[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_.]