advanced Age of One Hundred and two Years, in 1782. His Remains were interred in Sutton Cheney Church-Yard, destitute of any Memorial, but this is in some degree compensated for, by the Recollection of THOSE elegant Lines, which are as truly appropriate to SIMPSON, as to Sir JOSHUA REYNOLDS, to whom they originally alluded.

"Genius, like EGYPT'S Monarchs, timely wise,
Constructs its own Memorial ere it dies;
Leaves its best Image in its Works enshrin'd,
And makes a Mausoleum of MANKIND."

The last of the two Persons hinted at, is HUGO MEYNELL, Esq. who, as a Sportsman, will never have a Superior in this Country. For more than half a Century, he kept the Foxhounds at Quorndon in the very best Style. The Entertainments given at Quorndon Hall, to many of the first Nobility, and his unbounded Liberality to the Poor, will be long remembered. Mr. MEYNELL, in his Mode of managing a SUBSCRIPTION Pack of Hounds, has left NO EQUAL behind him. He had to humour, as well as to contend with, a Set of as dashing young Men, as could be found, who were continually racing against each other, and riding before his Hounds, but

by the Force of his Ridicule, and the Pleasantry of his Observations, upon such a System of Hunting, they were called back to Order, and acknowledged their Error. On Two of the Company, who were riding before his Hounds, he observed, "the Hounds were following the Gentlemen, who very kindly were gone forward, to SEE what the Fox was about.”—In his Seventy-fourth Year, Mr. Meynell died, and at Bradley, in Derbyshire, was interred, December 1808, sincerely lamented by ALL, who had witnessed his Exertions in the Field, for their Amusement, and still more painfully regretted by those, with whom he was connected by Ties, which bind the RELATION, or the FRIEND.

Lincolnshire.

In the Vicinity of LowTH, Aswell Spring turns a Fulling Mill, only two hundred Yards from its Source; and at the foot of the Northern Hills, several Springs issue, of a very peculiar Nature." They run rapidly during the SUMMER, but in WINTER are generally

dry." The Method of obtaining Water by overflowing Wells, has been of the utmost Utility to the lower part of the Town, as well as to a great Scope of fine Marsh Land; which, till this Discovery, a few Years since, possessed little else but stagnant Water, retained in the adjacent Ditches. A Stratum of Clay, about Twenty-seven Yards deep, runs in a sloping Direction, from the Wolds to the Sea, and extends several Miles to the North and South; beneath this is a Stratum of Gravel, which forms a grand Reservoir of Water, the Clay Stratum being perforated, and a Cavity of three or more Inches Diameter made, a Current rushes up to the Surface, down which Cavity, a Tube of Tin or Copper is then slided, and a perpetual Fountain of infinite Value, formed, at a very inconsiderable Expence. These Fountains are become general, along this part of the Coast, and furnish an ample Supply of Water, for an Extent of Thirty Miles in Length, and ten in Breadth, and more if necessary, might be obtained upon the Sea Shore, so far as low Water Mark.

In Stoke Park, near the Seat of EDMUND TURNOR, Esq. a Spring rises, which nearly

equals that at Holywell, in Flintshire. The former, discharges, Nineteen Tons in a Minute, the latter, is supposed to throw out Twentyone, Tons, in the same Space of Time. They both come out of Limestone, and never freeze.

SCRIVELSBY, from whom, by Marriage, it came through the LUDLOWS, into the Family of the DYMOKES, was anciently a Place belonging to the MARMIONS, one of whom, ROBERT de MARMION, a distinguished Follower of WILLIAM the Conqueror, obtained a Grant of the Castle and Town of TAMWORTH, and also of the Manor of SCRIVELSBY. His Descendant, in the Reign-of RICHARD I. by the supposed Tenure of his Castle of TAMWORTH, claimed the Office of Royal Champion, which was, on the Day of CORONATION, to ride completely armed upon a barbed Horse, into Westminster Hall, and there to challenge the Combat against any, who would gainsay the KING's Title. This Manor came into the Family of DYMOKE, by a Coheiress of that of MARMION, in the Reign of Richard II. since which Time, the Descendants have been Hereditary Champions of ENGLAND. Lord MARMION, the fictitious Hero of Mr. WALTER SCOTT's

Poem, was an English Knight of great Rank and Fortune, in the Time of HENRY VIII.

A Ceremony, respecting a peculiar Tenure, for Lands situated in the Parish of Broughton, takes place at Castor Church, every Palm Sunday. A Person enters the Church-yard with a green Silk Purse, containing ten Shillings, and a silver Penny, tied at the End of a Cart-whip, which he smacks thrice in the Porch, and continues there, till the second Lesson begins; when he goes into the Church, and smacks the Whip three times over the Clergyman's Head. After kneeling before the Desk, during the Reading of the Lesson, he presents the Minister with the Purse, and then retiring to the Choir, waits the Remainder of the Service.

A Proof of the Value of a Species of Land, with which this County abounds, is mentioned, as having been ascertained in February, 1810, at a Sale of FEN Lands, at BosTON. 637 Acres were sold of the East. FEN, and 698 of the West, which fetched the Sun of 68,0401. The former sold for 20,910l. averaging 321. 8s. per Acre; the latter for 47,1307. averaging 671. 3s. per Acre. Mr. TROTTER,