FOOTNOTES.
[1] Address, p. 1.
[2] Address, p. 1 and 2.
[3a] Address, p. 16.
[3b] This resolution was occasioned by the combination of the journeymen printers, &c. against their masters.
[6a] Address, p. 28.
[6b] Ibid.
[6c] P. 21.
[6d] “History proves that none but the church have enjoyed the splendour and favour of princes.” Address, p. 27.
[8] Address, p. 5.
[9a] Address, p. 32.
[9b] P. 5.
[9c] P. 6.
[10a] Address, p.8.
[10b] P. 9.
[10c] P. 8.
[11a] Address, p. 5.
[11b] P. 7.
[12] Address, p. 5.
[14a] Address, p. 7.
[14b] P. 10.
[15] Address, p. 8.
[16] Address, p. 8.
[17] Address, p. 8, 9.
[19] Address, p. 9.
[20] Address, p. 16.
[21a] Address, p. 11.
[21b] P. 26.
[24a] Address, p. 21.
[24b] P. 12.
[26] Address, p. 18.
[27] Address, p. 13.
[31] Address, p. 32.
[34] Address, p. 11.
[35a] Address, p. 16.
[35b] P. 2.
[35c] P. 16.
[35d] Ibid.
[36] It struck me suddenly at last, that your Lordship must intend by these classical words, only what the vulgar would call “broad bottom.” Address, p. 16.
[37a] Address, p. 17.
[37b] Ibid.
[37c] P. 18.
[39a] Address, p. 21.
[39b] “Whose delight,” speaking of the Dissenters, “has always been to clip the silver wings of the heavenly dove, and to pluck her golden feathers from her breast.” Address, p. 20.
[40a] Address, p. 21.
[40b] John, iv. 9.
[40c] Gal. iv. 26.
[41] Address, p. 25.
[44] It need scarcely be observed, that our virtuous Queen, and the wives of her royal sons, were of the Lutheran church.
[45] A church at Rome, called San Pietro in Vincolis, is said to have been built in consequence of such a miraculous event.
[47a] Address, p. 23.
[47b] P. 24.
[48a] Address, p. 28.
[48b] P. 27.
[48c] Ibid.
[49] The reader, who is not acquainted with this part of ecclesiastical history, must be told, that a bookseller, desirous, it is presumed, of reconciling all “denominations of Christians” to the purchase of his Christian “Ladies’ Pocket-book, for 1803,” took the liberty of representing three ministers, respectively of the Presbyterian, Baptist, and Independent denominations of Protestant Dissenters, and a prelate of the established church, together with an union of hands, in the frontispiece of his work.
[50] Address, p. 22.
[51a] Ephes. iv. 3.
[51b] Address, p. 32.
[52] Richard Hooker was prevailed upon by Mrs. Churchman, the wife of “a draper of good note,” as honest Isaac Walton calls him, to let her choose a wife for him. “Now,” continues the pleasant biographer, “the wife provided for him was her daughter Joan, who brought him neither beauty nor portion; and for her conditions, they were too like that wife’s, which is by Solomon compared to a dripping house: so that he had no reason to rejoice in the wife of his youth, but rather to say with the holy prophet, ‘Wo is me, that I am constrained to have my habitation in the tents of Kedar’.” Walton’s Life of Hooker.
[53] Address, p. 32.
[54a] Vide Archbishop Tillotson on the Stage (as quoted by Law).
[54b] Vide Ordination Service.
[55] Address, p. 32.
[56a] Address, p. 33.
[56b] P. 34.
[58a] Address, p. 36.
[58b] This Society provides for educating the children of felons.
[59] “I have mentioned not a tenth part.” Address, p. 35.
[60a] Address, p. 24.
[60b] P. 4.