down from the Cross," executed by P. Mequignon, and was the gift of Richard Smith, Esq. It is a received opinion, that the TOWER was built after the model of that belonging to the great church of Antwerp; and comparing it with the print of that structure, drawn and engraved by Hollar, there is evidently a great similarity. It is peculiarly handsome, and measures 282 feet in height. The shape and altitude of this part of the structure, with the extreme richness of the tracery, windows, buttresses, pinnacles, lantern, &c. conspire to render it an object of general attraction and admiration. It may, perhaps, without depreciating other similar edifices, be pronounced the most elegant tower in England. It is divided into four stories, exclusive of an ornamented basement. In the lower tier are three large windows, full of mullions and tracery. In the next story. there are two windows on each front, with ogee canopies: and above these is the third story, having one large window in each front. This division is crowned with a parapet, embattled wall, and an octangular lantern, which has a window in each face, and is connected with the corner pinnacles by flying buttresses*. The length of the church, from the western door in the tower to the east wall in the chancel, is two hundred and ninety feet, and the breadth of the nave and ailes ninety-nine feet..

Besides the church, Boston contains a meeting house for the sect called Independents, a general Baptist chapel, a Calvinistic Baptist chapel, an Arminian Methodistic chapel, and another chapel for a sect who style themselves Universalists.

Among the charitable foundations in this town, is the free grammar school, which was first endowed by a grant, dated 17th of January, 1554, of lands in the time of Queen Mary; but, as appears by an inscription over the entrance, the school was not erected till the ninth year of Elizabeth.

A charity

A view of this very elegant tower, with a particular description, and some architectural details, will be given in the third volume of the Architec tural Antiquities of Great Britain.

A charity school was founded by a Mr. Laughton, for twentyfive boys, who are to be sons of free burgesses, and are admissible at the age of seven years. They remain till they arrive at fourteen, when each boy, as he goes off the foundation, is entitled to receive ten pounds as a premium to put him apprentice, provided he be bound to a free burgess.

The blue-coat school, established about the year 1713, is supported chiefly by subscription, and admits thirty boys, to be taught reading, writing, and arithmetic; and twenty girls, who are instructed in reading, knitting, and plain work.

In the year 1795, a general dispensary was instituted, which has been laudably supported by subscription; and from which the poor of the town and neighbourhood have received very considerable benefit.

A permanent library was established in 1799, which, with various reading societies, evince, that the inhabitants of Boston have a taste for literature, and that, amidst other pleasures, they do not neglect those which arise from the cultivation of the mind.

A theatre, on a large scale, was erected, and fitted up in the modern style, in the year 1806.

But among the greatest improvements which have been made in this town may be ranked that of deepening the channel of the river, and enlarging the harbour, which have been effected from the designs of the scientific engineer, Mr. Rennie. Part of the plan which has been put in execution, is the erection of an iron bridge. It consists of a single arch, the small segment of a large circle, eighty-six feet in the span; and the breadth, including the cornice on each side, is thirty-nine feet. A circumstance observable in this bridge, and which is a striking feature in all Mr. Rennie's structures of this kind is, the placing the abutments so deep and low, as to relieve the convexity of the arch. So that instead of the artificial and inconvenient hills which bridges usually occasion in the road, the passage is, by this means, permitted to keep an horizontal direction. The expence was defrayed by the corpora

tion of Boston; and which, including the purchase-money of buildings, &c. amounted to nearly the sum of 22,000l. It was made passable for carriages, May 2d, 1807.

Boston, like most other places in marshy situations near the sea, experiences a deficiency of good water, as that from the wells is generally brackish. This is found to be the case after boring to a great depth. There are, however, a few private wells, or reservoirs, and one public pump, which furnishes tolerably good water. The cavity with which the latter communicates, consists of two large ancient vaulted rooms, built of brick. JOHN FOX, the martyrologist, whose fame, through his works, has stood the ordeal of ages, and who occasioned much contention among the papists and protestants, was a native of Boston. He was educated at Oxford, and became fellow of Magdalen college; but refusing to conform to the motley religion set up by King Henry the Eighth, after he had renounced the pope's supremacy, he was appointed tutor to the Duke of Norfolk's family, and preached the gospel at Ryegate. To save him from the persecution of the sanguinary Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester, the duke sent him into Germany. In the time of Edward the Sixth he returned, and resumed his function at Ryegate. Queen Mary soon afterwards ascending the throne, he was again obliged to fly; on which occasion he went to his friend Operinus, printer at Basil, whom he had formerly assisted, and there first published his Latin edition of "The Book of Martyrs." On Queen Elizabeth's coming to the crown, Fox returned again to England; was well received by the Duke of Norfolk, and, through his patronage, became minister of Ryegate, and pre-. bendary of Shipton, in the diocess of Salisbury.

KIRTON WAPENTAKE contains the parishes of Algarkirk, Bickor, Brothertoft, Donington, Fosdyke, Frampton, Gosberton, Kirton Quadring, Skirbeck Quarter, Surfleet, Sutterton,: Swineshead,