{{about|the English Puritan religious observance|common activities in the morning|Morning#Activities{{!}}Morning activities}} {{italic title}} '''''Morning Exercises''''' refers to a religious observance by Puritans in London which started at the beginning of the English Civil War.
==Origins== As most of the citizens of London had either a near relation or friend in the army of the Earl of Essex, clergymen were getting overwhelmed with requests to include prayers for these soldiers in their Sunday services. So a group of them agreed to set aside an hour at 7 am, every morning, with half an hour for prayer and half an hour for a broader exhortation of the population. It was started by Thomas Case the Presbyterian minister at St. Mary Magdalen, Milk Street<ref>{{cite book|last=Mullet|first=Michael|title=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|year=2004|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=Oxford|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/templates/article.jsp?articleid=4855&back=}}</ref> and continued there for a month. The exercises were then taken up by other churches across the City of London. Shortly after Westminster Abbey also started to host religious lectures between 6 - 8am, not only for local residents, but also for Members of Parliament. The preachers here included Edmund Staunton, Philip Nye, Stephen Marshall, Herbert Palmer, Charles Herle, Jeremiah Whitaker and Thomas Hill.<ref name=Neal>{{cite book|last=Neal|first=Daniel| author-link =Daniel Neal|title=History of the Puritans|url=https://archive.org/details/nealshistorypur00toulgoog|year=1811|location=London}}</ref>
==At Cripplegate== After the Civil War the Morning Exercises were continued, with many collected by Samuel Annesley being subsequently published in six volumes.
==Preachers published by Annesley== The following list of 75 was published in 1844.<ref name=Dunn>{{cite book|last=Dunn|first=Samuel|author-link =Samuel Dunn (minister)|title=Memoirs of the seventy-five eminent divines: whose discourses form the|year=1844|publisher=Snow|location=London|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LPlLAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA9}}</ref>
{{columns-list |colwidth=15em| *Richard Adams *Vincent Alsop *Samuel Annesley *Matthew Barker *William Bates *Richard Baxter *Andrew Bromhall *Daniel Burgess *Edmund Calamy the Elder *Thomas Case *Stephen Charnock *David Clarkson *Thomas Cole *John Collins *William Cooper *Zachary Crofton *Thomas Doolittle *Roger Drake *Richard Fairclough *Christopher Fowler *Theophilus Gale *John Gibbon *Thomas Gouge *William Greenhill *George Hamond *Joseph Hill *William Hook *John Howe *Henry Hurst *John Jackson *Samuel Jacomb *Thomas Jacomb *James Janeway *William Jenkyn *John Kitchen *Edward Lawrence *Samuel Lee *Stephen Lobb *Thomas Lye *Thomas Mallery *Thomas Manton *Richard Mayo *John Meriton *John Millward *Benjamin Needler *Christopher Nesse *John Oakes *John Owen *Thomas Parson *Elias Pledger *Matthew Poole *Thomas Senior *John Sheffield *Mr. Simmons *John Singleton *Samuel Slater *Richard Steel *Matthew Sylvester *William Taylor *John Tillotson *Robert Trail *Edward Veal *Nathaniel Vincent *Thomas Vincent *Peter Vinke *Thomas Wadsworth *Stephen Watkins *Thomas Watson *John Wells *Edward West *William Whittaker *Thomas White *Henry Wilkinson *Daniel Williams *Thomas Woodcock }}
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Category:Puritanism in England