22 WILLIAM WAKE [1716-

worship on the Lord's Day in the mornings, having their
customers in the time of Divine Service. ... I am not
satisfied to administer the Sacrament of the Lord's
Supper to any of these men in their sickness unless they
profess themselves penitent for this fault."

There is no draft of Wake's reply ; his note on the
letter is : " Mr. Hallows : ab* Societies : Barbers trim-
ming on Sundays, etc." There was; it is well known,
considerable opposition on the part of Churchmen to the
Societies. Tenison, as we have seen, supported them,
but so good a man as Sharp, Archbishop of York, was
timid about them.
Nothing Wake did was surface or " shop window "
work. We find him having laborious search made for
Precedents of Patents and Forms of Licences in his
Registries. Three or four of his immediate prede-
cessors. Barlow, Neal, Montaign, supplied no precedent.
