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150 The Autobiography of Archbishop Thomas Seeker
The publication of a third pamphlet was stopped by Seeker who
courteously requested him to suppress it since the Methodists were, in
the archbishop's opinion, "a well-meaning people" [Robert Masters,
Masters 3 History of the College of Corpus Christi. . . with . . . a continuation to
the present time by John Lamb (London, 1831), p. 250].
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no House at Canterbury: throughout the eighteenth and most of the
nineteenth centuries successive archbishops had no residence at Canterbury,
until Archbishop Frederick Temple in 1898 adapted a house in the
precincts belonging to the chapter and on the site of the ancient
archiepiscopal palace (Carpenter, Cantuar, pp. 245-46, 393).
Mrs Rook or Rooke: Catherine Talbot had become great friends in
1741 with the Honorable Frances Rooke, daughter of John, Lord Ward,
and widow of George Rooke Esquire (d. 1739) who had resided at the
old mansion house of the parish of St. Lawrence, Canterbury [The Works
of the late Miss Catherine Talbot, ed. Montagu Pennington (London, 1819),
p. xii]. The litigation seems to have been a suit about house tithes in St.
Paul's parish, which the recorder of the city of Canterbury was
unwilling to take up (correspondence between the vicar, Dr. Lynch the
dean, and the archbishop from October 1757 to March 1759 will be
found in L.P.L. Seeker Papers 3, fols. 138-39). A Mrs. Rook held the
lease of the rectorial tithes of Leysdown, which in 1763 she desired to
renew.
Vicarage of St Paul: the vicar was Thomas Lamprey (1694?-1760), an
M.A. of Christ Church, Oxford (1715). He was a minor canon of
Canterbury and held the living of St. Martin with the vicarage from
1743 until his death (Foster, Alumni Oxon.).
John Burton (1696-1771) was a fellow of Corpus Christi college, Oxford
(B.D., 1729; D.D., 1752), and fellow of Eton from 1733, who was well
known at Oxford as an energetic tutor and Latinist. He was a close
friend of John Wesley and a supporter of the Georgia colony. In 1733 he
was nominated to the vicarage of Mapledurham by Eton college, a living
he held until 1766 when he became rector of Worplesdon in Surrey. His
brief Latin letter, memorializing Seeker, was published by the Clarendon
Press in 1768 (D.N.B.).
Mr Costard of Oxford: George Costard (1710-1782), "a very learned
person" and fellow of Wadham college, who had taken his M.A. in
1733. He held the living of Twickenham (he was vicar from 1764) and