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May, 1735). In the same minutes and also on 4 April, 1738, he appears
as J.P. He seems to have been a carpenter by trade and made watch
houses for the parish (V.M., 14 August, 1735). In 1758 a William
Ludbey was paid by Seeker as archbishop for bricklaying work at
Lambeth £3-8-11 (L.P.L. MS 1483, fol. 7).
first Senior Churchwarden: as a rule there were two churchwardens in
an English parish, elected annually at the Easter vestry meeting, one by
the incumbent, the other by the parishioners. The churchwardens had a
variety of functions including the repair of the nave of the church and
the custody of the parish property.
Dr Holmes: William Holmes (1689-1748), president of St. John's
college, Oxford 1728-48, regius professor of modern history 1736-42
and dean of Exeter 1742-48. The revival of the Act after years of
intermission made it an even greater occasion.
Act sermon on Deuteronomy xxxii: 46-47 was reprinted in Seeker's
Works vi, pp. 1-22. Seeker's performance was generally well thought of,
even by Thomas Hearne {Collections, xi, pp. 231, 241, 243): "rather an
Essay than a Sermon, but 'tis very handsome and neat, and proper
enough for the Auditory, notwithstanding his speaking in commendation
of King George and Queen Caroline, which is no wonder since he
writes of himself in the Title, LL.D., Prebendary of Durham, Rector of
St. James's, Westminster, and Chaplain in Ordinary to His Majesty."
Dr Webster: William Webster (1689-1758), who was D.D. Cambridge
1732, and vicar of Ware and Thundridge 1740. He edited the Weekly
Miscellany 1732-41 under the pseudonym "Richard Hooker, Esq. of the
Inner Temple" [Alexander Pope, The Dunciad, ed. James Sutherland
(London, 1965 rpt.), p. 458]. Under the name "A Country Clergyman"
he attacked William Warburton's Divine Legation of Moses (J.
Nichols, Literary Anecdotes, V, pp. 160 ff.).
FOLIO 21 (1733-34)
Dr Waterland: Daniel Waterland (1683-1740), master of Magdalene
college, Cambridge 1713-40; prebendary of Windsor 1727; and archdeacon
of Middlesex 1730. He was an ecclesiastical historian, and
perhaps the most influential of orthodox divines, attacking Hoadly's low
eucharistic doctrine and upholding Trinitarian orthodoxy against
"Arians" like William Whiston, Samuel Clarke and John Jackson.
Waterland was especially strong in his defence of the Athanasian creed.
His collected works were published in 1823, edited by that pillar of