Dr. MATTHEW HUTTON, Abp. of CANTERBURY. Of this respectable Primate and his Family some Memoirs were compiled by Dr. Ducarel, at the request of the Archbishop's Brother, John Hutton, esq. of Marske, near Richmond, in Yorkshire. A fair copy of those Memoirs, which had been preserved by the Compiler, was purchased at his sale by Dr. Lort; and, in the absence of the finished Work, I shall attempt to give some account of the good Archbishop from such fragments of Dr. Ducarel's MSS. as I possess. Dr. Matthew Hutton was born at Marske, Jan. 5, 1692-3.. He went to school at Kirby-hill, near Richmond, in 1702, under the care of the Rev. Mr. Lloyd (of Jesus College, Cambridge). At Whitsuntide 1704, Mr. Lloyd having been appointed Master of the Free-school at Ripon, young Hutton accompanied him, and remained under his tuition there six years. He was admitted at Jesus College, Cambridge, June 22, 1710; took his Bachelor of Arts degree at that College in 1713; and in the same year, when Dr. Grigg was made Master of Clare Hall, he succeeded the Doctor in the Chaplainship to the Duke of Somerset. When he had arrived at a proper age, he was ordained Deacon by Bp. Fleetwood; was elected Fellow of Christ College July 8, 1717; and in that year proceeded M. A. In 1726, on the death of Dr. Grigg, Mr. Hutton succeeded him in the Rectory of Trowbridge in Wiltshire. He proceeded D. D. at the Royal Commencement in 1728; and in 1729, on the death of Dr. Dannye, became Rector of Spofforth near Wetherby, in Yorkshire. He married Mrs. Mary Lutman, of Petworth, Sussex, in March 1731-2. He He was made Prebendary of York, by Abp. Blackburn, in 173..; was appointed one of the Chaplains to King George II; and went with his Majesty to Hanover in 1736. He obtained a Canonry of Windsor in 1737; exchanged, May 18, 1739, for a Prebend of Westminster; which he resigned in 1745, when he became Bishop of Bangor*. In December 1747 he was translated to the Archbishoprick of York; and in April 1757 to that of Canterbury. This great Prelate had a very extensive knowledge of men and things, was endowed with very quick parts, and blessed with a tenacious memory. He was an excellent scholar, whose learning was well digested, and a polite and elegant Writer, as appears by the following publications: 1. "A Sermon, preached before the House of Commons, at St. Margaret's, Westminster, Jan. 30, 1740-1. By Matthew Hutton, D. D. Chaplain in Ordinary to his Majesty." 2. "A Sermon, preached before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen, the Sheriffs, and the Governors of the several Hospitals * Matthew Hutton, D. D. Bp. of Bangor, by commission of Abp. Potter (by reason of ill state of health), directed to Joseph Rochester, Nicholas Exeter, Isaac Worcester, and Joseph Bristol, was by them consecrated in Lambeth Chapel Nov. 13, 1743. (From Abp. Potter's Register.) ↑ Dr. Matthew Hutton, Bp. of Bangor, confirmed Abp. of York, on Thursday Dec. 10, 1747, in the Parish Church of St. Martin in the Fields, by Thomas Lord Abp. of Canterbury, Joseph Lord Bp. of Rochester, Richard Lord Bp. of Litchfield and Coventry, Joseph Lord Bp. of Bristol, and Matthias Lord Bp. of Chichester, present and assisting. (Reg. Herring.) Dr. Matthew Hutton, Abp. of York, confirmed Abp. of Canterbury on Friday April 29, 1757, in the parish of St. Mary-leBow, London, by Richard Lord Bp. of Durham, his colleagues Thomas Lord Bp. of Oxford, Isaac Lord Bp. of Worcester, Matthias Lord Bp. of Ely, Edward Lord Bp. of Bath and Wells, John Lord Bp. of Lincoln, James Lord Bp. of Hereford, being then present and consenting. (Reg. Hutton.) 2H 2 of of the City of London, at the Parish Church of St. Bridget, on Monday in Easter Week 1744. By Matthew Lord Bishop of Bangor." 3. "A Sermon, preached before the Society corresponding with the incorporated Society in Dublin, for promoting English Protestant Working Schools in Ireland, at their Anniversary Meeting in the Parish Church of St. Mary-le-Bow, on Thursday March 28, 1745. By the Right Reverend Matthew Lord Bishop of Bangor." 4. "A Sermon, preached before the House of Lords, in the Abbey Church of Westminster, on Wednesday June 11, 1746, being the Day of His Majesty's happy Accession to the Throne. By Matthew Lord Bishop of Bangor." A specimen of the Archbishop's Epistolary Correspondence shall here be given : To Dr. ANDREW COLTEE DUCAREL. "SIR, Croydon House, Aug. 28, 1757. “I am glad to hear that the Register Books of this See are removed, and placed to your mind in the Library. It will be an additional pleasure to hear you have succeeded in your application to St. John's College for Laud's Diary. If the President perseveres in his silence, the best advice I can think of will be, to get some friend to wait on him, to know whether your letter was received; whether he acknowledges the possession of the Diary; and, if so, to signify to the President and College, that the Archbishop would take it for a singular favour if they would allow it to be re-placed in the Library at Lambeth, to which it appears formerly to have belonged. We shall know by the answers what farther step it may be prudent to take in order to recover the MSS. "I am your affectionate friend and servant, MATT. CANTUAR.” "SIR, Croydon, Sept. 30, 1757. "My thanks are due to you for two Letters, and for the two volumes of the Indices to Abp. Islip's Registers, &c. which came safe to me yesterday. "I very seldom dine from home on a Sunday; and if on Sunday next about two o'clock you will give me your company, it will be very acceptable to "Your affectionate friend and servant, "MATT. CANTUAR." "Duke-street, Jan. 11, 1758. "The Archbishop received the inclosed from Mr. Walpole this day; and has given leave for him to make use of the MSS. as he proposes, either at Dr. Ducarel's lodgings, or, if he chuses, at his own house, under a promissory note to return it as soon as he has done with it, and not let it go into other hands. M. CANTUAR." A dispute having arisen between his Grace and his Predecessor's Executors about the dilapidations at Lambeth Palace, he never had an opportunity of going to live there, which he could not well do till they were settled. But he resided two or three months in the summer at Croydon Palace; and when in town he lived at his own house in Dukestreet, Westminster. His short, too short indeed, enjoyment of his high Dignity did not permit him to settle properly in either of his Archiepiscopal Palaces; for within less than a year after his translation * "Mr. Walpole's request was, for permission to copy, from a curious MS. in the Lambeth Library, No. 265, a very fine Illumination of Earl Rivers presenting Caxton to King Edward IV. in presence of his Queen, the Duke of York, and many others of the Nobility, and likewise of his Infant Son, afterwards Edward V. A Print from it is engraved in the First Volume of Mr. Walpole's "Royal and Noble Authors." -The title of the MS. is, "The notable Wise Sayings of Philosophers, translated out of French into English, by Anthony Woodville, Earl Rivers; finished Dec. 24, anno 16 Edward IV."—It was printed by Caxton in 1477." A. C. DUCAREL.-See Mr. Walpole's Letter in the "Literary Anecdotes," vol. IV. p. 470.- In the Index to that Work, vol. VII. p. 373, the circumstance is by mistake attributed to Abp. Secker. to to Canterbury he was unhappily snatched away from his friends, and from the Church of England, to which he might have been much longer (considering his years) a great advantage, protection, and ornament. On Thursday, March 16, 1758, the Archbishop, who for some time before had been remarkably well, heard a Sermon preached before the Governors of the London Hospital; and went from thence to the House of Lords, where he stayed till near nine o'clock at night. He supped heartily, rested well, and went on Friday to the House of Lords, where he stayed till past eight o'clock, and complained of fatigue when he went to bed. On Saturday morning he was taken extremely ill, of a violent inflammation of the bowels, occasioned, it is supposed, by a rupture. All possible methods were used to save his life; but he grew worse in the evening, and continued so all the next day till towards ten o'clock at night, when he died, at his house in Duke-street, aged 65. The Archbishop always desired to be buried, as privately as possible, in the church either of Lambeth or Croydon. His lady and daughters, whom he had appointed his executrixes, caused him to be brought from Duke-street to Lambeth Palace, to be buried in a vault near the communion-table, on Easter Monday, March 27, in the evening; and a handsome monument, with a large urn at the top, is thus inscribed: "Infra conduntur reliquiæ Matthæi Hutton, S. T. P. Et Mariæ uxoris ejus, quæ obiit 13 Maii, A. D. 1779, duabus |