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118 <strong>The</strong> Autobiography <strong>of</strong> <strong>Archbishop</strong> Thomas Seeker<br />
negotiations cost the parish £236-2-11 (St. James's Vestry Minutes 26<br />
January, 21 November, 1747; 21 February, 5 March, 1748; 18 February,<br />
23 March 1749).<br />
Lady B. Spelman: Lady Elizabeth Spelman, no doubt more familiarly<br />
referred to as Lady Betty. She was the daughter <strong>of</strong> John, earl <strong>of</strong><br />
Middleton (d. 1674) and former governor <strong>of</strong> Tangier, who married<br />
William Spelman <strong>of</strong> Wickmere, County Norfolk. She died 11 January,<br />
1748 [GM., XVIII (1748), p. 43].<br />
Mr Bowes's at Binfield: the two brothers <strong>of</strong> John Bowes, later lord<br />
chancellor <strong>of</strong> Ireland, were Samuel and Rumsey Bowes who lived at<br />
Binfield, Surrey (Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, p. 68). Bodl. MS<br />
St. Edm. Hall 55, fol. 7, records Seeker's paying Samuel Bowes £21 for<br />
a horse on 6 November, 1746.<br />
my Sister died: Abigail-Anna Frost, born Seeker.<br />
lease <strong>of</strong> Cropredy: the living <strong>of</strong> Cropredy, a discharged vicarage chiefly<br />
in the hundred <strong>of</strong> Banbury, County Oxford, was in the patronage <strong>of</strong> the<br />
bishopric <strong>of</strong> Oxford.<br />
Prince Frederick: Frederick William, the youngest son <strong>of</strong> the Prince <strong>of</strong><br />
Wales, was born 13 May and baptized on 17 June, 1750 at Leicester<br />
House [GM., XX (1750), p. 281].<br />
FOLIO 41 (1750-51)<br />
Dr Butler was nominated to Durham on 31 July and confirmed on 16<br />
October, 1750.<br />
Dr Chandler: Edward Chandler (1668P-1750), who was successively<br />
bishop <strong>of</strong> Lichfield and Coventry 1717 and <strong>of</strong> Durham 1730 until his<br />
death. He was one <strong>of</strong> the bishops who, according to William King, died<br />
"shamefully rich" [Political and Literary Anecdotes (London, 1818), pp.<br />
182-83].<br />
Deanery <strong>of</strong> St Pauls: Hardwicke and Thomas Herring, archbishop <strong>of</strong><br />
<strong>Canterbury</strong>, were able to assure George II that Seeker had repented <strong>of</strong><br />
his earlier occasional parliamentary opposition. <strong>The</strong> king therefore was<br />
persuaded to grant him the deanery to be held with his "poor"<br />
bishopric (Sykes, Church and State, p. 64). Seeker was appointed dean on<br />
4 December, 1750 and held with it the prebendary <strong>of</strong> Portpool<br />
(Hennessy, Novum Repertorium, pp. 6 & 45).
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