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English Church in the Eighteenth Century, The
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Title: The English Church in the Eighteenth Century
Author: Charles J. Abbey and John H. Overton
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THE ENGLISH CHURCH IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
by
CHARLES J. ABBEY Rector of Checkendon: Formerly Fellow of University College, Oxford
and
JOHN H. OVERTON Canon of Lincoln and Rector of Epworth
Revised and Abridged New Edition
Longmans, Green, and Co. London, New York, and Bombay
1896
PREFACE
TO
THE SECOND EDITION
Although this edition has been shortened to about half the length of the original one, it is essentially the same work. The reduction has been effected, partly by the omission of some whole chapters, partly by excisions. The chapters omitted are those upon the Jacobites, the Essayists, Church Cries, and Sacred Poetry--subjects which have only a more or less incidental bearing o