two Views in Venice, by Canaletti: St. Peter delivered from Prison, the scene by De Neef, and figures by D. Teniers; a companion to this is, a View of the Interior of the Jesuit's Church at Antwerp, with the ceremony of the priest bearing the host, by the same artists; Infant Jesus Sleeping, by Murillio; Tobias curing his Father, by Rembrandt; two Landscapes, by Teniers; two pictures, representing a calm and a storm at sea, by Vanderweld; two Heads of a man and woman, by Denner; Landscape and Cattle, by Cuyp; a Crucifixion, by Vandyck; David and Solomon, by Rubens; and Hercules and Anteus, by the same. painter; View of Scheveling, storm coming on, by Ruysdael; a Chalk Kiln, by the same artist; two Landscapes, by Claude; the Death of Richard the Third, by Hayman. This curious picture displays that incident in the battle when Richard had just lost his horse; and as Hayman was intimate with Garrick, it is presumed that he drew the character and expression of Richard from that actor's personification of him. Mr. Boultbee, of Loughborough, issued proposals, some time back, for publishing a large print from this picture. The library contains a considerable collection of books; and in the house are several portraits of the Stuart family.

TOOLEY PARK, once a great ornament to the hundred of Sparkenhoe, is now chiefly disparked, and appropriated to the purpose of farming. It formerly belonged to the honor of Leicester, and was attached to the castle of Earl's Shilton, when the Earls of Leicester resided there. It was possessed, for several generations, by the Boothby family.

EARL'S SHILTON was formerly distinguished by its Norman castle; but this building is entirely destroyed, and its site only denoted by a mount, and a place called the Castle Yard, or Hall Yard. The court-leet belonging to this manor, says Burton, "is of large extent, to which the revenue of twenty-five towns belongs. This manor is now accounted part of the duchy

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of Lancaster, and has been so ever since Simon de Montford, Earl of Leicester, was slain at the battle of Evesham; upon which all his lands were given, by Henry the Third, to Edmund Crouckback, Earl of Lancaster, his second son." This place is a chapelry to Kirkby Malory, in which village is.

KIRKBY HALL, the pleasant seat of Lord Viscount Wentworth. This house is built of brick, and its principal front stuccoed. In the contiguous church are several monuments to different persons of the Noel family.

At KIRBY MUXLOE, near Leicester, a chapelry to Glenfield, are the ruins of an old mansion, which was formerly moated round, and had towers at the angles. This house is traditionally said to have been built by Lord Hastings, as a place of refuge for Jane Shore. The Hastings family certainly possessed this estate and lordship for many generations.

RATBY, about four miles north-west from Leicester, is a village and lordship belonging to the Earl of Stamford. Within this parish is a large entrenchment, which is formed in the shape of a parallelogram. Throsby says, that the embankment includes an area of "nine acres and thirty-one poles; the slope is thirty-nine feet and a half." From its lofty apex is obtained an extensive view of the circumjacent country. Our antiquaries have not described any Roman road in this direction; but it is extremely probable that the Via Divana, in communicating between Rata and Deva Colonia, passed this encampment. Near it is a spring called Holywell; and the place is usually called the Springs. Contiguous is an estate called Steward's Hay, which formerly belonged to the Sacheverell family, to the memory of one of whom there is a monument in the church. He gave a considerable sum of money to purchase lands for the benefit of the poor of Ratby. It is said, that John of Gaunt also gave other lands here for the same purpose. Steward's Hay is now the hunting-seat of Lord Stamford, who, as Baron Groby, is owner also of Groby Castle.

BRAUNSTON

BRAUNSTON HALL, the seat of Clement Winstanley, Esq. is situated in the northern angle of this hundred, at the distance of about two miles from Leicester. The house was built by the present proprietor about the year 1775, and is a neat plain edifice, situated in a part of the county that is finely wooded. This estate was purchased from the Hastings family early in the seventeenth century, by James Winstanley, Esq. an' ancestor of the present proprietor.

ENDERBY HALL, the seat of Charles Loraine Smith, Esq. stands about four miles south-west of Leicester, near the village of Enderby. The scenery here partakes of the wild romantic features of the forest; presenting a rocky hill, with some fine { woods. In the contiguous church is a neat monument, to the memory of Richard Smith, Esq. who died in 1762, and who left 500l. to propagate the gospel in foreign countries; 500l. to the marine society; the interest of 500l. to the vicars of Enderby; and 2001. to endow a school at the same place. Other branches of the same family are interred here. At the west end of the church is an handsome arch, decorated with the heads of men,' animals, &c. and supported by fluted columns, with foliated capitals.

This manor belonged to Sir Robert Neville, in the time of Edward the first; and was purchased by the Smith family soon' after the year 1720. Previous to this the Smiths (one of whom came to England with William the Conqueror) were seated first in the county of Durham, and afterwards at Kirkharle, in the county of Northumberland.

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OSBASTON HALL, the seat of Josias Cockshutt-Twisleton, Esq. is situated about two miles north-east of Market Bosworth. This estate formerly belonged to the Munday family, who ob-, tained some consequence in this county, and from whom it was purchased by the present possessor, who was High Sheriff of Leicestershire in the year 1789, and has since taken the name of Twisleton.

FRAMLAND

FRAMLAND HUNDRED occupies the north eastern portion Leicestershire, and runs, in a narrow neck of land, between the counties of Nottingham and Lincoln; the latter bounding it to the ea, and the former to the north. Part of Rutlandshire attaches tqhe southern side, and the hundred of East Goscote bounds it onthe west. A small portion of this hundred is included betwen the hundreds of Guthlaxton and East Goscote. The natual features of this part of the county are diversified by some bol elevations and fertile vallies. Among the latter, the Vale of Be oir, which extends along the north western side of this hundre, is noted for its prolific pasturage. Part of the Wolds extena nearly through the centre of it; and the rivers Eye and Deva derive their source from this district. The Grantham Cana crosses it from Nottinghamshire to Lincolnshire. Here is only one market town, Melton Mowbray; but it is adorned with noble seats at Belvoir, Croxton, Godeby, and Stapleford. A turnpike road communicates between Melton and Leicester; also from the former town to Oakham, to Nottingham, and to Graatham.

In 1283 this hundred was granted, by Edward the Second, to Roger Beler, for the fee-farm rent of 100 shillings. In the following year the grant was renewed, with the specification of some annual rents, which were termed Palfrey-Silver of Beauver, Wakyng-Silver, Shirefs-toth, and Frank-pledge. In 1346, this hundred was assessed 311. Os. 4d. towards knighting Edward of Woodstock. The hundred court now belongs to the Earl of Moira.

The following list of townships, &c. in this hundred, is extracted from Mr. Nichols's History.

MELTON-MOWBRAY, a vi- Wymondham, a rectory.

MELTON MOWBRAY,

In ancient writings called Medeltune, Meltone, and afterwards Melton-Mowbray, from its early lords, is a small well built town, situated in a vale, on the banks of the river Eye. It is fifteen miles distant from Leicester, sixteen from Granthain, twenty from Nottingham, and ten from Oakham; and is intersected by the turnpike roads leading to these towns. In the ecclesiastical division, it is included in the deanry of Framland.