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88 The Autobiography of Archbishop Thomas Seeker
1730 as "a ministerial janissary" [A.S. Foord, His Majesty's Opposition
(Oxford, 1964), p. 192]. For his dealings in coal leases belonging to the
bishopric of Durham, dealings which increased the income of the
bishops and other dignitaries, see Edward Hughes, North Country Life in
the Eighteenth Century (London, 1952), I, pp. 308-15.
the Bishop his Lady: William Talbot and his wife.
Haughton was a delectable place well into the nineteenth century.
Seeker possessed a copy of a popular Complete History of Durham (1730),
bound in one volume with a similar history of Oxfordshire (1730), both
printed by E. & R. Nutt, and sold by T Cox, at the Lamb under the
Royal Exchange, at l/6d a volume. This volume passed from Seeker to
George Berkeley the younger and thence to Edward Smallwell, bishop of
Oxford, in 1794 (now in the Bodleian). For the Oxford part only it has a
manuscript index and annotations by Seeker. The Durham part notes
that Houghton-le-Spring had a fine parsonage house (p. 638); its
valuation when Wheler held it was given as £124 per annum.
FOLIO 16 (1726)
Mr Howe is perhaps that John Howe, secretary to the commission of
peace in chancery, whose death occurred 18 February, 1734 [G.M., IV
(1734), p. 107].
Dr Finney: James Finney or Fynney (1652?-1726), fellow of St. John's
college, Oxford, who proceded B.A. 1676 and B.D. & D.D. by diploma
in 1698. He had been chaplain to Lord Burlington, canon of Durham
1694, and rector of Ryton 1707-26. A benefactor of Worcester college,
Oxford, he built at Ryton "a very sumptuous and noble Parsonage
House with suitable outhouses, and high Stone-walls about the Garden
and Orchard," and another house for his benefice of Long Newton, and
much improved the prebendal house in the college at Durham (T. Cox,
Complete History of Durham, p. 638).
the Bishop: William Talbot.
the Bishop: William Talbot.
FOLIO 17 (1726-28)
")ennis Payne, M.A. was prebendary of Salisbury 1727, rector of
.bberley 1724-32, and Hanbury near Wich 1732-53 [T.R. Nash,
ollections for the History and Antiquities of Worcestershire (London, 1781), I,
. 5 & 555].