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— Notes to pages 17–21 —
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5 Wickham, Church and People, pp. 42–3, 47–9, 57–8, 72–3, 114–15, 142–3 and
appendix III; C.G. Brown, ‘The costs of pew-renting: church management,
churchgoing and social class in nineteenth-century Glasgow’, Journal of
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6 O. Chadwick, Victorian Miniature, London, Futura, 1983, orig., 1960; C.G.
Brown, ‘The Myth of the Established Church’, in J. Kirk (ed.), Church and
State in Scotland, Edinburgh, Scottish Church History Society, 2000.
7 J. Macinnes, The Evangelical Movement in the Highlands of Scotland 1688
to 1800, Aberdeen, Aberdeen University Press, 1951; C.G. Brown, Up-hellyaa:
Custom, Culture and Community in Shetland, Manchester, Mandolin,
1998.
8 E.P. Thompson, Customs in Common, London, Merlin, 1991, pp. 83–96.
9 L. Davidoff and C. Hall, Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the English
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10 F.W. Freeman, ‘Robert Fergusson: pastoral and politics at mid century’, in A.
Hook (ed.), The History of Scottish Literature vol. 2 1660–1800, Aberdeen,
Aberdeen University Press, 1987, pp. 142–9.
11 T. Smollett, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker, orig. 1771, Harmondsworth,
Penguin, 1967, p. 66.
12 W. Cowper, The Task (1785), quoted in B.I. Coleman (ed.), The Idea of the
City in Nineteenth-Century Britain, London, RKP, 1973, pp. 25–6.
13 W. Wordsworth, The Prelude (1805), quoted ibid., pp. 32–3.
14 R. Southey, quoted ibid., p. 41.
15 J. Blackburn, Reflections on the Moral and Spiritual Claims of the Metropolis,
London, Holdsworth, 1827, pp. 7, 13, 24.
16 M. Maxwell-Arnot, ‘Social change and the Church of Scotland’, in M. Hill
(ed.), A Sociological Yearbook of Religion in Britain, vol. 7, London, SCM,
1974, pp. 96–9.
17 Quoted in Scots Magazine, January 1787, pp. 15–17.
18 Ibid., December 1787, p. 619.
19 J. Sinclair (ed.), The Statistical Account of Scotland, vol. 10, Edinburgh, 1790,
p. 560.
20 Ibid., vol. 20, pp. 535–6.
21 Mark Docker, 1817, quoted in Wickham, Church and People, pp. 84–5.
22 J.P. Kay, The Moral and Physical Condition of the Working Classes Employed
in the Cotton Manufacture in Manchester, second edn, London, 1832, p. 112.
23 In relation to Sheffield, Wickham commented in 1957: ‘Considering the early
evangelical zeal for foreign missions, for the abolition of slavery, and for the
care of the poor, it is surprising how late in time there is either public awareness
or stirring of conscience about the missionary problem at home.’ Wickham,
Church and People, p. 85.
24 Revd S. MacGill, Our Blessings and Our Duty: Under the Present Circumstances,
Glasgow, 1798, pp. 54–5.
25 Revd Alexander Carlyle, quoted in R. Heron (ed.), Account of the Proceedings
and Debate, in the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland . . . Respecting
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