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British physician to inoculate for smallpox, his patient being Edward,
son of Lady Mary Wortley Montague, in March 1717. He published in
1722 an Account of Inoculating the Small-Pox, which brought on considerable
controversy. He also practiced in 1721 on six condemned prisoners
at Newgate, and inoculated Frederick, future prince of Wales, at
Hanover in 1724. The practice of inoculation was largely confined to the
fashionable world [see John Malcolm Bulloch, A Pioneer of Inoculation
(Aberdeen, 1930)].
his Lady was Catharine, the second wife of Bishop William Talbot and
the daughter of Richard King of London.
Mrs Benson the Mother: nothing further is known about the archbishop's
mother-in-law.
Family of Mrs. Brough: she was Seeker's aunt and a widow.
his Visitation with him: canon 60 of the canons of 1604 decreed that
every bishop should administer confirmation in his diocese "every third
year." Generally the offices of confirmation and visitation were combined
in the eighteenth century. Because residence in London for the
greater part of the year was necessary for a bishop to carry on his
parliamentary duties, political necessity and other circumstances combined
to restrict confirmation to the summer months. When the offices
of visitation and confirmation were combined, visitation was generally
held in the morning and confirmation in the afternoon [see Norman
Sykes, Church and State in England in the XVIIIth Century (New York,
1975), pp. 115-16].
Kingstreet Chapel (formerly Archbishop Tenison's Chapel) was later
known as St. Thomas, Regent St.
Countess Dowager of Portland: Jane, sixth daughter of Sir John
Temple, baronet of East Sheen, who in 1700, as the dowager Lady
Berkeley of Stratton, had married the earl of Portland.
FOLIO 15 (1725-26)
Exton Sayer (c. 1691-1731), fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge 1714-24
and LL.D. in 1718, married Catherine, daughter of bishop Talbot. He
was chancellor of Durham 1724, judge advocate for the admiralty in
matters relating to the Crown 1726 and surveyor general of Crown lands
1730. He was also M.P. for Halston 1726-27, Totnes 1727-31 and official
to the archdeaconry of Essex (Present State, 1728). Sayer was described in