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The Autobiography of Archbishop Thomas Seeker
my Sister Frosts: Abigail-Anna Seeker had married John Frost, of
Barnston, Nottinghamshire.
Archbishop Dawes: Sir William Dawes (1671-1724), third baronet. He
was a Queen Anne Tory and archbishop of York since 1713.
Assize Sermon: the assizes were the sessions held periodically in each
English county, for the purpose of administering civil and criminal
justice, by judges acting under certain special commissions. An assize
sermon would be preached at the opening of the court sessions. Robert
Sanderson, bishop of London, noted of one of those: "I . . . desired for
this assise-assembly to choose a text as near as I could of equal latitude
with the assise-business" (O.E.D.).
Tracy & Price: I have been unable to find any further references to
them.
Mr Milnes of Chesterfield had been married to Elizabeth, Seeker's halfsister.
Dean Berkeley (1685-1753) was an Irishman who was educated at
Trinity college, Dublin, of which he became a fellow, 1707. He was dean
of Derry 1724 and bishop of Cloyne in 1734.
Sir George Wheler (1650-1723) was a learned and widely travelled
ecclesiastic, for whom see C.E. Whiting, Nathaniel Lord Crewe (London,
1940), pp. 134 ff. and D.N.B.
Houghton-le-Spring: Seeker was instituted 12 February, 1724, and
inducted 25 February (Bodl. MS Rawl. 4° fol. 235).
the Bishop: William Talbot.
FOLIO 14 (1724-25)
Issue in my Arm was a discharge of blood or other matter from the
body, in this case produced surgically by counter-irritation.
Scorbutick Emption: Seeker should have written a "Scorbutick empostem"
or ' 'imposthume," which the English seem to have had
difficulty in spelling correctly; it appears in a variety of forms. The
reference is to an abscess which is related to or brought on by scurvy.
Mr Maitland: Charles Maitland (1668-1748), a Scot from Methlick
who was educated at Marischal college, Aberdeen. He was the first