Each of the Secretaries have lodgings appointed for them in all the King’s houses; both for their own accommodation, for their office, and for those that attend upon it. They have each a salary of 3000l. a year; which, added to their lawful perquisites, is said to make their places worth 8000l. per annum each.
The Secretaries and Clerks they employ under them are wholly at their own choice, and have no dependence upon any other person. These are,
In the northern department, two Under Secretaries and Keepers of state papers, a first Clerk, and ten other Clerks, a Gazette writer, who has 300l. per annum; and a Secretary for the Latin tongue, whose salary is 200l. a year.
In the southern department are, two Under Secretaries, a first Clerk, seven other Clerks; and a Law Clerk to both, who has a salary of 400l. per annum.
The Secretaries of state have also the custody of the King’s seal, called the signet; the use and application of which gives denomination to another office, called the Signet office. See the article Signet Office.
There is also another office depending on the Secretaries of state, called the Paper office; for which see that article.
Sedgwick’s rents, London Wall.†
Sedgwick’s yard, London Wall.†
Seething lane, Tower street.
St. Sepulchre’s, on the north side of the top of Snow hill near Newgate, and in the ward of Faringdon without, owes its name to its being dedicated in commemoration of Christ’s sepulchre at Jerusalem. It is of great antiquity, and was probably founded during the time, when all Europe were employed in crusades to the holy land; however, about the beginning of the twelfth century, it was given by the Bishop of Salisbury to the Prior and Canons of St. Bartholomew in Smithfield, who, in virtue of that grant, had the right of advowson till the dissolution of their monastery, when coming to the Crown, it continued therein till King James I. in the year 1610, granted the rectory and its appurtenances, with the advowson of the vicarage, to Francis Philips and others; after which the rectory with its appurtenances were purchased by the parishioners, to be held in fee-farm of the Crown, while the advowson was obtained by the President and Fellows of St. John Baptist’s college in Oxford, in whom the patronage still continues. Dugd. Mon. Ang.