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<strong>The</strong> Autobiography <strong>of</strong> <strong>Archbishop</strong> Thomas Seeker<br />

200: but others intervening, it was reduced to this. I also solicited<br />

Subscriptions for his posthumous Sermons, & got a very great Number.]<br />

In May 1757 I put into Mr Paynes Hands 100* 1 for the Vicarage <strong>of</strong><br />

Welford. June 1,2 we went to Cuddesden: & returned Nov. 11,12 to St<br />

Pauls.<br />

3 )[In the End <strong>of</strong> this Year, or the beginning <strong>of</strong> the next, Mrs Carters<br />

Translation <strong>of</strong> Arrians Epictetus was published. I put her at first into a<br />

right manner <strong>of</strong> translating, which else would have been loose &<br />

spiritless. <strong>The</strong>n I corrected, with great Labour, every Page, as she wrote<br />

it, & transmitted it to me: I suggested many Notes, & wrote a<br />

considerable Part <strong>of</strong> the Preface, & supervised the whole. And lastly, I<br />

begged, without Shame, Subscriptions for her from every body every<br />

where. I procured her Assistance in some Parts from Dr Taylor <strong>of</strong> St<br />

Pauls: but it did not prove to be much.

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