Not. 18. 1854.] 



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rectory and tithes, as other incumbents before him." In 

 the following year he was married, as we learn from the 

 following extract from the register of Stoke-by -Nayland : 

 "The Uth Feb., 1644-5, was married, William Gurnali of 

 Lavenham, singell-man, minister, and Sara Mott of this 

 parish, singell-woman, daughter of Mr. Thomas Mott, 

 minister." At the Restoration, Gurnali retained his living 

 by conforming to the Church of England, for which he 

 was severely handled in the following pamphlet : " Cove- 

 nant Eenouncers Desperate Apostates : opened in Two 

 Letters, written by a Christian Friend to Mr. Wm. Gur- 

 nali, of Lavenham, in Suffolk, which may indefinitely 

 serve as an Admonition to all such Presbyterian Minis- 

 ters or others who have forced their Consciences, not only 

 to leap over, but to renounce, their solemn Covenant- 

 obligation to endeavour a Reformation according to God's 

 Word, and the extirpation of all prelatical Superstition ; 

 and, contrary thereunto, conform to those superstitious 

 Vanities, against which they had so solemnly sworn. 

 Printed in Anti- Turn- Coat Street, and sold at the sign of 

 Truth's Delight, right opposite to Backsliding Alley. 4to. 

 1665." Gurnali died October 12, 1679, aged sixty-three, 

 and his funeral sermon was preached by William Burkitt, 

 rector of Milden in Suffolk. A copy of this sermon is in 

 the British Museum, but it does not contain the least 

 biograpliical notice of the departed. ] 



Hengrave Church. — Hengrave Church, near 

 Bury St. Edmunds, was given up to the proprie- 

 tor of the mansion, Sir Thomas Kytson, sometime 

 in the seventeenth century, when a special act of 

 parliament was obtained for the purpose. Can 

 any of your readers inform me where I should be 

 likely to find this special act, or to obtain inform- 

 ation about it ? S. S. 



[From the following extract given in Gage's History 

 of Hengrave, p. 57., it appears that_Hengrave Church was 

 annexed to Flempton, a.d. 1589. " By deed-poll, dated 

 19th Aug., 1589, under the hands and seals of Edmund 

 [Scambler] Bishop of Norwich, Sir Thomas Kytson, 

 patron of the churches of Flempton and Hengrave, and 

 Robert Cripps, clerk and incumbent of the church of 

 Flempton (the parsonage and church of Hengrave being 

 then void), noticing the act of parliament 37 Hen. VIII. 

 for the union of the two churches, it was agreed that the 

 church of Hengrave should thenceforth be united, an- 

 nexed, and consolidated for ever with the church of 

 Flempton; that the parishioners of Hengrave should 

 thenceforth for ever, for the hearing of the divine service, 

 and of receiving sacraments and sacramentals, and for 

 all other observances and rites, repair to the church of 

 Flempton; that the parishioners of Hengrave should 

 thenceforth be parishioners of Flempton; and that the 

 church and parish of Hengrave should not be named as 

 a parish or parish church alone, but as a church consoli- 

 dated to the church and parish of Flempton, as parcel of 

 the iparish of Flempton ; that all tithes, &c., payable by 

 the parish of Hengrave should be paid to the parson of 

 Flempton, and that the presentment of a clerk should 

 serve for both the parishes."] 



The Messrs. Bagsters Motto. — Does the motto 

 nOAAAI fxfv Srvrirois TAnTTAI, fiia 5' AOavaroKTiv, 

 adopted by the Messrs. Bagster, date before their 

 time ? If so, where is its original to be found ? 



J. R. G. 



[The Rev. H. F. Carey, M.A., late assistant librarian in 

 the British Museum, is the reputed author of this motto. 

 See also "N. & Q.," Vol. y., p. 687.] 



Tindal and Annet. — I shall be glad to be di- 

 rected to the best account of the lives and writings 

 of Matthew Tindal, author of Christianity as Old 

 as the Creation, and Peter Annet, who wrote The 

 Resurrection of Jesus considered, in answer to 

 Sherlock's Trial of the Witnesses, and many other 

 deistical pamphlets. For one, the name of which 

 I cannot learn, he suffered imprisonment. Le- 

 land has treated both writers ably. Tindal ob- 

 tained celebrity, and is noticed in The Dunciad. 

 Annet seems to have remained in obscurity. Le- 

 land does not give his name, and perhaps did not 

 know it, as his pamphlets were published anony- 

 mously. Probably notices of these writers are 

 scattered through the works of their cotempo- 

 raries. Any such, or a reference to them, will be 

 valuable to J. F. 



[For an account of Matthew Tindal, consult Memoirs of 

 his Life, 8vo., 1733. " Copy of his Will, with an Account 

 of what passed concerning the same," 8vo., Lond. 1733. 

 The Religious, Rational, and 3Ioral Conduct of Mr. Tin- 

 dal, 8vo., Lond. 1735. See also the Biographia Britan- 

 nica, Chalmers's Biographical Dictionary, and Nichols's 

 Literary Anecdotes. Gorton, in his Biographical Diction- 

 ary, has given a short account of Peter Annet, copied 

 from the London Magazine. For some farther particulars 

 of him, see the Gentleman's Magazine, vol. xxx. pp. 69. 

 560. ; vol. xxxiii. pp. 26. 28. 60. 86. 105. ; vol. liv. p. 250. 

 In his Lectures, published in 1768, there is a portrait of 

 him, curiously engraved by his own direction. The 

 notorious Richard Carlile republished, in 1820, The Free 

 Enquirer, the work for which Annet was pilloried and im- 

 prisoned. For a list of his other works, see Lowndes's 

 Bibliographer's ManuaW} 



The last Days of George IV. — On May 24, 

 1830, a message was delivered to both Houses of 

 Parliament to the effect that the King found it 

 "inconvenient" to sign public documents with 

 his own hand. A bill immediately passed both 

 Houses, authorising the sign-manual to be exe- 

 cuted by a stamp, which was to be used for that 

 purpose in the king's presence, every document 

 being first indorsed by three members of the 

 Privy Council. On the 26th of June following, 

 his Majesty expired at three o'clock in the morn- 

 ing. 



Some future historian will doubtless be curious 

 to know what documents received this sealed 

 sign-manual, and what privy councillors endorsed 

 them ; and if you can place them on record in 

 " N. & Q." you will confer a public literary ser- 

 vice, and oblige a curious subscriber. R. B. 



Headingley. 



[In the London Gazette of June 4, 1830, will be found 

 the following notice : " The king has been pleased to ap- 

 point the Right Hon. Charles Lord Farnborough, Gen. 

 Sir Wm. Keppel, and Major-Gen. Sir Andrew Francis 

 Barnard, to be his Commissioners for aflBxing his Ma- 

 jesty's signature to instruments requiring the same." 

 This was in consequence of the Act 11 Geo. IV. cap. 28., 

 passed May 29, 1830. The principal public acts passed 

 from that day to the death of the king are the following : 

 11 Geo. IV. cap. 16., Duties on leather ; cap. 17., Malt 



