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.