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].

  • Moréri, Louis, 1643-1680.
Date:
1701
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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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    iKCwecn Severity and Complaifancc; But at Jaft, bccaulc cliough no Body was , nam’d , yet the Par¬ ties Concerned were eafily difeovered, tliere was a ; Third kijad invented, c^hed Tl^c New Comedy, where- ; in they endeavour to fait themfelves to the general I Temper and .Rclifli of the Times, making ufe of ( . feigned SubjeAs , and pew invented Names. Mp- tmtidcr was looked upon as Author of this, or at ' leaft, as he that Succeeded bell in the Delign. The ; Poets of the Old Feigned nothing , the Subjedls were always matter of Fadt, and the Names the I true ones. Poets of the Middle fort made ufe of Re- ' al Subjcifls, but Counterfeit Names ; and they of [ the New invented both Subjedls and Perfonages.-- As Tragedy is a Grave and Serious Reprefentati- ' on of a fad Adbion or fatal Accident befallen Perfons j Raifedby their great Quality or extraordinary Merit, above the Common ibrt ; fo Comedy is aningeni- , ous and merry Reprefentation of a pleafant Adven' cure between ordinaiy People, with fome mild Sa¬ tyr for Corredlion of Manners. Tragi-comedy exhi¬ bits noble Adventures of Perfons of great Quality, ' Threatned with fome great Misfortune , but that ' come off with happy Succels. The Paftoral has for Objedl fome Amorous Adventure between Shep¬ herds and Shepherdeffes, and is thought to derive its * Origin from the Eclogues, or, at leaft, leems to be made in imitation of them. Touching thefe Diver- fions, fome are of Opinion, they are an Effedl of the profound Wifdom of the Grecians, as great Ma- ' fters of Politicks as they were of other Sciences; ' For !tlv?ir prudent Legiflators applying themfelves Seri- oufly to inftrudt and polifh the People by all pof- ’ lible means, countenanced publick Spedlacles, to divert them from Private Contrivances, and Secret I Plots againft the State, and to move them by the ' Examples there Ihewn. them to abhor Vice , and I pra(ftice Vertue. Hence it came, that fome Fathers, to I beget an averfion to Drunkennefs in their Children, I made theirServants drink to an extraordinary height, & ' brought ’em into the Childrens prefence in that Conditi- I on ; who obferving the ridiculous, and fofnetimes nafty I effe<51s of too much drink, had juft reafon to hate , 1 and fo decline the Caufe. Eliny remarks, That there 1 were two Places on the Lake Larius, now called the i Lake of Coma, in Italy, one called Comedy and the o- i ther Tragedy, from the Spedlaclcs or Sights reprefented I in them. Athen.etu, Diog. Lnerf, Lilius Gyraldus, Hijl. Poet, ‘fiihfcalig. lib. Poet. I3c. I 'CO M E N I U S (Amos) born in Moravia in Bobc- ! mia, was forced to ejuit his own Countiy upon the account of his being a Proteftant, and retiring with fe- f veral of his Countrymen into he was gene- * roufly entertain’d by Lawrence de Geer. Comenius was a confiderable Mafter in the Latin Tongue, and be- ' fides feveral other Pieces, has publilh’d, Janua Lingua- I rum,'VeJHbulum, Atrium, Didablica, &c. He died at ! Amjierdam about the mi^le of the Seventeenth Centu¬ ry i Memoirs Hlfioriques. . I ' COMER, zSgthian, coming to Italy taught the ' way of making rouling or portative Towns, by ' building Houfes on Chariots, according to the cu- ftom of his Country. This was in 1360. before the [ Foundation of Upme; and it was from this that the I Name of Fe/^e, an ancient People of Etruria came, ! bccaufe the Scythians in their Language called a Cha-* ; riot fo. COMES, NatalisyOV de Comitibus, w.3S born at Ve- I nice and liv’d to the latter end of the fixteeoth Cen- * tury. He was very well accompliflied in the Belles I Lettres, and tranflated Athcnxus into Latin. He like- ^ wife wrote thirty Books of the Hiftory of his Time, J ten Books of Mythology, and fome other Treattfes. j Jofeph Scaliger had no great Opinion of bis Performan- J ces, as appears from the fourteenth Book of his Epiftlcs, i Efiji. 309. COMET, is a luminous Body which appears fomerimes amongft the Stars, of different bignefs. Aftrologers diftinguifli it intoo >rhree kinds, vij^. the Hairy, the Bearded, auAtiComet with a Tail; the Hairy fpreads its Rays on every fide, the Beard¬ ed darts ’em towards that parr it moves toj that with a Tail cafts it behind. The Ancients were always of Opinion, That thefe uncommon Sights were the fore-runners of fome great difafter, and Ibme of our Moderns cannot yet be beat out of this Opinion, which they endeavour to confirm by alledging the Death of Princes and feveral fad Ac- I cidents that have been obferv’d to follow thefe Ap¬ pearances, without taking notice that thefe are com¬ mon events, and Comets but very rare, which Ihews their little Connedlion and Dependance on each other; but when they appear it’s eafy to'make ap¬ plications enough, according to one’s Fahey. COMINE, Lzx.Cuminnm, a little Ifland in the Sea of Sicily, between Malta and Go:{e; it belongs to the Knights of Malta, who have a Caftle in it built by the great Mafter Vignacour. COM INGE, a Country and Town of Fra77ce in Gafeony. The Country has the Title of an Earl¬ dom, the Town generally called Sr. Bertrand de Cc- minges, or Comenge, in Latin Convenx or Lugdtinum Convenarum, has a Biihoprick luffragan of Aiifch. This Town was demoli(hed in 585 by Contram’s becaufe it received the falfe Gondebaud, who called himfclf Clothaircs Son, but was rebuilt in ^085. by Bertrand its Bilhop, which is the reafon it’s called Bertrand Cominge. It had the Latin Name Convena; from its firft Foundation ; for Pompey having worfted Sertorius in Spain^ he forced the People of the Pyre- means, w'ho then liv’d without any Order or Difci- pline, to co.me and live together in one place, which for that reafon was called Convenx. Du Chejne. Straba lib. 4. Itinerar, Antonin. &c. COMITIUM, a place where the Bpman People kept their Affemblies near the great Hall for publick Orations or Speeches, called Upftra from the Ships Stems taken by C. Mxnius, Conful, in the Battel againft the Antiatesin 416. of Ppme. Here they propos’d the Laws, made Speeches, and pleaded Caufes. There was another place called Ppflra at the foot of Mount Palatin. COMMANDERIE, Livings or Benefices be¬ longing to the Knights of the Order of Malta, or other Military Orders. The chiefeft Commanderies arc for Knights who can prove themfelves Gentlemen fpopn four Families; there are others for Chaplains. Commanderies of Juftice is that a Knight obtains by his long ftanding ; and Cxmmanderies of Favour which are at the great Mafter or Prior’s difpofal by a pri¬ vilege belonging t© his place according to theSratutes of the Order. COMMELIN (Jerom) a famous Printer, born at Doway in the fixteenth Century. He was a learned Perfon as appears by his Notes upon feveral Greek Au¬ thors, as Heliodorus, Apollodorus, &c. Jqfcph Scaliger gives him a great Chacadler for has Talent in Greek. COMMENDON f John Prancis) Cardinal, a Venetian, Son to Anthony, a Philolbpher and Dodfor of Phyfick, was in great efteem in the fixteenth Cen¬ tury, and employed in feveral Legations by Jidius the Third, Marcellus the Second, Paul the Fourth, Pius the Fourth and Fifth. He was chofen, though abfent, by the Council of Trent, to give the Emperor Ferdinand the Firft an Account of their Proceedings. It’s thought he died of Grief to fee Gregory the Thirteenth recover, being full of hopes to fucceed. him if he had died when almoft given over. eOMMINES,