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Notes 115
routed Cope's force at the battle of Prestonpans in September, the road
to England seemed to lie open.
the before mentioned Sermon: see fol. 34.
both my Chapels: Berwick Street Chapel and King's Street Chapel.
the Association was one which men joined to pledge themselves and
their resources to defend the Protestant Succession. Seeker kept in his
Miscellanea copies of the speeches made at Association meetings by the
archbishop of York and the bishop of Norwich. At the county meeting at
Oxford Seeker signed the Association (Bodl. MS Gough Oxford 101,
Oxfordshire Elections no. 26).
clandestine marriages: the inadequacy of the laws about marriage was
a well-known social problem of the period. Canon law required the
publication of banns or the obtaining of a license before the celebration
of a marriage, but an irregular marriage performed by any clergyman
was still legal. This made possible the clandestine marriages which were
so often romantically described in novels about the eighteenth century,
and were difficult to control. Between October 1704 and February 1705,
for example, "no fewer than 2950 such marriages are recorded"
(Overton & Relton, History of the English Church 1714-1800, p. 297).
Dr Trebeck: Andrew Trebeck (1681-1759), who was at Christ Church,
Oxford, where he received his B.D. 1714 and his D.D. by diploma in
1740. He was rector of St. George's Hanover Square from 1725 until
1759 (Nichols, Literary Anecdotes, I, p. 69; Foster, Alumni Oxon.).
FOLIO 38 (1747-48)
Gout . . . into her Stomach: Gay in Swift's Letter (1766): "with Mr.
Congreve, who has been like to die with a fever, and the gout in his
stomach" (O.E.D.).
my wife . . . died: Catherine Seeker, of whom little is known, is
described by Seeker's chaplains as "a Woman of great Sense and Merit,
but of a very weak and sickly Constitution. They had been married
upwards of twenty Years, during the greatest Part of which Time, her
extreme bad State of Health and Spirits had put his Affection to the
severest Trials; by which, instead of being lessened, it seemed to become
stronger every Day" [Sermons on Several Subjects, 2nd ed., edited by Beilby
Porteus and George Stinton (London, 1771), p. xxix; CM. XVIII
(1748), p. 139; Burke's Landed Gentry].