Note 484 — Chapter XVII

In the Vernon Correspondence, vol. ii. 55, allusions occur to “one of the Prebends of Durham” a Nonjuror in heart, suspected of Jacobitism. “By what I have now heard,” says Vernon to the Duke of Shrewsbury, “there never was so true a pharisee; he was affectedly devout in outward show, using all the ceremonies both of the Greek and Western Churches; his practice was to pray and sing psalms while he and his friends were travelling in his coach.”