[987] Whiston's Memoirs, 1749, 124.
[988] Thoresby's Diary, Aug. 8, 1702, i. 375.
[989] Goldsmith's 'Life of Nash'—Works, iii. 277-8. De Foe's Tour through Great Britain, 1738, i. 193, ii. 242.
[990] Lloyd's Poems, 'A Tale,' c. 1757, Cowper's Poems, 'Truth.'
[991] B. Hope, Worship, &c., in the Ch. of E., 20.
[992] Pietas Londinensis, passim.
[993] Secker's Eight Charges, 77.
[994] Whiston mentions this with approval in his Memoirs, 1769, x. 138. It is mentioned of Archbishop Sharp that he always kept Wednesday and Friday as days of humiliation, and Friday as a fast.—Life, ii. 81. Hearne and Grabe were very much scandalised at Dr. Hough making Friday his day for entertaining strangers.—Hearne's Reliquiæ, ii. 30. The boys at Appleby School, about 1730, always, as is incidentally mentioned, went to morning prayers in the Church on Wednesdays and Fridays ('Memoir of R. Yates,' appended to G.W. Meadley's Memoirs of Paley, 123).
[995] R.A. Willmott, Lives of Sacred Poets, 1838, ii. x. 173.
[996] Gilbert Wakefield's Memoirs, 1792, x. 137.