biographical and other material from Exciting Holiness, the companion to the holy days of the calendar of the Church of England, and for permission to include material from Celebrating Common Prayer, a form of the Daily Office of the European Province of the Society of St Francis.

Individual biographies are by:
The Revd Professor Owen Chadwick: George Augustus Selwyn*
Dr Petà Dunstan: Brooke Foss Westcott, Octavia Hill*
Br Tristam ssf: Michael Ramsey*, Charles Simeon, C S Lewis*, Nicholas Ferrar
Simon Kershaw: all other biographical or historical notes.
An asterisk denotes that the text has been modified.

The biographies of George Augustus Selwyn, Brooke Foss Westcott, Octavia Hill (adapted), Charles Simeon and Nicholas Ferrar are from Exciting Holiness © 1997 European Province of the Society of Saint Francis.
The biographies of George Augustus Selwyn, Octavia Hill (adapted) and Nicholas Ferrar from Exciting Holiness (Canterbury Press, Norwich, 1997) are based on the General Synod report GS1161 Report on the Calendar, Lectionary and Collects, 2000, July 1995, copyright © The Archbishops’ Council.
The biographies of Michael Ramsey and C S Lewis are adapted from the General Synod report GS1161 Report on the Calendar, Lectionary and Collects, 2000, July 1995, copyright © The Archbishops’ Council.
The biographies and other notes for Werburga, Ermenilda, Withburga, Ivo, Botolph, Etheldreda, Sexburga, Germans, Neot, Peter’s Chains, Pandionia, Thomas Clarkson, the Translation of Etheldreda, the Foundation of the Diocese of Ely, Vigor, Dorothy L Sayers, and Wendreda are copyright © Simon Kershaw 1999.
The biographies and other notes for Ailwyn, Britnoth, Hereward, and Oliver Cromwell are copyright © Simon Kershaw 2000.

The Collect and Post-Communion Prayers for Etheldreda and Charles Simeon are from The Christian Year: Calendar, Lectionary and Collects (Church House Publishing, 1995, 1997) and are copyright © The Archbishops’ Council.
The Post-Communion Prayer 1 (Thomas Clarkson, slightly adapted) and 2 (Octavia Hill) for any Saint, and the Post-Communion Prayer for a Member of a Religious Community (Nicholas Ferrar) are from The Christian Year: Calendar, Lectionary and Collects (Church House Publishing, 1995, 1997) and are copyright © The Archbishops’ Council.
The Collect for Bishops (anniversary of the Foundation of the Diocese of Ely, adapted) is adapted from The Alternative Service Book 1980, copyright © The Archbishops’ Council.
The Collect for Nicholas Ferrar is from Celebrating Common Prayer (Mowbray, 1992), adapted from the Book of Common Prayer of the Episcopal Church in the USA.
The Collects for Octavia Hill and Thomas Clarkson are ... not yet written!

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The selection of readings is generally as prescribed in The Christian Year. The lessons for Morning and Evening Prayer for the Festival of Saint Etheldreda are selected from the provisions of Celebrating Common Prayer © 1992 European Province of the Society of Saint Francis.

Bible Readings, except for the Psalms, are from the The New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, Anglicized Edition © copyright 1989, 1995 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America and are used with permission. All rights reserved.

The Psalms are from the Book of Common Prayer of the Episcopal Church in the USA, adjusted to comply with British orthography and usage and inclusivized in reference to human beings for Celebrating Common Prayer by the European Province of the Society of Saint Francis.

Photographs and pictures are from a variety of sources:
Etheldreda banner ...
Ivo from a modern icon in All Saints Church, Saint Ives. Photograph by Philip Grosset. Reproduced by permission.
Michael Ramsey from a portrait by Ruskin Spear RA reproduced by courtesy of the Master and Fellows of Magdalene College, Cambridge. [NB -- permission not yet received.]
Octavia Hill ...
Thomas Clarkson ...
Charles Simeon ...
C S Lewis ...
Nicholas Ferrar ...
Dorothy L Sayers by permission of the Dorothy L Sayers Society

I am very grateful for the help of Angus and Rosemary Hannah in translating the charter of foundation of the Diocese of Ely.

The hymn I sing a song of the saints of God is copyright 1929, and copyright © 1940 Lesbia Scott.

The section about the hymn is copyright © 1997, 1999, William J Reynolds, and is used and adapted by permission.

The Old English text of the fragmentary poem The Battle of Maldon is from the Complete Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Poetry deposited at the Online Book Initiative. The translation of the The Battle of Maldon is copyright © Jonathan A Glenn 1997, used by permission.

Except where otherwise noted, material in Singing the Song is copyright Simon Kershaw. It may be reproduced and used for non-commercial local liturgical use and private study, provided that an acknowledgment and appropriate copyright statement is included. For other use permission should be obtained in advance from Simon Kershaw simon@kershaw.org.uk.

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