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who was archdeacon of Oxford 1741-67. He also held a prebend of
Canterbury and lived in the Close.
My Peculiars in the Diocese of Rochester: an example of the
archbishop's peculiars in the diocese of Rochester is the parish of Cliffe,
in Kent.
Millars Gardeners Dictionary in two volumes first came out in 1731-39
and reached eight editions during the author's lifetime. Philip Miller
(1691-1771) was a fellow of the Royal Society and in charge of the
Chelsea Garden where he is said to "have increased the number of
plants under cultivation from one thousand to five thousand species"
[Correspondence of the Rev. Joseph Greene, ed. Levi Fox (HMSO, 1965). p.
43, n.l]. His professional opinion about the gardens at Lambeth and
Croydon, dated at Chelsea 9 May, 1758, is in L.P.L. MS Seeker 7, fol.
355.
Coronation Cope is undoubtedly the one presented to York Minster in
1917 by the Reverend John Charles Gawthorn, a descendant of Seeker's
sister. The cope of a red and gold patterned silk damask has recently
been repaired and restored, and is still in the possession of the dean and
chapter. It appears to be identical to a cope at Westminster Abbey, and
probably was one of a set made for George Ill's coronation on 22
September, 1761. Seeker is unlikely to have owned two copes, as
eighteenth-century Anglican dignitaries would have used a cope very
infrequently. I am indebted to the Reverend A. S. Leak, Archivist of the
Minster Library, for information and permission to view the cope there.
[J.S.M.]
Fire Engine which was used to extinguish fires was a cistern or reservoir
mounted on wheels so that it was portable, and provided with pumps
which forced out the water in it through a fixed delivery pipe. An
important advance in fire extinction had come in 1672 when two
Dutchmen invented a flexible leather hose which could be attached to
the pipe. A fire insurance policy issued by the Manchester Fire Office in
September 1786 contains a printed vignette of a somewhat crude
manual engine which was the only type employed in England until the
early nineteenth century (Spencer Research Library MS R5:l:2).
Kings Wedding & Coronation: There is a fairly complete description
of the circumstances surrounding the King's coronation in Seeker's
notes. One of Seeker's most important liturgical contributions was the
revision of the coronation service for 1761.