The English Church in the Eighteenth Century

by Charles J. Abbey; John Henry Overton

[1087] Gent. Mag. for 1804, quoted in id.

[1088] The Scourge, by T. Lewis, Feb. 11, 1717.

[1089] Sherlock, On Public Worship, 114.

[1090] The Scourge, May 16, 1717.

[1091] Quoted in Stoughton's Church of the Revolution, 323.

[1092] E. Thoresby's Diary, ii. 341.

[1093] Tatler, No. 129.

[1094] Secker's Eight Charges, 182.

[1095] R. South's Sermons, iv. 191, also Strype Corresp. quoted by Stoughton, Ch. of the Rev., 323.

[1096] Mr. Wordsworth, however, mentions a portrait of 1730, showing the interior of an English church in which the celebrant at the Eucharist is robed in a black gown.—Univ. Soc. in the Eighteenth Cent., 533.