many Alterations and large Additions, by Several Hands. London, 1764*," Svo. Svo. This work con

Nacton to the said wind-mill at Stoke in Ipswich; also again at Freston another observation was made of the quantity of the angle from Nacton to the said wind-mill at Stoke in Ipswich; and by drawing two lines from Woolverston and Freston (according to the quantity of their respective angles observed from Nacton) they concurred in the point before assigned for the said wind-mill, so that, although we dare not say it is mathematically true (for if so it must not vary the thousandth part of an inch) yet we dare take the liberty to say, it will stand the test of a mathematical demonstration, and be useful, pleasing, and intelligible. And as such an undertaking is too great and expensive to be perfected by private persons, without encouragement, it is hoped that, as several gentleinen have already subscribed, others will follow the examples, for the promoting so useful an undertaking. There shall be no more printed than are subscribed for, nor sold for any other or lower price."

And lastly in the same paper of Dec. 23, 1732, No. 645:

"The Survey of the County of Suffolk, as before proposed to be undertaken by Nathaniel Bacon and John Kirby, has been, and now is, attended on by the said John Kirby; the coast being now truly surveyed from Harwich to Yarmouth, and the river Waveney from Yarmouth to Diss in Norfolk. The authors hope it will not be unacceptable to the readers to give an account of the true horizontal distances of the several towns undernamed, from the Market Cross of the town of Ipswich, viz. from the Market Cross in Ipswich the horizontal distance to Diss, 17 m. 5 f.; Eye, 15 m. 3 f.; Debenham, 10 m. 6 f.; Harlston, 22 m. 1 f.; Yarmouth, 43 m. 7 f.; Halesworth, 22 m. 1 f.; Framlingham, 13 m. 1 f.; Lowestoft, 38 m. 2f.; Southwold, 27 m. 2 f.; Dunwich, 23 m. 3 f.; Saxmundham, 16 m. 7 f.; Wickham-market, 10 m. 3 f.; Woodbridge, 7 m.; Aldeburgh, 18 m. 6 f.; Orford, 15 m. 4 f.; Harwich, 9 m. 3 f." Mr. Kirby deceased on the of Dec. 1753, and his remains were interred in the church-yard of St. Mary at Tower, in Ipswich. In vol. I. p. 5, of "Some Account of the Life and Writings of Mrs. Trimmer," is a letter from Mr. Kirby to his son, dated from Wickham-market, Jan. 17, 1741.

Mr. Joshua Kirby, eminent for his talent in perspective, was his son; the celebrated entomologist, the Rev. William Kirby, his grandson; and the ingenious Mrs. Trimmer, his granddaughter.

* Among the many collections for the History of Suffolk, which occur in the "Catalogue of the curious and valuable Library of Craven Ord, Esq." sold by Mr. Evans in Pall Mall, in June 1829, is "Kirby's Suffolk Traveller, interleaved in two folio volumes, with additions in print and manuscript, and a

tains a Map of the County and four Plates of Roads. In 1755 Mr. Bowyer printed for him on a half sheet folio, "An Address to the Freemen of Ipswich."

Mr. Canning left issue by Cordelia his wife a son and a daughter, viz. Richard, who received his academical education at Emmanuel-college, Cambridge, where he proceeded to the degree of A. B. in 1763. In 1769 he was presented by his father to the Rectory of Harkstead, and in 1785, by Edmund Tyrell, Esq. to that of Weston-market, both in the county of Suffolk. He married Miss Tyrell, by whom he had no issue; and dying at Ipswich on the 17th of January 1789, was interred in the Church of St. Helen, but without any inscription to his memory. He bequeathed to the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge the sum of £9,946. 4s. 11d. invested in the following stocks, viz. Long Annuities, £.76. 5s.; Reduced ditto, £.1,200; Four per cent. £.710. 9s. 8d.; Three per cent. Consols, £7,959. 10s. 3d. The daughter, Cordelia, died unmarried, in the thirty-sixth year of her age.

EDMUND GILLINGWATER *.

THE HISTORIAN OF "LOWESTOFT,"

AND ST. EDMUND'S BURY."

Edmund Gillingwater, the subject of this notice, was the second son of Edmund Gillingwater and Alice his wife, and was born at Lowestoft in 1736. There he carried on for some years the trade of a barber, the profession of which, of all others, approaches that of an antiquary; witness our old acquaintance, "The Barber of Bagdad" in the Ara

few ancient deeds; it was purchased for the British Museum, at the price of £.6. 12s. In the Antiquaries' Closet, in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, is another copy illustrated with MS notes by Scott.

* " Literary Anecdotes," vol. III. p. 200.

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bian Nights' Entertainments. From Lowestoft he removed to Harleston in Norfolk, where he continued in the same occupation, and where he ended his days with the well-earned character of an ingenious, upright, and inoffensive man.

He deceased on the 13th of March, 1813, and was interred in the Church-yard of Redenhall in Norfolk, where, on two stones, are the following inscriptions to his memory, as well as to that of his wife:

Sacred

to the memory of EDM. GILLINGWATER, who died March 13th, 1813, aged 77 years.

Sacred

to the memory of MARY, the wife of EDM. GILLINGWATER, who died May 18th, 1802,

aged 65 years.

In 1786 Mr. Gillingwater, as overseer of the poor at Harleston, published "An Essay on Parish Workhouses; with some regulations proposed for their improvement," 8vo.; an useful and well-written pamphlet.

In 1790 he published by subscription, “An Historical Account of the antient Town of Lowestoft, in the County of Suffolk, to which is added some Cursory Remarks on the adjoining Parishes, and a General Account of the Island of Lothingland." 4to. In the preface Mr. Gillingwater states, that "the principal motives which excited him to engage in this work were a regard to the place of his nativity; the information and amusement of the merchants, and other inhabitants of the town of Lowestoft ; and a desire of recovering from the hands of alldevouring Time, and transmitting them to posterity,

the best accounts of the antient and modern state of the town that he was able to procure.

"In the prosecution of this design, the amusement of the inhabitants of Lowestoft has been only a secondary motive in his undertaking; the primary object which he had in view was, an ardent desire of being useful to them; and in pursuance of this plan he has endeavoured to give every information in his power respecting the herring fishery, so as to prevent, he hopes, any disputes arising in future concerning it. The several charitable donations given to the town he has fully described; and extracts from wills, relating thereto, he has been as careful in collecting and transcribing as possibly he could. He has also industriously endeavoured to do justice to the memories of those worthy characters, either born in Lowestoft, or connected with it, who have distinguished themselves either by their regard to the welfare of the town or their country, their zeal for religion or their love of humanity; these amiable friends of mankind he has particularly attended to, by rescuing them from that oblivion in which they were almost wholly absorbed, and placing them in those advantageous points of view to which they were so justly entitled."

Mr. Gillingwater modestly concludes his Preface in these words: "The author of this publication is perfectly sensible of his want of those necessary materials which are requisite for rendering his work so complete as he could wish; the deficiency of remaining evidence compels him frequently to listen to the doubtful voice of tradition, and sometimes to tread the dubious paths of probable conjecture. It is likewise unnecessary to observe, how inadequate he is to an undertaking of this nature, as too evident proofs of it will present themselves in almost every page; these considerations oblige him to apologize for his presumption, and to submit himself to the candour and indulgence of his readers."

The following notice respecting this work appears in the Literary Anecdotes *: "I have his (Ives's) beginning of the History of Lothingland in eight pages only of large quarto. I voluntarily lent it to Gillingwater, who has printed it without the least mention of either of us. I think Mr. Stevenson, of Norwich, doth not allow him to be the writer of the books he publishes, but that they are done by a poor person of Lowestoft; and his so readily adopting Ives's looks like it. This I know, that Mrs. Harmer told me that her husband +, to whom he communicated some observations, had a good opinion of him. T. F."

Whatever assistance Mr. Gillingwater might have received, or whatever he may have borrowed from others without a due and proper acknowledgment, there is little doubt, I believe, but that he was the real author. I have heard, indeed, his brother, who resided at Lowestoft in very humble circumstances, remark, that the work in question was compiled from his collections; but from the conversation I then had with him, and from a slight and cursory inspection of these "Collections," I can see no just reason to controvert his brother's right to be considered as the legitimate proprietor of the "Historical Account of Lowestoft.

In 1804 appeared his "Historical and Descriptive Account of St. Edmund's Bury, in the County of Suffolk; comprising an ample Detail of the Origin, Dissolution, and Venerable Remains of the Abbey, and other Places of Antiquity in that ancient Town of St. Edmund's Bury," small 8vo. A second edition of this work was published in 1811.

This volume contains engravings of the Abbeygate, St. James's Church, Ruins of the Abbey, and

*Vol. III. p. 200.

The learned and ingenious author of "Observations on divers passages of Scripture."

Taylor's Friend, i, e. Rev. George Ashby.