[Footnote 903:  Tatler, No. 264.]

[Footnote 904:  Parochial Antiquities—­Jeaffreson, ii. 16 (note).]

[Footnote 905:  Gay’s Poems, ’The Dirge’—­Anderson’s B.  Poets, viii. 151.]

[Footnote 906:  Burns’ Eccles.  Law, i. 370.]

[Footnote 907:  A few still remain, as at Rycote, in Oxfordshire.]

[Footnote 908:  ’Smoothing the dog’s ears of the great bible ... in the black letter in which our bibles are printed.’—­’Memoirs of a Parish Clerk,’ Pope’s Works, vii. 225.]

[Footnote 909:  Walcot, 115.]

[Footnote 910:  Gentleman’s Mag. vol. lxix. 667.]

[Footnote 911:  Beresford Hope, Worship, &c., 68, 129.]

[Footnote 912:  Secker’s Fourth Charge (1750), 154, and Fifth Charge (1753), 180.]

[Footnote 913:  Pietas Londinensis, passim.]

[Footnote 914:  W. Longman’s Hist. of St. Paul’s, p. 145.]

[Footnote 915:  Ralph Thoresby’s Correspondence, ii. 384.]

[Footnote 916:  Alex.  Gilchrist’s Life of Blake, i. 41.]

[Footnote 917:  Quoted, with a similar passage from Story’s Journal, by Walcot, 104.]

[Footnote 918:  Ralph Thoresby’s Diary, i. 60.]

[Footnote 919:  Report of Conference of 1641, upon ’Innovations in Discipline,’ quoted in Hunt’s Religious Thought in England, i. 196.]

[Footnote 920:  Quoted in Beresford Hope, Worship, &c., p. 232.]

[Footnote 921:  Quoted by Hunt, iii. 48, note.]

[Footnote 922:  Thoresby’s Diary, i. 60.]

[Footnote 923:  E. Nelson’s Life of Bishop Bull, 52.]

[Footnote 924:  Quoted in a review of Surtees’ ‘Hist.  Durham,’ Q.  Rev. 39, 404.  The charge was so persistently repeated that Archbishop Secker thought it just to his friend’s memory to publish a formal defence.  He regretted, however, that the cross had been erected.  It was a cross of white marble let into a black slab, and surrounded by cedar work, in the wall over the Communion Table.—­T.  Bartlett’s Memoirs of Bishop Butler, 91, 155.]

[Footnote 925:  Guardian, No. 21, April 4, 1713.]

[Footnote 926:  There were, however, some who put up pictures about the altar, and defended their use as ’the books of the vulgar.’—­Life of Bishop Kennet, in an. 1716, 125.]

[Footnote 927:  Lathbury’s History of the Nonjurors, 256.]

[Footnote 928:  Diary of Mary Countess Cowper (1714-20), pub. 1864, 92; and Life of Bishop White Kennet, 1730, 141-2.]

[Footnote 929:  A very different anecdote may be told of an altar-piece in St. John’s College, Cambridge.  ‘At Chapel,’ wrote Henry Martyn, in 1800, ’my soul ascended to God:  and the sight of the picture at the altar, of St. John preaching in the wilderness, animated me exceedingly to devotedness to the life of a missionary.’—­Journal, &c., ed. by S. Wilberforce, quoted in Bartlett’s Memoirs of Bishop Butler, 92.]