"As you desire my sentiments of the late Archbishop*, and I cannot well defer any longer sending them, I shall give you them now, though I could have wished to have had a little more leisure for recollection. During the time I had the honour to be in his Grace's family, which was about a year and a half, the amiable qualities and accomplishments that rendered him the agreeable companion in so extraordinary a manner, and enabled him to appear with so much advantage abroad in all companies, shewed themselves also at home, where his behaviour was always polite and gentlemanlike. Though he was always very cheerful, chatty, and facetious, yet he had a particular regard for decorum; he never forgot the To we; he never let himself down below the dignity of the Archbishop. I need not tell you that he was very happy in being able to attract your love and esteem, while he was commanding reverence. He was happy also in enjoying a regular and constant flow of spirits, notwithstanding the infirmities of his constitution—so constant a one, that I have heard him say that he could not recollect the time when he wanted any. He was an affectionate husband, a very tender-hearted parent, and a kind master. How sincere he was in his professions of friendship, those that he admitted to any degree of intimacy with him will declare. It will be needless to mention that he wanted not abilities to make a considerable figure in the high station he filled, when his health would permit him to exert them; that he was very ready in the dispatch of business; that, as I fancy none of his Predecessors excelled him in a graceful and majestic mien, few had a clearer head, or could communicate their thoughts with more readiness or greater perspicuity. He had a very extensive knowledge of men and things; and his knowledge of books was very well digested. He was a person of very quick parts, and had a tenacious memory.

"His being a little ad rem attentior, 1 attribute entirely to his having a family, as I have not heard that he ever discovered such a turn in his younger days; and I believe he was above doing any thing little, mean, or dirty.

"I shall be glad if there be any thing in this imperfect sketch which you did not know before, or if what is here mentioned be agreeable to what you have observed yourself, or have heard; and desire you will believe me to be, with great sincerity,

"Your obedient humble servant,

* Dr. Hutton. See p. 470.

THOS WRAY."

Letters

Letters to and from Dr. DUCAREL, JOHN HUTTON, Esq. and GEORGE WANLEY BOWES, Esq.

"s 'SIR, Marske, near Richmond, May 26, 1758. "I have received a letter from Dr. Topham, wherein he acquaints me that you are pleased to go on with what you had begun in the late Archbishop's of Canterbury's time to publish, the old Letters that were wrote to our old ancestor Dr. Matthew Hutton, Archbishop of York in the time of Queen Elizabeth and King James; and to give some account of our Family; and to clear it from the aspersion Dr. Drake throws upon the Archbishop of York in his History of the Lives of the Archbishops of that See. If there be any thing you want to know that I can be any way assisting to you in, you will be pleased to let me know. I had sent up some letters into Duke-street, which would not be received before the death of my dear Brother; I suppose they would be delivered to you. I have met with some more since, concerning Sir Robert Carr, Lord of Lesford, about Scotch Hostages, which I will inclose in two parcels, and send along with this. I know the good opinion the late Archbishop entertained of you, and I am glad you meet with the same encouragement with the present. "I am, Sir, your most faithful humble servant, JOHN HUTTON." 66 SIR, Doctors Commons, June 3, 1758. "I have before me the honour of your most obliging letter of the 26th of May; and am greatly concerned that our correspondence should be occasioned by so unhappy an event as the death of that great and good Prelate, the late Archbishop of Canterbury, your most worthy Brother, and my ever honoured Patron. I beg leave, Sir, to assure you that I very greatly lament his loss, and that I have the sincerest regard for every branch of his Family, to whom I shall always be ready to do any service in my power. I have, Sir, herein inclosed two papers; one is a receipt for the Family Letters*, &c. now in my hands,-the other is a plan of my intended account of your Family. In the late Archbishop's time I had only settled the Pedigrees, and received the instructions towards completing the particular one of the Huttons of Marske, from his Grace's own mouth†, but about ten days before

*"1758, March 17. Received two parcels of Letters, Monumental Inscriptions, &c. from the late Dr. Hutton, Abp. of Canterbury, in number 82. -March 20. Four other Letters from Jobn Hutton, esq. to the late Abp. of Canterbury.-May 29. Seven other Letters, in two franks, from John Hutton, esq. directed to me at Lambeth.-In all 93.-All which Letters and Papers I promise to return on demand. AND. COLTEe Ducarel."

"From Abp. Hutton's own mouth, March 5, 1758: Dr. Tunstall to be put lower; his lady's name Elizabeth; her sister Henrietta. — John Hutton, esq. to add two daughters: Anne, married to Wanley Bowes, esq. Elizabeth, unmarried.-John Hutton, the Archbishop's father, married Dorothy, daughter of William Dyke, esq.-Henrietta Dodsworth is the younger sister.-John Hutton, who married Stepleton, had one son Matthew, ob. s. p. and five daughters; three died unmarried; the other, viz. Frances,

his decease. I have ever since been waiting for a letter from you on this subject; and shall now be ready to go on with this work in case you approve of the inclosed plan. I must beg leave, Sir, to inform you, that when Dr. Topham spoke to me upon the subject he proposed that you should give me thirty guineas towards defraying the expences which will necessarily attend this work, to be paid upon the delivery of it. If you approve of these conditions I am ready to undertake it,—but I desire it to be understood that I do not mean to publish (i. e. to print) all or any part of it; but only to deliver to you a manuscript account of your Family, fairly wrote and bound, being the same as that intended to have been executed in his Grace's life-time, mentioned in the inclosed plan. In hopes of hearing from you soon, I have the honour to subscribe myself, A. C. DUCAREL.

"P.S. If you have any other original Letters, or papers, be pleased to send them to me as soon as possible; as also the will of your ancestor Matthew Hutton, Abp. of York in Queen Elizabeth's reign, without which I cannot settle the early part of the Pedigree; if you have it not, you will find it proved in the Prerogative Court at York."

"SIR,

Marske, June 9, 1758.

"I have received your favour of the 3rd; and approve of the plan you sent for drawing out the Pedigree of the Hutton Family in the manner you propose, and what was before agreed upon. I happened to have a copy of our Ancestor's Will, which I have wrote over, and will send you along with this,-which, you will see, is wrote and spelled in the old way, with y's instead of i's, and double tt's at the end of every word; the witnesses to the will are not subscribed in this copy. I have not met with any more letters, or papers *, to send.-I am, Sir, your most faithful humble servant, JOHN HUTTON."

"SIR,

Marske, Nov. 11, 1758.

"I am favoured with your letter, wherein you acquaint me that the Memoirs of our Family are now finished; and I am obliged to you for the trouble you have taken in collecting and putting them together. When you get them from the bookbinder, if you will be so good to deliver them to Mr. Wanley Bowes, in Red-Lion-street, I will write and give him notice to receive them. I am, Sir, your most faithful humble servant, JOHN HUTTON."

Frances, married to Andrew Wanley, of Iford, Gloucestershire, esq.; Olivia, married to Thomas Alcock, of Chatham, esq.-1. Dorothy, married to Sir Philip Warwick; 2. Barbara, married to Thomas Lyster, of Brawtree, esq.; 3. Mary, married to Richard Piers, esq. of Hutton Bonvile. These were aunts to John Hutton, father to the Archbishop A. C. D. * "Received of George Wanley Bowes, esq. nineteen original Letters, Papers, Epitaphs, &c. belonging to John Hutton, of Marske, esq.; which I promise to return on demand. ANDREW COLTEE DUCAREL."

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TO GEORGE WANLEY BOWES, Esq.

"SIR, Dec. 5, 1758. "I take the liberty of troubling you with this, to desire you would be pleased to inform me by a line, whether you have received any letter from Mr. Hutton of Marske in relation to my MS Memoirs of the Hutton Family. I beg the favour of you to send me an answer by my clerk the bearer hereof, who remain, Sir, your humble servant, A. C. DUCAREL." Red-Lion-street, Dec. 5, 1758.

66 SIR, "Mr. Hutton intimated that he had received a Letter from you relating to the MS Memoirs of the Hutton Family, which he desired I might peruse; which, if it be agreeable to you, I fancy will be very satisfactory to Mr. Hutton; I shall go out of town to-morrow, and return again next Monday, when I could bring them back to you if you think proper. I am, Sir,

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"Your humble servant,

TO JOHN HUTTON, Esq.

GEO. W. BOWES."

Dec. 5, 1758.

My MS Memoirs of your Family were returned me by the Binder on the 15th of November last, on which day I was favoured with your Letter of November 11, wherein you desired me to deliver them to Mr. Bowes, and said you would give him notice to receive them. Not hearing from him, I sent this morning to his house to know whether he had heard from you in relation to the said Memoirs. His answer was, that you had intimated to him that the Memoirs were ready, and desired he might peruse them. I therefore trouble you with this, to inform you that I am ready to deliver them to Mr. Bowes (as also the original letters, epitaphs, &c.) or to any other person you shall appoint, upon the payment of the thirty guineas, agreeable to the proposal I sent you before I undertook that great work, the payment of which ought not to have been delayed so long, as it is mostly money out of my pocket. Be pleased likewise to send my receipt for the original letters and other papers, who am, Sir, "Your humble servant, A. C. DUCAREL." Marske, Dec. 9, 1758.

"SIR, "I have received your favour of the 5th; and will herewith inclose you your receipts for the manuscripts, letters, and papers, which you will be pleased to deliver to Mr. Wanley Bowes, with the book of the Pedigree of the Hutton Family, and I have ordered him to pay you thirty guineas. Had you mentioned before that you would have had the money sooner, I should have ordered it. Mr. Bowes tells me he is much in the country, but comes to town once a week. I have desired him to let you know when he is in town, that you may meet with him. I am, Sir,

"Your most humble servant,

JOHN HUTTON."

Dr.

Dr. THOMAS SECKER, Abp. of CANTERBURY.

After the very satisfactory Memoirs of this venerable Primate by his two learned Friends and Chaplains Dr. Porteus and Dr. Stinton, and an excellent epitome in the late Edition of the "Biographical Dictionary;" it would be superfluous to enter into any detail of his Grace's life. But the few anecdotes which follow, though minute, may not be unacceptable. They were many years ago communicated by the Friend from whose MS. they are here transcribed.

Lord Talbot brought him from the Attercliffe Academy; and he studied Physic, which he regretted having left, at Leyden and Paris §.

* In which his Literary Character is vindicated from the observations of Bishop Hurd in his Life of Bp. Warburton. † Of whom see some brief Memoirs in p. 498.

For the title of his Thesis, see hereafter, p. 498.

§ The late Rev. Thomas Wintle (of whom some account will be given hereafter, in p. 498), in a Letter to Mr. Urban, June 26, 1798, says, "In justice to a great and venerable Character, most unjustly traduced, you will, I doubt not, give a place to the following vindication of it:

"Lord Orford, in his Posthumous Works,' having thought fit to assert, that Archbishop Secker was, in one part of his life, in the Midwifery line; and that he was also President of an Atheistical Club;" it was very properly observed, "that the design of these assertions can scarcely be mistaken. The former," he says, "must be meant to throw some sort of contempt upon his character; the latter to render it detestable.

"Before his Lordship had ventured these reflections on so excellent a Prelate, he ought to have been well assured that they had some little truth in them. But this he could not be; for, the fact is, and I assert it with confidence, that they are entirely groundless. I am well aware that it will be deemed hazardous to assert a negative; but, having myself been acquainted with the Archbishop for several years, having lived some time in his family, and had occasion to enquire with much care into the history of his life, I conceive myself entitled to no small degree of credit in the present case; and, from the best opportunities which I have had of knowing, I do aver, that he never was in the midwifery line, nor ever practised that or any other branch

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