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126 The Autobiography of Archbishop Thomas Seeker
arrogant. For his violent attacks on the Jew bill he was nicknamed by the
Tory press "Temple of Jerusalem." (See Namier and Brooke, H.C, II,
pp. 84-85; G.E.C., Complete Peerage).
monthly magazines pretended to print my Speeches: these monthly
magazines were largely collections of occasional contributions and of
material that had already been published in other periodicals. The
London Magazine vehemently opposed the Jew bill and under the heading
"Journal of a learned and political Club" reported speeches, thinly
disguised, of the debate for repeal. One of Seeker's speeches will be
found in June 1754 (London Magazine, XXIII, pp. 256-58) as that of "T.
Octocilius Crassus." For another example from the Connoisseur see
Perry, Public Opinion, p. 105.
Valens Comyn was described by Seeker in 1755 as the "late" paymaster
of St. Paul's cathedral, and regarded by him as improvidently spending
more out of the Fabric Fund than came in (B.L. Add. MS 35,593, fol.
164, Seeker to Hardwicke: 23 May, 1755).
ABp Herring: Thomas Herring (1693-1757), who had been bishop of
Bangor 1737-43, archbishop of York 1743-47 and then of Canterbury
1747-57. The archbishop was by statute one of the trustees ex officio of the
Fabric Fund. He was by no means as colorless a person as he has been
made out to be, but he was conservative and suspicious of any proposals
that might endanger existing arrangements, and excite either clergy or
laity [Carpenter, Cantuar, pp. 253-54, 259, 262, 284].
FOLIO 47 (1753-54)
St Faiths Parish: "At the west end of this Jesus chapel, under the choir
of Paules, also was a parish church of St. Faith, commonly called St.
Faith under Paul's, which served for the stationers and others dwelling
in Paule's churchyard, Paternoster row, and the places near adjoining"
[John Stow, The Survey of London, rev. ed. (1956; rpt. London 1965), p.
294].
Alderman Dickinson: Marshe Dickinson (1703?-1765), probably a
City attorney who was alderman from 1749, sheriff of London 1751-52
and lord mayor 1756-57. He sat as M.P. for Brackley 1754-65, and was
reckoned by Philip Yorke a "moderate Tory" (Namier and Brooke,
H.C, II, pp. 321-22).
Dr Terrick: Richard Terrick (1710-1777), who held the second prebend
at St. Paul's from 1749 to 1757, and was later bishop of Peterborough