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The duty of daily public worship was, as might be expected, chiefly insisted upon by the High Churchmen of the period.He could hardly have written thus if Holy Week, and especially Good Friday, had not received at that time fairest isle henry purcell a fairly general observance.Beresford Hope, telling what he himself remembers, records how in the church he frequented as a boy, the clerk would make such announcements after the repeating of the Nicene Creed, or of meetings at the town hall of the executors of a late duke.'Certainly not, sir,' said he, ''twill be barley fairest isle henry purcell next year.'After some pause,' writes Addison, in one of his Roger de Coverley papers, 'the old knight, turning about his head twice or thrice to take a survey of the great metropolis, bid me observe how thick the City was set with churches, and that there was scarce a single steeple on this side Temple Bar.Still it was generally felt to be fairest isle henry purcell a struggle in which great religious principles were involved.Before leaving the subject of church fabrics and their immediate surroundings, some little mention should be made of the effort made at the beginning of the century to supply the deficiency of churches in London.Throughout the earliest part of the period, the Wednesday and Friday services, particularly enjoined by the canon, were held in the London parish churches almost without fairest isle henry purcell exception, and very generally in country parishes.There is some mention of it in the 'Vicar of Wakefield' and one well known carol, 'Christians, awake! salute the happy morn!' was produced about the middle of the century by John Byrom.In the Olney Hymns, published 1779, Christmas Day only is fairest isle henry purcell referred to among all the Christian seasons.Another frequent fault of these special prayers was uncharitableness.' How fairest isle henry purcell much they had dwindled away in London becomes evident from a comparison between the list of services enumerated in the 'Pietas Londinensis,' published in 1714, and a book entitled 'London Parishes an Account of the Churches, Vicars, Vestries,' &c.John Johnson, writing in 1709, said he was by no means single in his belief that this order was still legally enjoined.