as the Stable where his HORSES were kept, Steeds that would not only outstrip the Wind, but traverse the Air, with a Speed unequalled, but by LAPLAND Witches. Like Doctor FAUSTUS, for these astonishing Abilities, he made a League with the DEVIL; but he was more wary than the Doctor, in drawing up the Form of the Compact. Having sold the reversionary Interest of both Body and Soul, if buried within or without the CHURCH, he outwitted his Satanic Majesty, and evaded the Terms of the Covenant, by being interred UNDER THE CHURCH WALL, and an old Tombstone in the Church Yard of GROSMONT, near the East Wall of the Church, is shown as his Monument. A prevailing Tradition is, that an old Wizard disguised in a Shepherd's Habit, once frequented Kentchurch House, and roamed about the Neighbourhood of GROSMONT, his Remains are said to be laid under the Stone, called JOHN OF KENT'S Tomb. This Person was probably OWEN GLYNDWR, who is known after his Defeat to have escaped, habited as a Shepherd, and he might have retired to this sequestered Spot, and been privately interred here, though his Body might have been afterwards removed, or a Cenotaph elsewhere erected to his Me

mory. Much Doubt has been entertained, who, or what, this mysterious Person was, some have supposed that he was a Bard of OWEN GLYNDWR, who, after the complete Overthrow of that formidable Chieftain, accompanied him in his Flight, and took refuge with the CAMBRIAN Hero, under the Roof of his Son-in-law, SCUDAMORE, at Kentchurch House. Others surmise, he was the JOHN OF KENT OF GAUNT, a Franciscan Friar, mentioned by LELAND. Mr. OWEN observes he was a favorite Poet among the WELSH, and also a voluminous Writer, but Talents calculated to form the Bard and the Conjuror, are rarely to be found united in the same Individual. Probability favours the Opinion, that the Poetical John of GAUNT, and the Mathematical John of KENT, were different Persons, who, living in the same Age, and being both distinguished for their Attainments, were easily confounded in the mingling Repertory of ancient Tradition.

An Instance of the Chace giving Rise to a religious Foundation, we read of, in LLANTHONY ABBEY. During the Time of WILLIAM RUFUS, HUGH DE LACI, a Norman Baron, in the Course of Hunting, pursued the

Deer into this Valley; and while resting himself after his Fatigue with his Companions of the Chace, WILLIAM, one of his Retinue, discovering the ruined Chapel of ST. DAVID, suddenly experienced an enthusiastic Desire to lead a religious Life; and strongly impressed with the wildness of the Scenery, quitted his sporting and military Career, and here devoted his future Life to the Service of GOD.

At Tredegar Park, the Seat of the MORGANS, among many large Apartments, is one called, the Oak Room, from its being floored and wainscoted with Planks, cut out of a SINGLE OAKEN TREE. This Apartment, which is Forty-two Feet in length, and Twenty-seven in breadth, will convey some Idea of the Height and Girth of the prodigious Extension, of a single Acorn*. The Family of MORGAN is one of the most ancient and conspicuous in WALES, and in the Poems of the Bards, and the Pages of History, many of

At Ashby Canons in NORTHAMPTONSHIRE, the Seat of Sir JOHN DRYDEN, a Room of less Dimensions, viz. Thirty feet by twenty, is in a similar manner floored and wainscoted with the Timber contained in a single OAKEN Tree, which grew on this Lordship.

them have been recorded. That Partiality for tracing Family Pedigrees, which may be termed innate HERALDRY, has exerted its utmost Powers, to pursue to the highest Source, the Lineage of MORGAN, and follow it through all its direct and collateral Ramifications. The most authentic Account, makes them Descendants of CARA DOC, better known under the Name of CARACTACUS, as the celebrated DEFENDER of his Country, against Roman Usurpation.

Norfolk.

The Great Ouse rises near Brackley, in Northamptonshire, and having been previously joined by the Lark, the Cam, and the Little Ouse, enters this County to the Southwest of Downham. This River, like some others, “is remarkable for its extraordinary Swell, or Overflowings, at the two Equinoxes, and especially at the full Moon of the Autumnal one; when the Water from the SEA comes in upon it with such Fury, that the Inhabitants call it Eager, which overwhelms

every thing in its Way, and the fowl shun it."

very Water

The Waveney, and the Little Ouse, have their Sources in the same Tract of swampy Ground in the Vicinity of Lopham, and very near each other, the Space that divides them being only nine feet, yet immediately take opposite Directions in their Course to the SEA-the one running due West, and the other almost directly East; the former, which is navigable for Barges from Yarmouth to Bungay Bridge in Suffolk, passes Eastward by Diss to Yarmouth; and the latter, Westward to Thetford, to which place it is navigable, and thence to LYNN, forming nearly the whole of the River Boundary, to the Western side of the County.

The BROADS so famous for their Fish, are chiefly in that District through which the Bure, the Wensum, and the Waveney have their Course, the Perch are at times so plentiful in some of them, that the Inhabitants of Ranworth, a village near Walsham, report, that they have witnessed a Hundred and twenty Bushels having been, by two Nets, caught in One Day.