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Bp of London: Richard Terrick.
Philip Cocks (1736-1797) was a graduate of Brasenose college, Oxford
(B.A. 1756, M.A. 1758). He was well-connected, being the godson as
well as the nephew of the first Lord Hardwicke (B.L. Add. MS 35,353,
fol. 260: Lord Hardwicke to Charles Yorke, 11 June, 1760). He was a
prebendary of Lincoln and rector of Acton, Middlesex, described by
Catherine Talbot to the second Lord Hardwicke (B.L. Add. MS 35,608,
fol. 167: 7 May, 1768) as "small, occasional duties inconsiderable,
rectory let to wealthy tenant, gardens good."
Mr Talbot: William Talbot (1719-1774).
Mr Yorke: James Yorke (1730-1808), fifth son of the first Lord
Hardwicke. He held an impressive string of preferments: canon of
Windsor, prebendary of Rochester, and dean of Lincoln after 1762. He
held the bishoprics of St. David's (1774-79), Gloucester (1779-81) and
Ely (1781-1808).
one Steuart at Bremen: James Steuart or Stewart (1724?-1787), who
was supervising St. James's, Würzburg, a monastery. Stewart was not so
much a "bad man" as difficult: he had been accused by his abbot in
1760 of drunkeness and insubordination, and was prior of Würzburg
1763-66. At the time Seeker wrote he was technically "head" because
there was no abbot 1763-66. His quitting the monastery was temporary
since he was at Würzburg for the visitation of 1784 (the information here
comes from the Reverend Dom Mark Dilworth, O.S.B., of Fort
Augustus Abbey, Inverness-shire, who cited Mount Stuart Library Reid
MS, II, fols. 118v, 121rv, 122r).
one Pap cannot be exactly identified. There were a number of
continental scholars with this surname at Haarlem and Leyden at this
time. It was also a name well-known over several generations at the
university of Debreczen, in upper Hungary.
Mr Finnman: this was Seeker's last financial gift in his account book
(L.P.L. MS 1483). There is no further information given about
Finnman.
the Queen: Charlotte Sophia (1744-1818), daughter of the duke of
Mecklenburg-Strelitz, who was married to George III in London on 8
September, 1761 with Seeker presiding. Though not possessing the
"advantage of commanding beauty," she and her husband made a
happy and successful marriage, producing fifteen children. Charlotte