The Sarum Use was one of the first to be published on the new printing presses in the early days of the Reformation. The complete service books for the whole rite survive. The rite was legislated as the sole use of the English Church by the Convocation of [[w:Province of Canterbury|Canterbury]] in 1544 and after the reversion to the papacy, it was commanded for the whole realm of England during the reign of [[w:Mary I of England|Queen Mary]]. It was also the primary source text for the first edition of [[w:Book of Common Prayer|''The Book of Common Prayer'']] (1549) of the [[Anglican Communion|Church of England]] . After [[w:Elizabeth I of England|Elizabeth I]] took the throne, the Recusant Roman Catholics continued using Sarum in their chapels until the restoration of the Roman hierarchy in the nineteenth century.

The rite was revived particularly by the orthodox party of the Anglo-Catholic or [[w:Oxford Movement|Tractarian movement]] in the 19th c. Church of England. In the mid-19th c., the services were translated into English by such as G. H. Palmer, and became either the preferred liturgy or preferred liturgical model for the non-Romanizing part of the Anglo-Catholic movement (also called Orthodox Anglo-Catholic or Prayer Book Catholic). The ceremonial and customs of the rite were the major influence in the development of the English Use, partly through the efforts of Percy Dearmer, author of ''The Parson's Handbook''. The old English Catholic Clergy Brotherhood also maintained a tradition of Sarum Use through the period of Catholic persecution in England.

===Modern Orthodox Usage===