This church is a rectory in the patron-
age of Eton College, and the parish of
St. Olave, Silver street, is united to it.
The Rector, besides other advantages,
receives 170l. in lieu of tithes.

Munday in his edition of Stow men-
tions several uncommon epitaphs in this
church, from which we have only se-
lected the following:

In the possession of Richard Mead, Esq;
in Albemarle street, is a book bought out
of the collection of the famous Cardinal
Maximi at Rome; it contain 148 ac-
curate and elegant paintings in water
colours, done from ancient pictures found
on the walls, ceilings and floors of the
baths of Titus, and various other buildings
in Rome, some of which have been en-
graved by Bartoli in his Sepolchri di Nas-
soni, and in other books: but many of
them are to be seen no where else, neither
engraved, nor on the walls from whence
they were first copied, where they are
much defaced by the weather, the smoke
of torches, and other acidents.

Of these ancient paintings on wall,
Mr. Mead has also a very elegant little
specimen representing Augustus restor-
ing a crown to a conquered Prince in the
presence of several of his courtiers, a-
mong which the faces of Mecænas and
Horace may be distinguished.---This
has been engraved and explained by
Turnbull.

An ancient Greek inscription, being
eight lines of Hexameter and Pentameter
verses on a marble brought from Asia,
which had been a pedestal to a statue of