He was appointed Prebendary of Stagonil in St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin in 1591, and Treasurer of the cathedral in 1609 . He was nominated Archbishop of Tuam on 28 June and consecrated in August 1609 . After he became archbishop, he continued to hold the treasurership " in commendam ".
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A similar mandate for confirmation, this time issued to the Bishop of Moray ( Henry de Lichton ) and dated 16 August 1417, was as a result of similar concerns, this time in relation to one John de Kylwos, regarding Kylwos'exchange of the Ross subdeanery for the treasurership, an exchange authorised by Bishop Alexander.
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In 1664 Scattergood received the prebend of Sawley in Lichfield Cathedral, to which the treasurership of the cathedral was attached; he became chaplain to Bishop John Hacket On 16 August 1666 he received another Lichfield prebend, that of Pipa Minor, and in 1669 the living of Yelvertoft, near Winwick, which he continued to hold with Winwick.
34.
Whitehead had, however, at the time, been rewarded for his services by being appointed, through Sir Francis Dashwood, probably during his chancellorship of the exchequer in Lord Bute's ministry ( 1762 3 ), to a " Deputy Treasurership of the Chamber ", as one of his biographers calls it, worth ?00 a year.
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Archbishop William Juxon appointed him one of his chaplains, and he held the office of domestic chaplain and " ex officio " licenser of theological works to Juxon's successor, Archbishop Gilbert Sheldon, by whom he was presented to the archdeaconry of St . Albans, and to the treasurership of St . Paul's Cathedral, 19 December 1660.
36.
On the death of Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton, whose administration he had attacked, his great ambition, the treasurership, was not satisfied; and on the fall of Clarendon, against whom he had intrigued, he did not, though becoming a member of the Cabal Ministry, obtain the supreme influence which he had expected; for Louis XIV, but allowed his wife to accept a gift of 10, 000 crowns; in 1670 he was the only minister besides the Roman Catholic Clifford to whom the first secret treaty of Dover ( May 1670 ), one clause of which provided for Charles's declaration of his conversion to Romanism, was confided; and he was the chief actor in the deception practised upon the rest of the council.
