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| High Church and Low Church | |
| Concluding Notes on several misunderstood Words, by the Rev. W. R. Arrowsmith | |
| Sneezing an Omen and a Deity, by T. J. Buckton | |
| Abuses of Hackney Coaches | |
| Shakspeare Correspondence, by C. Mansfield Ingleby, Thomas Falconer, &c. | |
| Minor Notes:—Falsified Gravestone in Stratford Churchyard—Barnacles in the River Thames—Note for London Topographers—The Aliases and Initials of Authors—Pure—Darling's "Cyclopædia Bibliographica" | |
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| Delft Manufacture, by O. Morgan | |
| Minor Queries:—The Withered Hand and Motto "Utinam"—History of York—"Hauling over the coals"—Dr. Butler and St. Edmund's Bury—Washington—Norman of Winster—Sir Arthur Aston—"Jamieson the Piper"—"Keiser Glomer"—Tieck's "Comœdia Divina"—Fossil Trees between Cairo and Suez: Stream like that in Bay of Argastoli—Presbyterian Titles—Mayors and Sheriffs—The Beauty of Buttermere—Sheer Hulk—The Lapwing or Peewitt (Vanellus cristatus)—"Could we with ink," &c.—Launching Query—Manliness | |
| Minor Queries with Answers:—Pues or Pews—"Jerningham" and "Doveton" | |
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| Battle of Villers en Couché, by T. C. Smith, &c. | |
| Snail-eating, by John Timbs, &c. | |
| Inscription near Cirencester, by P. H. Fisher, &c. | |
| Curious Custom of ringing Bells for the Dead, by the Rev. H. T. Ellacombe and R. W. Elliot | |
| Who first thought of Table-turning? by John Macray | |
| Scotchmen in Poland | |
| Anticipatory Use of the Cross, by Eden Warwick | |
| Photographic Correspondence:—Glass Chambers for Photography—Dr. Diamond's Replies—Trial of Lenses—Is it dangerous to use the Ammonio-Nitrate of Silver? | |
| Replies to Minor Queries:—Burke's Marriage—The House of Falahill—Descendants of Judas Iscariot—Milton's Widow—Whitaker's Ingenious Earl—Are White Cats deaf?—Consecrated Roses—The Reformed Faith—House-marks—Trash—Adamsoniana—Portrait of Cromwell—Burke's "Mighty Boar of the Forest"—"Amentium haud Amantium"—Talleyrand's Maxim—English Bishops deprived by Queen Elizabeth—Gloves at Fairs—St. Dominic—Names of Plants—Specimens of Foreign English, &c. | |
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Notes.
HIGH CHURCH AND LOW CHURCH.
A Universal History of Party; with the Origin of Party Names[[1]] would form an acceptable addition to literary history: "N. & Q." has contributed towards such a work some disquisitions on our party names Whig and Tory, and The Good Old Cause. Such names as Puritan, Malignant, Evangelical[[2]], can be traced up to their first commencement, but some obscurity hangs on the mintage-date of the names we are about to consider.
As a matter of fact, the distinction of High Church and Low Church always existed in the Reformed English Church, and the history of these parties would be her history. But the names were not coined till the close of the seventeenth century, and were not stamped in full relief as party-names till the first year of Queen Anne's reign.
In October, 1702, Anne's first Parliament and Convocation assembled:
"From the deputies in Convocation at this period, the appellations High Church and Low Church originated, and they were afterwards used to distinguish the clergy. It is singular that the bishops[[3]] were ranked among the Low Churchmen (see Burnet, v. 138.; Calamy, i. 643.; Tindal's Cont., iv. 591.)"—Lathbury's Hist. of the Convocation, Lond. 1842, p. 319.
Mr. Lathbury is a very respectable authority in matters of this kind, but if he use "originated" in its strict sense, I am inclined to think he is mistaken; as I am tolerably certain that I have met with the words several years before 1702. At the moment, however, I cannot lay my hands on a passage to support this assertion.
The disputes in Convocation gave rise to a number of pamphlets, such as A Caveat against High Church, Lond. 1702, and The Low Churchmen vindicated from the unjust Imputation of being No Churchmen, in Answer to a Pamphlet called "The Distinction of High and Low Church considered:" Lond. 1706, 8vo. Dr. Sacheverell's trial gave additional zest to the dudgeon ecclesiastick, and produced a shower of pamphlets. I give the title of one of them: Pulpit War, or Dr. S——l, the High Church Trumpet, and Mr. H——ly, the Low Church Drum, engaged by way of Dialogue, Lond. 1710, 8vo.