[686] See, inter alia, the description of a small squire of the reign of George II. in Grose's Olio, 1792.
[687] Quoted in Andrews, 18th century.
[688] See chap. lxx. of Lord Mahon's History.
[689] Skeats's History of the Free Churches of England p. 465.
[690] Parliamentary History, vol. xiv. p. 1389.
[691] In Bishop Fleetwood's Charge at Ely, August 7, 1710, no less than three folio pages are filled with accounts of the abuse of the clergy, and the way in which the clergy should meet it. Secker's, Butler's, and Horsley's Charges all touch on the same subject.
[692] See the conclusion of Burnet's History of his Own Times.
[693] Remarks on Collins's Discourse on Freethinking, by Phileleutherus Lipsiensis, xxiii.
[694] Quoted in Mrs. Thomson's Memoirs of Lady Sundon and the Court and Times of George II.
[695] Smollett's Continuation of Hume, v. 375.