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1649 C. Walker Anarchia Anglicana 254 Master Williams reading Morning Service out of the Booke of Common-prayer.

1722–3 B. Franklin Let. 4 July in Boston & London (1987) 50 Many People..were carry'd to their Houses in Canooes, after the Morning Service was over.

1862 Mrs. H. Wood Channings II. xviii. 269 The day was a holiday from school, but not from morning service.

1962 Standard Jewish Encycl. 617 The shophar is sounded after morning service on weekdays throughout Elul.

1989 F. Saunders-Veness Oh! Sister I saw Bells go Down (BNC) 52 We sang the full morning service in bright sunshine.

1622 H. Peacham Compl. Gentleman xi. 99 King Henrie the eight could not onely sing his part sure, but of himselfe compose a Seruice of foure, fiue, and sixe parts.

1641 J. Barnard (title) The first book of selected church musick, consisting of services and anthems, such as are now used in the cathedrall, and collegiat churches of this kingdome.

1782 W. Mason Coll. Anthems p. xix The Service which Thomas Tallis composed in the reign of Queen Elizabeth.

1837 Morning Post 23 Oct. The choir sang Boyce's Service in A, Jomelli's Sanctus and Responses, and a treble anthem from the 8th Psalm.

1863 Imperial Dict. Universal Biogr. III. 940/2 He..left in MS. various works, and composed a beautiful morning and evening service for the cathedral of Aberdeen.

1952 Musical Q. 27 478 Both Tallis and Byrd, among others, wrote large-scale ‘Great’ Services, in which the words were expanded musically at will.

1967 Musical Times 108 801/2 His upbringing in an Anglican choir has led him naturally to write in the long tradition of church music, not only settings of the Canticles—his Evening Service in C in Latin-American rhythms is probably his most frequently performed work—but more extended settings of sacred texts.

2014 Sunday Mercury (Birmingham) (Nexis) 6 Apr. 12 Composer Ben Parry watched as the 50 gowned boys and girls of the Solihull Chamber Choir sang The Solihull Service during Choral Evensong in the cathedral.