[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.]

[Footnote 899:  Fleetwood’s ’Charge of 1710’—­Works, 479.]

[Footnote 900:  Secker’s ’Charge of 1758’—­Eight Charges, 191.]

[Footnote 901:  John Byrom’s Poems—­Chalmer’s B.  Poets, xv. 214.]

[Footnote 902:  Beresford Hope, Worship in the Church of E. 19.]