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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Roman or Civil Law in Greece : As for Italy, as has been re¬ marked already, it was little obferv’d there for the fpace of 5od Years, after the beath of the Emperor Jujliman : For the Goths made thcmfelves Mafters of Ita'y about Sixty Years after the Reign of that Emperor, and the Lombards, having chas’d the Goths out of that Country, Reign’d there about 200 Years. During this time, the and held the Government of Spain 5 and tlie Gotbs, Hans, and other Barbarous People feiz’d upon part of Gnal. Charlemagne, having Conquer’d Deftderins King of the Lombards in the Year 774, was chofen Emperor of the Remans, by the Senate and People of Rome, in the Pon¬ tificate of Leo nr. This Emperor had then a defign of Revi¬ ving the Praftice of the Roman or Civil Law, but the Men of that Profeffion could not furnifh him with a Copy of what JuJli- nian had Publifh’d ■, but at lafl, in the Year 1157. in tlie Reign of Lotharius II. Emperor of the Weft, and in the Popedom of Innocent II. they found a Copy of the D/geJfsat Amalfi in Puglia, which was call’d the Florentine Fandebls, for a rcafon to be given by and by. The Emperor Lothariw and Pope Innocent, joyning in a War againft Roger, King of Sicily 2nd Naples, dc- fir'd AfTiftance from the then Republick of Pifa. In’the Courfe of this War, the Town of Amalfi being taken by Storm, and Plunder’d, Juftinian's Copy abovemention’d, being found there, was given to the Pifan's, for the good Services tliey had done upon this occafion. Thefe Books remain’d in the Hands of this Common-wealtli, till they were Conquer’d by the Florentines, who carried off the Pandebls, from I’ifa to Florence-, where they are ftill carefully preferv’d, as the only, or at leaf! the moft Au- thentick Original of the Roman Law. After the difeovery of thefe Pandells, the Emperor LMharm II. fet forth an Ediff, Commanding the Roman or Civil Law to be taught in Publick Schools, and that Caufes fhould be Try’d by it; and, in the Year 1150, gave Irnerm leave to Read upon’t, in the Llniverfi- ty of Bononia, after whom, it was taught and cultivated in the fame Place, by feveral Eminent Profeffors, as, Placentinas, Ao^o, Accurfm, dyyc. There have been likewife, a great m^ny otlier famous Civilians in feveral Parts of Europe, as Bartholm at Pifa, and Perugia -, Baldus at Bononia and Pavia ; Alciat, Coverruvjus, Antonins Auguflinus, iyyc. The moil Eminent Civilians in France, are, Budaw, Duarenus, du-Moulin, Cujacius, Hottoman, Brijfonius, Tiraqueao, Chopinus, Pithaus, tfy-c. The Roman or Civil Law was not Receiv’d in Germany til! the XVth. Century, but fincethat time, it has made its way ftrther there than elfewhere,upon the account oftheEmperors of this Country Oiling themfelves the Succeffors of the Roman Emperors. Hijloire du Droit Remain, A Paris Che\ H. Jo^fiet. LAWENBURG, or LAWENBORCH, a Town of Germany, in the Circle of Upper S’rfxony, and Dutchy oi Pome¬ rania, fubjeft to the Eleftor of Brandenburg. It Hands near the Baltick^, 95 Miles Weft of Dttntzick. LAWENBURG, Lat. Lawenburgum, a Town of the Lower Saxony, upon the River Elbe, Eight German Miles from Hamburg to the Eaft, the Capital of a Dukedom of the fame Name, under the Dominion of its own Duke, of the ancient Family of the Dukes of Saxony. It lies between the Dukedoms of Lunenburg, Mecklenburg and Holfiein. L A X I, a Market-Town of the Ifle of Man, feated upon a Bay, from hence called Laxi-Bay, on the Eaft Side of the Ifland. L A Z A C H, a Kingdom of Arabia Faelix, with a City of the fame Name, at prefent in the PofiefTton of the Turks. LAZARUS, the Brother of Mary Magdalen and Martha, whom our Saviour raifed from the Dead after he had been four Days in the Grave. The Tradition of the Churches of Provence tells us, That after the Death of Jefus Chrijl, Mary Magdalen, Martha, Lazarus and Maximinus were expofed to the Sea in an old torn Veftcl; which arriving at Marfeilles, Lazarus was made the firft Bifliop of that Church. St. LAZARUS, an Order of Kniglithood, which the Weftern Chriftians eftablifhed when they were in Poffelfion of the Holy Land. Their Employment was, to entertain Pilgrims in certain Houfes exprefly built for them, and to conduft them on their Way, and proteft them from the Mahometans. The Popes be- ftowed great Privileges, and the Chriliian Princes large Polfcf. lions upon them. King Lew’/j VlI. furnamed ite Younger, be-, flowed upon them the Land of Boigni, near Orleans, where the Knights of St. Lazarus feated themfelves after that the Chrifltans were driven out of the Holy Land. But tlie Knights of Maltha got Pope Innocent VIII. to fupprefs this Order, 3nd to unite it to theirs. Yet King Henry \N. in i5o8. obtained a Bull of the Pope for the re-eftablilbing of the faid Order. Thefe Knights, amongft other Privileges, had leave to Marry, and to enjoy Penfions out of Confiftorial Benefices. This Order hath Iwen, farther encouraged by the prefent French King Lewis XIV. This Order is the fame with that of St. Maurice in S.ivoy, and of St. Lazarus in Italy. Albert le Mire Crig. des ord. milit. Favin. lifi. des ord. mil. De Bello Or'g. & inlh de Divers ordres de Che- val, iyyc. LAZIANS, or LAXIANS, a People of the European Sarmatia, who formerly lived on the Banks of the Palus Msotis, or, as others fay, at the PorU Cafpie near the Iberjans. They were converted about 522, under the Papacy ol Hormifda -, Zatus their King was Baptized at Conflantinople, Jufiinus, the Emperor being his Godfather, and at his departure beftowed a Crown and Royal Robe upon him. LAZIARD (JohnJ a Ce/e/l/n Monk, living towards the end' ot the XVIth. Century. He wrote an Abridgment of Uni- verfal Hiftory, Publifh’d by Edmond le Fevre, and continued to the fifth Year of Francis I. by Hubert Felleitts. Voffius de Hijt. Lat. LAZIUS QVolfgangusJ a German Pliyfician, and Hiflorian to the Emperor Ferdinand 1. He lived in the XVtIi. Century, and was born at Vienna in' Aujlria, where he ftuditd Nineteen Years. He was well verfed in Antiquities. He died in 1555. We have the following Works of his. Commentariorum Reip. Ro¬ mans in exteris Provinciis Bello acquifitis, confiHutee tibri JCII. De Gentium Migrationibus. Chorographia Pi,nnoni£. Alvearium Antiqui- tatis. In Genealogiam Auflriacam Cimmentariorum lib. 2. i^c. Pan- tal. lib. 3. Profopegr. Gefiier. Bibl. Reufner in Icomb. Melch. Adam in vit. Germ. Atedic. 0^ Fhilof. LEA, a River which hath its fource in Hartfirdjhirc, and afterwards lerves as boundary betwixt Effex and Middlcfex. In Hartfordfijre it waters Hartford and IVare and in EJJex, Waltbam- Abbey. L E N A, a Courtezan of Athens, who lived in the LXVIth. Olympiad. She was confeious to the Confpiracy of HarmodiuS and Ariihgitou againft Pijifiratus, and being interrogated there¬ upon, fhe bit off her Tongue, rather than ftie would difeover what fhe knew of it. The Athenians affefted with this extraor¬ dinary Aftion, erefted, in honour of her, the Statue of a Lionefs without a Tongue. LEAGUE, called The Holy League, a Party or Confpiracy formed in France, in i 57<5, for Defence as was pretended, of the Romifh Religion. The firft who laid the Defign of a, General League of the Papifts, under another Head than the King, was the Cardinal of Lcrrain, vvhilft he was at the Council of Trent. He reprefented to the chief Men of that Affembly, and, by them, to the Pope, that for the maintaining of the Popifli Re¬ ligion, it would be neceffary to forma League of many Princes and Lords, of whom the King of Spain was to be one, and the Pope Proteftor of it, which Princes, fo Leagued, were to chufe a Head, to whom all the Rom.mifis fliould be bound to obey. This Defign being approved of, they were about chufing the Duke of Guife to be Head of the League, at the fame time that the News was brought of his death. The Cardinal did not quit his Defign for all this, butexpefted Ten or Eleven Years, till his Nephew, the young Duke of Guife, was in a condition to take upon him the fame Charge, at which time, he propounded the fame thing again to the Pope and King of Spain, who both complied with the Propofa], tho’ upon different Motives, the one of a defire to exterminate the Proteftants, the other in hopes to be a gainer by the Diforders, which this League could not fail to produce in France. The Cardinal of Lorrain dying before the Enterprife was compleated, the Duke of Guife was unwilling to quit the Defign, and therefore in 157^, caufed a Projeft to be made of the League, which he got fecretly difperfed amongft the moft zealous Papifts, or thofe who were known to be fa¬ vourers of the Houfe of Guife-, and particularly he confided much in the Sieur rf’ Humieres, Governor of Peronne, who, find¬ ing that the XII. Articles, of which the League confifted, did too openly attack the Royal Authority, he inftead thereof made XVIII- other Articles, which were fo worded, as if the League were only defigned for the King’s Service, the Subftance where¬ of was to this effeft, vi^. That all Obedience fiiould be rendred to the King, That they promifed to maintain the Exercife of the Romifl) Religion. That tlie Nobility and Gentry fliould ei¬ ther ferve in Perfon, or provide Men, Horfes and Arms; and tliat the Clergy and Commons fliould contribute to the Expences of the League, according to the Taxes that fhould be regulated for that purpofe. This Aft was figned at Peronne, Feb. 19. by near 200 Gentlemen, and Ofticers of the Province; and the Ex¬ ample of thofe of Picardy, was foon followed in all the Provinces of the Kingdom. But he that declared himfelf the liigheft for that Party, was the Lord of Tremouville, who was afterwards Governor of Poitou. In November the fame Year, the States of the Kingdom afl'embled at Blo{s, prohibited tlie Exercift of the Proteflant Religion, they of the League proving the ftrongeft Party there. Tlie King leeing that the Leaguers, rather endea¬ voured to weaken his Authority, than to crufli the Proteflants, declared he would himfelf be Head of the League, to make him¬ felf Mafler of the Party. But being a Prince that did not much affeft War, he granted the Proteflants the Edift of Poilliers, in 1578, which permitted them the Exercife of their Religion, according to the fore-going Edifts of Pacification. The Leaguers, who had not dared to undertake any thing, fince the King had named himfelf their Head, declared themfelves all on a fuddain, in 1581, that they took the Duke of Guife to be their Head ; tlieir Pretence for this Innovation, being the Alliance the Kiilg of France liad made with fhe King of Narwre, who, according to their flile, was an Heretick. The Duke ot Guife drew the Cardinal of Bourbon into the League, in hopes of the Crown, and became more powerful by the conjunftion of the Parifian League, called Tloe Seize or Sixteen. This particular League was^begun by a Citizen of Faris called Roche-blond, who form’d a Party, the Heads whereof were about Forty; but becaufe they diflributed to fomc of them, the fixteen Quarters or Wards of the City, to execute what had been refolvcd in their Council, U they

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