new religious revolution, to sweep away the fragments that
Henry the Eighth left after banqueting his courtiers, will drive them
out again."]

[Footnote 78: See Heylin's Cyprianus Anglicus.]

[Footnote 79: Eachard, Causes of the Contempt of the Clergy; Oldham,
Satire addressed to a Friend about to leave the University; Tatler, 255,
258. That the English clergy were a lowborn class, is remarked in the
Travels of the Grand Duke Cosmo, Appendix A.]

[Footnote 80: "A causidico, medicastro, ipsaque artificum farragine,
ecclesiae rector aut vicarius contemnitur et fit ludibrio. Gentis et
familiae nitor sacris ordinibus pollutus censetur: foeminisque natalitio
insignibus unicum inculcatur saepius praeceptum, ne modestiae naufragium
faciant, aut, (quod idem auribus tam delicatulis sonat,) ne clerico se
nuptas dari patiantur."--Angliae Notitia, by T. Wood, of New College
Oxford 1686.]

[Footnote 81: Clarendon's Life, ii. 21.]

[Footnote 82: See the injunctions of 1559, In Bishop Sparrow's
Collection. Jeremy Collier, in his Essay on Pride, speaks of this
injunction with a bitterness which proves that his own pride had not
been effectually tamed.]

[Footnote 83: Roger and Abigail in Fletcher's Scornful Lady, Bull
and the Nurse in Vanbrugh's Relapse, Smirk and Susan in Shadwell's
Lancashire Witches, are instances.]

[Footnote 84: Swift's Directions to Servants. In Swift's Remarks on the
Clerical Residence Bill, he describes the family of an English vicar
thus: "His wife is little better than a Goody, in her birth, education,
or dress..... His daughters shall go to service, or be sent apprentice
to the sempstress of the next town."]

[Footnote 85: Even in Tom Jones, published two generations later. Mrs.
Seagrim, the wife of a gamekeeper, and Mrs. Honour, a waitingwoman,
boast of their descent from clergymen, "It is to be hoped," says
Fielding, "such instances will in future ages, when some provision is
made for the families of the inferior clergy, appear stranger than they
can be thought at present."]

[Footnote 86: This distinction between country clergy and town clergy is
strongly marked by Eachard, and cannot but be observed by every person
who has studied the ecclesiastical history of that age.]

[Footnote 87: Nelson's Life of Bull. As to the extreme difficulty which
the country clergy found in procuring books, see the Life of Thomas
Bray, the founder of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel.]

[Footnote 88