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The Autobiography of Archbishop Thomas Seeker
volume of Sermons was Fourteen Sermons preached on several occasions which
was reprinted in 1771. Seeker had also published a volume of his
sermons in 1758.
Mr Rivington: John Rivington (1720-1792), who succeeded his father
Charles (d. 1742) as head of the publishing firm which specialized in
theological works. He was also publisher to the S.P.C.K.
Dr Uri: Johannes Uri (1726-1796), a specialist in Oriental languages
who came to Oxford in 1766 to prepare a catalogue of Oriental
manuscripts in the University for the Clarendon Press, having been
commissioned to do this largely as a result of strong commendations
from Sir Joseph Yorke and Seeker. The work, completed in 1786, proved
to be not too thoroughly done (Clarendon Press, Orders of Delegates
1758-95, pp. 50: 12 December, 1765; 247: 30 June and 26 October,
1786; 248: 5 December, 1786).
Sittingbourn Church, with the exception of the walls, had been
destroyed by fire in 1762.
Fire at Montreal: according to an account of "remarkable events" in
the Gentleman's Magazine for July, 1765 (XXXV, p. 343), a fire at
Montreal "which lately happened" consumed 108 houses, most of
which were inhabited by British merchants. The damage was estimated
at £180,000.
Mrs Thornhill, formerly Reyner should probably read "Mrs. Reyner
formerly Thornhill." Seeker's old academy acquaintance, Kirby Reyner,
a nonconformist minister at Bristol (d. June 1744), had married a
daughter of a Mr. Thornhill of Bristol [Joseph Hunter, Familiae Minorum
Gentium, ed. John Clay (London, 1894), I, p. 7].
Mrs Judith Boddington: the reference is uncertain. Two brothers,
Benjamin and Thomas Boddington, had been elected in 1736 to the
dissenters' repeal committee [R.B. Barlow, Citizenship and Conscience
(Philadelphia, 1962), p. 233, n. 9]. Benjamin and his wife lived till 1779
and were affluent [GM., XLIX (1779), pp. 470-71].
Ld Radnor: William Bouverie (1725-1776), created fifth earl of Radnor
in October 1765. He had served as M.P for Salisbury 1747-61 as his
father had before him, and had inherited estates in Kent (Sedgwick,
H.C, I, p. 479; Namier and Brooke, H.C, II, p. 106). The letters
relative to the Folkestone bill have not been found. The object was to
provide jetties at the foot of the cliff near the edge of which stood the