[Footnote 1070: R. Polwhele's Introduction to _Lavington_, ccxliv.]

[Footnote 1071: Tindal, vol. i. and _Somers Tracts_, x. 349, quoted in W. Palin's _Hist. of the Ch. of E. from_ 1688 _to_ 1717, 218.]

[Footnote 1072: Quoted in id. 228.]

[Footnote 1073: _Gibson Papers_, v. 9. Quoted in J. Stoughton's _Church of the Revolution_, 324.]

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

[Footnote 1075: Cripps's _Laws of the Church_, 675.]

[Footnote 1076: R. Burn's _Eccles. Law_, iii. 273.]

[Footnote 1077: Johnson's _Vade Mec.u.m_, i. 281.]

[Footnote 1078: _Worship in the Church of England_, 9.]

[Footnote 1079: J. Johnson's _Vade Mec.u.m_, i. 21.]

[Footnote 1080: _Life of Archbishop Sharp_, by his Son, i. 355.]

[Footnote 1081: B. Hope, _Worship_, &c., 109, 1211.]

[Footnote 1082: Gibson's _Codex Jur. Eccl._ 303, 472. This opinion is referred to with approval in _An Account of London Parishes_, &c.]

[Footnote 1083: Blomefield's _Hist. of Norwich_, quoted in id. 140.]

[Footnote 1084: A.P. Stanley's _Memoirs of Westminster Abbey_, 192.]

[Footnote 1085: Defoe's _Tour_, 1727, iii. 189, also Th.o.r.esby's _Diary_, i. 60.]

[Footnote 1086: B. Hope, _Worship_, &c., 138.]

[Footnote 1087: _Gent. Mag._ for 1804, quoted in id.]

[Footnote 1088: _The Scourge_, by T. Lewis, Feb. 11, 1717.]

[Footnote 1089: Sherlock, _On Public Worship_, 114.]

[Footnote 1090: _The Scourge_, May 16, 1717.]

[Footnote 1091: Quoted in Stoughton's _Church of the Revolution_, 323.]

[Footnote 1092: E. Th.o.r.esby's _Diary_, ii. 341.]

[Footnote 1093: _Tatler_, No. 129.]

[Footnote 1094: Secker's _Eight Charges_, 182.]

[Footnote 1095: R. South's _Sermons_, iv. 191, also _Strype Corresp._ quoted by Stoughton, _Ch. of the Rev._, 323.]

[Footnote 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.]

[Footnote 1097: Walcot's _Cathedrals_, &c., 121.]

[Footnote 1098: Christopher Pitt's _Art of Preaching_, c. 1740.

Anderson's _Br. Poets_, viii. 821.]

[Footnote 1099: _Spectator_, No. 21.]

[Footnote 1100: Id. No. 609.]

[Footnote 1101: Id., and Oldham, in the _Tatler_, No. 255.]

[Footnote 1102: Swift's 'Project for the Adv. of Rel.'--_Works_, ix. 97.

_Spectator_, No. 608.]

[Footnote 1103: Hearne's _Reliq._ Feb. 1719-20, quoted in Chr.

Wordsworth, _Univ. Soc. in Eighteenth Century_, 36, 516.]

[Footnote 1104: Fielding's _Joseph Andrews_, b. i. chap. 16, b. ii.

chaps. 3, 7, &c.]

[Footnote 1105: Cf. C. Churchill's _Independence_:--

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

[Footnote 1106: _Hardships, &c., of the Inf. Clergy_, in a letter to the Bishop of London, 1722, 20, 93, 246.]

[Footnote 1107: _Admonition to the Younger Clergy_, 1764, and _Philagoretes on the Pulpit_, &c., quoted by Chr. Wordsworth, _Universities_, &c., 526, 529.]

[Footnote 1108: J.C. Jeaffreson's _B. of the Clergy_, ii. 253.]

[Footnote 1109: _Mrs. Abigail, &c., with some Free Thoughts on the Pretended Dignity of the Clergy_, 1700.]

[Footnote 1110: Quoted in _Justice and Necessity of Restraining the Clergy_, &c., 1715, 41]

[Footnote 1111: Jeaffreson, ii. 231.]

[Footnote 1112: R. South's _Sermons_, vol. iv. 192.]

[Footnote 1113: Dean Swift's _Works_, vol. viii. 313.]

[Footnote 1114: Chap. iii. p. 26 quoted in A. Andrews' _Eighteenth Century_.]

[Footnote 1115: _Considerations Addressed to the Clergy_, 1798, 14.]

[Footnote 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.]