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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2»i S. VUI. Nov. 26. '69. 



The following is the substance of a petition of 

 this officer temp. George I., which would seem to 

 corroborate the statement of the writer above 

 quoted : — 



"Petition of Lt.-Col. Magnus Kempenfelt (who was 

 Lt-Col. in Col. Cadogan's regiment), setting forth that 

 he has had the honor of serving the Crown of Great 

 Britain for 30 years; that he served as Adjutant General 

 under Lord Gal way in Portugal and Spain: how in the 

 expedition to Canada he suffered shipwreck and lost all 

 his money. Declares his deplorable condition, having a 

 wife and six children, he is reduced to the most lament- 

 able extremity. Craves permission to sell his Lieut.- ■ 

 Colonelcy to satisfy his creditors." 



Within twelve years subsequent to the above 

 petition he seems to have died, and also one of his 

 children. A second petition from his widow tells 

 its own tale, in the abstract subjoined : — 



" Petition of Ann, Widow of Lt.-Col. Magnus Kempen- 

 felt, late Lt.-Gov. of the Isle of Jersey, showing that her 

 husband is lately deceased, after more than forty years' 

 service in the army, leaving her in necessitous circum- 

 stances with five children totally unprovided for. Pra3-s 

 His Ma*y to order her to be placed upon the Establish- 

 ment as widow of a Lt.-Col. for a pension: also that he 

 would give her son Jonas (now 21 years of age) employ- 

 ment in his Ma'y Service, so that he might be able to 

 assist in the educating and bringing up of his brothers 

 and sisters." 



Here, then, we have a record of the family at 

 variance from printed notices of the gallant ad- 

 miral who perished in the Royal George, who has 

 only one brother and two sisters allotted to him. 

 My inquiry is directed to ascertain the names of 

 the other members of the family, and whether it 

 has now become extinct. 



I annex a pedigree as far as I have been able 

 to trace it authentically : — 



MasnusKempenfelt, native of Sweden=:Ann. 

 Lieut.-Col. m the English army, and I 

 laeut.-Gov. of Jersey, ob. July, 1727. 



Biehard KempenfeU,= ^ Gustavus Adolphua, . , , . ^ t^ 



bom at Westmin- § sometime captain a ft 



Bter,adistinguished § in the army, obiit g g 



naval officer. Capt. • March 14, 1808, at n otj 



1757;Rear-Admiral his seat, Lady g; g^ 



of the Blue Jan. 10, Place, Hurley, I5 g 



I7S1 i perished at Berks. His es- * 



Spithead in the tates and property 



Boyal George, Aug. devolved to Rich. 



£9, 17S2. Monument Wroughton, Esq., 



in churchyard at of the Custom 



Portsea, and ceno- House, hia nearest 



taph at Alverstock. relative. 



The arms as borne by the ill-fated admiral are, 

 Ar. on a mount in base vert a man in complete 

 armour, standing with his sinister arm embowed, 

 the dexter arm holding a sword above his head, 

 all proper. Impaling, per pale arg. and purpure, 

 a saltire counterchanged : a canton ermine. (5rest, 

 a demi-man, as in the arms, between two wings 

 erect vert. 



In the London Magazine, vol, li. fol. 103., is a 

 portrait of Admiral Kempenfelt from an original 

 painting. 



Query, where is this original painting ? and to 

 whom may the arms as above impaled be as- 

 signed ? Cu Hopper. 



memorial lines on the opening of framing- 

 ham pigot church near norwich, sept. 

 15th, 1859. 



A good deed deserves a record, and what fitter 

 place for such a record than a journal which has 

 secured for itself a permanent place in the litera- 

 ture of every country in which the English lan- 

 guage is spoken, and by which every difficulty 

 that besets the path of a student is promptly re- 

 moved. I have no Query to make, but I have a 

 Note to place on the pages of the journal of 

 which I have spoken, if so it please the Editor, that 

 future times may fix the name and date of an act 

 which ought to be had in remembrance. 



On the 15th Sept. a church was reopened at 

 Framingham Pigot, Norfolk, with the prescribed 

 solemnities. Three years ago this church was com- 

 paratively speaking a mere barn, uglier than the 

 meanest conventicle. It is now within and without 

 worthy of the Being to whom it is dedicated, — a 

 building in which the good taste is manifest as the 

 liberality. This change has been effected at the 

 sole cost of a gentleman actively engaged in labori- 

 ous business, and who, in honouring God with his 

 substance, does but recognise. the Hand to whom 

 success in business should be referred. The name 

 of this gentleman is George Henry Christie, 

 head of the well-known firm of Christie, Manson, 

 and Woods, of King Street. If this slight record 

 should meet his eye, I know the genuine feeling of 

 his heart would be — "I would this were not written 

 of me. I have built to God and not to fame, or for 

 human praise." But such examples should not be 

 lost in these our days of mammon-worship ; and 

 as no trace of the benefactor will ever be found 

 in Framingham church, let it be found centuries 

 to come in the honest chronicle of " N. & Q." 

 The memorials of such benefactors should not 

 perish with them. 



If your space will permit will you add to this 

 imperfect paper the following lines, written for the 

 occasion by the author of Lyra Memorialis. They 

 have not been printed : — 

 1. 

 " The noblest Temple that the world e'er saw, 

 Most beautiful that wisdom's wisest built. 

 Ere Gospel light had dawned, was raised to Law, 

 And streams of blood were on its altars spilt. 

 2, 

 " Then blood of beasts was sacrifice for sin, 

 Direct from Heaven came sacrificial fires. 

 Priests for the ' glory ' could not enter in ; 

 Such holy dread, the present God inspires. 

 3. 

 " No royal hands before Thee, Lord, we spread, 

 No royal lips the sacred prayer address. 

 No countless throng here bows the prostrate head, 

 No trembling Priests the present God confess. 

 4. 

 "Father and God, we offer Thee to-day 



No gorgeous Temple, and no costly shrine ; 

 But prayer and praise we on Thy altar lay ; 

 Ours be the sacrifice, the incense Thine. 



