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parish church, and to save it and the lower end of the town from being
washed away by high seas (H. CJ.} XXX, p. 544a: Act 6 Geo. Ill c. 63).
Since voluntary subscriptions would not raise sufficient capital, the act
empowered the earl to nominate a collector of a compulsory rate levied
on coal.
FOLIO 65 (1766)
Mr Raycroft: Richard Rycroft (d. 1786), whose original surname was
Nelson but had been changed by royal permission in 1758. He was
rector of Penshurst, Kent, and was created a baronet in January 1784
(Hasted, History and Topographical Survey of. . . Kent, I, pp. 407 & 420).
Burkitts Expences were for John Burkitt or Birkett (b. 1743), the son of
a clergyman of Stanhope, County Durham, who matriculated at Christ
Church, Oxford, in 1762 and took his B.A. in 1765 (Foster, Alumni
Oxon.).
Bp Warburton: William Warburton (1689-1779), a remarkably learned
though difficult man who had been dean of Bristol and was appointed
bishop of Gloucester in 1759 by the interest of Ralph Allen with the
elder Pitt. His most famous work was The Divine Legation of Moses
Demonstrated (1738-41) which plunged him into almost twenty years of
controversy. In disputation he was unduly aggressive and touchy. The
argument with Robert Lowth, bishop of St. David's, concerned the
antiquity of the book of Job which Lowth upheld. The acrimonious
debate between the two was described by Dr. Johnson: "Warburton has
most general, most scholastic learning; Lowth is the more correct
scholar. I do not know which of them calls names best" (Overton and
Relton, History of the English Church . . . 1714-1800, p. 164, n.).
Widow of Dr Brakenridge: her husband's Sermons on Several Subjects
were published in 1764, two years after his death.
Mr Apthorps Servants: East Apthorpe was vicar of Croydon.
Vice Chancellor of Oxford: David Durell (1728-1775), principal of
Hertford college (1757-75), whose ecclesiastical advancement was
pressed by Seeker on Newcastle and the king (B.L. Add. MS 32,970,
fol. 58: Seeker to Newcastle, 25 September, 1765; Add. MS 32,979, fol.
11: Newcastle to Seeker, 1 January, 1767). He was the first head of a
Whig college to become vice-chancellor in this century; there was not
another until John Wills of Wadham in 1792 (this information from the
late Dame Lucy Sutherland). See the following entry.