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Samuel Jones , Dr . Kippis appears , from a hint in his article Butler , to have designed " a short account under the article of Dr . Samuel Chandler . " This design was not executed ; probably for want of sufficient information . Ibid . Seeker was not only " intended for a Dissenting Minister , " but
he appears to have preached , once at least , among the Dissenters . Archdeacon Blackburn says , ( Hist . T ^ iew , ed . 2 , ( 1772 , ) pp . 242 , 243 , ) " When Dr . Seeker became Archbishop of Canterbury , his friends and dependents thought it necessary to represent that his connexions with the Dissenters had
been extremely loose and unconiined . —There were , however , some persons living not many years ago , who pretended to remember that one Mr . S r preached a probation sermon to a Dissenting congregation somewhere ( BolsoverJ in Derbyshire /* In connexion with this circumstance ,
Wakefield has the following paragraph : " The late Mr . Williams , of Nottingham , a Dissenting Minister , and my intimate acquaintance , was told by Mr . Statham , who was likewise a Dissenting Minister at Nottingham , that Seeker , in conversation with Mr . Robert Dawson ( from whom Mr .
Statham received this circumstance ) and some other Dissenting Ministers , ( about the time , I presume , of Seekers preaching among the sectaries at
Bolsover , in Derbyshire , ) had expressed himself in terms strongly declaratory of his ambitious turn of mind . * Aye / says Dawson , * nothing will do for you , Seeker , but conformity . ' * No / replied Seeker , like another Hazael
with indignant earnestness , * Conform I never can / " ( Memoirs , I . 171 , 172 . ) Ibid . Seeker < c did not like" the Dissenters' principles and practices
in a great many things . " Thus Bishop Porteus says , ( p . 7 , ) " that he was greatly dissatisfied with the divisions and disturbances which at that particular period prevailed amongst the Dissenters . "
Ibid . Seeker " was strong in Dr . Clarke ' s scheme about the Trinity /' and " under great difficulty about subscribing the Articles . " Bishop Porteus describes him ( p . 4 ) as " not being at that time able to decide on
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some abstruse speculative doctrines nor to determine absolutely what com * munion he should embrace . ** Archdeacon Blackburn says , ( Hist . View p . 243 , ) that " his Grace ' s preferring the medical profession to the evangel Heal , has more than once been ascribed
to scruples , wherein modes and forms were not the only things considered . " P . 194 , col . 1 . Seeker " turned his thoughts to physic . " Bishop Por-€ f
teus says , ( p . o , ) that about the end of the year 1716 , he applied himself to the study of physic ; and after gaining all the insight into it he could , by reading the usual preparatory books ^ and attending the best lectures during that and the following winter in London , in order to improve himself still more , in January 1718-19 , he went to Paris / ' He there became acquainted with Father Montfaucon , and fVinslow , the anatomist , c < whose lectures he attended , as he did those of the Materia Medica , Chyrnistrv and Botany , at the
King * s Gardens . The operations of surgery he saw at the Hotel Dieu . " Ibid . Seeker went " to Leyden , where he soon took his degree , and returned to Oxford / ' He appears not to have been at Oxford till his return from Leyden . During his residence at Paris , from Jan . 1719 to August 1720 , he constantly corresponded with Mr .,
afterwards Bishop , Butler , who was now preacher at the Rolls . Mr . Butler prevailed on Mr . Edward Talbot , son of Bishop Talbot , to * ' engage his father to provide" for Seeker " in case he chose to take orders in the Church of England . " Very opportunely , " his former difficulties , both with regard to conformity and some other doubtful points , had gradually lessened . " He therefore " quitted France" in ** August 1720 , " as before-mentioned . " It being judged necessary that he should have a degree at Oxford , " to " help him in obtaining" it , he was advised to 4
< take the degree of Doctor in Physic at Leyden , " though he had now entirely abandoned the medical profession . This degree " he took March 7 , 1721 , " giving " as part of his exercise a dissertation de Medicind StaticA , — thought by the gentlemen of that profession a sensible and learned performance . " He immediately returned to England , and cc entered himself a
Gentleman Commoner of Exeter College , in Oxford . About a twelvemonth
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272 Notes on the Memoirs of Mr . J . Fox .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1821, page 272, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2500/page/16/
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