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Minor Notes.

_Baptism, Marriage, and Crowning of Geo. III._--

"Died at his palace at Lambeth, aged seventy-five, the Most Reverend
Thomas Secker, LL.D., Lord Archbishop of Canterbury. His Grace was many
years Prebendary of Durham, seventeen years Rector of St. James',
Westminster, consecrated Bishop of Bristol in 1734, and in 1737 was
translated to the See of Oxford. In 1750 he resigned the Rectory of St.
James, on his succeeding Bishop Butler in the Deanery of St. Paul's;
and on the death of Archbishop Hutton in 1758, was immediately
nominated to the metropolitan see, and confirmed at Bow Church, on the
20th of April in that year, Archbishop of Canterbury. His Grace was
Rector of St. James's when our present sovereign was born at Norfolk
House, and had the honour to baptize, to marry, and crown his majesty
and his royal consort, and to baptize several of their majesties'
children."--From _Pennsylvania Chronicle_, Oct. 3, 1768.