Irregularities of some of the Clergy_, 1709, 15.]

[Footnote 1152: J. Johnstone's _Life of Dr. Parr_, qu. in _Q. Rev._ 39,
268.]

[Footnote 1153: R. Nelson's _Life of Bull_, 52.]

[Footnote 1154: Charge of 1741--Secker's _Eight Charges_, 63.]

[Footnote 1155: C. Leslie's 'Letter about the New Separation'--_Works_,
i. 510. He adds that some clergymen of the Ch. of E. always used
unleavened bread at the Sacrament.]

[Footnote 1156: L. Tyerman's _Oxford Methodists_, Pref. vi. Other
allusions to an occasional preference for this usage occur in Bishop
Horne's _Works_, App. 203, and _Gent. Mag._ 1750, xx. 75. In some
editions of Bishop Wilson's _Sacra Privata_, there is a prayer for a
blessing on the bread and wine-and-water.]

[Footnote 1157: Herbert's _Country Parson_ quoted in Brand's _Pop.
Antiquities_, i. 521.]

[Footnote 1158: Walcott's _Customs of Cathedrals_, 137.]

[Footnote 1159: _London Parishes_, &c., 20.]

[Footnote 1160: Paterson's _Pietas Londinensis_, 52.]

[Footnote 1161: Id. 104.]

[Footnote 1162: _Spectator_, No. 372.]

[Footnote 1163: H.W. Cripps's _Law of the Ch._, &c., 218.]

[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.'--Thoresby'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.]