Rev. Philip Morant.—I shall be obliged by any information respecting the lineage of the Rev. Philip Morant, who wrote a History of the County of Essex; and whether he was an ancestor of the Morants of Brockenhurst Park, Hants. He was born at St. Saviour's, in the Isle of Jersey, Oct. 6, 1700; entered, 1717, Pembroke College, Oxford. He was presented to
the following benefices in the county of Essex, viz. Shallow, Bowells, Bromfield, Chicknal, Imeley, St. Mary's, Colchester, Wickham Bishops, and to Oldham in 1745. He died Nov. 25, 1770; and his only daughter married Thomas Astle, Esq., F.R.S. and F.A.S. He was son of Stephen Morant. If any of the sons or daughters of that eminent antiquary Thomas Astle will give me any information relative to the pedigree of Philip Morant, M.A., they will greatly oblige me.
H. H. M.
Malta.
The Position of Suffragan Bishops in Convocation.—In Chamberlayne's Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia, or The Present State of Great Britain, 1729, p. 73., it is said:
"All suffragan bishops and deans, archdeacons, prebendaries, rectors, and vicars, have privileges, some by themselves, others by proxy or by representatives, to sit and vote in the lower house of convocation."
Is there authority for this statement as regards suffragan bishops? There is no writ or mandate that I have seen for their appearance.
W. Fraser.
Tor-Mohun.
Cambridge Mathematical Questions.—Can any of your readers inform me whether the University of Cambridge puts forth, by authority, a collection of all the questions proposed to candidates for the B.A. degree?