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roots, with the pointing and accenting dropped, contained the whole of
revealed truth. He developed a theory of scriptural symbolism which
was carried on by a group contemptuously called "Hutchinsonians,"
and which included among others Dr. George Home (1730-1792),
president of Magdalen college, Oxford and bishop of Norwich; William
Jones of Nayland (1726-1800); and the latter's cousin and biographer
William Stevens (1732-1807). (See Overton and Relton, A History of the
English Church . . . 1714-1800, pp. 206-09).
Mr Hollis: Thomas Hollis (1720-1774), a strong Whig, whose early
friendship with Seeker turned to an obsessive suspicion and dislike. He
came to regard him as hypocritical, tolerant of popish progress in
Britain, and hostile to the protestant dissenters and to their friends in
North America. He denounced Seeker's "high Oxonian domination
and tyranny over conscience," and nicknamed him "Leviathan." This
dislike began with Seeker's S.RG. sermon of 1741, in which the bishop
had urged the providing of a bishop for the colonies [Francis Blackburne,
Memoirs of Thomas Hollis (London, 1780), I, pp. 212, 227,
275-76, 435-36]. Hollis, as a young man, had been left in the care of
John Hollister.
Sir Luke Schaub (d. 1758) was of Swiss origin and prominent in
various diplomatic missions under George I and II [D.B. Horn, The
English Diplomatic Service (Oxford, 1961), pp. 39, 171]. He also interested
himself in Dr. Samuel Chandler's society for the relief of German
Protestants (L.P.L. MS 1123, fol. 62: 23 March, 1753).
Henry Talbot (1700?-1784), fourth surviving son of the bishop of
Durham and younger brother of the Lord Chancellor, served as
commissioner of salt duty 1732-84 [W.R. Ward, "Some Eighteenth
Century Civil Servants," E.H.R., LXX (1955), p. 32].
Mr Hook: Nathanael or Nathaniel Hooke (d. 1763), a Roman Catholic
historian, who was recommended to Sarah duchess of Marlborough by
Alexander Pope and at her dictation wrote her Account of the Conduct of the
Dowager Duchess of Marlborough (1742). There is a questionable anecdote
that after he tried to convert her, "he was persona non grata" (Green,
Sarah Duchess of Marlborough, p. 299). Hooke also wrote a highly regarded
Roman History in 4 volumes. He is reported to have said that there are
"three reasons why a man would rather live in England than any other
country, Liberty, Liberty, Liberty" [Joseph Spence, Anecdotes, Observations
and Characters of Books and Men, ed. James M. Osborn (Oxford,
1966), I, p. 905].