Ecclesiastical History of England, Volume 5—The Church of the Revolution

by John Stoughton

[321] Edmund Burke.

[322] Whiston’s Memoirs, 32.

[323] Lords’ Journals, February 24, 1702.

[324] Life, i. 440.

[325] 1702, January. Macpherson’s Original Papers, i. 602.

[326] English Hist. Library, 133.

[327] See in Appendix the form of writ now issued.

[328] The letter has been attributed, on the authority of the editor of the Somers’ Tracts (last edit., xi. 363), to Sir Bartholomew Shower; on the authority of the editor of Atterbury’s Correspondence (ii. 25, iii. 71), to Dr. Binckes, Vicar of Leamington at the time, and in 1703 made Dean of Lichfield. I cannot ascertain the evidence on which either of them proceeds.

[329] The Authority of Christian Princes over their Ecclesiastical Synods, 1697.

[330] See Farrer’s Critical History of Free Thought, 186.