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174 The Autobiography of Archbishop Thomas Seeker
Mr Nelson: George Nelson, a corn merchant and Lord Mayor of
London, who in 1757 had been accused of forestalling grain, that is
buying up corn privately before it reached the public markets, with a
view to enhancing the value. He was a prominent city politician of the
opposition or "Patriot" interest who was also labelled a Jacobite. (This
information from Mr. Nicholas Rogers.)
Mr Mylne: Robert Mylne (1734-1811), son of a burgess of Edinburgh,
who had distinguished himself in architectural studies in Italy 1754-58.
As an architect and engineer he advised on canal navigation, fen
drainage and the water supply of London. He became a fellow of the
Royal Society in 1767 (D.N.B.).
Dean Freind: William Freind (1715-1766), son of the headmaster of
Winchester school and a graduate of Christ Church, Oxford (M.A.,
1738, D.D. 1748). In addition to being rector of Witney and Islip in
Oxfordshire, he was canon of Westminster (1744-56) and of Christ
Church (1756). Seeker, in recommending him to Newcastle for the
deanery of Canterbury, called him a "serious and prudent, as well as
vigorous and wellbred man ..." of whom he had never heard "the
least Objection agst his political Principles; for which I think his late
Sermon before the House of Commons a sufficient Voucher" (B.L.
Add. MS 32,858, fol. 108: August 11, 1755).
Ld Lichfield: George Henry Lee (1718-1772), third earl of Lichfield
who was styled viscount Quarendon until 1743 when he inherited the
earldom. An active Tory, he served in the House of Commons as M.P.
for Oxfordshire 1740-43, but he gradually faded out of political life in
the Lords. A lord of the bedchamber (1760-62) and privy councillor
(1762), he was chancellor of Oxford from 1762 until his death. Seeker
approved of this selection on the grounds that it was useful for the
university to have someone with interest at court, although he admitted
"undoubtedly fitter Persons might have been proposed . . ." (B.L.
Add. MS 39,311: Seeker to George Berkeley, 23 September, 1762).
Dr Durell: David Durell (1728-1775). He was vice-chancellor of Oxford
1765-66 and 1766-67, and pronounced sentence against the six evangelical
students of St. Edmund Hall in 1768. The only ecclesiastical
livings he held were the vicarage of Ticehurst in Sussex and a prebend of
Canterbury (D.N.B.).
FOLIO 70 (1767)
Daucus-Tea and lime-water: probably a tea made from the wild carrot
or Queen Anne's lace (Daucus carota). Daucus carota "is used against