[Footnote 927: Lathbury's _History of the Nonjurors_, 256.]

[Footnote 928: _Diary of Mary Countess Cowper_ (1714-20), pub. 1864, 92; and _Life of Bishop White Kennet_, 1730, 141-2.]

[Footnote 929: A very different anecdote may be told of an altar-piece in St. John's College, Cambridge. 'At Chapel,' wrote Henry Martyn, in 1800, 'my soul ascended to G.o.d: and the sight of the picture at the altar, of St. John preaching in the wilderness, animated me exceedingly to devotedness to the life of a missionary.'--_Journal_, &c., ed. by S.

Wilberforce, quoted in Bartlett's _Memoirs of Bishop Butler_, 92.]

[Footnote 930: Longman's _Hist. of St. Paul's_, 141.]

[Footnote 931: 'Essay upon Painting.'--Anderson's _B. Poets_, ix. 824.]

[Footnote 932: _Memoirs of Sir J. Reynolds_, by H.W. Beechy, 224.]

[Footnote 933: Bishop Newton's _Life and Works_, 1787, i. 142-4.]

[Footnote 934: _Memoir_, &c., i. 225.]

[Footnote 935: Alex. Gilchrist's _Life of W. Blake_, i. 96.]

[Footnote 936: Milman's _Annals of St. Paul_, quoted by Longman, _Hist.

of St. P._ 153.]

[Footnote 937: Jas. Dallaway on _Architecture_, &c., 443-5.]

[Footnote 938: Beresford Hope, _Worship_, &c. 19.]

[Footnote 939: 'When they startle at a dumb picture in a window.'--T.

Lewis, in _The Scourge_, Apr. 9, 1717, No. 9.]

[Footnote 940: Various ill.u.s.trations of this may be found in Paterson's _Pietas Londinensis_.]

[Footnote 941: A new one was subst.i.tuted for it in 1864.]

[Footnote 942: C. Winslow, _Hints on Gla.s.s Colouring_, i. 206.]

[Footnote 943: Id. 207.]

[Footnote 944: J. Dallaway, _Architecture_, &c., 446.]

[Footnote 945: Winslow, _Hints_, &c., 207.]

[Footnote 946: Dallaway, 446.]

[Footnote 947: C. Winslow, _Memoirs Ill.u.s.trative of the Art of Gla.s.s Painting_, 153.]

[Footnote 948: C. Winslow, _Hints_, i. 216.]

[Footnote 949: C. Winslow, _Memoirs_, &c., 153.]

[Footnote 950:

'Shapes that with one broad glare the gazer strike, Kings, bishops, nuns, apostles, all alike.'--_T. Warton_.]

[Footnote 951: Beechy's _Memoirs of Sir Josh. Reynolds_, 239.]

[Footnote 952: C. Winslow, _Hints_, &c., i. 211.]

[Footnote 953: Hartley Coleridge, _Marginalia_, 253.]

[Footnote 954: C. Winslow, _Memoirs_, &c., 176.]

[Footnote 955: Dallaway's _Architecture_, &c., 454.]

[Footnote 956: _Q. Rev._ vol. xcv. 317, 'Review of Gatty and Ellacombe on Bells.' The two next sentences are based on the same authority.]

[Footnote 957: Hearne's _Reliquiae_, May 22, 1733, Jan. 2, 1731, May 2, 1734, &c.]

[Footnote 958: _Q. Rev._ vol. x.x.xix. 308.]

[Footnote 959: _Q. Rev._ vol. xcv. 328.]

[Footnote 960: Oliver Goldsmith's 'Life of K. Nash, _Works_, iii. 374.]

[Footnote 961: Brand's _Popular Antiquities_, ii. 221.]

[Footnote 962: T. Pennant's _Holywell_, &c., 99.]

[Footnote 963: T. Webb's _Collect. of Epitaphs_, 1775, i. pref.]

[Footnote 964: Secker's _Eight Charges_ 182. Charge of 1753.]

[Footnote 965:

'Lest her new grave the parson's cattle raze.

For both his cow and horse the churchyard graze.'

Gay's _Shepherd's Week_.]

[Footnote 966: _Q. Rev._ vol. xc. 294.]

[Footnote 967: T. Webb's _Collection of Epitaphs_, 1775, ii. 28.]

[Footnote 968: Elegy written in a churchyard in S. Wales, 1787, W.

Mason's _Works_, 1811, i. 113.]

[Footnote 969: Quoted in Brand's _Popular Antiquities_, ii. 299.]

[Footnote 970: _Spectator_, No. 388, May 20, 1712.]

[Footnote 971: 'Project, &c.' 1709--Swift's _Works_, viii. 105, with Sir W. Scott's note.]