Chapter 25

[1002]Life of Kettlewell, 1719, 24.[1003]Burnet'sFour Discourses to the Clergy of Sarum, 1694, 338.[1004]Paterson'sPietas Londinensis, Introd.[1005]Fleetwood'sWorks, 716.[1006]Johnson'sVade-Mecum, i. 189[1007]E.g. Malcolm'sLondon, &c., i. 18.[1008]Walcot'sCathedrals, &c. (of Rochester), 102.[1009]Doran's Note toHorace Walpole's Journal, i. 89.[1010]Bramston, quoted in id.[1011]C. Cruttwell'sLife of Bishop Wilson, 370.[1012]Life of Kettlewell, 24. Paterson'sPietas Londinensis, Introduction. H.B. Wilson'sHist. of Merchant Taylors, 1075. Chr. Wordsworth'sMemoirs of W. Wordsworth, 8.[1013]The Church of England Vindicated, &c., 1801, 15.[1014]Secker'sEight Charges, 49.[1015]Boswell'sLife of Johnson, ii. 191.[1016]Beresford Hope,Worship, &c., 22.[1017]J.B. Pearson, inOxford Essays, 1858, 165.[1018]Horsley'sCharges, 114.[1019]Brand'sPopular Antiq.1777, i. 491.[1020]Spectator, No. 282.[1021]Gay'sTrivia, ii. 438.[1022]Walcot'sCathedrals, &c., 137.[1023]Gay'sTrivia, ii. 442.[1024]Stukeley'sHist. of Carausius, ii. 164. Quoted by Walcot, 137.[1025]Paterson'sPietas Lond.[1026]As at St. Dunstan's-in-the-West, &c., id. 80.[1027]See p. 68.[1028]Piet. Lond.272.[1029]Walcot'sCathedrals, &c., 137.[1030]Paterson'sPietas Londinensis, 157.[1031]Id.[1032]Spectator, No. 161, Sept. 4, 1711.[1033]Nelson'sLife of Bull, 312.[1034]Macaulay'sHistory of Claybrook, 1791, 93, quoted by Brand, ii. 12.[1035]Wither'sEmblems, 1635, quoted by Brand.[1036]J. Walton'sLife of Hooker.—Hooker'sWorks, 1850, i. 63.[1037]Secker'sCharges, 143.[1038]Wilson'sHist. of St. Lawrence Pountney, 114.[1039]Secker'sCharges, 143.[1040]J. Brand'sPopular Antiquities, i. 199.[1041]De Foe'sWorks, Chalmers, vol. xx. 8, note.[1042]A Collection of Parl. Protests, 1737, 164.[1043]Life of Ken, by a Layman, ii. 653.[1044]Whiston'sMemoirs, 1749, 132.[1045]Id. and 406.[1046]G. Wakefield'sMemoirs, 1792, 182.[1047]Malcolm'sManners and Customs of London, ii. 16-19.[1048]Id. 23.[1049]Brand'sPop. Antiq.i. 406-8.[1050]Paterson'sPietas Lond.23, 154, 164.[1051]Burn'sEccl. Law, iii. 235.[1052]H.J. Stephen'sCommentaries on the Laws, 1858, iii. 54.[1053]Dean Prideaux'Life and Letters, 1747, 95, and R. South'sSermons, 1823, iv. 186.[1054]Prideaux, as above.[1055]Burnet, quoted in J. Hunt'sHist. of Rel. Thought in E.iii. 223.[1056]Secker'sEight Charges, 6.[1057]B. Hope,Worship in the Ch. of E., 10. Secker makes the same remark,Eight Charges, 295.[1058]Bishop Newton'sLife and Works, i. 115.[1059]J. Newton'sMemoirs, 54.[1060]The Church of England Vindicated, 1801, 40.[1061]Considerations on the Present State of Religion, 1801, 21, 29.[1062]H. More'sMemoirs, i. 573.[1063]H. More'sMemoirs, i. 656.[1064]Id. 458.[1065]R. Thoresby'sDiary(of 1684), i. 178.[1066]Spectator, No. 20.[1067]Spectator, No. 50.[1068]Id. No. 259.[1069]The scandalous interruptions during service which C. Simeon met with (1792-5) were, of course, of a different nature.—Simeon's Memoirs, 86-92.[1070]R. Polwhele's Introduction toLavington, ccxliv.[1071]Tindal, vol. i. andSomers Tracts, x. 349, quoted in W. Palin'sHist. of the Ch. of E. from1688to1717, 218.[1072]Quoted in id. 228.[1073]Gibson Papers, v. 9. Quoted in J. Stoughton'sChurch of the Revolution, 324.[1074]Hooper's MS., quoted by Palin, 220.[1075]Cripps'sLaws of the Church, 675.[1076]R. Burn'sEccles. Law, iii. 273.[1077]Johnson'sVade Mecum, i. 281.[1078]Worship in the Church of England, 9.[1079]J. Johnson'sVade Mecum, i. 21.[1080]Life of Archbishop Sharp, by his Son, i. 355.[1081]B. Hope,Worship, &c., 109, 1211.[1082]Gibson'sCodex Jur. Eccl.303, 472. This opinion is referred to with approval inAn Account of London Parishes, &c.[1083]Blomefield'sHist. of Norwich, quoted in id. 140.[1084]A.P. Stanley'sMemoirs of Westminster Abbey, 192.[1085]Defoe'sTour, 1727, iii. 189, also Thoresby'sDiary, i. 60.[1086]B. Hope,Worship, &c., 138.[1087]Gent. Mag.for 1804, quoted in id.[1088]The Scourge, by T. Lewis, Feb. 11, 1717.[1089]Sherlock,On Public Worship, 114.[1090]The Scourge, May 16, 1717.[1091]Quoted in Stoughton'sChurch of the Revolution, 323.[1092]E. Thoresby'sDiary, ii. 341.[1093]Tatler, No. 129.[1094]Secker'sEight Charges, 182.[1095]R. South'sSermons, iv. 191, alsoStrype Corresp.quoted by Stoughton,Ch. of the Rev., 323.[1096]Mr. Wordsworth, however, mentions a portrait of 1730, showing the interior of an English church in which the celebrant at the Eucharist is robed in a black gown.—Univ. Soc. in the Eighteenth Cent., 533.[1097]Walcot'sCathedrals, &c., 121.[1098]Christopher Pitt'sArt of Preaching, c. 1740. Anderson'sBr. Poets, viii. 821.[1099]Spectator, No. 21.[1100]Id. No. 609.[1101]Id., and Oldham, in theTatler, No. 255.[1102]Swift's 'Project for the Adv. of Rel.'—Works, ix. 97.Spectator, No. 608.[1103]Hearne'sReliq.Feb. 1719-20, quoted in Chr. Wordsworth,Univ. Soc. in Eighteenth Century, 36, 516.[1104]Fielding'sJoseph Andrews, b. i. chap. 16, b. ii. chaps. 3, 7, &c.[1105]Cf. C. Churchill'sIndependence:—'O'er a brown cassock which had once been black,Which hung in tatters o'er his brawny back.'[1106]Hardships, &c., of the Inf. Clergy, in a letter to the Bishop of London, 1722, 20, 93, 246.[1107]Admonition to the Younger Clergy, 1764, andPhilagoretes on the Pulpit, &c., quoted by Chr. Wordsworth,Universities, &c., 526, 529.[1108]J.C. Jeaffreson'sB. of the Clergy, ii. 253.[1109]Mrs. Abigail, &c., with some Free Thoughts on the Pretended Dignity of the Clergy, 1700.[1110]Quoted inJustice and Necessity of Restraining the Clergy, &c., 1715, 41[1111]Jeaffreson, ii. 231.[1112]R. South'sSermons, vol. iv. 192.[1113]Dean Swift'sWorks, vol. viii. 313.[1114]Chap. iii. p. 26 quoted in A. Andrews'Eighteenth Century.[1115]Considerations Addressed to the Clergy, 1798, 14.[1116]Spectator, No. 455. Burnet, as a matter of opinion, thought this more consonant with primitive usage, and, except during confession, more expressive of the feelings of faith and confidence.—Four Discourses, &c., 1694, 323.[1117]The Scourge, 1720, No. 3.[1118]Cruttwell'sLife of Bishop Wilson, 12; and Fleetwood's 'Letter to an Inhabitant of St. Andrew's, Holborn,' 1717—Works. 1737, 722-3.[1119]Id.[1120]Towards the end of the century, on the other hand, there were many churches where kneeling was sufficiently uncommon as almost to call special attention. Thus Admiral Austen was remarked upon as 'theofficer who kneeled at church' (Jane Austen'sMemoirs, 23); and C. Simeon writes in hisDiary, '1780, March 8. Kneeled down before service; nor do I see any impropriety in it. Why should I be afraid or ashamed of all the world seeing me do my duty?' (Memoirs, 19).[1121]Tatler, No. 241.[1122]J. Hunt,Relig. Thought in England, i. 197.[1123]SherlockOn Public Worship, 1681, ii. ch. 2.[1124]Fleetwood'sWorks, 1737, 723.[1125]G. Hickes,Devotions, &c., second ed., 1701, Pref.[1126]Second Charge, 1741, Secker'sEight Charges, 1769.[1127]T. Bisse,The Beauty of Holiness, eighth ed. 1721, 50, note.[1128]J. Watts, 'Miscellaneous Thoughts'—Works, ix. 380.[1129]Tatler, No. 211.[1130]Spectator, No. 112.[1131]Id. No. 54.[1132]Bingham'sWorks, ix. 259. Cruttwell, 12. Walcott, 204.Somers Tracts, ix. 507. Watts'sWorks, ix. 380. Wakefield'sMemoirs, 156.The Scourge, No. 3.[1133]Bisse,Beauty of Holiness, 145.[1134]South'sWorks, iv. 191.[1135]Lathbury'sHist. of the Nonjurors, 156, 507-8. Parry'sHist. of the Ch. of E., iii, 165.[1136]This gave occasion to a special pastoral letter of the Bishop of London, Dec. 26, 1718.[1137]Whiston'sMemoirs, at date 1720, 249.[1138]Thus we find Dr. Parr speaking of 'reviving' its use in his parish. Johnstone's 'Life of Parr'—Q. Rev.39, 268. Expressions of dislike to parts of it among Churchmen are very numerous throughout the century.[1139]Barbauld'sWorks, by Aikin, ii. 151. Bishop Watson'sLife, i. 395.[1140]J. Johnson,Clergyman's Vade Mecum, i. 12, and Heylin (Hist.pl. ii. cap. 4) quoted by him.[1141]N. Bisse,Beauty of Holiness, 123. C. Crutwell'sLife of Bishop Wilson, 265 (in the Isle of Man, First and Second Services are the regular terms used in official ecclesiastical notices).London Parishes, 8.[1142]SherlockOn Public Worship, 1681, 205, 219.[1143]BeveridgeOn Frequent Communion, 155, 173.[1144]Fleetwood for example, 'Charge to the Ely Clergy,' 1716—Works, 1737, 699.[1145]Secker'sEight Charges, 63.[1146]E.C.M. Walcott'sCustoms of Cathedrals, 101.[1147]Quoted inThe Church of England Vindicated, &c., 1801, 5.[1148]Two Letters Concerning the Methodists, by the Rev. Moore Booker, 1751, Pref. iv.[1149]Burnet's Funeral Sermon on Tillotson, quoted in Lathbury'sNonjurors, 156.[1150]Du Moulin'sSober and Dispassionate Reply, &c., 1680, 32.[1151]The Church of England's Complaint against the Irregularities of some of the Clergy, 1709, 15.[1152]J. Johnstone'sLife of Dr. Parr, qu. inQ. Rev.39, 268.[1153]R. Nelson'sLife of Bull, 52.[1154]Charge of 1741—Secker'sEight Charges, 63.[1155]C. Leslie's 'Letter about the New Separation'—Works, i. 510. He adds that some clergymen of the Ch. of E. always used unleavened bread at the Sacrament.[1156]L. Tyerman'sOxford Methodists, Pref. vi. Other allusions to an occasional preference for this usage occur in Bishop Horne'sWorks, App. 203, andGent. Mag.1750, xx. 75. In some editions of Bishop Wilson'sSacra Privata, there is a prayer for a blessing on the bread and wine-and-water.[1157]Herbert'sCountry Parsonquoted in Brand'sPop. Antiquities, i. 521.[1158]Walcott'sCustoms of Cathedrals, 137.[1159]London Parishes, &c., 20.[1160]Paterson'sPietas Londinensis, 52.[1161]Id. 104.[1162]Spectator, No. 372.[1163]H.W. Cripps'sLaw of the Ch., &c., 218.[1164]Hartley Coleridge,Essays and Marginalia, ii. 338.[1165]Pope'sWorks, vii. 222-35. Naturally, Jacobite parsons were robed by Jacobite clerks. 'Who hath not observed several parish clerks that have ransacked Hopkins and Sternhold for staves in favour of the race of Jacob.'—Addison, inThe Freeholder, No. 53.[1166]John Wesley (Works, x. 445), records an amusing reminiscence of his boyhood: 'One Sunday, immediately after sermon, my father's clerk said with an audible voice: "Let us sing to the praise, &c., an hymn of my own composing:King William is come home, come home!King William home is come!Therefore let us together singThe hymn that's called Te D'um."'

[1002]Life of Kettlewell, 1719, 24.

[1003]Burnet'sFour Discourses to the Clergy of Sarum, 1694, 338.

[1004]Paterson'sPietas Londinensis, Introd.

[1005]Fleetwood'sWorks, 716.

[1006]Johnson'sVade-Mecum, i. 189

[1007]E.g. Malcolm'sLondon, &c., i. 18.

[1008]Walcot'sCathedrals, &c. (of Rochester), 102.

[1009]Doran's Note toHorace Walpole's Journal, i. 89.

[1010]Bramston, quoted in id.

[1011]C. Cruttwell'sLife of Bishop Wilson, 370.

[1012]Life of Kettlewell, 24. Paterson'sPietas Londinensis, Introduction. H.B. Wilson'sHist. of Merchant Taylors, 1075. Chr. Wordsworth'sMemoirs of W. Wordsworth, 8.

[1013]The Church of England Vindicated, &c., 1801, 15.

[1014]Secker'sEight Charges, 49.

[1015]Boswell'sLife of Johnson, ii. 191.

[1016]Beresford Hope,Worship, &c., 22.

[1017]J.B. Pearson, inOxford Essays, 1858, 165.

[1018]Horsley'sCharges, 114.

[1019]Brand'sPopular Antiq.1777, i. 491.

[1020]Spectator, No. 282.

[1021]Gay'sTrivia, ii. 438.

[1022]Walcot'sCathedrals, &c., 137.

[1023]Gay'sTrivia, ii. 442.

[1024]Stukeley'sHist. of Carausius, ii. 164. Quoted by Walcot, 137.

[1025]Paterson'sPietas Lond.

[1026]As at St. Dunstan's-in-the-West, &c., id. 80.

[1027]See p. 68.

[1028]Piet. Lond.272.

[1029]Walcot'sCathedrals, &c., 137.

[1030]Paterson'sPietas Londinensis, 157.

[1031]Id.

[1032]Spectator, No. 161, Sept. 4, 1711.

[1033]Nelson'sLife of Bull, 312.

[1034]Macaulay'sHistory of Claybrook, 1791, 93, quoted by Brand, ii. 12.

[1035]Wither'sEmblems, 1635, quoted by Brand.

[1036]J. Walton'sLife of Hooker.—Hooker'sWorks, 1850, i. 63.

[1037]Secker'sCharges, 143.

[1038]Wilson'sHist. of St. Lawrence Pountney, 114.

[1039]Secker'sCharges, 143.

[1040]J. Brand'sPopular Antiquities, i. 199.

[1041]De Foe'sWorks, Chalmers, vol. xx. 8, note.

[1042]A Collection of Parl. Protests, 1737, 164.

[1043]Life of Ken, by a Layman, ii. 653.

[1044]Whiston'sMemoirs, 1749, 132.

[1045]Id. and 406.

[1046]G. Wakefield'sMemoirs, 1792, 182.

[1047]Malcolm'sManners and Customs of London, ii. 16-19.

[1048]Id. 23.

[1049]Brand'sPop. Antiq.i. 406-8.

[1050]Paterson'sPietas Lond.23, 154, 164.

[1051]Burn'sEccl. Law, iii. 235.

[1052]H.J. Stephen'sCommentaries on the Laws, 1858, iii. 54.

[1053]Dean Prideaux'Life and Letters, 1747, 95, and R. South'sSermons, 1823, iv. 186.

[1054]Prideaux, as above.

[1055]Burnet, quoted in J. Hunt'sHist. of Rel. Thought in E.iii. 223.

[1056]Secker'sEight Charges, 6.

[1057]B. Hope,Worship in the Ch. of E., 10. Secker makes the same remark,Eight Charges, 295.

[1058]Bishop Newton'sLife and Works, i. 115.

[1059]J. Newton'sMemoirs, 54.

[1060]The Church of England Vindicated, 1801, 40.

[1061]Considerations on the Present State of Religion, 1801, 21, 29.

[1062]H. More'sMemoirs, i. 573.

[1063]H. More'sMemoirs, i. 656.

[1064]Id. 458.

[1065]R. Thoresby'sDiary(of 1684), i. 178.

[1066]Spectator, No. 20.

[1067]Spectator, No. 50.

[1068]Id. No. 259.

[1069]The scandalous interruptions during service which C. Simeon met with (1792-5) were, of course, of a different nature.—Simeon's Memoirs, 86-92.

[1070]R. Polwhele's Introduction toLavington, ccxliv.

[1071]Tindal, vol. i. andSomers Tracts, x. 349, quoted in W. Palin'sHist. of the Ch. of E. from1688to1717, 218.

[1072]Quoted in id. 228.

[1073]Gibson Papers, v. 9. Quoted in J. Stoughton'sChurch of the Revolution, 324.

[1074]Hooper's MS., quoted by Palin, 220.

[1075]Cripps'sLaws of the Church, 675.

[1076]R. Burn'sEccles. Law, iii. 273.

[1077]Johnson'sVade Mecum, i. 281.

[1078]Worship in the Church of England, 9.

[1079]J. Johnson'sVade Mecum, i. 21.

[1080]Life of Archbishop Sharp, by his Son, i. 355.

[1081]B. Hope,Worship, &c., 109, 1211.

[1082]Gibson'sCodex Jur. Eccl.303, 472. This opinion is referred to with approval inAn Account of London Parishes, &c.

[1083]Blomefield'sHist. of Norwich, quoted in id. 140.

[1084]A.P. Stanley'sMemoirs of Westminster Abbey, 192.

[1085]Defoe'sTour, 1727, iii. 189, also Thoresby'sDiary, i. 60.

[1086]B. Hope,Worship, &c., 138.

[1087]Gent. Mag.for 1804, quoted in id.

[1088]The Scourge, by T. Lewis, Feb. 11, 1717.

[1089]Sherlock,On Public Worship, 114.

[1090]The Scourge, May 16, 1717.

[1091]Quoted in Stoughton'sChurch of the Revolution, 323.

[1092]E. Thoresby'sDiary, ii. 341.

[1093]Tatler, No. 129.

[1094]Secker'sEight Charges, 182.

[1095]R. South'sSermons, iv. 191, alsoStrype Corresp.quoted by Stoughton,Ch. of the Rev., 323.

[1096]Mr. Wordsworth, however, mentions a portrait of 1730, showing the interior of an English church in which the celebrant at the Eucharist is robed in a black gown.—Univ. Soc. in the Eighteenth Cent., 533.

[1097]Walcot'sCathedrals, &c., 121.

[1098]Christopher Pitt'sArt of Preaching, c. 1740. Anderson'sBr. Poets, viii. 821.

[1099]Spectator, No. 21.

[1100]Id. No. 609.

[1101]Id., and Oldham, in theTatler, No. 255.

[1102]Swift's 'Project for the Adv. of Rel.'—Works, ix. 97.Spectator, No. 608.

[1103]Hearne'sReliq.Feb. 1719-20, quoted in Chr. Wordsworth,Univ. Soc. in Eighteenth Century, 36, 516.

[1104]Fielding'sJoseph Andrews, b. i. chap. 16, b. ii. chaps. 3, 7, &c.

[1105]Cf. C. Churchill'sIndependence:—'O'er a brown cassock which had once been black,Which hung in tatters o'er his brawny back.'

[1105]Cf. C. Churchill'sIndependence:—

'O'er a brown cassock which had once been black,Which hung in tatters o'er his brawny back.'

[1106]Hardships, &c., of the Inf. Clergy, in a letter to the Bishop of London, 1722, 20, 93, 246.

[1107]Admonition to the Younger Clergy, 1764, andPhilagoretes on the Pulpit, &c., quoted by Chr. Wordsworth,Universities, &c., 526, 529.

[1108]J.C. Jeaffreson'sB. of the Clergy, ii. 253.

[1109]Mrs. Abigail, &c., with some Free Thoughts on the Pretended Dignity of the Clergy, 1700.

[1110]Quoted inJustice and Necessity of Restraining the Clergy, &c., 1715, 41

[1111]Jeaffreson, ii. 231.

[1112]R. South'sSermons, vol. iv. 192.

[1113]Dean Swift'sWorks, vol. viii. 313.

[1114]Chap. iii. p. 26 quoted in A. Andrews'Eighteenth Century.

[1115]Considerations Addressed to the Clergy, 1798, 14.

[1116]Spectator, No. 455. Burnet, as a matter of opinion, thought this more consonant with primitive usage, and, except during confession, more expressive of the feelings of faith and confidence.—Four Discourses, &c., 1694, 323.

[1117]The Scourge, 1720, No. 3.

[1118]Cruttwell'sLife of Bishop Wilson, 12; and Fleetwood's 'Letter to an Inhabitant of St. Andrew's, Holborn,' 1717—Works. 1737, 722-3.

[1119]Id.

[1120]Towards the end of the century, on the other hand, there were many churches where kneeling was sufficiently uncommon as almost to call special attention. Thus Admiral Austen was remarked upon as 'theofficer who kneeled at church' (Jane Austen'sMemoirs, 23); and C. Simeon writes in hisDiary, '1780, March 8. Kneeled down before service; nor do I see any impropriety in it. Why should I be afraid or ashamed of all the world seeing me do my duty?' (Memoirs, 19).

[1121]Tatler, No. 241.

[1122]J. Hunt,Relig. Thought in England, i. 197.

[1123]SherlockOn Public Worship, 1681, ii. ch. 2.

[1124]Fleetwood'sWorks, 1737, 723.

[1125]G. Hickes,Devotions, &c., second ed., 1701, Pref.

[1126]Second Charge, 1741, Secker'sEight Charges, 1769.

[1127]T. Bisse,The Beauty of Holiness, eighth ed. 1721, 50, note.

[1128]J. Watts, 'Miscellaneous Thoughts'—Works, ix. 380.

[1129]Tatler, No. 211.

[1130]Spectator, No. 112.

[1131]Id. No. 54.

[1132]Bingham'sWorks, ix. 259. Cruttwell, 12. Walcott, 204.Somers Tracts, ix. 507. Watts'sWorks, ix. 380. Wakefield'sMemoirs, 156.The Scourge, No. 3.

[1133]Bisse,Beauty of Holiness, 145.

[1134]South'sWorks, iv. 191.

[1135]Lathbury'sHist. of the Nonjurors, 156, 507-8. Parry'sHist. of the Ch. of E., iii, 165.

[1136]This gave occasion to a special pastoral letter of the Bishop of London, Dec. 26, 1718.

[1137]Whiston'sMemoirs, at date 1720, 249.

[1138]Thus we find Dr. Parr speaking of 'reviving' its use in his parish. Johnstone's 'Life of Parr'—Q. Rev.39, 268. Expressions of dislike to parts of it among Churchmen are very numerous throughout the century.

[1139]Barbauld'sWorks, by Aikin, ii. 151. Bishop Watson'sLife, i. 395.

[1140]J. Johnson,Clergyman's Vade Mecum, i. 12, and Heylin (Hist.pl. ii. cap. 4) quoted by him.

[1141]N. Bisse,Beauty of Holiness, 123. C. Crutwell'sLife of Bishop Wilson, 265 (in the Isle of Man, First and Second Services are the regular terms used in official ecclesiastical notices).London Parishes, 8.

[1142]SherlockOn Public Worship, 1681, 205, 219.

[1143]BeveridgeOn Frequent Communion, 155, 173.

[1144]Fleetwood for example, 'Charge to the Ely Clergy,' 1716—Works, 1737, 699.

[1145]Secker'sEight Charges, 63.

[1146]E.C.M. Walcott'sCustoms of Cathedrals, 101.

[1147]Quoted inThe Church of England Vindicated, &c., 1801, 5.

[1148]Two Letters Concerning the Methodists, by the Rev. Moore Booker, 1751, Pref. iv.

[1149]Burnet's Funeral Sermon on Tillotson, quoted in Lathbury'sNonjurors, 156.

[1150]Du Moulin'sSober and Dispassionate Reply, &c., 1680, 32.

[1151]The Church of England's Complaint against the Irregularities of some of the Clergy, 1709, 15.

[1152]J. Johnstone'sLife of Dr. Parr, qu. inQ. Rev.39, 268.

[1153]R. Nelson'sLife of Bull, 52.

[1154]Charge of 1741—Secker'sEight Charges, 63.

[1155]C. Leslie's 'Letter about the New Separation'—Works, i. 510. He adds that some clergymen of the Ch. of E. always used unleavened bread at the Sacrament.

[1156]L. Tyerman'sOxford Methodists, Pref. vi. Other allusions to an occasional preference for this usage occur in Bishop Horne'sWorks, App. 203, andGent. Mag.1750, xx. 75. In some editions of Bishop Wilson'sSacra Privata, there is a prayer for a blessing on the bread and wine-and-water.

[1157]Herbert'sCountry Parsonquoted in Brand'sPop. Antiquities, i. 521.

[1158]Walcott'sCustoms of Cathedrals, 137.

[1159]London Parishes, &c., 20.

[1160]Paterson'sPietas Londinensis, 52.

[1161]Id. 104.

[1162]Spectator, No. 372.

[1163]H.W. Cripps'sLaw of the Ch., &c., 218.

[1164]Hartley Coleridge,Essays and Marginalia, ii. 338.

[1165]Pope'sWorks, vii. 222-35. Naturally, Jacobite parsons were robed by Jacobite clerks. 'Who hath not observed several parish clerks that have ransacked Hopkins and Sternhold for staves in favour of the race of Jacob.'—Addison, inThe Freeholder, No. 53.

[1166]John Wesley (Works, x. 445), records an amusing reminiscence of his boyhood: 'One Sunday, immediately after sermon, my father's clerk said with an audible voice: "Let us sing to the praise, &c., an hymn of my own composing:King William is come home, come home!King William home is come!Therefore let us together singThe hymn that's called Te D'um."'

King William is come home, come home!King William home is come!Therefore let us together singThe hymn that's called Te D'um."'

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