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The Autobiography of Archbishop Thomas Seeker
provoked a number of replies and was in turn defended by Henry
Fielding.
Lord Marchmont: Hugh Hume-Campbell (1708-1794), third earl of
Marchmont, who was one of the representative peers for Scotland
1750-84 and a strong anti-Walpolean Whig. He was a friend and
executor of Pope as well as the duchess of Marlborough [Alan Valentine,
The British Establishment 1760-84 (Norman, Oklahoma, 1970), I, pp.
479-80].
Dr Stephens: James Stephens or Stevens who was styled Doctor in
Physic, a "man of business and trustee" who was bequeathed £15,000
and £300 a year [A True and Authentick Copy of the Last Will and Testament of
. . . Sarah, Late Duchess Dowager of Marlborough, pp. 21, 25, 27; A. L.
Rowse, The Early Churchills (London, 1956), p. 412]. He was employed
as an amanuensis, and to vet the duke's biography [David Green, Sarah
Duchess of Marlborough (London, 1967), p. 304].
Mr Hargrave cannot be identified with certainty. He may be the James
Hargrave of Oxford who died 23 December, 1783, aet. 69 [Musgrave,
Obituary; GM., Uli (1783), p. 1066].
Mr Wake: Seeker's memory seems here to have failed him. He was
probably thinking of Richard Waite who received his B. A. from Christ's
college, Cambridge, in 1741 and subscribed as assistant curate at the
Berwick Street Chapel on 30 May, 1742 (London Guildhall Library MS
9540, II, p. 189 and similarly noticed in Bishop Gibson's Diocese Book,
the "Velvet Book," MS 9550, fol. 88).
Reader at Berwick street Chapel: the parish of St. James's had two
chapels of ease which the trustees administered. Berwick Street Chapel
was purchased from a French congregation and remodeled at great
expense in 1707. The slightly older, built at the expense of Archbishop
Tenison and called King's Street Chapel (1702), lay in the northern and
less fashionable section of the parish. Both chapels provided weekday
and Sunday services, using Preachers and Readers.
FOLIO 37 (1745-47)
The Rebellion broke out: Prince Charles Edward, the Young Pretender,
landed in the western Highlands in July 1745. As most of the
British army was serving on the continent in the war of the Austrian
Succession, there were only some 3000 reserves under Sir John Cope
garrisoning Scotland. When the Pretender captured Edinburgh and