Note {275} — Chapter XXIV · —THE CHURCH—THE ARISTOCRATICAL PEW—DAYS OF YORE—THE CLERGYMAN—“IN WHAT WOULD A MAN BE PROFITED?”

The church of Willenhall, Staffordshire, near Mumpers’ Dingle, is, perhaps, intended. The hymn was originally Cennick’s, but the verse in question Charles Wesley’s. The old tune Helmsley (not St. Thomas) was a favourite of Queen Victoria.