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The Autobiography oj Archbishop Thomas Seeker
MacClatchey, Oxfordshire Clergy (Oxford, 1960), pp. 49 & 101]. Seeker
had persuaded a previous nominee to withdraw, apparently on the
ground of a simoniacal transaction, on which Seeker sought Hardwicke's
advice (B.L. Add. MS 35,594, fol. 335: 17 November, 1756). "I
have owed your Lordship a living some years: and I think I am now at
last able to pay the Debt. ..." (ibid., fol. 320: 10 November, 1756).
my nephew Seeker: George Seeker was appointed rector of St.
Mildred's, Bread Street, on 3 April, 1755 and granted a dispensation
the same month to hold it with the vicarage of Yardley. The archbishop
was not wholly mistaken about the location of the first parish. The living
of St. Mildred's included St. Margaret Moses which stood at the
southwest corner of Little Friday street in the City of London [Hennessy,
Novum Repertorium, p. 339; CM., XXV (1755), p. 188].
Sandon, Hertfordshire, was near Royston, in what might be called
Hardwicke country. The person recommended by Hardwicke for this
living, of which the patron was the dean and chapter of St. Paul's, was
Gilbert Negus who held it until his death in 1763 Q.E. Cussans, History
of the Hertfordshire Hundred of Odsey (London, 1873), p. 143; CM., XXV
(1755), p. 188].
Dr Chandler: Samuel Chandler (1693-1766), who was assistant minister
1726-28 and then sole minister 1728-66 to the presbyterian congregation
at the Old Jewry. At Samuel Jones's academy he had been a fellow
pupil with Seeker and Butler, and also studied at Leyden; he received a
D.D. at Edinburgh in 1755 and an S.T.D. at Aberdeen 1756. He told
Archbishop Herring that he thought the Church of England was the
principal bulwark of Protestantism and liberty, and the most suitable to
a monarchical state (L.P.L. MS 1123/75: 26 February, 1754), but on the
other hand he disapproved of subscription to the Thirty-Nine Articles.
He contributed largely to The Old Whig, or Consistent Protestant, and took a
great interest in the Pennsylvania Germans [see his Sermons . . . a Brief
Account of the Life Character and Writings of the Author, ed. by Thomas
Amory, 2nd ed. (London, 1769), I, pp. vi-xi].
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Wheatly Chapel was in the parish of Cuddesdon. The living was a
perpetual curacy with Seeker, as bishop of Oxford, patron.
Samuel Salter: according to Edmund Pyle, the stewards of the charity,
and the City clergy, were so angered that they asked Salter not to print
the sermon which had been preached at St. Paul's on 17 April (Memoirs