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Ibid., p.233. On Lady Hester Stanhope see C. L. Meryon, Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope as Related by Herself in Conversation with her Physician: Comprising her Opinions and Anecdotes of some of the most remarkable Persons of her Time (3 vols, London, 1845) and The Travels of the Lady Hester Stanhope forming the Completion of her Memoirs, as Narrated by her Physician (3 vols, London, 1846), J. Haslip, Lady Hester Stanhope (1934) and L. Gibb, Lady Hester: Queen of the East (London, 2005). See Gibb, Lady Hester, pp.89–91, 160–1. Stirling, The Ways of Yesterday, p.249. Ibid., pp.247–8. Meryon, Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope, vol.1, pp.134–7. Stirling, The Ways of Yesterday, p.259. Thoughts on the Scriptural Expectations of the Christian Church, by Basilicus (reprinted from The Jewish Expositor, Gloucester, 1823), p.101. Stirling, The Ways of Yesterday, p.268. Ibid., p.271. Ibid., p.275. Ibid., pp.275–7. Ibid., pp.279–80. On Dr Jephson see E. G. Baxter, Dr Jephson of Leamington Spa, ed. J. Lane and R. Bearman (Leamington Spa, 1980). Stirling, The Ways of Yesterday, p.282. There is a memorial to Way inside the church; his actual tomb is below in its vault. Stirling, The Ways of Yesterday, p.288. Rev. W. T. Gidney, The History of the London Society for Promoting Christianity amongst the Jews, from 1809 to 1908 (London, 1908), pp.416–17.

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