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No. CLXX.] FEBRUARY, 1620, [VoL XV,
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Notices of the Early Life of Archbishop Seeker .
[ From " Hallamshire . The History and Topography of the Parish of Sheffield , in the County of York : with Historical and Descriptive Notices of the Parishes of Bcclesfield , Hansworth , Treeton ,
and Whiston , and of the Chapelry of Bradfield . By Joseph Hunter . Folio . 1819 . —Pp . 166—168 . Note 4 . ] THIS prelate , like many other persons who have attained stations of eminence to which at the outset of life they seemed to have no
pretensions , had his enemies . One means which they adopted to shew their dislike was to recall to the public observation the circumstances of his birth , baptism , education , and early connexions in the Dissenting body . But it is remarkable that after all , little
seems to have been discovered - for \\ is certain that little that is clear and satisfactory has ever been laid before the public respecting that period of his life which passed before he went over to Paris to pursue his naedical studies His chaplain , who published a review of his life soon after his decease , has
riven us very scanfcy notices of the first rour-and-twenty years , and has passed over unnoticed the friends of that period , who had ckwibtless no inconsiderable iaJfaienee in forming the prelate ' s mind to that excellence which he
has so well described , and for whom it is known that the prelate himself continued to cherish no « eomH&on regard . The subject may now be considered without heat , partiality or prejudice . I shall therefore tkrow together a few notices © f his earl y life , principally collected frcmi oiiguial but authentic
sources . * Thomas S « ckjek was o&e of a large family in respectable but not affluent ckcumstettees , Tfcley wene $ family of © Centers ,, aad « bm brother , Mr . George Seeker , continued a Dissenter tor the laa ^ a « d was a member of Mr . Fletcher ' s congregation at Coventry . Tpr what , society the parp $ rt 8 of Seeker beiwged is not quite evident , «» it im believed that tlWre w $ a » P
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congregation of Dissenters very near to Sibthorp , in Nottinghamshire , the place of their abode . Thomas Seeker was born in 1693 , and was one of the youngest children , if not the last born . While he was still in his infancy , an elder sister became the wife of Mr .
Richard Milnes , a respectable trades * man at Chesterfield , father , by a second marriage , of Dr . Richard Milnes , a highly respected physician of that town * not long since deceased . To this sister devolved much of the care
of Seeker ' s earliest years , and hence it is that we find him a pupil in the grammar-school of Chesterfield . Mr . and Mrs . Milnes were both Dissenters : and when it was the ii ^ fcntion of his friends to devote young Seeker to the
jninistry , it was natural that they should think of sending him to Attercliffe , where Mr . Joilie ' s academy was then in the height of its reputation and only fourteen miles distant from Chesterfield . This was in 1708 or
1709 . At this early period of his life there was much of the gaiete du coeur about him , and perhaps more of sprighfcliness and levity than was common among the Dissenting youth of those times .
Stories have floated down of foolish pranks played by the students of Mr , Jollie ' s academy in the time of Seeker , which seem to receive , some countenance from the following passage of a
letter from the Rev . Thomas Cooper , a Dissenting lpinister at Houghton Tower in Lancashire ,, where he ^ settled soon after he had left the Attercfiffe Academy : " 1 tear T . JolBe and Bowes are gone to London * and that the mad work at Morton ' s feus caused
the tutor ta have a stricter eye over hfe pupils . I caiuxot but imagine thftt the new set will far ourstrip the okl one 3 ia all sorts of leamiag , and tEat jsuch famous discoveries as Mj ? ^ Taylor ' s are * every day made ^ in oixfer to edify the younff generation , l long to hear some private newp jwou Ewe stirring amongst ' you , Kray , Sir ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1820, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2485/page/1/
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