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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l ight, whom he punifhed cruelly, putting out their Lyes, and lending them to their Homes, allowing each (lompany a Guide, with one Eye. This Cruelty broke Sittnuel's Heart, and got the Emperor no Credit, though he was famous for other Vertues. He died fuddenly in loiy. and left his Crownto his Brother Conjl ant ine the Tomig. Zonaras, Cedrentu. BASILIUS the Firft of this Name, Great Duke of Mufeozy, who lived in the latter end of the Tenth Age ; his lirll: Name was Woldimer, and he was Son of Stc/lans. He' embraced the Chriftiaii Faith in 988. and changed his Name Woldimer for Bajilita, which became a Name com¬ mon amongfl: the Dukes that fucceeded him. Bafilim II. Son to DenietriuiW. lived about the year 1400. and left George III. Father to Bafilius III. This had John Bafilides, to whom Bafilins IV. fucceeded in 1505. and was much efteemed for his Wiidom, Courage, and feveral Viftories which he gained againft the Tartars. He died in 1533. Sanfoviu. BASILIUS Suiski, Great Duke of Mufcovy, mounted the Throne in 1606. when Demetrius was murrhered by the Rebels, but was rival’d by another Demetrius., backed by the Polavders, who defeated his Army at AVorMo in 1607. worded him the next year at BolchotP, and at lad de¬ throned him in idio. and fliut him up in the Fort of Cojlin, where he ended his Life miferably. Jacob. Bu- tenfels. BASILIUS, ‘a Pried of Cilicia, lived in the latter end of the Fifth Age, in the Reign of Zfwoand Anajlafais. He compofed an Ecclefiadical Hidory in Three Books, and made Sixteen otiiers againd John of Scythopolis, which we have lod. Photius, Cod. 42. 107. &c. BASILIUS, a certain Phylician who lived in the lat¬ ter end of the Eleventh, and the beginning of the Twelfth Age. It is faid of him, that he put on a Friars Habit, and went about to teach the Errors of the Bongomiles, of rvhich he himfelf was the Head ; and that after he had followed this Office Fifty years, he was taken at CowJlaK- tinople, where the Emperor Alexis Comnenus the Ancient, caufed him to be burnt about 1118. Baron. A. Ch. r 118. BASILIUS {John of Padua) a Lawyer and Cofmogra- pher, lived in the Thirteenth Century, about 1320. He writ divers Book.s, and among the red one of the Illudrious Families of Padua. Voffius. BASINA, Wife to Bafmus King of Thuringia, to whom Childeric King of Fs-ance fled in 439. Bajina was lb enamour¬ ed with this Stranger, that Ihe left her Husband and fol¬ lowed him ; Childeric Married her, and begot Clouis\. BASINGSTOKE, a Market Town of Bajlngfloke Flundred in the North Vtins of Hamyjhire, 39 miles from London ; near to it the Duke of Bolton has a Seat, formerly a Stately and Beautiful Strufture, and the greated Houle of any Subjeft in England, but now ruinous. BASQUES, or the Country of the Bafques, which feme call the French Bifcay, is part of Gafcosiy, betweun the Spanijh Navarre, the Bearne, the Landes, and that part of the ' Ocean which is call’d the Sea of the Bafques. It comprehends the Lower Navarre, in which is St. Palace, the Country of Labour, where are Bagonne, and the Vil'county of Soule, whereof the Capital is Mauleon of Sorde. The Name of Sfques or Bafeos corhes from the Latin Fafeones, for fo thel'e People were called before Charlemain fubdued G/iyioj/j. The Bafques ate commended for their Addrefs and Fidelity, and for their Skill in Commerce with the Spaniards ; they make certain Bargains, rvhich they term Lies and Paferies. Their Language is particular, and they are known by'^riteir Drums. De Marc a. B A S S A, See Backa. BASSANELLO, or Baffano, a little Town in the Pa¬ trimony of St. Peter in Italy ; near the place where the River Nero joins the Tiber, and not far off the Lake which the Ancients called Lacus Fadimonk, where P. Cornelius Do- labella, the Roman Conful, defeated the Gauls and Tufeans in 47 I of Rome. Tit. liv. Polyb. BASSANO, a Town of Italy in the Marcha of Trevi- fana, belonging to the State of Fenice: It is lituated upon the River of Brente, in a Country wffiich abounds in all things, and efpecially in Silks. The Carrares, ancient Lords of Padua, were of Baffano, which was allb the Birth¬ place of feveral famous Painters, and of Lazarus Baffanns, that Learned Linguifl, who firff taught Greek at Bolognia, and afterwards at Padoua. B A S S E ’ E upon Duele, a Town in Flanders on the Fron¬ tiers of Artois, five Leagues from Life. It has been often taken and re-taken in this Age, but was at lad left to the French hy the Peace of Aix la chayelle in 1668. BASSE, an Ifland in the River Forth in Scotland, about eight miles South of the Ifle of May. It is nearer the Coaft of Lothian than that of Fife by feveral miles, yet is reckon¬ ed to belong to the latter. It was formerly in pofleffion of a Family Sirnamed Lauder, who though they had ample Poffieffions elfewherc, chofe the Bafe for Title. It is on every llde a fteep and inacceffible Rock, except on the South-wefl, and there only acceffible by one at a time, and that not without the help of a Cable or Crane ; at the top of that fmall Palfage there is a Fort mounted with fomc Cannon, fo that it is altogether impregnable. It was fur- priz’d fince the Revolution by fome of King James's Party, wdth the Help of fome Prilbners within; but being of fmall Circuit, and at a great diftance from the Shoar on each fide, as it is not capable of receiving, neither is it capable of doing much hurt. It hath Grals for about 20 Sheep, and a fmall Warren with fome Rabbets, and rifes to a great height in a Conical Form above the Sea. It hath a Fountain of very clear freffi Water, and is efpecially noted for Birds called Soland-Geefe, which come thither in April or May in great Numbers, at which time the Inha- bit.mts are careful not to difturb them till they have built their Neffs, after which they cannot be frighted by any Noife whatever. They are lomewhat lefs than common Geefe, but fatter than any other Fowl, and taff much like Flerring, on which they feed. They lay but one Egg, and that no oftner than once a year ; and if their Egg be removed from its P]ace,no Man can make it lie there again. A great Profit is made by their young ones, which are taken from the Neffs by one let down over the Rock with a Cable .- They are of an Affi Colour, but the old ones are all White ; their Feathers do alfo bring a great Income for filling of Beds ; they have a long Neck like a Crane, and a Bill as long as ones Middle-finger, which is extreamly fliarp, and fo firmly fix’d to their Breaff-bone, that it can¬ not be pull’d thence. Nature having provided thus for its Prefervation, leff it ffiould break its Neck by ftriking at its Prey, which it docs with that Violence, as to ftrike through a Fifli fo deep into a Plank, that they cannot pull their Beak out again, fo that they are often taken by faff- ning a Herring to a Board on purpofe. It is alfo obferved concerning them, that if they be out of fight of the Sea, they cannot fly. The Sticks of their Neffs furnilh Fuel to the Inhabitants. Gordon. Theat. Scotia. BASSENTIN {James) a Scotchman, in great effeem in the laff Age, compofed feveral Treatifes of Mathema- ticks ; amongfl: others, one of the Ufe of the and another of the Sphere. BAS SI {Angelo) called Politian, one of the Learnedell Men that were in Italy in the end of the Fifteenth Age ; he was of Monte Pulci'ano, which is a little Town of Tufeany, called in Latin, Mons Politianas, whence he had the Name of Politian. He was much effeemed for his Wit and great Skill in the Latin Greek TJongoes, which he taught for Twelve years at Florence, whither he was invited hy Lnu~ rence de Medick, who drew all the ableff Men of his Time thither. Bajp being then a Prieff, got a Canonicate, and was made Tutor to Cofmus of Medick's Children, whereof one was John, who afterwards was Pope, under the Name of Leo the Tenth. Here BaJJt enjoyed himfelf quietly, converfing daily with learned Men, but moff of all with John Pictis of Mirandula. It was then he compofed his Greek and Latin Epiffles, which are in fuch great effeem among the Learned, and writ the witty Verfes, for which Paul Jove called him the Divine Poet, together with his admirable Tranflarion of But A/rrf/«r’s Difgrac# occafioned that of all the Learned Men of Florence: Ange¬ las Politian had his Part in it, which alfo broke his Heart, for he died in 1394, being Forty years of Age. Paulas Jovius, Foffim. BASSIANUS Landus, an Eininent Phyfician of Pla¬ centia in Italy, living in the Sixteenth Century ; He has written feveral confiderable Pieces. De Humana Hiftoria. De Incremento. latrologia, &c. Wolfangus Juftns in Chrts. Medic. Fand^r Linden De Script. Medic. &c. BASSOLIS {John) a Francifean, fome will have him to be a Difciple of Scotus. He got the Title of Doctor Ordi- natiffmus, and recommended himfelf to Pofterity by feveral Books that he publiflied, as Commentaria feu Leclttra in quatuor Libros fententiarum. Mifcellanea Philofophica & Medics, drc. He lived in the Fifteenth Century. Bellarmine. BA S'SOM PIERRE {Franck) Knight of the Kings Orders, Colonel of the Svoitzers, and Marefchal of France, was born in 1379. of a Noble Family in f-onww. Chriflo- pher of Baffompierre his Father, a Man of Worth and Cou¬ rage, was wounded in the Battel of Moncontonr, and had the Title of Baroji of Harouel, a Place in Lorrain. Franck Baffompierre was made Maffer of the Artillery in at the Siege of Caflle Porcien ■, and in 1610. he krveA M.srefchal de Camp at the Fight of Pont de ce', and at the Sieges of St. John de Angeli and Montpelier, &c. The King .made him Knight of his own Order, and Marefchal of France the 29th of Augufl 1621. and fent him Extraordinary, Ambiiffador into Spain, where he was when Philip the Third died. He was afterwards imploy’d in Suiferland and England by King Lewis the Thirteenth : He was at the Siege of Rochelle, at the Attack of the Palfage of Sufi, and on all Occafions gave great Proofs of his Conduct and Valour; notwith- ffanding all which, he was feiz’d in id3i. and put in the Bafiile, where he was kept as long as Q,^plvn^\ Richelieu lived.

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