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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$The next Year, having fubdued the Kingdom of he pafTed into Armenhty in d3$, «nd gained that memorai^le Vitlory over Tigranei, who was at the Head of an Army 0f 20QOOO Foot, and doooo Horfe, This done, he carried If- gramcertay the Capital of the Kingdom with Nifibe, and made himfeJf dreadful to all the Country. True it is, that in dSy, Triariusy his Lieutenant, being defeated by Mitbidates, and finding himfcif forfaken by his Forces, was obliged to retire. He was received at Kome as a great Conqueror, and his Trium¬ phal Pomp was very magnificent; and from that time for¬ wards, he lived in the greateft Splendor imaginable, as to Dreffing, Houfe-Furniture and Diet. He was learned, and had ftudied Eloquence and Philofophy under excellent Ma- flers, Anttochus Afcalonitay Sifenna and /Jortenfius. His love to Learning, made him furnifli an excellent Library men¬ tioned by Tally, Aurelius I'iSlor. Plutar.Orofius. L U C U S, whom fome make the 8th King of the ancient GmIs, reigned after Bardus II. Some think, he gave his Name to the People about Paris, who were called Lucotetiani. pupleix lib. 2. des Mem. des Gaulois cap. p. Ptolem. lib.Geogr, cap, 8. Strabo lib. 4. Csfar. lib. 6. 7. LUDLOW \n Shropfliire, a fair, large Borough-Town, beautified with many good Edifices. The Town is ftrong, being defended by a Wall, and a Caftle ; is alfo very popu¬ lous, and of chief Note, for being the Place where the Courts for the Marches of Wales were'formerly kept. ‘Tis governed by Bailiffs and Burgefies, and is 135 Miles {tom London. LUDOLPH US, a Carthufian, a Famous Writer of his Time, and a Saxon by Nation, flouriflied about-1330. He writ ttoe life of Chril}, drawn from the Four Evangelifls, (a piece in great Eficem) Commentaries upon the Pfalms, and a Treatife of the Remedy againft Temptations. Ludolphus wrote the Hiftory of /Fthiopia, in which he gives a handfome Ac¬ count of the Religion, Government, Produft, ^c. of that Country. Bofius cap. 2. de vir. illujlr. Carthuf. Trithem. Bellarm, Poffevinus. Vojjius. LUDOLPHUS, Curate of Sueben, who about 135s, undertook a Journey to the Holy Land, in which he fpenffive Years, a Relation whereof he dedicated to Baldvm, Earl of Steinfurt, and Bifhop of Paderborne. Which Travels of his are publi/hed with thofe of Mandeville and Marl^ Pole. Vojf. lib. 3. de Hijf. Lat. p. 798. Pojfevin. in Apfar, Sacro. Gefner in Bibl. LUDOLPHUS, call’d, by Bellarmine, Lupoldas de Beben- berg, was an eminent Lawyer in the Xlllth, or, as Ibmcfay, in the XIVth Century. He \vas ChanceiJor to Baldmn of the Houfe of Luxemburg, Archbifhop of Treves, and Brother to the Emperor HerryNW. which puts it pall difpute that he liv’d in the XIVth Century. To this Ludolphus dc- dicated his Book, De Jurihus Regni iy Imperii. He likewife wrote another, De Zelo Veterum Regum Gallia iyy Germania Prhicipum. Bellarmin, dt Script. Eccl. Pojfevin. de Appar. Sact. Vojjius de Hill. Lat. lib. 2. cap. 57. ^ L U G D U S, one of the ancient Kings of the Gauls, who fuccceded Harbon, his Father. It is fuppofed, that he was the Builder of the City of Lyons, and that bellowing his own Name upon it, it was called Lugdunum. LUGO, Lat. Lucus Augujli, Ara Sextlana, a Ci^ and Bifhop’s See of Spain in Gallida, under the Archbilnop of Compojiella, upon the River Mmho, 13 Leagues from Compo- fiella to the Eall, 10 from the Ocean South, and 30 from Leon Well. This was an ancient Roman City, mentioned by Pliny and Antoninus. Its hot Baths do ftill preferve it in re- pute. Long. 12.00. Lat. 43. 00. The firllCouncil of Lk^o, was celebrated in 5^9, to regulate the Bounds of Diocefes. There was another held in 572. It is to this Council, that St. Afartin of Bragua, fent 84 Chapters or Canons, taken out of the Greek Synods, and put into Latin 1 as likewife many which he liad taken out of the Councils of the Latin Churches. Some tell us of a third held in dio. Garcias de Prim, EccleJ. Tolet.ColleH. Concil. LUGO, a Town about 15 Miles from Ferrara in Italy, which in i588, was dellroyed by an Inundation of the River Po, in which about 8000 Perfons, belonging to this Place, and the Neighbourhood of it, were drowned. LUGO (John) a Cardinal, born at Madrid in 1583- He turn’d Jefuitc in 1603, had a Cardinal’s Hat given him by Vrban VIIL and died in 1660. He wrote fcveral great Vo¬ lumes in Folio: 1. De Incamatione Dominica. II. DeSacra- mentis in Genere, de Eucharijiia Sacramento jy Sacrificio. Iff. De Virtute iy Sacramento PenitentU. IVth and Vth Vo¬ lumes, Trail, de Jure iyjufitia. The Vfth. De Virtute Di-vina lidei. VII. AColleflion, Refponforum Moralium. Lugo was a very eminent School Divine, and had the Happinrts of being both brief and clear in his Writings, and had a llrong Judg- raent. As to the Preferments in the Church, he was very in¬ different and mortify’d, and appear’d very uneafie upon the News of his being made Cardinal. He was likewife very Cha¬ ritable to the Poor, and dillributed a great quantity of tlie Peruvian Bar^, or Jefuits Powder, among thofe of them that had Fevers. Nathaniel Sotuel Bibliotheca Scriptor. Societ. Jef pag. i^ratib. LUITHBERT, King of the Lombards, was the Son of Cunibert, to whom he fucceeded about 701; but being yet a young Child, he was Dethroned, -after he had Reigned about 8 Months. Paul. Duicon, Hiji, Long. LUITPRAND, King of the Lombards, fucctcded to his Father Anfprand, or Artfprand, in 713, and Reigned 31 Years and 7 Months. He was Pious and Liberal, and contrafted Friendfhip with Charles Martel, who had a great value for him. Thrafmund, Duke of Spoleto, having iocenfed him, by entring into a League with Godefchalc\, who had invaded thd Dukedom of Benevento, Luitprand took up Arms againfl them both, and forced them to retire for Safeguard into the Terri¬ tories of Pope Gregory III. who entertained them, and made a League with them ^ whereupon Luitprand took fome Places in the Eccicfialtical State, and advanced with his Army to be- fiege Rome, which terrifying the Pope, he fent to C/anr/ej Martel for his Afftllance, who, being unwilling to break with Luitprandus, accommodated the Matter. After this,Luitprand entred into a League with Gregory, and retfored to him fome of the Places he had taken from him, after that he had fub¬ dued Thrafitnund. In 742, he befieged Ravenna, and Pope Zachary compofed the Difference he had with the Exarch of that City. He died the Year after in 745. Paul. Diacon. Hiji. Lomb. Anajiaf. in vit. Pontif, Baron, in Annal. LUITPRAND, Sub-deacon of Toledo, Deacon of Pavi^^ and afterwards Bilhop of Cremona, lived in the Xth Centur). He was Secretary to Berenger II. King of Italy, who, in 945, fent him on an EmbalTy to Cony?<jnt;no/)/e, to Cdnftantine -Pots phyrogeneta; at his return, he had fome Difference with Bet renger, who chafed him from his Billioprick, againll whom Luitprand writ his Antapodofis. He took a fecond Journey to Conjiantinople, in $68, at the Requell of the Emperor Oihbi who fent him to Nkephorus Phacas. We have his Works Stinted in one Volume in Folio at Antwerp, in 1540, with the lotcs of Father Jerom de la Higuera, a Jeluit, and of LaureH- tius Ramkes de Prado. As for the Hillory of the Popes attrl-^ buted to him, which ends at Formojus, it is fure, that it is none of his, as the Learned agree, nor any of thofe Pieces that are' added at the end of his Works, nor thofe Fabulous Chronicles of the Goths, which the Spaniards tell us are his^ and which they publifh as very rare and curious Pieces. Si^ gebertcap. §27. de Script. Ecclej. Trithem. in Cat at, & in chront An. Ch. 892. Ludovic. Clavitel in Annal, Cremona. LU L LI US (Kaimundus) Originally of Catalonia, ahd born in the Kland Majorca, lived towards the end of the Xllltfi Century, and at the beginning of the XIVth, was a Perfon of high Knowledge in Philofophy, Chymillryand Phyfick, and# indeed, in all Sciences and Faculties whatfoever. He deci- ahered his extraordinary Genius in the Books following, vi^i Generates Artium libri, libri Logicales, Phildfophici, Metaphyficli Variarum Artium libri, Medicina, Juris utriufque, libri Spirt- tuales, Pradicabiles, Iluodlibetict, jy Difputationum. Bcfidcs his incomparable Writings in the fecrct Art of Chymiflry,- highly efteemed by the Lovers of it. It it is faid, that to¬ wards the latter end of his Life, he wholly dedicated hirtfelf to God, and palTing over into Ajrka, preached the Gofpel there to the Saracens, by whom he was Honed in that good Work, March x6. 131$, being then 80 Years of Age; whofc Body being found, as ’tis faid, by a miraculous Apparition of a Pillar of Light over it, was brought back to Majorca, and buried in the Cathedral there, where, to this day, he is ho¬ noured as a Martyr. There are fome, who give us a Very different Account of this Lully, and would make him a Magi¬ cian, or an Heretick as for the imputation of a Magician, if probably was given him from his great Skill in the deep^ft Se¬ crets of Nature; but as for the Name of Heretick, that was put upon him by Miftake, as confounding him with one Rai^ mund of Terraca, called Neophyta, a Jew, who embraced the ChriHian Religion, and took the Habit of a Dominican at Ar- ragon, where he maintained fome very extravagant and Orange Opinions, as, That in fome Cafes the Devi] might be Wor- Oiipped, with the Adoration of Latria; That in great Tor¬ ments one might deny God with the Mouth, fo as one did but confefs him in the Heart; That every Sinner was an He¬ retick ; That God loved the Evil as well as tlu Goo.. ; ’ hat the Law of Mahomet was as Orthodox as that of Jcfui ChriO; That it was impoflible to obferve anv one Divine Prer pt in this Life, &c. All which erroneous Opinions wt.o examined before Petrus Flandrinus, fent by Pope Gregory X I. fv^r that purpofe, Charles de Bouville life of Raimund Lully. W'^inge in Annal. fy Bibl, Min. Andr. Schottus in Bibl. H/fp. Bellarm. de Script.$

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