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The Autobiography of Archbishop Thomas Seeker
& both my Chapels; & left it to be printed; & went on the 14th to Oxford
to a County Meeting on the Occasion, & back to St James's the 17th; &
presented my Sermon to the King, who did not vouchsafe to speak to me
on my doing it. !)[I also procured an Address from my Clergy which I
drew up, and presented to the King: which he received, with the same
Silence.] In the End of the Month I {subscribed} 10 Guineas as
first Payment of my Subscription to the Association at St James's Vestry.
Nov. 26 I went down to Cuddesden, & returned alone Dec. 23 to St
James's. When my Family came to me, I find not.
{In} < About 21 > May 1746 I went to Cuddesden with my Family, &
3 )[in July, after more than a Years Interval, I had the Gout a 3d time in
my left Foot, which inflamed & swelled, & was not quite well in more
than 3 weeks. I] returned to St James's alone Oct 7, 8. I returned to
Cuddesden abt Nov. 25. & went back alone to St. James's Dec. 23.
In Jan. 1746..7 I paid 10 Guineas towards Prosecutions to discourage
clandestine marriages. The whole Sum, collected for that
Purpose, was thrown away to no Purpose by the Mismanagement of Dr
Trebeck, Rector of St Georges. In the End of that Month I went down to
Cuddesden, & brought up my Family towards the latter End of
February. To this time, if not later, I took Mrs Stephens's Medicines.
June 10,11.1747 we all went to Cuddesden. Oct.29,30 I returned to St
James's: came
FOLIO 38 back to my Family at Cuddesden, Dec. 1: returned alone to
1747-48 St James's Dec. 23,24: went again to Cuddesden, Feb.1,2
1747..8 and brought up my Family to St James's, Feb.
12,13. Soon after this my Wife had an Attack of the Gout in her Hand.
She had never had any thing of it before, unless it were a Pain &
Stiffness & Weakness in her Knees, at Bath, in the Winter 1727.. 8. It
now soon fell into her Stomach: & the warmest Cordials Medicines were
of no Service. She sunk under them, & died quite worn out, 13 March
1747. .8, not long after I returned into the House from preaching at my
Church, it being Sunday. Her Friends, Mrs & Miss Talbot, *)[to whom I
gave every thing, which had belonged to her,] were so good as to
continue with me. For some time after our Marriage, Mrs Talbot paid a
share, I believe two fifths, of our Family Expences, for her self &
Daughter & two Servants. But before it was long, we reduced it to 100 11 a
Year for every thing. And from the time of my becoming single, I
refused to take any thing. I had made some Provision for my Wife, by
paying four or five hundred pounds into the Mercers Company for her
Benefit, if it had pleased God not to take her from me, but me from her.
In 1748 a Bill came into the House of Lords, which is now the Act 21
Geo.2.c.34. In this, §.13 all Letters of Orders to Scotch Episcopal
Ministers, not granted by a Bishop of the Church of England & Ireland,