outside of the western door of the church, where there is a plain ftone with this epitaph:

"Consub.alis amor de Mulcibre fecit Apellem."

difficult to mention one in whom were united fuch exalted piety, fuch ditinter elted zeal, and extentive learning; and, had the leaders of that great work heen more deeply imbued with the spirit of Tyndale, the Proteftan churches would. This anecdote reminds us of the hiftory probably have been cleared of a good deal of rubbish, which hath ftuck to all of them unore or less, and will probably fuck to all Chriftian focieties in this imperfect ftate to the end of time.

But let me not lofe fight of Antwerp:
this city will ever be memorable in the
history of the fine arts as a noble fchool
of
f painting, wherein Rubens and Van-
dyck hold incontetiibis the firit rank.
The merits of those illuftrious artifis are
jufily appreciated in the following beau-
tiful lines of Mr. Hayley, in his epiftle
to Romney:

Proud of the praise by Rabens' pencil won,
Let Flanders boaft het bold inventive fon,
Whof glowing hues magnificently shine
With warmith congenial to bus rich defien,
And him, her fecond pude, whose milder

With all the virtues of enduring o L

The defcent from the cross by Rubeus, in the church of Notre Dame, is indeed a matier-piece, and would alone

have fufficed to immortalize his name.

who fell in

of the maid of Corinth and her father, which is tranfmitted to us by Pliny, and is thus exhibited in verfe by the poetic pencil of Hayley :

Oh, Love! it was thy glors to impart

Is infant being o this sweeteft art:
Infou'd by thee, the fof Corinthian maid
Her graceful Lover's fleeping form pour-

trav'd;

Her boding heart his near departure knew,
Yet long'd to keep his image in ber view:
Pleas'd the beheld the steady shadow fall
By the clear lamp upo the even wall;
The line the trac'd with fond precifion
true,
[drew:
And drawing dosted on the form the
Nor, as the glow'd with no forbidden fire,
Conceal'd the fimple picture from her fire;
His kindred fancy, still to nature juft,
Copied her line, and form'd the m mic huft.
Thus from thy infpuation, Love, we trace
The modell'd irm ge, and toe pencill'd face!

The fall of the angels, by Floris, in the
fame church, is a noble picture, and I
mention it for the fake of introducing
the following paflage from Mr. Peck-
ham's tour. "On the thigh of one of
the fallen angels is a large hornet,
painted by Quintin Matzys, the noted
blackfinith of Antwerp,
love with the daughter of Florio, and
demanded her in marriage; the painter
refufed him because he was not of his
own profeffion: Matzys therefore
changed his trammer for the pallet, and
ftudied under the Italian mafters for
On his return, he painted
this hornet, unknown to Florio, who
by miliake was going to brush it off,
thinking it alive, he was fo pleated,
with the execution of it, that he im-
mediately gave him his daughter in
marriage. Matzys was buried on the

two vears.

After I had gratified my curiofity at Antwerp, I took my place in the flage for Bruffels, which was full of paffengers male and female. Just as we were fetting out, my notice was attracted by a proceffion of men clad in furplices and with lighted torches, finging as they walked along the paflengers in the ftreet fell down upon their knees, aud continued in that pofture till the procellion was gone by. It was the confecrated hoft, which I fuppofed they were carrying to fome fick perfon. The country for fome miles beyond Antwerp appeared like a garden. We were conveyed across the river Demer, and then got into a barge on the Bruffels canal, in which were very commodious apartments, where I could read

or write with as much ease as in the parlour of an inn. After gliding along in this barge for fome miles, we were thifted into another which was füll more commodious and elegant. At the place of embarkation there was a house which furnished the paflengers with dinners ready-drefled to take on board with them. The county on cach fide of the canal was delightful and highly cultivated; and after a very pleafant journey I arrived early in the evening at Buffels; but my obfervations on this place muft be referved for another letter. 1 am, &c.

CLERIQUS LEICESTRIENSIS.

M

Fig.1. Maids Morton, Bucks.

The total contents of the glebe-land

is called in fome accounts) is 24 acres and 1 yard.

Colonel Purefoy, of Warwickshire, ordered the cross on the top of the steeple to be cut down in 1642: by its fall had nearly beat out the foldiers' brains.

1653. The people would be married at the church, and their children bap tized, contrary to Cromwell's order. Browne Willis.

Rev. William Hutton became proprietor of Moreton rectory anno 17.. His fon, the Rev. James-Long Hutton, LL. B. is the present rector,