tle Tartary; who still retain their ancient manner of living.

NOMÆ, an ancient town of Sicily. Diod. xi. NOMAES, or NOMAO, a town of Portugal, in Beira: 6 miles SE. of St Joa de Pefqueera. *NOMANCY. n. f. [nomance, nomancie, Fr. nomen, Lat. and avisa, Greek.] The art of divining the fates of perfons by the letters that form their names. Dia.

(1.) NO-MAN'S-LAND, a space between the after part of the belfrey and the fore part of a thip's boat, when the laid boat is flowed upon the booms, as in a deep-waifted veffel. These booms are laid from the fore caftle nearly to the quarter-deck, where their after ends are usually fuftained by a frame called the gallows, which confifts of two ftrong pofts, about fix feet high, with a cross piece reaching from one to the other, athwart fhips, and ferving to support the ends of thofe booms, mafts, and yards, which lie in referve to fupply the place of others carried away, &c. The place called No-Man's land is used to contain any blocks, ropes, tackles, &c. 'which may be neceffary on the forecastle. It probably derives this name from its fituation, as being neither on the ftarboard nor larboard fide of the ship, nor on the waist or forecastle; but, being fituated in the middle, partakes equally of all those places.

Juffieu. His merit procured him a place in the royal fociety without folicitation. Two years after, he went to Holland, where he formed an intimate connection with Defaguliers, Gravefande, and Mufchenbroeck. On his return to Paris, he refumed the course of experimental phyfics which he had begun in 1735, and which he continued till 1760. Thefe courfes of phyfics fuggefted the idea of particular courfes in chemistry, anatomy, natural hiftory, &c. In 1738, the count De Maurepas prevailed on Cardinal Fleury to establish A public clafs for experimental phyfice, and Abbe Nollet was appointed the first profeffor. In 1739, he was admitted a member of the royal academy of sciences: and in April following, the king of Sardinia, intending to eftablish a profefforfhip of phyfics at Turin, invited him into his dominions. Thence he travelled into Italy. In 1744, he was invited to Versailles, to inftruct the Dauphin in experimental philofophy; the king and royal family were often prefent at his lectures. The qualities of his heart as well as of his understanding gained him the esteem of his pupil. In April 1749, he made a tour into Italy, being fent thither for the purpose of making obfervations. At Turin, Venice, and Bologna, he appeared as a deputy from the philofophers of the rest of Europe. In 1753 the king inftituted a clafs of experimental philosophy in the royal college of Navarre, and appointed Abbe Nollet profeffor. In 1757, he appointed him preceptor in phyfics and natural hiftory to the princes, and profeffor of experimental philofophy in the school of Artillery at Fere. In November following, he was admitted as a penfionary of the royal academy of fciences; and in 1761, profeffor of experimental philofophy at Meziers. This celebrated philofopher, who has rendered the most important fervices to phyfics by the discoveries, riched every particularly electricity, died at Paris on the 25th April 1770, aged 70. He often gave affiftance to his relations who were not in affluent circumftances." His works are, r. Several papers inferted in the memoirs of the academy of fciences; among which, one on the Hearing of Fifhes is particularly valuable. 2. Leçons de Phyfique experimentale, 6. vols. 12mo. 3. Recueil des Lettres fur l'Ectricite, 3 vols. 12mo. 1753. 4. Effai fur PE&ricite des corps, 1 vol. izmo. 5. Recherches fur les caufes particulieres des Phenomenes Electriques, one vol. 12mo. 6. L'Andes Experiences, 3 vols. 12mo. with figures, 1776.

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the fenfe of a divifion; and the officer who had the adminiftration of each NOME OF NOMOS, from the king, was called Nomarcha, from vC and agx", command.

*NOMBLES... The entrails of a deer.

(1.) NOMBRE DE DIOS, a town of S. America in Mexico, in the province of Darien, a little E. of Porto-Bello: formerly a famous place, but now abandoned, as unhealthy. Lon. 78. 35. W. Lat. 9. 43. N.

(2.) NOMBRE DE Dios, a flourishing town of N. America, in Mexico, in the prov. of Zacatecas, abounding with rich filver mines. It is the moft populous town in the province, and lies 170 miles N. of Guadalajara. Lon. 86. 36. W. Ferro. Lat. 24. o. N.

NOMBRIL POINT, in heraldry, is the next below the fefs point, or the very centre of the efcutcheon. Suppofing the efcutcheon divided into two equal parts below the fefs, the first of these divifions is the nombril, and the lower the base. NOM DE JESUS, a town and bishop's fee of the ifle of ZEBU, one of the Philippines.

(1.), NOME, or NAME,. in algebra, denotes any quantity with a fign prefixed or added to it, whereby it is connected with fome other quantity, upon which the whole becomes a binomial, trinomial, or the like. See ALGEBRA.

(2.) NOME,

(2.) NOME, or Nomos, a divifion of ancient Egypt. See NOMARCHA.

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(1.) NOMENCLATOR. n. [Lat. nomenclateur.] One who calls things or perfons by their proper names.-There were a fet of men in old Rome called nomenclators; men who could call every man by his name. Addifon.-Are envy, pride, avarice, and ambition, such ill nomenclators, that they cannot furnish appellations for their owners? Swift.

(2.) NOMENCLATOR, in Roman antiquity, was ufually a flave who attended upon perfons that ftood candidates for offices, and prompted or fuggefted to them the names of all the citizens they met, that they might court them and call them by their names, which among that people was the higheft piece of civility.

(3.) NOMENCLATORS, among botanical authors, are those who have employed their labours about fettling and adjufting the right names, fynonymes, and etymologies of names, in regard to the whole vegetable world.

(1.) NOMENCLATURE. n. [nomenclature, Fr. nomenclatura, Lat.] 1. The act of naming.To fay where notions cannot fitly be reconciled, that there wanteth a term or nomenclature for it, is but a fhift of ignorance. Bacon's Nat. Hiftory. 2. A vocabulary; a dictionary.-The watery plantations fall not under that nomenclature of Adam, which unto terreftrious animals affigned a name appropriate unto their natures. Brown.

(2.) NOMENCLATURE (§ 1. def. 2.) is a catalogue of the ufual words in any language, with their fignifications, compiled to facilitate the ufe of fuch words to those who are to learn the tongue. (3.) NOMENCLATURE, NEW ANATOMICAL. A work, propofing a new anatomical nomenclature, was published at Edinburgh in Auguft 1803, by John Barclay, M. D. lecturer on anatomy in that city. Our room permits us only to give a very brief outline of his plan. "In defcribing the vertebral column, anatomists call the bone nearest to the head the Atlas, and the mass of vertebræ at the oppofite extremity, the facrum. In fyfte. matic connection, thefe occupy correfponding regions in all animals in which they are found. Dr Barclay therefore proposes the words atlansal and facral, inftead of superior and inferior. Inftead of the words antecedent and pofterior, which are used to express the breaft and back in all animals, the terms fernal and dorsal are fuggefted. The words dernal and central, denoting what points to the fkin and what to the centre, or peripheral and central, when speaking of an organ, are fubftituted for external and internal, when they fignify what is fuperficial and deep. When they are employed to exprefs the fide or middle of a furface, fuppofe a plane to pass along the middle of the neck, the mediaftinum, and linea alba, and to divide the neck and trunk into fimilar halves, from the fternum to the dorfum, and let this plane be denominated mefion; the words lateral and mefial will, in fuch a cafe, convey the meaning of external and internal. Right and left might ftill de. note the lateral parts of the trunk, but dextral and finiftral are thought preferable." (Edin. Review, Oct. 1803, p. 105.) To avoid the ambiguity arifing from the use of the words right and left,

anterior and pofterior, the Doctor propofes to divide the whole vascular fyftem into two parts; to call one fyftemic, the other pulmonic; expreffing, by the former term, all thofe veffels, whether arteries or veins, which convey the blood from the lungs to the different parts of the body; and by the latter, thofe which convey it from the fyftem at large to the lungs. But to thefe terms the Reviewers, though they praise the work in general, make several objections, for which we must refer the reader to their Review.

(4.) NOMENCLAture, New BOTANICAL, or LINNEAN SYSTEM of Botany. See BOTANY, Ind. (5.) NOMENCLATURE, NEW CHEMICAL, or LAVOISIERIAN SYSTEM of Chemistry. See CHEMISTRY, Index.

NOMENCLATURING, part. a new word used by Dr Barclay to exprefs the arrangement and formation of new names,

NOMENTUM, an ancient town of Italy, belonging to the Sabines; famous for the total defeat of the Veientes and Fidenates, by the Romans under the dictator Q. Servilius Prifcus, A. U. C. 312. It is now called Lamentana.

NOMENY, a town of France, in the dep. of Meurthe, and late duchy of Lorrain, fituated on the Seille, 15 miles N. of Nancy, and 6 E. of Pont a Mouffon. Lon. 6. 15. E. Lat. 48. 56. N.

(1.) * NOMINAL. adj. [nominalis, Lat.] Referring to names rather than to things; not real; titular.

Hudibras.

Profound in all the nominal, And real ways beyond them all. -The nominal definition, or derivation of the word, is not fufficient to describe the nature of it. Pearfon.-The nominal effence of gold is that complex idea the word gold ftands for; as a body yellow, of a certain weight, malleable, fufible, and fixed. But the real effence is the conftitution of the infenfible parts of that body. Locke.-Were these people as anxious for the doctrines effential to the church of England, as they are for the nominal diftinction of adhering to its interefts. Addison.

(2.) NOMINALS, n. f. or NOMINALISTS, a fect of school philofophers, the disciples and followers of Occam, or Ocham, an English cordelier in the 14th century. They were great dealers in words, whence they were vulgarly denominated Word-fellers; but had the denomination of Nominalifts, because, in oppofition to the REALISTS, they maintained, that words, and not things, were the object of dialectics. This fect had its first rise towards the end of the 11th century, and pretended to follow Porphyry and Ariftotle; but it was not till Ocham's time that they bore the name. The chief of this fect, in the 11th century, was one John, who, on account of his logical fubtilty, was called the fophift; and his principal difciples were Robert of Paris, Rofcelin of Compiegne, and Arnoul of Laon. At the beginning, the nominals had the upper hand; but the realifts, though greatly divided among themselves, were fupported by men of great abilities; fuch as Albertus Magnus, T. Aquinas, and Duns Scotus. The no. minal fect fell hereby into difrepute, till William Occam, in the 14th century, again revived it, and filled France and Germany with difputation.

in that sense, we cannot expect he should nomirate or appoint any perfon to it. Locke.

*NOMINATION. n. f. [nomination, French; from nominate.] 1. The act of mentioning by name. The forty-one immediate electors of the duke muft be all of several families, and of them twenty-five at least concur to this nomination. Wotton.-Hammond was named to be of the affembly of divines; his invincible loyalty to his prince, and obedience to his mother, the church, not being fo valid arguments against his nomination, as the repute of his learning and virtue were on the other part. Fell. 2. The power of appointing.-The nomination of perfons to places, being fo principal and infeparable a flower of his crown, he would referve to himself. Clarendon-In England the king has the nomination of an archbishop; and after nomination, he sends a congé d'elire to the dean and chapter, to elect the person elected by him. Ayliffe.

(1.) * NOMINATIVE. n. f. (in grammar, xominatif, Fr.] The cafe that primarily defignates the name of any thing, and is called right, in oppofition to the other cafes called oblique.

Having joined the party of the Francifcan monks, who ftrenuously oppofed John XXII. that pope and his fucceffors left no means untried to extir pate the philofophy of the nominalifts, which was deemed highly prejudicial to the interefts of the church and hence, in 1339, the university of Paris, by a public edict, folemnly condemned and prohibited the philofophy of Occam. The confequence was, that the nominalifts flourished more than ever. In the 15th century, the controverfy was continued with more vigour and animosity than before; and the difputants were not content with ufing merely the force of eloquence, but had often recourse to more hoftile and dangerous weapons; and battles were the confequence of a philofophical question which neither fide understood. In moft places, however, the realifts maintained a manifest fuperiority over the nominalifts. While the famous Gerfon, and the most eminent of his difciples, were living, the nominalifts were in high esteem and credit in the univerfity of Paris. But upon the deaths of these patrons, the face of things was much changed. In 1473, Lewis XI. by the inftigation of his confeffor, the Bp. of Avranches, iffued out a fevere edict against the doctrines of the nominalifts, and ordered all their writings to be seized and secured, that they might not be read by the people; but in 1474 he mitigated this edict, and permitted fome of the books of that fect to be reftored. In 1481, he not only granted a full liberty to the nominalifts, but also restored that feet to its former authority in the univerfity. The nominalifts were the founders of the univerfity of Leipfic: and there are many yet abroad who pique them. felves on being nominalifts. The nominalists, with the Stoics, admit the formal conceptions or ideas of things, as the fubject and foundation of univerfality; but to this they add names, which reprefent and fignify, after the fame univocal manner, and without any distinction, a great variety of fingle things alike in genus and species. Hence they are called nominals; as pretending, that to become learned, it is not enough to have just ideas of things, but it is likewife required to know the proper names of the genera and fpecies of things, and to be able to express them clearly and precifely, without confufion or ambiguity. NOMINALIA. See NAME, § II, 2. NOMINALISTS. See NOMINAL, § 2. NOMINALLY. adv. [from nominal.] name; with regard to a name; titulary. *To NOMINATE. v. a. [nomino, Lat.] 1, To name; to mention by name.

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Suddenly to nominate them all, It is impoffible. Shak. Henry VI. ---One lady I may civilly spare to nominate, for her sex's fake, whom he termed the spider of the court. Wotton. 2. To entitle; to call.

Spenf.

Aread, old father, why of late Didft thou behight me born of English blood, Whom all a fairy's fon doen nominate. 3. To fet down; to appoint by name.If you repay me not on fuch a day, forfeit

Be nominated for an equal pound
Of your fair flesh to be cut off.

let the

Shak.

Never having intended, never designed any heir

(2.) The NOMINATIVE is the 1ft CASE of NOUNS which are declinable. The fimple pofition of a noun or name, nomen, is called the nominative cafe; yet it is not so properly a case, as the mat. ter or ground whence the other cafes are to be formed, by the feveral changes and inflections given to this firft termination. Its chief ufe is to be placed before all verbs, as the subject of the propofition or affirmation.

NOMOPHYLACES, magiftrates of Athens, under the Archons, refembling our fheriffs. See ATTICA, § 5.

NOMOS. See NOMARCHA, and NOME. NOMOSTHETÆ, inferior magiftrates of Athens. See ATTICA, § 5.

(1.) * NON. adv. (Lat.] Not. It is never used separately, but fometimes prefixed to words, with a negative power.

Since you to non-regardance caft my faith, Live you the marble-breasted tyrant still. Shak. -Behold alfo there a lay non refidency of the rich, which in times of peace, too much neglect ing their habitations, may feem to have provoked God to neglect them. Holyday.A mere inclination to matters of duty, men reckon a willing of that thing; when they are juftly charged with an actual non-performance of what the law requires. South. For an account at large of bifhop Sanderfon's last judgment concerning God's concurrence or non-concurrence with the actions of men, I refer you to his letters. Pierce.-The third fort of agreement or disagreement in our ideas, which the perception of the mind is employed about, is co-exiftence, or non-existence in the same subject. Locke. It is not a non-act, which introduces a custom, a custom being a common ufage. Ayliffe. -In the imperial chamber this answer is not admitted, viz. I do not believe it as the matter is alleged. And the reason of this non-admiffion is its great uncertainty. Ayliffe.—An apparitor came to the church, and informed the parfon, that he muft pay the tenths to fuch a man; and the bifhop certified the ecclefiaftical court under his seal on the non-payment of them, that he refused

to

to pay them. Ayliffe.-The non-appearance of perfons to fupport the united sense of both houfes of parliament, can never be conftrued as a general diffidence of being able to support the charge against the patent and patentee. Swift. This may be accounted for by the turbulence of paffions upon the various and furprifing turns of good and evil fortune, in a long evening at play; the mind being wholly taken up, and the confequence of non-attention fo fatal. Swift.

(2.) Now, or CAPE NON, a promontory on the W. coaft of Africa, oppofite to the Canary Islands. Lon. 10. 30. W. Lat. 9. 40. N.

(1.) NONA, a fertile island in the late Venetian Dalmatia, anciently called ENONA; 20 miles long from S. to N. and 10 broad from E. to W. It contains one city (No 2.) and 22 villages, and is separated by a narrow fea from the county of Zara, and the isle of Pago.

(2.) NONA, a city of Dalmatia, in the above inland, remarkable for its ruins, which might furnish abundant materials to gratify the curiofity of antiquaries; but they are so buried by repeated devaftations, that rarely any veftige of them appears. The kings of the Croat Slavi had anciently their refidence in it. It has a harbour, which formerly was capable of receiving large fhips; but is now become a fetid pool, by a little muddy river that falls into it, after a course of about fix miles through the rich abandoned fields of that diftrict. The ancient inhabitants turned this water into another channel, and made it run through the valley of Drafnich into the fea; and the remains of the bank raised by them for that purpose are ftill to be feen. This city has a cathedral and four churches, and is a bishop's fee. It is connected with the continent by two bridges, though the channel is fordable. The natives cultivate tobacco. Nona is 7 miles NE. of Zara. Lon. 16. 10. E. Lat. 44. 35. N.

NONE, the Nones. See NONES. & NONACRIS, a town and mountain of Arcadia; whence EVANDER is fometimes ftyled Nonacrius beros. Ovid. Met. viii.

(1.) NONAGE. n. f. [non and age.] Minority; time of life before legal maturity:

In him there is a hope of government, Which in his nonage, counsel under him, And in his full and ripen'd years, vimself Shall govern well. Shak. Richard III. Love knows no nonage. Crashaw. -We have a mistaken apprehenfion of antiquity, calling that so, which in truth is the world's nonage. Glanville.-'Tis neceffary that men should firft be out of their nonage, before they can attain to an actual use of this principle. Wilkins.-Those charters were not avoidable for the king's nonage. Hale.-After Chaucer there was a Spenfer, a Harrington, a Fairfax, before Waller and Denham were in being; and our numbers were in their nonage 'till thefe laft appeared. Dryden.

In their tender nonage, while they fpread Their fpringing leaves, and lift their infant head, Indulge their childhood. Dryden. (2.) NONAGE, in law, generally fignifies all the time a perfon continues under the age of 21; but, in a special fenfe, it is all the time that a perfon is under the age of 14.

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NONAGESIMAL, adj. or NONAGESIMAL DEGREE, called alfo the Mid Heaven, is the 90th deg. or highest point of the ECLIPTIC, reckoned from its intersection with the horizon at any time; and its altitude is equal to the angle that the ecliptic makes with the horizon at their interfection, or equal to the distance of the zenith from the pole of the ecliptic., It is much used in the calculation of folar eclipfes. See ASTRONOMY, Index.

NONAGON, n. f. a figure having 9 fides and angles. In a regular nonagon, or that whose angles and fides are all equal, if each fide be 1, its area will be 6'1818242 of the tangent of 70°, to the radius r.

NONANCOURT, a town of France, in the dep. of Eure; 71⁄2 miles W. of Dreux, and 12 E. of Verneuil.

NONANT, a town of France, in the department of the Orne, 10 miles N. of Argentan.

NONANTOLA, a town of Italy, in the dep. of Panaro, and district, late duchy, of Modena; 10 miles NE. of Modena.

NONASPE, a town of Spain, in Arragon. NON-CAPE, an erroneous fpelling in feveral Gazetteers, and inverfion of the name Cape Non. See NoN, N° 2.

*NONCE. n.f. [The original of this word is uncertain: Skinner imagines it to come from one or once; or from nutz, German, need or use: Junius derives it lefs probably from noiance; to do for the nonce being, according to him, to do it merely for mischief.] Purpose; intent; defign. Not now in ufe.

I saw a wolf

-They ufed at first to fume the fish in a houfe built for the nonce. Carew.

When in your motion you are hot, And that he calls for drink, I'll have prepar❜d him A chalice for the nonce. Shak. Hamlet.

And they lead men for the nonce, That turn round like grindle-ftones. A voider for the nonce,

Jonfon.

I wrong the devil should I pick their bones. Cleaveland.

Coming ten times for the nonce,

I never yet could fee it flow but once. Cotton. NONCELLO, a navigable river of Maritime Auftria, in Trevifano, which falls into the Livenza. NON COMPOS MENTIS, [Lat.] not found in judgment; a term in law applied to infane perfons.

(1.)* NONCONFORMIST. n. f. [non and conformift.] One who refufes to join in the established worship.-On his death-bed he declared himself a non-conformist, and had a fanatic preacher to be his fpiritual guide. Swift.

(2.) NONCONFORMISTS, in England (fays Blackftone), are of two forts. First, fuch as abfent themselves from divine worship in the established church through irreligion, and attend the fervice of no other perfuafion. Thefe, by the ftat. 1 Eliz. c. 2. 23 Eliz. c. 1. and 3 Jac. I. c. 4. forfeit one hilling to the poor every Lord's-day they fo ab

fent

fent themselves, and 20l. to the king if they continue fuch default for a month together. And if they keep any inmate thus irregiously difpofed in their houses, they forfeit 10l. per month. The 2d species are those who offend through a miftaken or perverse zeal. Such were efteemed, by the English laws enacted fince the Reformation, to be Papifts and Proteftant diffenters: both of whom were fuppofed to be equaily schifmatics, in not communicating with the national church; with this difference, that the Papifts divided from it upon material, though erroneous reafons; but many of the diffenters upon matters of indiffer 'ence. "Yet certainly (fays Sir William Blackftone) our ancestors were mistaken in their plans of compulfion and intolerance. The fin of fchifm as fuch, is by no means the object of temporal coercion and punishment. The civil magiftrate has nothing to do with it; unless their tenets and practice are fuch as threaten ruin or disturbance to the ftate. He is bound indeed to protect the eftablished church; and if this can be better effeoted by admitting none but its genuine members to offices of trust and emolument, he is certainly at liberty fo to do; the difpofal of offices being matter of favour and difcretion... But this point being once fecured, all perfecution for diverfity of opinions, however ridiculous or abfurd, is contrary to every principle of found policy and civil freedom. The names and fubordination of the clergy, the pofture of devotion, the materials and colour of the minifter's garment, the joining in a known or unknown form of prayer, and other matters of the fame kind, must be left to the option of every man's private judgment.

(3.) NONCONFORMISTS, LAWS RESPECTING PROTESTANT. With regard therefore to Proteftant diffenters, although the experience of their turbulent difpofition in former times occafioned feveral difabilities and reftrictions (which I fhall not undertake to juftify) to be laid upon them, yet at length the legislature, with a true fpirit of magnanimity, extended that indulgence to thefe fectaries, which they themselves, when in power, had held to be countenancing fchifm, and denied to the church of England. The penalties are conditionally fufpended by the ftatute 1 W, & M. ft. I. c. 18. " for exempting their Majefties proteftant fubjects, diffenting from the church of England, from the penalties of certain laws," commonly called the toleration act; which declares, that neither the laws above mentioned, nor the fta tutes 1 Eliz. c. 2. § 14. 3 Jac. I. e. 4. & 5. nor any other penal laws made against Popish recufants, (except the teft-acts) fhall extend to any diffenters, other than Papifts and fuch as deny the Trinity: provided, 1. That they take the oaths of allegi ance and fupremacy, (or make a fimilar affirmation, being Quakers), and subscribe the declaration against Popery. 2. That they repair to fome congregation certified to and registered in the court of the archbishop or deacon, or at the county fef fions. 3. That the doors of fuch meeting-house fhall be unlocked, unbarred, and unbolted; in default of which, the perfons meeting there are ftill liable to all the penalies of the former acts. Diffenting teachers to be exempted from the pemalties of the statutes 13 and 14 Car. II. c. I. are

alfo to fubfcribe the articles of religion mentioned in ftat. 13 Eliz. c. 12. (viz. those which only concern the confeffion of the true Chriftian faith, and the doctrine of the facraments), with an express exception of thofe relating to the government and powers of the church, and to infant baptifm. And by ftatute to Ann. c. 2. this toleration is ratified and confirmed; and it is declared, that the said act shall at all times be inviolably observed for the exempting fuch Proteftant diffenters, as are thereby intended, from the pains and penalties therein mentioned. Thus, though nonconformity is by no means univerfally abrogated, it is fufpended, and ceafes to exift with regard to these Proteftant diffenters, during their compliance with the conditions impofed by the act of toleration: and, under thefe conditions, all perfons, who will approve themselves no Papifts or oppugners of the Trinity, are left at full liberty to act as their confciences shall direct them in the matter of religious worship. And if any perfon fhall wilfully, maliciously, or contemptuofly disturb any congregation, affembled in any church or permitted meeting houfe, or fhall misuse any preacher or teacher there, he fhall (by virtue of the fame ftatute) be bound over to the feflions of the peace, and forfeit zol. But by ftat. 5. Geo. I. c. 4. no mayor or principal magiftrate muft appear at any diffenting meeting with the enfigns of his office, on pain of difability to hold that or any other of fice: the legiflature judging it a matter of propriety, that a mode of worship, fet up in oppofition to the national, when allowed to be exercised in peace, fhould be exercifed alfo with decency, gratitude, and humility. Neither doth the act of toleration extend to enervate those claufes of the ftatutes 13 and 14 Car. II. c. 4. and 17 Car. II. c. 2. which prohibit (upon pain of fine and imprisonment) all perfons from teaching schools, unless they be licensed by the ordinary, and fubfcribe a declaration of conformity to the liturgy of the church, and reverently frequent divine fervice established by the laws of this kingdom.

(4.) NONCONFORMISTS, STATUTES AGAINST POPISH. As to Papists, what has been faid of the Proteftant diffenters would hold equally ftrong for a general toleration of them; provided their feparation were founded only upon difference of opinion in religion, and their principles did not also extend to a fubverfion of the civil government. If once they could be brought to renounce the fupremacy of the Pope, they might quietly enjoy their facraments; their purgatory, and auricular confeflion; their worship of relics and images; nay, even their tranfubftantiation. But while they acknowledge a foreign power, fuperior to the sovereignty of the kingdom, they cannot complain if the laws of that kingdom will not treat them upon the footing of good fubjects. The following are the laws that have been enacted against the Papifts; who may be divided into three claffes, perfons profeffing Popery, Popish recufants convict, and Popish priefts. 1. Perfons profeffing the Popish religion, befides the former penalties for not frequenting their parifh-church, are difabled from taking any lands, either by defcent or purchase, after 18 years of age, until they renounce their errors; they muft, at the age of 21,

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