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[648] In 1705, 1706, 1710, 1711, 1714, 1715, &c. &c., there were High Church mobs.
[649] Coxe's Memoirs of Sir S. Walpole, vol. i. pp. 24, 25.
[650] A glaring instance of the blighting effects of the Walpole Ministry upon the Church is to be found in the treatment of Berkeley's attempt to found a university at Bermuda. See a full account of the whole transaction in Wilberforce's History of the American Church, ch. iv. pp. 151-160. Mr. Anderson calls it a 'national crime.' See History of the Colonial Church, vol. iii. ch. xxix. p. 437, &c. The Duke of Newcastle pursued the same policy. In spite of the efforts of the most influential Churchmen, such as Gibson, Sherlock, and Secker, who all concurred in recognising the need of clergymen, of churches, of schools, in our plantations, 'the mass of inert resistance presented in the office of the Secretary of State, responsible for the colonies, was too great to be overcome.'—Ibid. p. 443.
[651] Bishop Fitzgerald (Aids to Faith, Essay ii. § 7) stigmatises the impotency and turbulence of Convocation, but entirely ignores the practical agenda referred to above. See Cardwell's Synodalia, on the period.
[652] See the introduction to Palin's History of the Church of England from the Revolution to the Last Acts of Convocation.
[653] See Cardwell's Synodalia, xlii.
[654] Hodgson's 'Life of Beilby Porteus, Bishop of London,' in vol. i. of Porteus's Works, p. 45. Another thoroughly good man, Bishop Gibson, was, before he was mitred, Precentor and Residentiary of Chichester, Rector of Lambeth, and Archdeacon of Surrey. See Coxe's Memoirs of Sir R. Walpole, i. 478.
[655] Anecdotes of the Life of R. Watson, Bishop of Llandaff, published by his Son, vol. i. p. 307.