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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.