Colleg: Med: Lond: Soc."
I have not been able to discover whether this gentleman was related to the Mortons of Severn Stoke, co. Worcester.
J. B. WHITBORNE.
Moravian Hymns (Vol. iv., pp. 30. 502.; Vol. v., pp. 113. 129.).
—Your correspondents having met with the third part only, I will describe the first and second parts now before me. Both were printed for James Hutton, London, 1746, who printed also The Watchwords of the Covenant in the Blood of Jesus for the Years 1743 and 1746. They contain 403 hymns, and two supplements. I have sought in vain for the hymn in the New Bath Guide, but the two following will show that Anstey did not colour too highly.
Many circumstances concurred to render these books now very rare. The impression was undoubtedly limited, and the wear and tear of enthusiastic singers for above a century, of a 12mo. book of nearly a thousand pages, very great. Unless preserved in "N. & Q.," the existence of such hymns might be doubted some years hence, even by the religious fraternity for whom they were compiled, and whose collection is now widely different:
"Jesu! our joy, and loving friend,
Both thy dear wings around extend,
Thy little chickens hide.
Would Satan seize us as his prey,