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An Unpublished Diary of Archbishop William Wake

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 March 2016

G. V. Bennett
G. V. Bennett*
Affiliation:
New College, Oxford
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It was naturally a matter of some concern to the pupils and friends of the late Dr Norman Sykes when it became known recently that the Lambeth Library had acquired a manuscript diary of William Wake for the years of his episcopate as bishop of Lincoln and for the first ten years of his tenure as archbishop of Canterbury. The diary was, of course, quite unknown to Dr Sykes, and it seems right that there should be some critical examination of it in relation to the magisterial two-volume biography of Wake, which was published in 1957.

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Research Article
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Studies in Church History , Volume 3: Papers read at the third winter and summer meetings of the Ecclesiastical History Society , 1966 , pp. 258 - 266
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Copyright © Ecclesiastical History Society 1966

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Page 258 of note 1 The diary is now Lambeth Library MS 1770. It was presented to the Library by the Hon. George Dawnay. I am grateful to the Committee for allowing me to consult this work, and for depositing it for me in the library of Christ Church, Oxford, with the Wake MSS.

Page 259 of note 1 Wake’s Autobiography to 1705, now deposited in the library of Christ Church, Oxford. See Sykes, N., William Wake, II, 274 Google Scholar

Page 259 of note 2 Fol. 6.

Page 260 of note 1 Fol. 8.

Page 260 of note 2 Fol. 12. The date was 2 March 1706: ‘I went, and found the Lords warm in their Debates about the Carolina businesse.’

Page 261 of note 1 Fol. 93.

Page 261 of note 2 Fol. 68. For other conferences before the opening of a new convocation and plans to ‘set up a Prolocutor’: Fols. 8, 11, 100.

Page 262 of note 1 Fol. 153.

Page 262 of note 2 Fol. 165. 14 November 1715.

Page 262 of note 3 Fol. 166. 16 December 1715.

Page 262 of note 4 Wake to Smalridge, 24 December 1715. Quoted Sykes, Wake, II, 107.

Page 262 of note 5 Fol. 166. 17 December 1715.

Page 263 of note 1 Fol. 182. 11 November 1716.

Page 263 of note 2 Fol. 185. 23 January 1717.

Page 263 of note 3 Fol. 190.

Page 263 of note 4 Fol. 198.

Page 263 of note 5 Fol. 194.

Page 264 of note 1 Fol. 199. The text of the letter is in Sykes, Wake, II, 114, but Sykes does not indicate the critical importance of this clash.

Page 264 of note 2 Fol. 204.

Page 264 of note 3 Sykes, , Wake, II, 121 Google Scholar.

Page 265 of note 1 Fol. 211.

Page 265 of note 2 Fol. 212.

Page 265 of note 3 Fol. 214. 7 March 1719.

Page 265 of note 4 Newcastle to Walpole, 25 August 1723, B. M. Add. MSS 32686, fol. 316; Walpole to Newcastle, 6 September 1723, Ibid., fol. 326. Quoted Sykes, , Wake, II, 144-5Google Scholar.