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Chatterton said that he had found in a chest in St. Mary Redcliffe Church manuscript poems by Canynge, a merchant of Bristol in the fifteenth century, and a friend of his, Thomas Rowley. He gave some of these manuscripts to George Catcot, a pewterer of Bristol, who communicated them to Mr. Barret, who was writing a History of Bristol. Rose's Biog. Dict. vi. 256. See Boswell's Hebrides, Sept. 22.
The 'magnet' has its name from Magnesia, a district of Thessaly; this same Magnesia, or else another like-named district in Asia Minor, yielding the medicinal earth so called. 'Artesian' wells are from the province of Artois in France, where they were long in use before introduced elsewhere. In the Middle Ages Baldacco was often supposed to be the same as 'Babylon'; see Florio's Ital. Dict.
He was created in 1793 earl of Mountnorris in the peerage of Ireland. The 1st viscount was also the ancestor of the Earls Annesley in the Irish peerage. Dom. AUTHORITIES. Dict. of Nat. In spite of his youth he held a brigade command for a time, and gained also, during the campaign, his first experience of the cavalry arm, with which he was thenceforward associated.
Dict. iii. 1571. See ante, ii. 7. See post, under Oct. 20, 1784, for 'the learned pig. In the first edition Mme. de Sévigné's name is printed Sevigné, in the second Sevigé, in the third Sevigne. Authors and compositors last century troubled themselves little about French words. Milton had put the same complaint into Adam's mouth:
Mason. What a multitude of unseen dangers, both spiritual and temporal, the Christian escapes before he is called! Ed. 5 "Rarely," finely, nicely. 6 A safe-conduct is a military term, either a convoy or guard for protection in an enemy's land, or a passport, by the sovereign of a country, to enable a subject to travel with safety. Imperial Dict. Ed. 7 What amazing love!
I came across it once in a book and looked it out in the dict. to see what it meant. It's used about sanctuaries and secrets. Do you remember what it is?" Frank did not give his mind to the question. He was thinking, with some pleasure, of the baffled rage of Lord Torrington when he was not allowed to land on Inishbawn.
Pallas, 'Spicilegia Zoolog. fasc. xiii. 1799, p. 24; Desmoulins, 'Dict. Class. d'Hist. In most cases, when only the male emits a strong odour during the breeding- season, it probably serves to excite or allure the female.
"January 10. This day started for Venice with a company of merchants, and among them him who had desired me for his scrivener; and so we are now agreed, I to write at night the letters he shall dict, and other matters, he to feed and lodge me on the road. We be many and armed, and soldiers with us to boot, so fear not the thieves which men say lie on the borders of Italy.
"Congregationalist" appeared in 1692, and "Congregationalism," not until 1716. J. Murray, A New English Dict. on Hist. Principles. About 1564, the other branch of the reform party was nicknamed "Puritan." G. L. Walker, History of the First Church in Hartford, p. 6. He was a Cambridge man, filling the positions of Professor of Divinity, Master of Trinity, and Chancellor of the University.
In the year 1620, negro slaves began to be imported into Virginia: a Dutch ship bringing twenty of them for sale." Sampson's Hist. Dict., p. 348.
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