[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.'—Thoresby's Diary, April 4, 1713.

[1168] Bishop Gibson specially directed the clergy to instruct their clerks to do this. Charge of 1721, Gibson's Charges, 1744, 18.

[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.

[1170] Somers Tracts, xii. 161. The Scourge, p. 123.

[1171] Paterson's Pietas Lond., passim.

[1172] Brokesby's Life of Dodwell, 359, 369.

[1173] A Discourse concerning the Rise, &c., of Cathedral Worship, 1699.

[1174] V.R. Charlesworth's Life of Rowland Hill, 156.

[1175] Bishop Kennet's Life, 1730, 126.

[1176] J. Watts's 'Essay on Psalmody'—Works, ix. 8.

[1177] Teale's Lives of Eminent E. Laymen, 260.

[1178] R. Thoresby's Diary, March 16, 1697.

[1179] Tatler, No. 198.

[1180] J.P. Malcolm, Manners, &c., of London, i. 230.

[1181] Caldwell Papers, quoted in Q. Rev. 97, 404.

[1182] Laud's Hist. of his Troubles, 201, quoted in Southey's Book of the Church, 472.

[1183] Walcott's Cathedrals, 101.

[1184] Dr. Swift, To Himself on St. Cecilia's Day. Anderson's B. Poets, ix. 107.

[1185] Malcolm's London, i. 267.

[1186] J. Newton's Sermons on the Messiah, 1784-5.

[1187] Burnet's Hist. of Ref., quoted in S. Hilliard's Obligation of the Clergy to keep strictly to the Bidding form, 1715, 8.

[1188] Wheatley's B. of Common Prayer, 1860, 171.

[1189] Canon 55.

[1190] Bisse's Beauty of Holiness, 1721, 154.

[1191] Hilliard's Obligations, &c., 19.

[1192] Sherlock On Public Worship, 1681, 188.

[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 Thoresby's Diary, June 14, 1714. The Royal Guard, &c., 1684, 49.

[1194] J. Bingham's French Church's Apology for the Ch. of E.—Works, ix. 106.

[1195] Stoughton's Church of the Revolution, 205.

[1196] Fleetwood's Defence of Praying before Sermon, 1720—Works, 738.

[1197] G.G. Perry's Hist. of the Ch., 3, 228.

[1198] The Justice and Necessity of restraining the Clergy, &c., 1715, 64.

[1199] The Justice and Necessity of Restraining the Clergy, &c., 1715, 64.

[1200] Direction to our Archbishops, &c., Dec. 11, 1714, § vi.

[1201] Spectator, No. 312.

[1202] Jablouski's Correspondence, in Archbishop Sharp's Life, by his Son, ii. 157, App. 2, 3.

[1203] Sherlock, On Rel. Worship, 66.

[1204] Nelson's Life of Bull, 420.

[1205] Warburton and Hurd's Correspondence, 31.

[1206] Horsley's Charges, 6; Reflection on the Clergy, &c., 1798, 42.

[1207] Pref. to W.B. Kirwan's Sermons, quoted in Q. Rev., xi. 133.

[1208] A.P. Stanley's Hist. Mem. of Westminster Abbey, 535.

[1209] Officium Cleri, 1691, 31.

[1210] Birch's Life of Tillotson, cclv.

[1211] Paterson's Pietas Londinensis.

[1212] The Church of England's Complaint, &c., 1709, 21-2. The Scourge, No. 10, 1717. Polwhele's Preface to Lavington, 220.

[1213] Bishop Newton's Life and Works, i. 85.

[1214] J. Nichols' Literary Anecd. of Eighteenth Cent. iv. 152.

[1215] Archbishop Sharp's Life, by his Son, i. 31.

[1216] Hardships of the Inferior Clergy in and about London, &c., 1722, 85.

[1217] London Parishes, &c.

[1218] Paterson's Piet. Lond. 49, 50.

[1219] Teale's Lives, 253. So also Complaint of the Ch. of E. 1709, 23.

[1220] Sherlock On Public Worship, pt. ii. ch. 4.

[1221] Id.

[1222] Nelson's Life of Bull, 39, 366.

[1223] F. Williams' Memoirs of Atterbury, i. 266.

[1224] Nichols' Lit. An. iv. 169.

[1225] J. Wilson's Hist. of Merch. Taylors, 1075.

[1226] Secker's Eight Charges, 254.

[1227] Gilbert Wakefield's Memoirs, 282; Miseries of the Inferior Clergy, &c., 1722, 18.

[1228] Dean Tucker's Works, 1772; Letter to Dr. Kippis, 23; Works, vol. i.

[1229] Secretan's Life of Nelson.

[1230] Wesley's Works, x. 507-9.

[1231] J. Nichols' Lit. Anecd. i. 475; Tillotson's Works, iii. 514-16.

[1232] Lathbury's Hist. of the Nonjurors, 203.

[1233] Nelson's Life of Bull, 359; Fleetwood's Works, 472.

[1234] Sherlock On Public Worship, 204; Life of Kettlewell, 91; Secker's Charges, 53.

[1235] Baxter's English Nonconformity, chap. 19, quoted in J. Bingham's Works, 'Objection of Dissenters Considered,' b. iii. ch. 21.

[1236] Whiston's Memoirs, 469.

[1237] The Church of England Vindicated, &c., 1801, 15.

[1238] Secker's Charge of 1741.

[1239] Lord Mahon's History, chap. 31; C. Knight's Old England; A. Andrews' Eighteenth Century, chaps. 3 and 4; Malcolm's Manners and Customs of London, ii. 272.

[1240] Fielding's Thomas Andrews, b. ii. ch. 13.

[1241] H. Walpole's Memoirs of George II. 342.

[1242] Fleetwood's Works, 469; Archbishop Sharp's Life, i. 353.

[1243] Church of England's Complaint, 1709, Preface.

[1244] Beresford Hope, Worship in the Ch. of E. 26.

[1245] J.C. Jeaffreson's Book about Clergy, ii. 92.

[1246] A. Andrews' Eighteenth Century, chap. v.

[1247] S. Pepys' Diary, v. App. 452.

[1248] Life of Archbishop Sharp, i. 209-13.

[1249] Secker's Eight Charges, 166-72.

[1250] Secker's Eight Charges, 239.

[1251] Id. 370.

[1252] Fleetwood's Works, 472, 474, 479.

[1253] T. Lewis, Danger of the Church Estab. &c. 1720.

[1254] G.G. Perry's Hist. of the Ch. of E. iii. 100.

[1255] Gibson's Codex, 1046, quoted in Burns' Eccl. Law, Art. 'Penance.'

[1256] J. Johnson, Vade Mecum, ii. cvii.

[1257] Memoirs of W. Wordsworth, by Christoph. Wordsworth, 1851, 8.

[1258] So also in the South of England, between 1799 and 1803. 'The two women she took most notice of in the parish were the last persons who ever did penance at Hurstmonceaux, having both to stand in a white sheet in the Churchyard; so that people said, "There are Mrs. Hare Naylor's friends doing penance."'—A.J.C. Hare's Memorials of a Quiet Life, i. 143. In 1805, one Sarah Chamberlain did penance in like manner at Littleham Church, near Exmouth.

[1259] Hildesley's History of the Isle of Man, in Cruttwell's Life of Wilson, 371.

[1260] Burns' Eccles. Law, Art. 'Penance'; Andrews' Eighteenth Century, 303.

[1261] Free and Candid Disquis. 1749, § xviii.

[1262] J.C. Jeaffreson's B. of the Clergy, ii. 140.