's_, chap. 4. See
especially the account quoted there from Earle's _Microcosmography_,
1628.]

[Footnote 873: Quoted in Id.]

[Footnote 874: _Hen. IV._ part ii. act i. sc. 2.]

[Footnote 875: Pilkington, quoted in Walcot's _Cathedrals_, 82.]

[Footnote 876: 'Heraclitus Ridens,' quoted in J. Malcolm's _Manners, &c.
of London_, i. 233.]

[Footnote 877: Walcot, 81.]

[Footnote 878: A.P. Stanley's _Hist. Memorials of Westminster_, 535.]

[Footnote 879: Pepys' _Diary_, vol. v. 113, 114.]

[Footnote 880: Lord Braybrook's note to _Pepys_, v. 114.]

[Footnote 881: Burns' _Eccles. Law_, i. p. 328. High Churchmen, however,
sometimes had their jest at the special love of the opposite party for
'their own Protestant Pews.'--T. Lewis's _Scourge_, Apr. 8, 1717, No.
10.]

[Footnote 882: Anderson's _British Poets_, ix. 82.]

[Footnote 883: Paterson's _Pietas Londinensis_, _passim_.]

[Footnote 884: Prior's _Poems_, 'Epitaph on Jack and Joan'--_British
Poets_, vii. 448.]

[Footnote 885: 'Baucis and Philemon'--_B. Poets_, ix. 13.]

[Footnote 886: Fielding's _Jos. Andrews_, book iv. chap. i.]

[Footnote 887: A.J.B. Beresford Hope, _Worship in the Church of
England_, 1874, 17.]

[Footnote 888: Such an instance was once mentioned to the writer by
Bishop Eden, the late Primus of the Episcopal Church in Scotland.]

[Footnote 889: Walpole's _Letters_, ii. 35, quoted by Walcot, 56.]

[Footnote 890: Walcot, 53.]

[Footnote 891: _Considerations on the present State of Religion_, 1801,
p. 47.--Polwhele's Introduction to _Lavington_, Sec. ccxx. &c.]

[Footnote 892: _Considerations_, &c. 53. _Q. Rev._ vol. x. 54.]

[Footnote 893: _A.L. Barbauld's Works_, by Lucy Aikin, ii. p. 459.]

[Footnote 894: 'Hints on English Architecture'--Dr. F. Savers' _Life and
Works,_ ii. 203. So also Bishop Watson, in 1800, complained that not
only were there many too few churches in London, but 'the inconvenience
is much augmented by the pews which have been erected therein. He would
have new churches built with no appropriated seats, simply
benches'--_Anecdotes of Bishop Watson's Life_, ii. 111.]

[Footnote 895: Fielding's _Joseph Andrews_, chap. 13.]

[Footnote 896: Robert Blair's _The Grace_, lines 36-7.]

[Footnote 897: Quoted, with some humour, by Bishop Newton, in defending
Sir Joshua Reynolds' proposals for paintings in St. Paul's.--_Works_, i.
142.]

[Footnote 898: Christoph. Smart's _Poems_, 'The Hop Garden,' book ii.]

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