KUNCKET, John, an able chymist and in-Firmianus, an eminent father of the Christian genious philosopher, was born at Sieswic, and church. He is the most eloquent of all the ecdied in 1702. clesiastical Latin authors, and wrote in such a KUNZE, John Christopher, D. D., a distin-pure, smooth, and natural style, and so much guished clergyman of the Lutheran church in in the taste and manner of the Roman orator, Philadelphia, afterwards pastor of a Lutheran that he is generally distinguished by the title of church in New-York, and professor of oriental" The Christian Cicero." languages in Columbia college; he died in 1807. KUPIESKI,John, a painter, of Bohemia, born in 1667, was patronised by the emperor Charles III., and other princes.

KUSTER, Ludolf, a learned German critic, born in 1670. He published editions of Suidas, Aristophanes, and several works of a smaller kind, and died in 1716.

KUYP, Jacob, an eminent landscape painter, at Dordt, flourished about 1643.

KUYP, or CUYP, Albert, a very eminent landscape painter, was born at Dordt, in 1606. The time of his death is uncertain.

KYD, Thomas, an English dramatic writer in the reign of queen Elizabeth.

LACY, John, an actor and dramatic writer of some eminence, in the reign of Charles II. LACYDAS, a Greek philosopher, of Cyrene, who was tenderly attached to a favourite goose, died 212 B. C.

LADISLAUS I. succeeded to the Hungarian throne in 1077. He was an able politician, a brave general, and a pious man; he was canonized in 1198.

LADISLAUS III., king of Hungary, a licentious monarch, who was assassinated in 1290. LADISLAUS IV., grand duke of Lithuania, and king of Poland, was made king of Hungary, in 1440. He was defeated and slain in battle with the Turks, in 1444.

KYDERMINSTER, Richard, abbot and his- LADISLAUS V., succeeded Ladislaus IV. torian, of the Benedictine convent of Win-It is said he was poisoned by the Hussites, chombe, died in 1531. whose sect he persecuted.

KYNESTON, John, an English divine, who gained great reputation by a Latin oration, which he pronounced; he died in 1783.

KYNWELMARSH,Francis, an Englishman, who wrote some poetry in the 16th century. KYRLE, John, the celebrated Man of Ross, as Pope calls him in his poem "On the Use of Riches." He possessed a small estate of 500l. a year at Ross, and literally became, as the poet sings, a blessing to the whole community. He died in 1724, at the age of 90.

L

LABADIE, John, a celebrated French siast, born in 1610, died in 1674.

LADISLAUS VI., son of the king of Poland, raised to the throne of Hungary, in 1490, had a turbulent reign, and died in 1560.

LADISLAUS, or LAUNCELOT, the Libe ral and Victorious, count of Provence, succeeded his father, as king of Naples, in 1386. His right to the throne was disputed, and he died in 1414, after a turbulent reign.

LADISLAUS I., king of Poland, succeeded to the throne in 1081. He was fond of peace, but brave in war; he died in 1102.

LADISLAUS II., king of Poland, succeeded his father, Bolislaus, in 1139; he made war enthu-against his brothers, and was at last banished from the throne, and died in 1159. LABAT, John Baptist, a celebrated traveller LADISLAUS III., king of Poland, in 1296, and missionary, of the order of St. Dominic, oppressed his people so that they revolted, and born at Paris in 1663, died in 1738. His "Voy-placed Wenceslaus on the throne, after whose ages and Travels" into different kingdoms, are death Ladislaus was replaced on the throne, works of much amusement, and of good repu-and governed with justice and moderation. He tation. died in 1333.

LABBE, Philip, a jesuit, of Bourges, of great learning, memory, and indefatigable application; he died in 1667.

LABBE, Louisa, a poetess, called the fair rope-maker, because she married a rich ropemaker, of Lyons. Her works were published at Lyons, in 1555 and 1762; she died in 1566.

LABEO, Quintus Fabius, a Roman consul, of literary talents.

LABEO, Antistius, a Roman lawyer who op posed the government of Augustus.

LABERIUS, an ancient Roman knight in the time of Julius Cæsar, who excelled in writing mimes, or little satirical productions for the stage.

LABOUREUR, John le, a Frenchman, who from a gentleman's servant rose to become almoner to the king. He wrote several works, and died in 1675.

LADISLAUS V., surnamed Jagellon, grand duke of Lithuania,obtained the crown of Poland in 1386, by marriage. His reign was mild but vigorous, and he died in 1434, highly respected. LADISLAUS VI., king of Poland, son of Ladislaus V., was duke of Lithuania, and king of Hungary.

LADISLAUS, Sigismund, VII., king of Poland and Sweden, after the death of his father, in 1632. He defeated the Turks in various battles, and died in 1648.

L'ADVOCAT, John Baptist l'Abbe, a learned French critic, grammarian, geographer, and his torian, author of "Dictionnaire Geographique Portatif;" "Dictionnaire Historique Portatif;" and a " Hebrew Grammar." He died in 1765. L'ADVOCAT, Louis Francis, author of a treatise on morals, died at Paris, in 1735. LELIUS, Caius, a Roman consul and comic

LACARRY, Giles, a French jesuit, and profes-poet, died 126 B. C. sor of theology, wrote some useful works, and died in 1684.

LA COLONIE, John Martin de, served in the Austrian army, and rose to the rank of marshal; he died in 1759.

LACOMBE, James, a French historian, born in 1724.

LACOMBE DE PREZEL, Honore, brother of the preceding, author of several dictionaries. LACTANTIUS, Firmian, or Lucius Cælius

LAER, Peter, a Dutch painter, some of whose pieces are elegant, died in 1675.

LAET, John de, a native of Antwerp, and author of some useful works, died in 1640.

LEVINUS, Torrentinus, commonly called Vander Bekin, was a native of Ghent. He went as ambassador to Philip II., of Spain, founded the jesuit's college at Louvaine, and died in 1595.

LEVIUS, a Roman poet.

LAFITAU, Joseph Francis, a French jesuit and missionary to North America, died in 1755, leaving behind him a curious comparison be tween the manners of the ancients and those of the American savages.

served, that "an undevout astronomer is mad :" and the eccentricities of Lalande might justify the conclusion that Young would have drawn from the atheistical principles he openly professed. He went so far as to read public lecLAFITAU, Peter Francis, distinguished as a tures on those baneful and hope-blasting docpreacher, was the favourite of Clement IX.,trines, in the Lycee of Paris, a society formed

and died in 1764.

LAGALLA, Julius Cæsar, a Neapolitan, physician to the pope; he was a learned man, and died in 1623.

of pretended philosophers of the same description; he died in 1807.

LALLI, John Baptist, an Italian poet, was employed by the pope in civil affairs, and died in 1637.

LAGERLOOF, Peter, professor of eloquence at Upsal, author of the ancient and modern his- LALLY, Thomas Arthur, count, a gallant tories of Northern Europe; he died in 1599. general in the service of France, though a naLAGNY, Thomas Fantet sieur de, a French-tive of Ireland; but being compelled to surrenman, member of the academy of sciences at der Pondicherry to the English, he incurred the Paris, and author of several works; he died in suspicion of treachery, and was executed in 1734. 1766.

LAGRANGE, Joseph Lewis, an eminent mathematician, of Turin, afterwards professor of the Norman and Polytechnic schools at Paris; he died in 1813.

LAGUNA, Andrew, a Spanish physician, and favourite of Charles V., died in 1560.

LAHARPE DES UTINS, N., a native of Vaux, distinguished himself in the Freneh army of Italy, under Buonaparte, and was killed in 1796.

LAMBALLE, Marie Therese Louise, of Savoy Carignan, princess of, wife of the duke of Bourbon Penthievre, ardently attached to the French queen, for which she was inhumanly murdered, in 1792, by the tyrants of the French revolution.

LAMBECIUS, Peter, a learned German, an rector of the university of Hamburgh. He nounced protestantism for popery, and died in 1680.

LAHAYE, William Nicholas de, a French LAMBERT, John, a general in Cromwell's engraver of great merit, born in 1725. army, memorable for having opposed Oliver's LAIDLIE, Archibald, D. D., a native of Scot-acceptance of the crown, died about 1670. land, pastor of a church at Flushing, Zealand, LAMBERT, Anne Therese, marquise de, a and afterwards of a Dutch reformed church in most ingenious French lady, born at Paris, in the city of New-York, eminent as a theologian 1647, died in 1733, having been the author of and preacher; he died in 1778. some very pleasing moral productions, which have been collected and printed in 2_volumes. LAMBERT, Claude Francis, a French ecclesiastic, and an author, died in 1763.

LÁINEZ, Álexander, a French poet, whose pieces possess great elegance, died in 1700.

LAINEZ, James, a Spaniard, the successor of Loyola, as general of the jesuits; he was at the council of Trent, and died in 1565.

LAMBERT, Daniel, remarkable for having greatly exceeded the ordinary dimensions of LAING, Malcom, a Scottish historian, born mankind, was born at Leicester, in 1770, and died in Orkney, in 1762. He published a "History of at Stamford, in 1809. He had exhibited himself Scotland," chiefly distinguished by its partiali-in Picadilly two or three years before his death; ty, and its hostility to the character of the un-not long before which event, on being weighed, fortunate queen Mary. His last literary under- he was found to be 52 stone 11 lbs. in weight taking was an edition of Ossian's poems, the au- (14 lbs. to the stone,) which is 10 stone 11 lbs. thenticity of which, he demolished by a pre-more than the great Mr. Bright, of Essex, ever liminary dissertation. Mr. Laing died in 1819. weighed. His coffin was 6 feet 4 inches long, LAIRE, Francis Xavier, a learned French 4 feet 4 inches wide, and 2 feet 4 inches deep, author, died at Sens, in 1800. and consisted of 112 superficial feet of elm timber.

LAMBERT, George, an English landscape painter, died in 1765.

LAIRESSE, Gerard, an eminent Flemish painter and engraver, born at Liege, in 1640. The Hollanders esteem him the best history painter of their country, and commonly call him LAMBERT, George Henry, an able mathetheir second Raphael; Hemskirk is their first.matician, of Alsace, and an author, died in He died in 1711.

LAIS, a courtezan, of such renown in antiquity, that, like Homer, several cities claimed the glory of her birth; but that honour is most generally given to Hyccara, a city of Sicily. Retiring to Thessaly, she fell a sacrifice to the envy and jealously excited by her beauty; for her rivals, seeing themselves eclipsed, became desperate, and, having conducted her into the temple of Venus, there stoned her to death, 340 B. C.

1728.

LAMBERT, of Schawemburg, a German Benedictine, published a dry chronicle, from Adam to A. D. 1077; he died in 1669.

LAMBIN, Denys, professor of belles-lettres, at Paris. He was esteemed as a critic and a scholar, and died in 1672.

LAMBRUN, Margaret, was a Scotch wo man, and one of the retinue of Mary queen of Scots, as was also her husband, who dying of grief for the tragical end of that princess, his LAKE, Arthur, an English prelate, respected wife took up a resolution of revenging the death as an amiable man, died in 1626. of both upon queen Elizabeth. For that purLALANDE, Michael Richard de, a cele-pose she put on a man's habit; and, assuming brated French musician and composer, died in

1726.

LALANDE, Joseph Jerome Francis, a most celebrated astronomer of France, born in 1732. His principal works are," Connoissance du Temps," "Tour in Italy," and a valuable "Treatise of Astronomy. Dr. Young has ob

the name of Anthony Sparke, repaired to the court of the queen of England, always carrying with her a brace of pistols, one to kill Elizabeth, and the other to shoot herself, in order to avoid the hands of justice; but her design happened to miscarry by an accident which saved the queen's life. One day, as she was pushing

style was agreeable, and imitative of Titian and
Salvator Rosa.
LANDA, Catherine, a learned lady, author
of an elegant Latin letter to Peter Bembo, died
in 1526.

through the crowd to come up to her majesty, who was then walking in her garden, she chanced to drop one of the pistols. This being seen by the guards, she was seized, in order to be sent immediately to prison, but the queen not suspecting her to be one of her own sex, had a LANDEN, John, born in Northamptonshire, mind first to examine her. Accordingly, de-in 1719, died in 1790, having written largely on manding her name, country, and quality, Mar-mathematics, and advanced that science congaret replied with an unmoved steadiness, "Ma-siderably by his studies and experiments. dam, though I appear in this habit, I am a wo- LANDINI, Christopher, a learned Venetian man; my name is Margaret Lambrun; I was of the 15th century. several years in the service of queen Mary, my mistress, whom you have so unjustly put to death; and by her death you have also caused that of my husband, who died of grief to see so Innocent a queen perish so iniquitously. Now, as I had the greatest love and affection for both LANDRI, bishop of Paris, and founder of those personages, I resolved, at the peril of my the hospital called Hotel de Dieu, died about life, to revenge their death by killing you, who|| 660.

LANDO, Hortensio, an Italian physician, of the 16th century, who wrote several works. LANDO, Bassiano, a physician, of Padua,author of some medical works, was assassinated in 1562.

are the cause of both." The queen pardoned LANE, Jane, a female of extraordinary saher, and granted her a safe conduct till shegacity and spirit, who assisted in the escape and should be set upon the coast of France. preservation of Charles II., after the battle of LAMI, Bernard, a philosopher of a noble Worcester, and was amply rewarded at the family of Mons; he was a warm admirer of restoration. Charles (disguised in her father's the principles of Descartes, and died in 1715. livery) rode before her on horseback from BentLAMI, Dom. Francis, a French writer, wholey Hall to Staffordshire, to Mr. Norton's near distinguished himself against Spinosa; he died in 1711.

LAMI, John, ecclesiastical professor at Florence, was a facetious and agreeable man, and died in 1774.

Bristol.

LANFRANC, John, an Italian painter; he excelled chiefly in fresco, and died 1647.

LANFRANC, a physician, of Milan; he restored surgery to a regular and respectable system, and died in 1300.

LAMIA, a celebrated Grecian courtezan, some time mistress to Ptolemy I., king of Egypt. LANFRANC, archbishop of Canterbury LAMOIGNON, Christian Francis de, advo-in the reign of William I., died in 1089. He recate-general and president of the parliament, of built the cathedral of Canterbury, and has the Paris, died in 1677.. character of a great statesman, as well as a LAMPE, Frederic Adolphus, rector of Bre-learned prelate. men university, and an author, died in 1729. LANFRANCO, Giovanni, an eminent ItalLAMPLUGH, Thomas, an Englishman, and ian painter, disciple of the Carracci, born in archbishop of York. He crowned king Wil-1581, died in 1647. liam, after exhorting the people to adhere to James II., he died in 1691.

LANG, John Michael, professor of divinity at Altorf, died in 1731.

LANGALIERE, Philip de Gentils, marquis de, distinguished himself in the service of France during 20 years. He was afterwards in the service of the emperor, and king of Po

LAMPRIDIUS, Ælius, a Latin historian, who flourished under the emperors Dioclesian and Constantine, in the 4th century. We have of his writing the lives of four emperors, viz. Commodus, Antoninus, Diadumenus, and He-land, and died in 1717. liogabalus.

LAMPRIDIUS, Benedict, a Latin poet, of Cremona, died in 1540.

LANA, Francis de, a jesuit, of Brescia, born in 1637. From his works, it appears that he had an idea of aerostation prior to Montgolfier. LANCASTER, James, a celebrated English navigator, died in 1620.

LANCASTER, Nathaniel, D. D., an English divine and an author, died in 1775.

LANCELOT, Claude, a native of Paris, and tutor to the prince of Conti, was a Benedictine monk, and the author of several works; he died in 1659.

LANCELOTTI, John Paul, an Italian, employed by pope Paul IV., to compile the canon Jaw; he died in 1591.

LANCJEAN, Remi, the most eminent of Vandyck's pupils, died in 1671.

LANCISI, John Maria, an eminent_Italian physician and anatomist, born at Rome, in 1654, died in 1720.

LANCRET, Nicholas, a famous French painter, born at Paris, in 1690, died in 1743. There are a great many prints after his paintings.

LANCRINCK, Prosper Henricus, an excellent landscape painter in the English school, born at Antwerp, in 1628, died in 1692. His

LANGBAINE, Gerard, an English writer, who acquired literary celebrity by his edition of Longinus; he died in 1657.

LÅNGBAINE, Gerard, born in 1656, was author of "An account of the English Dramatic Poets," which has been of great use to later biographers; he died in 1692.

LANGDALE, Marmaduke, an Englishman of great courage, who espoused the royal cause in the rebellion; he died in 1681.

LANGDON, Samuel, D. D., minister of a church in Portsmouth, New-Hampshire, and afterwards president of Harvard college; he died in 1797.

LANGDON, John, LL. D., an active and powerful advocate of the revolution, was a member of Congress in 1775, and afterwards a member of the convention which formed the federal constitution, a senator in Congress, and governor of the state of New-Hampshire; he died at Portsmouth, in 1819.

LANGE, Joseph, Greek professor at Friburg, in 1600; he turned catholic in the latter part of his life."

LANGE, Charles Nicholas, a Swiss naturalist, about 1720.

LANGE, Rodolphus, canon of Munster, dis tinguished himself as a poet; he died in 1519. LANGELANDE, Robert, author of "The Vi

sions of Pierce Plowman," and one of the most of 10 vols. folio, of commentaries on the Scripancient English poets, flourished about the mid-tures, died in 1637. dle of the 14th century.

LAPO, Arnulphus di, a native of Florence, LANGHAM, Simon, archbishop of Canter-known as an able architect, died in 1300. bury; he was made treasurer of England by Edward III., and died in 1376.

LARROQUE, Daniel de, son of the precedLANGLEY, Batty, an English architect, au-ing, and author of several works, died in 1731. thor of some useful books, died in 1751. LASCARIS, Constantine, one of those learnLANGTON, John, an English Carmeliteed Greeks who quitted Constantinople upon monk, was at the council of Basil. its being taken by the Turks in 1453, and took refuge in Italy. He was author of a "Greek Grammar," and other small works of a similar kind.

LANGUET, John Baptist Joseph, doctor of the Sorbonne, the celebrated vicar of St. Sulpice at Paris, and one of those extraordinary men whom Providence raises up for the relief of the LASSELS, Richard, an Englishman, who indigent and wretched, for the good of society, embraced the catholic religion; he published and the glory of nations, was born at Dijon," travels in Italy," and died in 1768. June 6, 1657, and died in 1750.

LANSBERGHE, Philip, a learned mathe-Oxford, in 1555. matician, of Ghent, and the author of several works; he died in 1632. LANSDOWNE.

See GRANVILLE. LANZANO, Andrea, an Italian painter, who excelled in his art, died in 1712.

LANZI, Lewis,an Italian jesuit, distinguished LAUDER, William, a native of Scotland, as an antiquary. On the suppression of his or-memorable for an attempt to ruin the reputation der, he was made sub-director of the gallery at of Milton; an attempt which ended in the deFlorence. He was author of an essay on the struction of his own. He began first to retail Tuscan language, and other works, and died part of his design in the Gentleman's Magazine, in 1810. 1747; and finding that his forgeries were not LANZONI, Joseph, a native of Ferrara, em-detected, was encouraged, in 1751, to collect iment as a physician, and an antiquary; he died

them, with additions, into a volume, entitled "An Essay on Milton's Use and Imitation of LAPARELLI, Francis, an Italian, eminent the Moderns in his Paradise Lost." The fidelias an architect, mechanic, and engineer. Hety of his quotations had been doubted by seve assisted Michael Angelo in his designs for St.ral people; and the falsehood of them was soon Peter's church, at Rome, and died in 1590. after demonstrated by bishop Douglas, in a pamphlet entitled, "Milton vindicated from the

Charge of Plagiarism, brought against him by vanced. Success inflamed his imagination, and Lauder; and Lauder himself convicted of seve- he became an enthusiast in the study of physiral Forgeries and gross Impositions on the Pub-ognomy. The opinions relative to it, which he lic." The appearance of this detection over-propagated, were a medley of acute observawhelmed Lauder with confusion. He subscribed tion, ingenious conjecture, and wild reverie. a confession dictated by Dr. Johnson; and, find- His books, published in the German language, ing that his character was not to be retrieved, were multiplied by many editions, and translaquitted the kingdom, and passed the remainder tions. This amiable clergyman (for such he of his life in universal contempt. He died at was,) was born at Zurich, in 1741, and died Barbadoes, in 1770. See BOWLE. there in 1801, in consequence of a wound which he received from a French soldier a twelvemonth before.

LAUDOHN, or LOUDON, Gideon Ernest, field-marshal, and commander in chief of the Austrian forces, born in 1716, died in 1790. So high was his reputation, that Frederic the Great, of Prussia, used to say, he feared nobody so much as Laudohn.

LAUGIER, Mark Antony, a French jesuit, the author of several works, died in 1769. LAUNAY, Francis de, a French advocate of eminence, and an author of law publications, died in 1693.

LAVINGTON, George, bishop of Exeter, born in 1683, and died at Exeter, in 1762. Besides sermons, he published, "The Enthusiasm of the Methodists and Papists compared." LAVIROTTE, Lewis Anne, a French physician of eminence, died in 1759.

LAVOISIER, Antoine Laurent, a celebrated French medical and chymical writer, born at Paris, in 1743,was murdered by the guillotine unLAUNOI, John de, a learned French writer, der the execrable tyranny of Robespierre, with known for his defence of the rights of the Gal-27 other farmers-general, in 1794. lican church, died in 1678.

LAUNOY, Charles de, a French general. See LANNOY.

LAURA DE NOVES, the mistress of Petrarch, who wrote in her praise 318 sonnets and 88 songs, most of which breathe the warmest spirit of poetry. She was born at Avignon,

LAW, John, of Edinburgh, a famous projector, who raised himself to the dignity of comptroller-general of the finances of France, upon the strength of a scheme for establishing a bank, an East-India, and a Mississippi company, with the profits of which the national debt of France was to be paid off; but this great fabric of false credit fell to the ground, and almost overthrew the French government, ruining some thousands of families; and it is remarkable, that the same LAURENS, or LAURENTIUS, Andrew, desperate game was played by the South Sea professor of medicine, at Montpelier, and phy-directors in England in the same fatal year, sician to Henry IV., died in 1609.

in 1310, and died in 1348.

LAURATI, Peter, a celebrated Italian painter, who flourished in the 15th century.

1720. Law, being exiled as soon as the credit of his projects began to fail, retired to Venice, where he died in poverty, in 1729.

LAW, Edmund, bishop of Carlisle, an eminent theological writer, born in 1702, died in 1787. LAW, William, an able English dissenting divine, and author of the "Serious Call ;" he

LAURENS, Honorus, brother of Andrew, an advocate in the parliament of Paris, and afterwards archbishop of Embrun; he died in 1612. LAURENS, Henry, a member of Congress from South Carolina, and president of that body in 1777. He was taken prisoner by the British, while on his way to Holland, as ambas-died in 1761. sador from the United States, and confined in the tower, and treated with great rigour until 1781. On his liberation, he went to France, and afterwards, joined the American ministers in signing the treaty with Great Britain. He died in Carolina, in 1792.

LAW, Jonathan, a native of Connecticut, was successively a judge and chief justice of the superior court, lieutenant-governor, and afterwards governor, of that state; he died in 1750..

LAW, Richard, LL. D., an eminent lawyer LAURENS, John, son of the preceding, was of Connecticut, was for several years, a judge a distinguished officer of the American army, and chief justice of the supreme court of that during the war of the revolution, and rendered state, and afterwards judge of the United States essential services to his country. He was mor-district court. He died in 1806. tally wounded in an action with a small party of the enemy in Carolina, and died in 1782.

LAURENT, Peter Joseph, a native of Flan ders, celebrated for his astonishing mechanical powers; he died in 1775.

LAWES, William, an eminent English musician and composer, was killed at the siege of Chester, in the army of Charles I.

LAWES, Henry, his brother, and also a great musician, in which art he is by some thought to have excelled William, was born at Salisbury, al-in 1600, and died in 1662.

LAURENTIO, Nicholas, a remarkable character in the history of modern Rome, who, though the son of a vintner, rose to the supreme power, but was murdered by the populace. LAURI, Filippo, an eminent Italian painter, born at Rome in 1623, died in 1694.

LAVATER, Lewis, an ecclesiastic, known for his abilities as a protestant controversialist, died in 1586.

LAWRENCE, Stringer, a distinguished general on the East-India Company's establishment, born in 1697, died in 1775. In gratitude for his eminent services in the command of their forces on the coast of Coromandel, during a period of 20 years, the Company erected a noble monument to his memory in Westminster Abbey.

LAVATER, John Gaspar Christian, a Swiss LAWRENCE, James, a captain in the navy divine, of warm fancy, and natural acute- of the United States, distinguished for his braness, by which he was led to turn his attention very and skill, was wounded in an action with to the expression of human sentiment and cha-the British frigate Shannon, in 1813, and died racter. He perceived that not only transient four days afterwards.

passion, but even the more permanent qualities LAWSON, Sir John, captain of a ship in the of character, are often very distinctly expressed; navy of the parliament, and afterwards rearbut carried his observations in this way much admiral under the duke of York; he was killfarther than any other person had before ad-ed in 1665.