Sarah Horne Hole’s daughter, Felicia Elizabetha Hole, married John Earle Welby (1786-1867), rector at Harston.

The letter is dated based on the postmark.

Robert Leighton (bap. 1612, d. 1684), archbishop of Glasgow. More mentions elsewhere her affection for his writings, many of which were republished during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (see letter of January 7 1813 to Lady Olivia Sparrow).

John Hopkins (1520/1-70), clergyman and psalmodist. He was celebrated as a talented writer whose new versions of over fifty psalms were prized for their elegance and poetical harmony. Many of these were passed down over the course of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and Hopkins was still celebrated into the eighteenth century; Alexander Pope was one reader who praised Hopkins.

John Rainolds (1549-1607), Calvinist theologian. Rainolds was involved in a series of controversies during the reign of Queen Elizabeth, a number of them involving countering Catholic and Jesuitical theology. Rainolds’s radical Calvinism proved popular, and many of his speeches, especially his orations, did well in print.

Probably Thomas Taylor (1576-1632), clergyman. Taylor published many works, several of which denounced Arminianism and antinomianism. Collected editions of Taylor’s various writings appeared from the mid-seventeenth century onwards.

John Venn (1759-1813), rector of Clapham. He was not sympathetic towards evangelical doctrine, but was active in many of the organisations and campaigns supported by the evangelical residents of Clapham Common.

Edward Cooper (fl. 1780-1815), clergyman. He was rector of Hamstall-Ridware and Yoxall in Staffordshire, home of More’s friends the Gisbornes, and was an intimate of the evangelical circle that gathered there.. Cooper’s Practical and Familiar Sermons for Parochial and Domestic Instruction (London: Cadell and Davies, 1815), was reviewed in The Christian Observer 1815 (p. 317: Read online) Cooper was a cousin of Jane Austen, though she did not enjoy his writing, calling him a ‘pompous Sermon-Writer’ (Letters, p. 172). See Gaye King, 'Jane Austen’s Staffordshire Cousin: Edward Cooper and His Circle', in Persuasions #15, 1993, pp 252-9..

Wilson published several volumes of sermons. The most recent (London, Wilson), published in 1818, had received a glowing review in The Christian Observer 17 (1819). See The Christian Observer January 1 1819, p. 667. (Read online.)

Thomas Gallaudet (1787-1851). More is probably referring here to Discourses on various points of Christian faith and practice: most of which were delivered in the Chapel of the Oratoire, in Paris, in the spring of M.DCCC.XVI (1818). On 28 April 1818, More wrote to thank him for his valuable volume' of 'admirable Sermons' (Heman Humphrey, The Life and Labors of Rev. T. H. Gallaudet (New York, 1857), p. 84. More also wrote Gallaudet a letter of introduction to Zachary Macaulay.

Charles Bradley (1789-1871), curate at Clapham. His first volume of sermons, published in 1818, proved very successful, running to six editions by 1824. His published sermons would receive acclaim throughout his career.

Gisborne published several well-regarded volumes of sermons during the early nineteenth century. In 1813 his sermons were gathered together in volume six of a nine-volume edition of his complete works, published by Cadell and Davies. (Read online.)

Porteus published sermons throughout his long career in the Church. At times these attracted occasional mockery from more cynical commentators, but the sermons proved popular enough to go through multiple editions. The seventh edition of his Sermons, on Several Occasions (London: Payne, Cadell and Davies, and Rivington, 1808), was published the year before Porteus’s death.

Isaac Milner had, with his brother Joseph, written, in seven volumes, The Ecclesiastical History of the Church of Christ. A substantial feat of intellectual labour, the work brought the Milners nationwide acclaim.