_The Burial Service said by Heart._--Bishop Sprat (in his _Discourse to his
Clergy_, 1695, for which see _Clergyman's Instructor_, 1827, p. 245.)
relates that, immediately after the Restoration, a noted ringleader of
schism in the former times was interred in one of the principal churches of
London, and that the minister of the parish, being a wise and regular
conformist, and afterwards an eminent bishop, delivered the whole Office of
Burial by heart on that occasion. The friends of the deceased were greatly
edified at first, but afterwards much surprised and confounded when they
found that their fervent admiration had been bestowed on a portion of the
Common Prayer. Southey (_Common-Place Book_, iii. 492.) conjectures that
the minister was Bull. This cannot be, for Bull, I believe, never held a
London cure. Was it Hackett? And who was the noted ringleader of schism?