That text, in turn, appears to be taken from an edition published by Richard Grafton of London in 1559. It uses completely the original language and spelling, which are largely retained here. Changes introduced in 1604 are taken from an original edition published about 1634. If a word is obscure or has a different meaning today, the modern equivalent is noted in brackets in the text. The reader will quickly notice that spelling was not standardized then as it is today.
Many words have a number of different spellings within the text.
It is important to note that spelling was also not uniform among the different printings of this book. Cross in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, commemorating the first BCP service in the U. S., by Sir Francis Drake's chaplain, 1579. We do have several images of pages of the 1559 original placed at appropriate places so you may see just what the original looked like. As blackletter is not a common font, nor is it particularly readable, the text here is in Roman and the rubrics in italic. In later printings, however, spelling became more and more standardized and more like that used today.