[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.]

[Footnote 1170:  Somers Tracts, xii. 161. The Scourge, p. 123.]

[Footnote 1171:  Paterson’s Pietas Lond., passim.]

[Footnote 1172:  Brokesby’s Life of Dodwell, 359, 369.]

[Footnote 1173:  A Discourse concerning the Rise, &c., of Cathedral Worship, 1699.]

[Footnote 1174:  V.R.  Charlesworth’s Life of Rowland Hill, 156.]

[Footnote 1175:  Bishop Kennet’s Life, 1730, 126.]

[Footnote 1176:  J. Watts’s ’Essay on Psalmody’—­Works, ix. 8.]

[Footnote 1177:  Teale’s Lives of Eminent E. Laymen, 260.]

[Footnote 1178:  R. Thoresby’s Diary, March 16, 1697.]

[Footnote 1179:  Tatler, No. 198.]

[Footnote 1180:  J.P.  Malcolm, Manners, &c., of London, i. 230.]

[Footnote 1181:  Caldwell Papers, quoted in Q.  Rev. 97, 404.]

[Footnote 1182:  Laud’s Hist. of his Troubles, 201, quoted in Southey’s Book of the Church, 472.]

[Footnote 1183:  Walcott’s Cathedrals, 101.]