=72=: 14. =Dr. Sacheverell's Speech.= A Tory high-church preacher who was impeached before the House of Lords for two violent sermons assailing the Whig party. His trial caused great excitement, and was one of the events immediately preceding the downfall of the Whigs in 1710. The "speech" here mentioned is that delivered in his own defence. It is said to have been written for him by Samuel Wesley, father of John Wesley. =72=: 15. =Fielding's Trial.= One Robert Fielding, tried for bigamy early in the century. =72=: 16. =Seneca's Morals.= _The Moral Essays of Seneca_ (4 B.C.-65 A.D.). The translation of Roger L'Estrange was popular at this time. =72=: 17. =Taylor's Holy Living and Dying.= Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667), the most eloquent of English divines. =74=: 22. =To give me their thoughts upon it.= Some of "their thoughts" may be found in Nos. 92 and 340. VI. COVERLEY HALL =Motto.= "Hence shall flow to the full for thee, from kindly horn, a wealth of rural honours."--Horace, _Odes_, I. xvii. 14-17. =77=: 7. =The nature of a chaplain.= The religious influence of the clergy, especially of the country clergy, was doubtless very small in the Queen Anne time. For their condition and work, see Macaulay's famous Chapter iii. in his _History of England_; Lecky's _History of England in the Eighteenth Century_, Chap. ii; Ashton's _Social Life in the Reign of Queen Anne_, Chap. xxxii; Besant's _London in the Eighteenth Century_, chapter on Church and Chapel. Abundant confirmation of this low estimate of the character and influence of the clergy may be found in contemporary literature. For example, see Swift's _Project for the Advancement of Religion_, his satirical _Argument against the Abolishing of Christianity_, and _Letter to a Young Clergyman_. Yet it must be remembered that the Whig prejudices of Addison inclined him, in his kindly satire, to belittle the attainments and the influence of the country clergy, who were, almost to a man, Tories. =79=: 3. =Bishop of St. Asaph= may have been either William Beveridge (1637-1708) or his successor, William Fleetwood (1656-1723); both had, before this time, published volumes of sermons. =79=: 4. =Dr. South.= Robert South (1633-1716), a very high churchman and a very eloquent preacher. =79=: 6. =Tillotson.= John Tillotson (1630-1694), made Archbishop of Canterbury three years before his death. =79=: 7. =Saunderson.= Robert Saunderson (1587-1663), Bishop of Lincoln. =79=: 7. =Barrow.= Isaac Barrow (1630-1677) was eminent both as a theologian and a mathematician. =79=: 7. =Calamy.= Edmund Calamy (1600-1666) is the only one in the chaplain's list of preachers who was not a Churchman; Calamy was a Presbyterian, though a liberal one, who served a little time as chaplain of Charles II. VII. THE COVERLEY HOUSEHOLD =Motto.= "The Athenians raised a colossal statue to Æsop, though a slave, and placed it on a lasting foundation, to show that the path of Honor is open to all."--Phaedrus, _Epilogue_, 2.