Volume 1

The great historical, geographical, genealogical and poetical dictionary; being a curious miscellany of sacred and prophane history. Containing, in short, the lives and most remarkable actions of the patriarchs, judges, and kings of the Jews; of the apostles, fathers, and doctors of the church; of popes, cardinals, bishops, &c. ... Together with the establishment and progress both of religious and military orders, and the lives of their founders. As also, the fabulous history of the heathen gods and heroes. The description of empires, kingdoms, commonwealths, provinces, cities, towns, islands, mountains ... The whole being full of remarks and curious enquiries, for the illustration of several difficulties in theology, history, chronology and geography. Collected from the best historians, chronologers, and lexicographers ... but more especially out of Lewis Morery, D.D. his eighth edition corrected and enlarged by Monsieur Le Clerc; in two volumes in folio. To which are added, by way of supplement, inter-mix'd throughout the alphabet, the lives, most remarkable actions, and writings of several illustrious families of our English, Scotch and Irish nobility, and gentry, and most famous men of all professions, arts and sciences: as also, an exact description of these kingdoms; with the most considerable occurrences that have happened to this present time / [Louis Moréri].

Louis Moréri

Date:: 1701

Credit: The great historical, geographical, genealogical and poetical dictionary; being a curious miscellany of sacred and prophane history. Containing, in short, the lives and most remarkable actions of the patriarchs, judges, and kings of the Jews; of the apostles, fathers, and doctors of the church; of popes, cardinals, bishops, &c. ... Together with the establishment and progress both of religious and military orders, and the lives of their founders. As also, the fabulous history of the heathen gods and heroes. The description of empires, kingdoms, commonwealths, provinces, cities, towns, islands, mountains ... The whole being full of remarks and curious enquiries, for the illustration of several difficulties in theology, history, chronology and geography. Collected from the best historians, chronologers, and lexicographers ... but more especially out of Lewis Morery, D.D. his eighth edition corrected and enlarged by Monsieur Le Clerc; in two volumes in folio. To which are added, by way of supplement, inter-mix'd throughout the alphabet, the lives, most remarkable actions, and writings of several illustrious families of our English, Scotch and Irish nobility, and gentry, and most famous men of all professions, arts and sciences: as also, an exact description of these kingdoms; with the most considerable occurrences that have happened to this present time / [Louis Moréri]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$Pavi» j defended Turin afterwards againft the Imperialifts ; took ^(ierat, Saluces, and other Towns in Piedmont ; was taken Prifoner again near Perouane, An. i y 5.7 • fent Ambaf- fador Extraordinary to Vtnice, An. 1543- defeated the Eng- lijh thrice at Sea, two years after ; and managed the Treaty of Peace betwixt the Imperialifts, England, and Prance. He was Chief Minifter to Francis I. during Montmcrencj s Dil- grace, but fct alide by PlcnryW. He was a Perfon of ex¬ traordinary Probity, and without all Avarice. Thuantu, Mczeray. ANNECY, in Lat. Annechtm, a pretty large Town of Sanjoy, at the foot of the Mountahis of Sayrnenoz, a Lake of the fame Name, fix Leagues South of Gtneya, and rec¬ kon’d formerly the Capital oi that Dutchy : The Lake is unfathomably deep, four Leagues long, aird half a League broad, and gives rile to the River Tiaud. This Town is the Rclidence of the Titular Bilhops of Graew, hath feve- ral Churches and Monafteries , and the Houfes are all built upon Arches, which, with the feveral fmall Channels that run from the Lake, render it a line and plcafant Place. Baudrand. ANNESLEY ; James Earl of Anglefey in North-Wales, is Son of Arthur Annefley, the lirfl: who brought this Title into his Family. Being Lord Mount Morris, and Vifcount Valencia \n Ireland, was, in the year created by the late King Charles, Earl of Anglefey , in recompence of his Good and Faithful Service, to the hazard both of his Life and Fortune. This Nobly Family is defeended, by the Father , from the Ancient and Honourable Family of Annefley in Notthighamjjhire j and by Mother , from the Phi¬ lips of Pifton-CaBle in Pembrokejhire. The faid Arthur was Lord Privy-Seal moft part of King Charles's Reign, and died in the Reign of King jf/nw/r 11. being efteem’d a Per- Ibn of very great Learning and Parts. He was fucceeded in his Eftate and Title by his Son and ^eir, James, the prel'ent Earl of Anglefey, Wedded to Elizabeth, Daughter to the Earl of Rutland, by whom he has feveral Children. Dugdale. ANNIANUS of Campania, Deacon of Celedon, Ama- viunfs to Pelagius, a great Champion of that Hercfie. He flourilh’d An. 415’. wrote againft St. and Tranflated St. Chryfoflome's Homilies. Cave, Hifi. Lit. ANNICERIS, a Difciple of Arifippns: He ranfom’d Plata, and was Author of one of the Five Sefts of Cyrenaicks. Diog. Laert. in Arijitp. ANN IU S de Viterbo, a Dominican Friar, and Mafter of the Sacred Palace ; a good Linguift and Antiquary, but a far greater Impoftor, as appears by the feveral falfe Pieces and forged Treatifes, which he would have impofed upon the World as real. Antonius Augufht.tu, ijn his loth Dialogue, fays. That he got fome Infcriptions engraved, which he afterwards hid in Meadows and Vineyards, and took care that they fhould be found after fome time, and then carry’d ’em in Triumph to the Magiftrates of Viterbo, perfuading ’em that their City was of a longer Handing than Rome, and was built by Ijis and Ofiris, who liv’d 2000 ycars^before Romulus. He died in 1500. Leander Alberti has been im¬ pos’d on by him ; and fo has Sixtus Senenjis, Naucleras, Driedo, Medina, and others : For this j-cafon Jofeph Scaliger, Suarez, Voffm, Mirjetis, and feveral other Great Men, have caution’d young People againft giving credit to the Relations of this Annitts. Scalig. 1. i. de Emendat. Tempor. ANNO BON, an Ifland of Africa u^on tho Coafts of Guinea, towards the Cape de Logo, Gonfalves, and the Ifte of St. Thomas: It’s about 10 Leagues round: The Por- tuguefes drfeover’d it on Nete-year s^y, and therefore call it Awnabon. ANNO MEANS, the Name of the thorough-pac’J Arrians ill the 4th Century, becaufc they held the Ellence of the Son of Godj unlike to that of the Father. Thefe Hereticks were condeimied by the Semi-Arrians at the Coun¬ cil of Sekucia, An. 3 59. But they revenged themfelves of this Cenfure a year after, at a pretended Synod in (Sonfan- tinople. St. Hilar ad Confi. Socrat. 1. z. ANN ON AY, in Lat. Annmetm, a Town in France in the Upper Vivarets, two Leagues from the Rhofne ; has the Title of Marquifate belonging to the Family of Vantadour : Some Authors think this place very ancient, and that it had its Name from the Romans, who laid up great Provi- fions of Corn in it, which they call’d Annma: However, it fuffer’d exrreamly in the laft Civil Wars, being then twice pillag’d and burnt. Thuanus, Du Chefne. ANNONCIADE; There are feveral Orders and So¬ cieties of this Name ; but the moft remarkable is an Order of Knights, inftitutedby Amadeus Count of Savoy, in 1355. under the Name of the Knot of Love ; which Name Ama¬ deus VIII. the firft Duke of Savoy, chang’d for that of An- •nunciado. The Collar had thefe Letters engraven in it; F. E. R. T. which fignifie Fortitudo ejns Rhodum tenuit: His Valour held out Rhodes ; meaning Amadeus the Great, wh« forc’d the Saracens to raife the Siege of Rhodes, in 1310. The Cloak was firft Red, then Blue, and now of the Colour of an Amaranth, lin’d with Cloth of Silv-r, on a Ground of Blue, fring’d and border’d with True-Lovers Knots curioully wrought. The Great Collar of the Order, which the Knights wear at Solemn Feftivals and Publick Ceremonies, weighs 250 Crowns of Gold. Gutchenon Hiji. de Savoye. ANNONCIATION, a Feaft kept by the Church of Rome, in memory of the Angel’s faiutuig the Virgin Mary , and acquainting her that Ihe ftiould bring forth Chrift. It us’d to be folemniz’d on the 25th of March, which is the Day, as St. Augujiine thinks, whereon the Di¬ vine Word united it felf to Human Nature, until (S59. that the 1 oth Council of Toledo in Spain, order’d it Ihould be folemniz’d upon the i8th day of December, becaufc ic often fell in Pafllon-Week, a time of Penance rather than Mirth: But it was foon chang’d to its proper Day again, with Orders, That when it fell upon a Day dc- ftin’d to the Ceremonies of our Saviour’s Death or Re- furreftion, it Ihould then be kept after Eajler. S. Gregor. Thaumatuxg. AN OS SI, and Carcanofjt, a Province of Africa, in the Ifle of Madagafcar, where are fome French Colonies. Flacour. Hijl. de Madag. ANOT, a final] City of Provence in France, which has a Vote in the Alfembly at Provence, and is the .Chief Town of that mouncanious part of the Country where ic ftands. A N O T H, one of the ScHly Illands that lies Weft of the Lands end of Cornwal, and are call’d the Sorlingues by the French. ANPADORE, a River in Candia, call’d by the An* dents CatharaBus. Ptol. Suid. ANSA, a River in Friuli in Italy j it runs by Aquileia, and difeharges it fclf into the GuJph of Venice. The Latins call’d it Alfa, which is likewile the Name of HtUaius, or the JU in Alfatia. St. A N S C H AIR E, Sirnam’d The ApoJlU of the North, firft Archbilhop of Hamburgh and Bremen, was born in France about 805. and brought up in the Monaftery of Corbie. The fending for fome Clergy-men to Preach the Golpel in their Country, Anfchaire went thither in 829. became Archbilhop of Hamburgh in 834. and died ac Bremen of a Bloody-flux, in 869. after he had Converted a great part of the North. Paulin. Corhei Sax. ANSE, a final! Town of France in Lyonnais, near the Smt, four Leagues North of Lyons. The Emperor Auguflut kept a Garrifon of 2400 Men here, and call’d it Antium: Part of the Walls that lurrounded the Roman Camp, as alfo part of that Prince’s Palace, are ftill to be feen, though the Town was almoft utterly deftroy’d in the laft Civil Wars. A Council was held here by the Pope’s Legate, An. not. where all thofe who had vow'd an Expedition into the Holy Land, till they had put themfelves into a Condition to per¬ form the Sei-vice, w'ere Excommunicated. Parad. HiJi. de ANSELM, Archbilhop of Canterbury, fucceeded to Lsnfrank about the end of the nth Age, and the begin¬ ning of the 12th ; He w^as before Abbot of LeBer, about 5 Leagues from Rouan in Normandy, in the Reign of WiUiam Rufus, and Henry I. his Brother. Baronias gives him this Glorious Charafter, That he was the great Light of the Church, bccaufe the Holinefs of his Life, Soundnefs of his Doftrine, and Virtue of his Miracles, both alive and dead his Devotion and Learning, are unqueftionable. But it’s added, That he was fomewhat rigid, and Ipar’d no Man no, not the King himfelf Before his time, moft of the Clergy led a Conjugal Life j but Anfelm order’d that they Ihould nor Marry, and that none Ihould be admitted to Orders without a V®w of Celibacy: Such as were Married he turn’d out, cauling their Goods to be feiz’d to the ufe of their refpeftive Billiops, and declaring them and their Wives in a ftate of Fornicatipn; Nor could the King himfelf, W'ho commiferated their Cafe, incline him to any Moderation, being hurried on, not fo much by Ill-nature, a* by the prevalent Error of thofe Times.; Whereupon he was banifli’d by King Rufus, but recall’d by Hensy at his coming to the Crown. Soon after his Reftauration, broke out the Quarrel about the Biftiop’s Inveftiture, bein<T a Branch of the King’s Prerogative; againft which Pope Urban had decreed,That none Ihould be Confecrated Bifliop that was Inverted by the King ; the manner of which was by giving the Bilhop a Ring and a Paftoral Staff. Anfelm thereupon refus’d to Confecrate fuch as were Invefted by the King, or to own any for Bilhop that had been Coafe- crated in his abfence ; fo that he was forc’d to quit the Country again, till the matter being fettled between the Pope and King, he was recall’d about 1107. Iniiop. Jic died of a lingring Difeafe, and 400 years after, was Cano¬ niz’d for a Saint. Mr. Wharton, in his Anglia Sacra, adds, That, An. 1075. Anfehnhcing at the Council of Bari, in the Kingdom of Naples, the Pope forgot to affign him his Place, bccaufe of the Crowd of Prelates thronging in; but was quickly oblig’d to call for him, by the Subtilty of the Arguments brought by tlae to prove that the Holy Ghoft$

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