[Footnote 52:  History of Montanism, &c., 344.]

[Footnote 53:  Secretan, 273.]

[Footnote 54:  Id. 70.]

[Footnote 55:  Secretan, 171.  Wilson quotes from the Rawlinson MSS. a very beautiful prayer composed by Lee soon before his death, for ’all Christians, however divided or distinguished ... throughout the whole militant Church upon earth.’—­History of Merchant Taylors, 956.]

[Footnote 56:  Hearne dwells enthusiastically on his high qualities, his religious conscientiousness, his learning, modesty, sweet temper, his charity in prosperity, his resignation in adverse fortune.—­Reliquiae, i. 287.]

[Footnote 57:  Secretan, 50, 69, 284.  He was a learned man, a student of many languages.—­Nichols, i. 124.]

[Footnote 58:  Boswell’s Life of Johnson, iv. 256.]

[Footnote 59:  A regular form of admission ’into the true and Catholic remnant of the Britannick Churches,’ was drawn up for this purpose.—­Life of Kettlewell, App. xvii.]

[Footnote 60:  Nelson’s Life of Bull, 4.]

[Footnote 61:  Speech before the House of Lords, 1705.—­Nelson’s Life of Bull, 355.]

[Footnote 62:  Nelson’s Life of Bull, 11.  Archdeacon Conant stood very high in Tillotson’s estimation, as a man ’whose learning, piety, and thorough knowledge of the true principles of Christianity would have adorned the highest station.’—­Birch’s Life of Tillotson, Works, i. ccxii.]

[Footnote 63:  Nelson’s Life of Bull, 243-9.  Dorner, ii. 83.]

[Footnote 64:  Secretan, 255.]

[Footnote 65:  Birch’s Life of Tillotson, lxxxviii.]

[Footnote 66:  ‘Concio ad Synodum,’ quoted by Macaulay, History of England, chap. xiv.]

[Footnote 67:  Secretan, 135.]

[Footnote 68:  Life of Bull, 64.]

[Footnote 69:  Sharp’s Life, by his Son, ii. 32.  Secretan, 78-9.]

[Footnote 70:  Life of Bull, 238.]

[Footnote 71:  Life, by his Son, ii. 28.]

[Footnote 72:  Secretan, 178.]

[Footnote 73:  ‘None,’ said Willis in his Survey of Cathedrals, ’were so well served as that of York, under Sharp.’—­Life of Sharp, i. 120.]

[Footnote 74:  Thoresby’s Correspondence, i. 274.]

[Footnote 75:  Life, i. 264.]

[Footnote 76:  Dodwell’s ‘Case in View,’ quoted in Lathbury’s History of the Nonjurors, 197.]

[Footnote 77:  Life, i. 264.]

[Footnote 78:  Secretan, 285.]

[Footnote 79:  Nichols’ Lit.  An. i. 190.]

[Footnote 80:  Nos. 72 and 114.]

[Footnote 81:  ‘Animadversions on the two last January 30 sermons,’ 1702.  The same might be said of his ‘Sermon before the Court of Aldermen,’ January 30, 1704.]

[Footnote 82:  Lord Mahon’s History of England, chap. 12.]