duabus relictis filiis, quæ pietatis ergò monumentum Abp. Hutton, at the time of his death, was President of the Corporation of the Sons of the Clergy, and of the Society for propagating of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, Governor of the Charter-house, and one of the Lords of his Majesty's most honourable Privy Council. Dr. Ducarel's Memoirs are thus concluded: "The engraved Portrait of him may give posterity some idea of his person, but will never be able to convey with it either the sweetness of his countenance, or his many excellent qualities. His Lordship's abilities were very great, and known to be so; and I believe few of his Predecessors were better qualified than himself for the high and important stations to which it pleased Providence to advance him. I shall not presume, nor would it become me, to draw up any character of his Lordship; but what was said of him in the Gazetteer of March 21, 1758, I shall here subjoin, as being strictly true in all respects: He was a gentleman of sound learning, clear understanding, of great humanity and politeness, and easy access to all who had any occasion to apply to his Grace, either in business or advice; and his loss is most regretted by those who knew him best.' "The family of Hutton of Marske is the only one in this kingdom who can be said to have at any time yielded to the Church two English Archbishops, who both appear to have been great and good Prelates. ANDREW COLTEE DUCAREL." Rev. THOMAS WRAY* to Dr. DUCAREl. "DEAR SIR, Great Charte, Sept. 2, 1758. "I was obliged with yours of the 5th ult. and should have answered it sooner, if I had not been in daily expectation of a letter from Dr. Thomas, Master of Christ College, to whom I wrote by the return of the post that brought yours. As I have received no answer from him, I begin to think that your favour is granted, and the correspondence begun which you desired me to open for you; if it be otherwise, please to signify it. My letter may have miscarried, or have been mislaid and forgotten by Dr. Thomas, though I cannot easily be brought to suppose either of these two things. "I am glad to hear that my Lord Archbishop + has performed his Visitation without any loss of health, notwithstanding the bad weather he had to struggle with. I am pleased also to find that your regard for his Grace increases with your knowledge of him. I can assure you I entertain a very high opinion of him ;-his Grace neither wants the abilities nor the inclination to exert them that are required in a person who would fill the exalted and important station he is in, with credit and reputation. "I have learnt from Mr. Hall, as well as from your letter, that you have undertook a work at the instance of his Grace; I wish you all the success in it you can desire. And I hope-I do not doubt but he will do what the late Archbishop intended to do for you (if he lives), if not more. I made Mr. Hall a visit at Harbledown some time ago, and was obliged with his company here the last week. "I thank you for your kind enquiry after my situation and neighbourhood. We have better company, and fewer agues in this part of the world than you seem to imagine, or conclude from the accounts you have had of it. My compliments, if you please, to Dr. Hall, and Mr. Symondson. "I have this moment received a letter from Dr. Thomas, in which he apologizes for his dilatoriness in answering mine; and then tells me that he shall be glad to give you any assistance that lies in his power. He will be in waiting at Kensington till the 16th of this month, where you will be sure to find him any day at three o'clock at the Chaplain's room;-he will be glad of your company to dine with him. *This exemplary Divine, who was successively Chaplain to Archishops Hutton and Secker, was presented by the first of those Prelates to the Rectory of Great Charte in Kent in 1757. He was Rector also of Rucking by dispensation; which he resigned for that of Wittersham, which latter he also held with Charte by dispensation; but resigned these in 1762, on being presented to the Rectory of Rochdale in Lancashire. See a faithful character of him in the "Literary Anecdotes," vol. IX. p. 698. + Dr. Secker. See p. 477. "As 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 wgTo; 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, I 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. "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." "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 John 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." Marske, Nov. 11, 1758. "SIR, "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 Hutten, of Marske, esq.; which I promise to return on demand. ANDREW COLTEE DUCAREL." Το |