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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 157. 



tbe generality of such books, allusion is made, in 

 the veiy extraordinary appendix, to " a curious 

 and very rare tract," apparently in the possession 

 of the publishers, entitled A Loyal Oration, Sfc, 

 composed by James Parkinson, &c., chief master 

 of the Free School in Birmingham, &c. : Birming- 

 ham, 1717. To some remarks upon this pamphlet 

 the publishers add, " This tract is curious in an- 

 other respect ; it is the earliest printed document 

 we have met with bearing the Birmingham Imprint 

 on the title-page." Now we all know that the 

 rise of Birmingham has been unprecedently rapid, 

 and that a century ago this great town was little 

 more than an obscure hamlet ; but I cannot help 

 thinking that It must have possessed a printing- 

 press before this late period, and that some of 

 your readers may be able, through the medium of 

 your pages, to furnish me with the title of some 

 book or pamphlet antecedent to the year 1717. 



J. P. L. 

 Stroud. 



" Whoe'er has travelTd Life's dull round." — In 

 a life of Dr. A. Clarke, published about twelve or 

 fourteen years ago, he has quoted at p. 332. these 

 lines : 



" Whoe'er has run earth's various round, 

 Through cold, through heat, through thick, through 



thin, 

 May sigh to think he ever found 

 The heartiest welcome at an inn." 



Another version is the one most commonly re- 

 peated : 

 " Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, 



Whate'er (where'er) his wand'rings may have been, 



May sigh to think he still has found 



The warmest welcome at an inn." 



Allow me to ask, who was the author of these 

 lines ? or, if anonymous, In what book they may 

 be found ? Which of the above versions Is most 

 correct ? J. H. M. 



Purdie Family. — It would be conferring a 

 favour If any reader of " N. & Q." could furnish 

 me with some account of the Purdie family. The 

 name Is not uncommon In the south of Scotland, 

 though the writer thinks it must be of foreign 

 origin. Perhaps the name may be a corruption 

 of some other. Is there a similar name in France 

 or Germany ? The origin of family names would 

 be an interesting inquiry. Fidelitas. 



Print of the Head of Christ. — A relative of 

 mine has a curious old print representing, as on a 

 handkerchief, the head of our Lord crowned with 

 thorns, from which large drops of blood are hang- 

 ing ; the face wearing an expression of dignified 

 and heroic endurance of acute agony. The en- 

 graving, which is first-class, consists of a single 

 line, commencing at the tip of the nose, and pro- 



ceeding thence in a circular spiral over the whole 

 surface. The variations of light and shade are 

 effected by the changes in breadth of this line. 

 Beneath the face, and comprised In this single line, 

 is the following inscription ; parts of which are so 

 Indistinct, that I may have mistaken them : 



" FORMATUa UNICUS UNA 



NON ALTER 



°MELA.NO P . ET F . IK iEDIBUS MEO 



1649." 



What Is the meaning of this Inscription? who 

 painted and engraved the subject ? what is the 

 history of the print ? C.Mansfield Inglebt. 



T. Park. — Mr. Barker, in Claims, Sfc, p. Iv., 

 says : 



" Junius is supposed by some (at least was by the 

 late antiquarian, T. Park) to have taken his name 

 from tlie celebrated work of Hubert Languet's, Fin- 

 dicia contra Tyrannos." 



Can any of your readers inform me when and 

 where such an opinion was put forth by Park ? I 

 find It in Heron, whose work was published In 

 1802. J. P. 



:^tn0r ^ntxiti ^nSfacrctr. 



Wilson^ s Sacra Privata. — Bishop Wilson's Sacra 

 Privata always appears, now -a- days, " adapted to 

 general use." Where can I procure a copy of the 

 work in its original shape, as more especially 

 designed for the clergy ? A. A. D. 



[The first edition of Bishop Wilson's Sacra Privata 

 was published after his death by Mr. Crutwell, but in 

 great apparent haste, and the most unwarrantable 

 liberty was taken with the Bishop's manuscript. The 

 denunciations against covetousness and Erastianisra 

 were struck out ; and all passages asserting the doctrine 

 of Sacramental Grace were treated in the same way. 

 We understand that an edition is printed, and will be 

 pul)lished very shortly, by J. H. Parker of Oxford, 

 which will be a transcript of the Bishop's manuscript, 

 recently discovered in the dusty repositories of Sion 

 College, where it had slumbered for a century undis- 

 turbed.] 



Who was Gurnall ? — Can any of your corre- 

 spondents give me some information about Gurnall, 

 the eminent divine ? He was the author of a well- 

 known book, The Christian Armour. All I know 

 of Gurnall Is, that he was rector of Lavenham, in 

 Suffolk. The lines, "Prayer moves the hand, which 

 moves the univei'se," in Minor Queries (Vol. vi., 

 p. 55.), are to be found In his writings. F. M. M. 



[We are surprised to find that the Rev. William 

 Gurnall has not been noticed in any Biographical Dic- 

 tionary. The following work is not in the British 

 Museum, but occurs in the Catalogue of the Bodleian : 

 An Inquiry into the Birth-place, Parentage, Life, and 

 Writings of the Rev. William Gurnall; to which is 



