lime-tree wood, taken from a print done by Mr. Fisher; all which is placed in a fquare moulding, very fuitable to the painting in the window, as being that of his crucifixion, and this as a proof of his refurrection from the dead. The anabathrum, or altar-place, is raifed three steps higher than the chancel, and paved with black and white marble, lo zengeways, and furrounded with a neat wrought-iron balustrade, jutting out in a femicircular form. To defcend to the greatest ornament of all, that of the fine painting in the eaft window, which more immediately claims our attention in beholding as well as in defcribing, which is as follows: The painting confifts of one intire hiftory, and four capital figures, befides feveral fmaller ones, with other emblematical devices. To begin then with the hiftorical part. The middle pièce is the hiftory of the crucifixion of our Lord and Saviour Jefus Chrift, between two thieves; the portraiture of their perfons is fo extremely well done, that you may behold the extenfion of the muscles of each limb, occafioned by the different ways they are expanded on the croffes. Round about the cross are the Roman Officers and foldiers attending the execution, accompanied with fome of the chief Rulers of the Jews. At the foot of the crofs, you behold the Bleffed Virgin Mary, his mother's fifter, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalen, weeping and bewailing the lofs of their Lord and Saviour. On the right hand of the cross, you behold the centurion, or Roman foldier, on horseback, who with a lance pierces our Sa viour's fide; the horfe is worth remarking, being done with full fpirit and vigour, agreeable to the nature of that martial animal. Behind the cross, a little to the left, is a fmall perspective view of the city of Jerufalem. Over the head of the thief, on the right hand of our Saviour, appears an angel, reprefented as conveying the foul of the thief to the manfions of the bleffed; which allufion refers to that part of St. Luke's gofpel, where the Evangelift relates the expreffion of our Saviour to the penitent thief on the crofs, This day thou shalt be with me in Paradife.'-Over the head of the other thief, who reviled our Saviour, is reprefented, in a different attitude, his conveyance into the manfions of the wicked.-On the ground-plot, which is diapered green, are frewed fculls, thin-bones, and jawbones, as the emblems of the diffolution of human nature; a fit allufion to Golgotha, or the place of fculls, where the scene of our redemption was acted, for the propitiation of the fins of all mankind. The firft capital figure, on your right hand, ftanding in a niche, as curiously decorated and ornamented as the imagination of the limner could lavishly beftow, is that of St. George of Cappadocia, the patron Saint of England, Itanding completely armed at all points, holding in his left hand, partly unfurled, a white banner, charged with a red crofs, and behind him lies at his foot a red dragon.-He is faid to have fuffered martyrdom in the 9th perfecution, under the Emperor Dioclesian, about the year of our Lord 290. The fecond figure, on your left hand, ftanding in a niche, like to that of St. George, is St. Catharine, the Virgin and Martyr of Alexandria, standing in a contemplative pofture, holding in her right hand a book, and refting her left hand on a fword; her head incircled with a crown of glory; and at her foot you behold part of a wheel, as an emblematical device of the manner of her fuffering martyrdom. In the third figure, under that of St. George, you behold King Henry VII. ať his devotions, attired in his royal robes, crowned with a diadem, and kneeling under a canopy of ftate; his countenance expreffes the devotion of his mind.-By his father's fide, he was of the family of the Tudors, but by his mother's fide of the Beauforts, the illegitimate children of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancafter, whose fon Henry of Bolingbrooke, afterwards King Henry IV, was the prime caufe of thofe civil diffenfions between the two houfes of York and Lancaster, which terminated in the aforefaid King Henry VII. In the fourth figure, under that of St. Catharine, you behold his royal confort, Elifa – beth, arrayed in her royal robes, and at her devotions, under a canopy of state; in her countenance is lively expreffed the devotion of her mind.-She was, by her father's fide, of the royal houfe of York, of the Plantagenet family; being daughter, and at length fole heir, of King Edward IV, and niece of King Richard III, the laft King of England of the illuftrious family of Anjou-Plantagenet, being flain at the battle of Bofworth- Field, anno 1485. Laftly above, in a row of fmall panes, are placed fome of the Apoftles and Saints; on the right fide of them is placed a white rofe within a red one, to fignify the union of the families of Lancaster and York, in the perfons of Henry and Elifabeth, before fpoken of: The red rose being the badge of the house of Lancaster, and the white rofe that that of the house of York.-Oppofite to the white and red rofe united, is a pomegranate, to fignify the houses of York and Lancaster's defcent from the royal houfe of Spain; as John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancafter, married Conftance, the eldest daughter and coheir of Peter, King of Caftile and Leon; and his brother Edmund of Langley, Duke of York, married Ifabel, the youngest daughter and coheir of the aforefaid King. Having now given an hiftorical narra tion of the fine window there exhibited, it will be neceffary to add fomething concerning the manner of its being purchased, and from whence it was brought. The principal Gentlemen of the Committee, concerned in beautifying and repairing St. Margaret's church, as well as in purchafing the fine piece of painting for the eaft window, were the Rev. Dr. Thomas Wilfon; Mr. William Rufted and Mr. Samuel Peirfon, Churchwardens; Mr. Cheere, and Capt. Spencer; which Gentlemen having had the fight of a print, exhibiting a perfpective view of the window and painting, among the collection of prints published by the Society of Antiquarians, they were fo taken with the beauty of the painting, the fineness of the performance, and the antiquity of the thing itfelf, that it was concluded nothing more proper could be had, for completely beautifying the church, than this, if it could be purchased on any reasonable terms: To which purpose Mr. Peirfon, Superintendant of the works, went down to the place where it was, to take a view of it, and at the fame time to make an agreement for the purchase of it; who, after a great deal of trouble, got it for the price of 400 guineas, exclufive of the charge of purchafing the ftonework of the window it was in, the ironwork thereunto belonging, and the wiregrating which preferves the glafs from being broke, together with the charge of bringing them up to town; which in all coft the Committee about 50 guineas more, though the proprietor stood at first for 500 guineas. The place where it was brought from was a private chapel, belonging to the feat of Efquire Conyers, of Copthall, near Epping, whofe father, Efquire Conyers, purchafed it of John Olmius, Efq; prefent Member of Parliament for Colchester, and whofe feat is at Newhall, near Chelmsford, in Effex. This window was firft in poffelfion of John Olmius, Elq; of Newhall, who fold it to the prefent Efquire Conyers's father, of Copthall, who paid Mr. Price a large fum of money for repairing it, and he put it up in the chapel of Copthall, but his fon, building a new house at fome distance, and not having any further use for it, fold it to the Committee for repairing and beautifying St. Margaret's church. To this chapel was only one window belonging, in . which was this curious ftained glass; the light reflected from it ftruck an aweful reverence into the place, as it likewife afforded a graceful folemnity to the window itfelf; for which reafon, when it was defign ed for St. Margaret's church, it was thought neceffary to darken a light on each fide of the upper range of windows, in the nave or body of the church, to fhew it, as much to advantage as poffible, in the fame view it did in the chapel it came from. This window has lain many years neglected and unregarded, and withal very much abufed, as may be feen by taking a curfory view of the ground work; which appears, by a narrow infpection, to have been broke in divers places, though now by fome fkilful hand very well repaired. It is a matter of admiration, to feveral antiquarians, that this moft curious piece of painting in glass should have so happily efcaped being intirely demolished, confidering the feveral tumultous fluctuations, in Church and State, within these last two hundred years; and it would likewife be à matter of regret to have fuch a curious piece of antiquity taken down from where it is now placed, and be once more buried, at leaft in obfcurity, or perhaps in obli vion, The compendious System of Natural History (Vol. XXIII, Page 304.) continued. From Edwards's Natural History. T With the Man of the Woods, finely coloured from Nature. HIS animal, which is one of the firft of the genus of monkies, is supposed to come the nearest in its outward fhape to man. The old ones are faid, by many of our voyagers to Africa and India, to be near fix feet high, when standing or walk. ing erect. The fubject from which this figure was drawn, is now preferved in the British Mufeum in London: It was a young one, and about two feet and a half high when it died; it was first soaked in fpirits of wine, then dried, and fet up in the action I have given it, the draught being taken before its parts were shape refembled molt others of the monkey kind, its hands and feet the fame. It dif fered from the generality in having no tail, or callous skin behind, to fit on, as most monkies have; and in having the head rounder, and more human like, than most of its kind: The forehead was high and rifing, the nofe flat, the teeth much refembled thofe of men, the hair from the neck inclined upwards round to the forehead, and hung down a little over the forehead and the fides of the face, which was without hair; the ears were all naked, and much of the human make. (See the profile head, which gives the manner of the growth of the hair.) It had two nipples, fituated as in man; the face and naked parts of the paws were of a fwarthy flesh colour; the body and limbs were covered with a loose, fhaggy, reddish brown hair, thicker on the hinder parts, and thinner before; the hair from the hand to the elbow inclined towards the elbow. About fifty years ago was published an anatomical description, by Edward Tyson, M. D. of this fame animal, which he calls the pigmy, wherein he has given figures of it; and fince him, A. D. 1738, a figure was published of one that was brought from A fhort Account of Count BRUHL's great INthe computath and power, "N the ordinary computation of greatness, Count Bruhl is incomparably the greatest man in Saxony. The people say that he has bought estates in Poland to the amount of twenty millions of florins, verifying the Scriptures, that the children of this world are wifer in their generation than the children of light;' for he has wifely provided a ftore out of the reach of the Saxons, whilft they have no other fatisfaction than making lampoons on him. He has alfo feveral eftates in Saxony, and moveables to the value of fix millions of dollars: Whether these accounts are exaggerated, as is probable, from the little love which the people bear him, I know not; but he owes large fums, as if he meant to make it the interest of his creditors to preserve him during the prefent King's reign. The electoral Prince, though unfortunate in his perfon, is a man of fenfe and virtue, and fees the conduct of this Minister in a true light. Count Bruhl, they fay, is allowed above half a million of dollars annually for the national fervice and the fupport of his office. The world can produce many remarkable inftances of very good and very evil actions, done for the fake of a mistress or the coaft of Africa, called chimpanzee, and fhewn in London; which print is inferibed to Sir Hans Sloane. But neither of these prints were fatisfactory to me, who had seen the above defcribed, which was a female, with one other (a male) now in my hands both agreeing exactly in every part, but what diftinguishes the fexes; for which reafon I have published this figure, the original whereof was with great care done by me, to be preferved amongst the drawings of animals, in the Museum of the late Sir Hans Sloane, Bart. now in the British Mufeum. I believe them all to be natives of Africa; though there are voyagers to India that defcribe fomething like them. In a book of prints by P. Vander Aa, bookfeller at Leyden, (which prints I believe are gathered from voyagers) he gives two plates, 11 and 77, of what he calls Satyrs, or Orang Outang. Capt. Beekman, in his voyage to Borneo, Lond. 1718, has figured and defcribed one near of kin to this, but not the fame; he has borrowed the former name, but has otherwife wrote it Oran Ootan, which he fays, in their language, fignifies Man of the Woods. He fays, they have no hair but on thofe parts where it grows on human bodies; if this be true, it is nearer the human species than what is here figured, Wealth, Wardrobe, Gallery of Pictures, &c. or a friend, for the defire of gold, or the thirst of power: But to what idol does that man offer incense, whom no less than three or four hundred fuits of rich cloaths will fatisfy? Count Bruhl has collected all the fineft colours of all the finest cloths, velvets, and filks of all the manufactures, not to mention the different kinds of lace and embroideries, of Europe. He calls for his book of patterns, which are numbered, and chufes that fuit which pleases his fancy for the day. They alfo boast that he has boots and fhoes in proportion to his cloaths. The palace of this Lord has been built at feveral different times. The apartments are elegant and richly furnished, but not many of them magnificent: They have luftres of porcelain in beautiful figures; the tables are set off with variety of tea equipages, and figures of men and women, birds and beafts of porcelain. The drawing-room is pannelled with looking-glaffes, and adorned with rich paintings, and his cabinet furnished with enamels and crayons. This house and the gardens belonging to it are fituated on the Elbe, near the bridge, and command a pleasant profpect. His library, which is in the garden, is 220 feet long, and well furnished with bocks; but the |