[Footnote 1107:  Admonition to the Younger Clergy, 1764, and Philagoretes on the Pulpit, &c., quoted by Chr.  Wordsworth, Universities, &c., 526, 529.]

[Footnote 1108:  J.C.  Jeaffreson’s B. of the Clergy, ii. 253.]

[Footnote 1109:  Mrs. Abigail, &c., with some Free Thoughts on the Pretended Dignity of the Clergy, 1700.]

[Footnote 1110:  Quoted in Justice and Necessity of Restraining the Clergy, &c., 1715, 41]

[Footnote 1111:  Jeaffreson, ii. 231.]

[Footnote 1112:  R. South’s Sermons, vol. iv. 192.]

[Footnote 1113:  Dean Swift’s Works, vol. viii. 313.]

[Footnote 1114:  Chap. iii. p. 26 quoted in A. Andrews’ Eighteenth Century.]

[Footnote 1115:  Considerations Addressed to the Clergy, 1798, 14.]

[Footnote 1116:  Spectator, No. 455.  Burnet, as a matter of opinion, thought this more consonant with primitive usage, and, except during confession, more expressive of the feelings of faith and confidence.—­Four Discourses, &c., 1694, 323.]

[Footnote 1117:  The Scourge, 1720, No. 3.]

[Footnote 1118:  Cruttwell’s Life of Bishop Wilson, 12; and Fleetwood’s ‘Letter to an Inhabitant of St. Andrew’s, Holborn,’ 1717—­Works. 1737, 722-3.]

[Footnote 1119:  Id.]

[Footnote 1120:  Towards the end of the century, on the other hand, there were many churches where kneeling was sufficiently uncommon as almost to call special attention.  Thus Admiral Austen was remarked upon as ’the officer who kneeled at church’ (Jane Austen’s Memoirs, 23); and C. Simeon writes in his Diary, ’1780, March 8.  Kneeled down before service; nor do I see any impropriety in it.  Why should I be afraid or ashamed of all the world seeing me do my duty?’ (Memoirs, 19).]

[Footnote 1121:  Tatler, No. 241.]

[Footnote 1122:  J. Hunt, Relig.  Thought in England, i. 197.]

[Footnote 1123:  Sherlock On Public Worship, 1681, ii. ch. 2.]

[Footnote 1124:  Fleetwood’s Works, 1737, 723.]

[Footnote 1125:  G. Hickes, Devotions, &c., second ed., 1701, Pref.]

[Footnote 1126:  Second Charge, 1741, Secker’s Eight Charges, 1769.]

[Footnote 1127:  T. Bisse, The Beauty of Holiness, eighth ed. 1721, 50, note.]

[Footnote 1128:  J. Watts, ’Miscellaneous Thoughts’—­Works, ix. 380.]

[Footnote 1129:  Tatler, No. 211.]

[Footnote 1130:  Spectator, No. 112.]

[Footnote 1131:  Id.  No. 54.]

[Footnote 1132:  Bingham’s Works, ix. 259.  Cruttwell, 12.  Walcott, 204. Somers Tracts, ix. 507.  Watts’s Works, ix. 380.  Wakefield’s Memoirs, 156. The Scourge, No. 3.]

[Footnote 1133:  Bisse, Beauty of Holiness, 145.]