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reside in Canterbury for the education of his six children and to take a
curacy near it (L.P.L. MS VG 2/5, p. 239).
Sir George Oxendon (1694-1775), fifth baronet, was of an old Kentish
family. He sat as M.P. for Sandwich 1720-54, serving as a lord of the
Admiralty 1725-27 and of the Treasury 1727-37. After 1737 he was in
opposition. Sir George had an unsavory reputation: in Hervey's
description he was a "very vicious, ungrateful, good-for-nothing fellow"
who "passed his whole life in all manner of debauchery and with
low company" (Sedgwick, H.C, II, pp. 317-18).
Mr Lloyd: Pierson Lloyd (1704P-1781), a clergyman, who was usher
and from 1748 second master at Westminster: senex amabilis, he had
"many virtues but no commanding power" [John Sargeaunt, Annals of
Westminster School (London, 1898), pp. 174-75 and 189]. His Sermons on
Several Occasions was published at London in 1765.
Mr Andrews: John Andrews, LL.B., who was appointed vicar of
Marden, Kent, 23 December, 1766 (L.P.L. MS VG 2/5, p. 251).
William Warburton, bishop of Gloucester, strongly objected to Andrews'
ministrations at Stinchcombe in his diocese, "not being godly
overmuch, but for overacting his godlyness" (L.P.L. Seeker Papers 3, fols.
232-33).
Mr Dalton was assistant preacher under Seeker at St. James's, Westminster.
Nectarius maintained a correspondence with Seeker in Greek, 1763-66
(L.P.L. Seeker Papers 7). Catherine Talbot, writing to Seeker, reported
an account of Nectarius's strange adventures in Georgia and Syria and
of his intentions to go "to Surinam or Batavia to do anything he can for
subsistence. He was truly thankful for Your Grace's Bounty" (B.L.
Add. MS 39,311, fol. 178: 21 May, 1766).
Mrs Fielding & Mrs Collier were Sarah Fielding (1710-1768), sister of
novelist Henry Fielding, and Jane Collier who jointly produced in 1754
a three volume novel, The Cry, A New Dramatic Fable. The novel, a
somewhat abstract work "to entertain and to instruct" — "too remote,"
one critic commented, "from the common taste of romance readers" —
set out to demonstrate the inadequacies of Lord Shaftesbury's Characteristicks
of Men (1711) and to prove "that to moderate not to inflame the
passions is the only method of attaining happiness. ..." ("Introduction,"
pp. 4, 13-14). Miss Collier also published an Essay on the Art of
Ingeniously Tormenting (1753) which came out in several later editions.
Sarah Fielding was the better known for her novels and translations
(D.N.B, and Nichols, Literary Anecdotes, III, p. 385).