[Footnote 1074:  Hooper’s MS., quoted by Palin, 220.]

[Footnote 1075:  Cripps’s Laws of the Church, 675.]

[Footnote 1076:  R. Burn’s Eccles.  Law, iii. 273.]

[Footnote 1077:  Johnson’s Vade Mecum, i. 281.]

[Footnote 1078:  Worship in the Church of England, 9.]

[Footnote 1079:  J. Johnson’s Vade Mecum, i. 21.]

[Footnote 1080:  Life of Archbishop Sharp, by his Son, i. 355.]

[Footnote 1081:  B. Hope, Worship, &c., 109, 1211.]

[Footnote 1082:  Gibson’s Codex Jur.  Eccl. 303, 472.  This opinion is referred to with approval in An Account of London Parishes, &c.]

[Footnote 1083:  Blomefield’s Hist. of Norwich, quoted in id. 140.]

[Footnote 1084:  A.P.  Stanley’s Memoirs of Westminster Abbey, 192.]

[Footnote 1085:  Defoe’s Tour, 1727, iii. 189, also Thoresby’s Diary, i. 60.]

[Footnote 1086:  B. Hope, Worship, &c., 138.]

[Footnote 1087:  Gent.  Mag. for 1804, quoted in id.]

[Footnote 1088:  The Scourge, by T. Lewis, Feb. 11, 1717.]

[Footnote 1089:  Sherlock, On Public Worship, 114.]

[Footnote 1090:  The Scourge, May 16, 1717.]

[Footnote 1091:  Quoted in Stoughton’s Church of the Revolution, 323.]

[Footnote 1092:  E. Thoresby’s Diary, ii. 341.]

[Footnote 1093:  Tatler, No. 129.]

[Footnote 1094:  Secker’s Eight Charges, 182.]

[Footnote 1095:  R. South’s Sermons, iv. 191, also Strype Corresp. quoted by Stoughton, Ch. of the Rev., 323.]

[Footnote 1096:  Mr. Wordsworth, however, mentions a portrait of 1730, showing the interior of an English church in which the celebrant at the Eucharist is robed in a black gown.—­Univ.  Soc. in the Eighteenth Cent., 533.]

[Footnote 1097:  Walcot’s Cathedrals, &c., 121.]

[Footnote 1098:  Christopher Pitt’s Art of Preaching, c. 1740.  Anderson’s Br.  Poets, viii. 821.]

[Footnote 1099:  Spectator, No. 21.]

[Footnote 1100:  Id.  No. 609.]

[Footnote 1101:  Id., and Oldham, in the Tatler, No. 255.]

[Footnote 1102:  Swift’s ’Project for the Adv. of Rel.’—­Works, ix. 97. Spectator, No. 608.]

[Footnote 1103:  Hearne’s Reliq. Feb. 1719-20, quoted in Chr.  Wordsworth, Univ.  Soc. in Eighteenth Century, 36, 516.]

[Footnote 1104:  Fielding’s Joseph Andrews, b. i. chap. 16, b. ii. chaps. 3, 7, &c.]

[Footnote 1105:  Cf.  C. Churchill’s Independence:—­

    ’O’er a brown cassock which had once been black,
    Which hung in tatters o’er his brawny back.’]

[Footnote 1106:  Hardships, &c., of the Inf.  Clergy, in a letter to the Bishop of London, 1722, 20, 93, 246.]