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<strong>The</strong> Autobiography <strong>of</strong> <strong>Archbishop</strong> Thomas Seeker<br />

Mr Brockman: James Brockman (1696-1767) <strong>of</strong> Beachborough, Kent,<br />

who was lay patron <strong>of</strong> Brenzett (Burke, Landed Gentry).<br />

Mr Ayerst: Robert Gunsley Ayerst (b, 1723?), an M.A. <strong>of</strong> <strong>University</strong><br />

college, Oxford (1744) and son <strong>of</strong> William Ayerst, who had been<br />

chaplain to several diplomatic missions and was a prebendary <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>Canterbury</strong>. <strong>The</strong> younger Ayerst's appointment as a Six Preacher is<br />

noted in L.P.L. Act Book X, p. 84.<br />

Mr Harrison: William Harrison: there are several possibilities with this<br />

name. His pastoral care at Margate apparently was effective since the<br />

Speculum (L.P.L. MS VG 2/5, p. 261) noted: "the Parishioners [are]<br />

remarkable for going to Church."<br />

Mr Sandys was probably that Samuel Sandys (1744-1815) who was son<br />

<strong>of</strong> a Worcestershire clergyman and a B.A. <strong>of</strong> New college, Oxford, in<br />

1766.<br />

FOLIO 60 (1763-65)<br />

Mr Majendie: John James Majendie (1709-1783), who was the oldest<br />

son <strong>of</strong> a naturalized French protestant. After taking orders in the<br />

Church <strong>of</strong> England, he was given several important preferments<br />

including a prebend at Windsor in 1774. He instructed Queen Charlotte<br />

in English and was tutor to her two oldest sons [Lewis A. Majendie,<br />

Account <strong>of</strong> the de Majendie Family both French and English . . . (1878), not<br />

paginated].<br />

Mr Gibert: Jean Louis Gibert (d. 1773), a Huguenot clergyman who<br />

negotiated the contract for emigration with the English authorities. <strong>The</strong><br />

first group <strong>of</strong> French protestants arrived at Charleston, South Carolina,<br />

in April 1764 and founded a settlement named New Bordeaux in<br />

Hillsboro township. Jean Louis acted as pastor for the French protestant<br />

church there. Seeker appears to be mistaken about his return to<br />

England. Gibert provided vigorous leadership for the colonists and died<br />

in South Carolina where he was buried at Abbeville cemetery [A.L.<br />

Hirsch, <strong>The</strong> Huguenots <strong>of</strong> Colonial South Carolina (Hamden, Conn., 1962<br />

reprint), pp. 38-40, 84-85 and E.G.C. Terry, "<strong>The</strong> Huguenots <strong>of</strong><br />

Upper South Carolina," Transactions <strong>of</strong> the Huguenot Society <strong>of</strong> South<br />

Carolina, XXXII (1927), pp. 20-22, 26]. His younger brother Etienne<br />

(d. 1817), who received Anglican orders, became one <strong>of</strong> the French<br />

preachers at the chapel royal and was appointed rector <strong>of</strong> St. Andre, isle<br />

<strong>of</strong> Guernsey, in 1794.

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