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Mr Grenville: George Grenville (1712-1770), first lord of the treasury
and chancellor of the exchequer from 15 April, 1763 to 10 July, 1765.
He was, according to Bute's description, "a very worthy and able man
. . . whose turn lay towards the revenue, and to that public economy,
which was so much wanted" (Namier and Brooke, H. C, II, p. 542).
His care for financial economy also led to his greatest blunder, the
Stamp Act (1765), whose aim was to relieve the uneven burden of the
British taxpayer.
Mr Keet: Seeker means Mrs. Keet, the widow of John Keet, rector of
Bishop's Hatfield (1752-63), of which the earl of Salisbury was patron.
Before that Keet had been rector of Shelton, Nottinghamshire (in the
same patronage) where the archbishop's father and mother were buried.
Elizabeth, who became Mrs. Keet and was the daughter of George and
Elizabeth Maltby, was born there in 1721. Keet's sister, another
Elizabeth, was married in 1745 to the sixth earl of Salisbury [T.M.
Blagg, The Parish Registers of Shelton (Worksop, 1930), p. 30].
Mr Merrick: James Merrick (1720-1769), whose The Psalms translated or
paraphrased in English Verse was published at Reading in 1765. Merrick in
his preface (p. vi) spoke eloquently of Seeker's help and "voluntary
offer" of several versions of the psalms for this translation.
Ld Hardwickes Illness: the first earl of Hardwicke died at his house in
Grosvenor Square on 6 March, 1764. His son Philip, the second earl,
succeeded him as high steward of the university of Cambridge 1764-90.
Ld Sandwich: John Montagu (1718-1792), the fourth earl and secretary
of state, northern department, from 9 September, 1763 to 10 July, 1765.
For the part he played in the attack on John Wilkes, a former crony,
Sandwich was nicknamed "Jemmy Twicher" after the character who
peached in Gay's Beggar's Opera. When he was a candidate for the
stewardship at Cambridge, Gray wrote the lines, beginning:
When sly Jemmy Twicher had smugg'd up his face,
With a lick of court white-wash, and pious grimace. . . .
(G. E. C., Complete Peerage)
Dr Mayhew: Jonathan Mayhew (1720-1766), a Congregational minister
in Massachusetts, who was strongly opposed to the idea of an
American episcopate and warmly encouraged in this opposition by
Thomas Hollis. Like Hollis he was somewhat Hoadleian in his views of
authority in religion. "The extent of Jonathan Mayhew's contribution
to the defeat of episcopacy in America was large" [Carl Bridenbaugh,
Mitre and Sceptre (Oxford, 1962), p. 202]. Seeker's answer to Mayhew is