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[Footnote 879: Pepys' _Diary_, vol. v. 113, 114.]

[Footnote 880: Lord Braybrook's note to _Pepys_, v. 114.]

[Footnote 881: Burns' _Eccles. Law_, i. p. 328. High Churchmen, however, sometimes had their jest at the special love of the opposite party for 'their own Protestant Pews.'--T. Lewis's _Scourge_, Apr. 8, 1717, No.

10.]

[Footnote 882: Anderson's _British Poets_, ix. 82.]

[Footnote 883: Paterson's _Pietas Londinensis_, _pa.s.sim_.]

[Footnote 884: Prior's _Poems_, 'Epitaph on Jack and Joan'--_British Poets_, vii. 448.]

[Footnote 885: 'Baucis and Philemon'--_B. Poets_, ix. 13.]

[Footnote 886: Fielding's _Jos. Andrews_, book iv. chap. i.]

[Footnote 887: A.J.B. Beresford Hope, _Wors.h.i.+p in the Church of England_, 1874, 17.]

[Footnote 888: Such an instance was once mentioned to the writer by Bishop Eden, the late Primus of the Episcopal Church in Scotland.]

[Footnote 889: Walpole's _Letters_, ii. 35, quoted by Walcot, 56.]

[Footnote 890: Walcot, 53.]

[Footnote 891: _Considerations on the present State of Religion_, 1801, p. 47.--Polwhele's Introduction to _Lavington_, -- ccxx. &c.]

[Footnote 892: _Considerations_, &c. 53. _Q. Rev._ vol. x. 54.]

[Footnote 893: _A.L. Barbauld's Works_, by Lucy Aikin, ii. p. 459.]

[Footnote 894: 'Hints on English Architecture'--Dr. F. Savers' _Life and Works,_ ii. 203. So also Bishop Watson, in 1800, complained that not only were there many too few churches in London, but 'the inconvenience is much augmented by the pews which have been erected therein. He would have new churches built with no appropriated seats, simply benches'--_Anecdotes of Bishop Watson's Life_, ii. 111.]

[Footnote 895: Fielding's _Joseph Andrews_, chap. 13.]

[Footnote 896: Robert Blair's _The Grace_, lines 36-7.]

[Footnote 897: Quoted, with some humour, by Bishop Newton, in defending Sir Joshua Reynolds' proposals for paintings in St. Paul's.--_Works_, i.

142.]

[Footnote 898: Christoph. Smart's _Poems_, 'The Hop Garden,' book ii.]

[Footnote 899: Fleetwood's 'Charge of 1710'--_Works_, 479.]

[Footnote 900: Secker's 'Charge of 1758'--_Eight Charges_, 191.]

[Footnote 901: John Byrom's _Poems_--Chalmer's _B. Poets_, xv. 214.]

[Footnote 902: Beresford Hope, _Wors.h.i.+p in the Church of E._ 19.]

[Footnote 903: _Tatler_, No. 264.]

[Footnote 904: _Parochial Antiquities_--Jeaffreson, ii. 16 (note).]

[Footnote 905: Gay's _Poems_, 'The Dirge'--Anderson's _B. Poets_, viii.

151.]

[Footnote 906: Burns' _Eccles. Law_, i. 370.]

[Footnote 907: A few still remain, as at Rycote, in Oxfords.h.i.+re.]

[Footnote 908: 'Smoothing the dog's ears of the great bible ... in the black letter in which our bibles are printed.'--'Memoirs of a Parish Clerk,' Pope's _Works_, vii. 225.]

[Footnote 909: Walcot, 115.]

[Footnote 910: _Gentleman's Mag._ vol. lxix. 667.]

[Footnote 911: Beresford Hope, _Wors.h.i.+p_, &c., 68, 129.]

[Footnote 912: Secker's _Fourth Charge_ (1750), 154, and _Fifth Charge_ (1753), 180.]

[Footnote 913: _Pietas Londinensis_, _pa.s.sim_.]

[Footnote 914: W. Longman's _Hist. of St. Paul's_, p. 145.]

[Footnote 915: Ralph Th.o.r.esby's _Correspondence_, ii. 384.]

[Footnote 916: Alex. Gilchrist's _Life of Blake_, i. 41.]

[Footnote 917: Quoted, with a similar pa.s.sage from _Story's Journal_, by Walcot, 104.]

[Footnote 918: Ralph Th.o.r.esby's _Diary_, i. 60.]

[Footnote 919: Report of Conference of 1641, upon 'Innovations in Discipline,' quoted in Hunt's _Religious Thought in England_, i. 196.]

[Footnote 920: Quoted in Beresford Hope, _Wors.h.i.+p_, &c., p. 232.]

[Footnote 921: Quoted by Hunt, iii. 48, note.]

[Footnote 922: Th.o.r.esby's _Diary_, i. 60.]

[Footnote 923: E. Nelson's _Life of Bishop Bull_, 52.]

[Footnote 924: Quoted in a review of Surtees' 'Hist. Durham,' _Q. Rev._ 39, 404. The charge was so persistently repeated that Archbishop Secker thought it just to his friend's memory to publish a formal defence. He regretted, however, that the cross had been erected. It was a cross of white marble let into a black slab, and surrounded by cedar work, in the wall over the Communion Table.--T. Bartlett's _Memoirs of Bishop Butler_, 91, 155.]

[Footnote 925: _Guardian_, No. 21, April 4, 1713.]

[Footnote 926: There were, however, some who put up pictures about the altar, and defended their use as 'the books of the vulgar.'--_Life of Bishop Kennet_, in an. 1716, 125.]