Ecclesiastical History of England, Volume 4—The Church of the Restoration [part 2]

by John Stoughton

[304] State Papers, Dom. Charles II., 1674, Feb. 12.

[305] I find these anecdotes in a MS. History of the Suffolk Churches, by the Rev. T. Harmer, author of Observations on Scripture.

[306] History of England, i. 294.

[307] The author, however, considers that the Bishops’ survey came far below the mark,—he mentions a conjectural estimate of eight millions.—Happy Future, &c., 116.

[308] Happy Future, &c., 281.

[309] Dalrymple’s Memoirs, Appendix, ii. 12.

[310] Happy Future, &c., 150.

[311] Pope’s Life of Ward, 148.

[312] Pope’s Life of Ward, 148.

[313] James II. said at Oxford, “he heard many of them used notes in their sermons, but none of his Church ever did.”—Wood, quoted in Southey’s Common-Place Book, iii. 496. The early Puritans greatly disliked read sermons. See Hooker (Keble), ii. 107.