[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.] [Footnote 83: Secretan, 223.] [Footnote 84: The parallel with an interesting portion of I. Casaubon's life is singularly close. See Pattison's _Isaac Casaubon_, chap. 5.] [Footnote 85: In conjunction with Archbishop Sharp, Smalridge, and Jablouski, &c. See Chapter on 'Comprehension, &c.'] [Footnote 86: Secretan, 221, note. Nelson gives a full account of Dr. Grabe in his _Life of Bull_, 343-6.] [Footnote 87: Memoirs, 154.] [Footnote 88: _Life of Ken_, by a Layman, 619-20.] [Footnote 89: Secretan, 142.] [Footnote 90: Oglethorpe and Nelson sometimes met here. Secretan, 211.]