[Footnote 1164: Hartley Coleridge, _Essays and Marginalia_, ii. 338.]
[Footnote 1165: Pope"s _Works_, 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, in _The Freeholder_, No. 53.]
[Footnote 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 sing The hymn that"s called Te D"um.""]
[Footnote 1167: Singing the first line, in order to put the congregation in tune.--_Spectator_, No. 284. "The clerk ordered to sing a Psalm, and so keep the congregation together, while Mr. Claxton was away."--Th.o.r.esby"s _Diary_, April 4, 1713.]
[Footnote 1168: Bishop Gibson specially directed the clergy to instruct their clerks to do this. Charge of 1721, Gibson"s _Charges_, 1744, 18.]
[Footnote 1169: Secker"s _Charges_, 65. At St. Lawrence Pountney, the candidates for the office had to "take the desk" on trial on successive Sundays.--H.B. Wilson, _Hist. of St. Lawr. P._, 160.]
[Footnote 1170: _Somers Tracts_, xii. 161. _The Scourge_, p. 123.]
[Footnote 1171: Paterson"s _Pietas Lond._, _pa.s.sim_.]
[Footnote 1172: Brokesby"s _Life of Dodwell_, 359, 369.]
[Footnote 1173: _A Discourse concerning the Rise, &c., of Cathedral Worship_, 1699.]
[Footnote 1174: V.R. Charlesworth"s _Life of Rowland Hill_, 156.]
[Footnote 1175: Bishop Kennet"s _Life_, 1730, 126.]
[Footnote 1176: J. Watts"s "Essay on Psalmody"--_Works_, ix. 8.]
[Footnote 1177: Teale"s _Lives of Eminent E. Laymen_, 260.]
[Footnote 1178: R. Th.o.r.esby"s _Diary_, March 16, 1697.]
[Footnote 1179: _Tatler_, No. 198.]
[Footnote 1180: J.P. Malcolm, _Manners, &c., of London_, i. 230.]
[Footnote 1181: Caldwell Papers, quoted in _Q. Rev._ 97, 404.]
[Footnote 1182: Laud"s _Hist. of his Troubles_, 201, quoted in Southey"s _Book of the Church_, 472.]
[Footnote 1183: Walcott"s _Cathedrals_, 101.]
[Footnote 1184: Dr. Swift, _To Himself on St. Cecilia"s Day_. Anderson"s _B. Poets_, ix. 107.]
[Footnote 1185: Malcolm"s _London_, i. 267.]
[Footnote 1186: J. Newton"s _Sermons on the Messiah_, 1784-5.]
[Footnote 1187: Burnet"s _Hist. of Ref._, quoted in S. Hilliard"s _Obligation of the Clergy to keep strictly to the Bidding form_, 1715, 8.]
[Footnote 1188: Wheatley"s _B. of Common Prayer_, 1860, 171.]
[Footnote 1189: Canon 55.]
[Footnote 1190: Bisse"s _Beauty of Holiness_, 1721, 154.]
[Footnote 1191: Hilliard"s _Obligations, &c._, 19.]
[Footnote 1192: Sherlock _On Public Worship_, 1681, 188.]
[Footnote 1193: South"s _Works_, iv. 180. He elsewhere calls it "a long, crude, impertinent, upstart harangue." So also _Complaint of the Ch. of E._, 1709, 19, and Th.o.r.esby"s _Diary_, June 14, 1714. _The Royal Guard_, &c., 1684, 49.]
[Footnote 1194: J. Bingham"s _French Church"s Apology for the Ch. of E._--_Works_, ix. 106.]
[Footnote 1195: Stoughton"s _Church of the Revolution_, 205.]
[Footnote 1196: Fleetwood"s _Defence of Praying before Sermon_, 1720--_Works_, 738.]
[Footnote 1197: G.G. Perry"s _Hist. of the Ch._, 3, 228.]
[Footnote 1198: _The Justice and Necessity of restraining the Clergy_, &c., 1715, 64.]
[Footnote 1199: _The Justice and Necessity of Restraining the Clergy_, &c., 1715, 64.]
[Footnote 1200: _Direction to our Archbishops_, &c., Dec. 11, 1714, -- vi.]
[Footnote 1201: _Spectator_, No. 312.]
[Footnote 1202: Jablouski"s Correspondence, in _Archbishop Sharp"s Life_, by his Son, ii. 157, App. 2, 3.]
[Footnote 1203: Sherlock, _On Rel. Worship_, 66.]
[Footnote 1204: Nelson"s _Life of Bull_, 420.]
[Footnote 1205: Warburton and Hurd"s _Correspondence_, 31.]
[Footnote 1206: Horsley"s _Charges_, 6; _Reflection on the Clergy_, &c., 1798, 42.]
[Footnote 1207: Pref. to W.B. Kirwan"s _Sermons_, quoted in _Q. Rev._, xi. 133.]
[Footnote 1208: A.P. Stanley"s _Hist. Mem. of Westminster Abbey_, 535.]
[Footnote 1209: _Officium Cleri_, 1691, 31.]
[Footnote 1210: Birch"s _Life of Tillotson_, cclv.]
[Footnote 1211: Paterson"s _Pietas Londinensis_.]