died at Pershore, Worcestershire, March, 1779. His Dictionary is a remarkably laborious and comprehensive work. ASHTON, Charles, one of the most learned critics of his age, was elected master of Jesua College, Cambridge, July 5, 1701, and installed ASHE, Simeon, a nonconformist, chaplain to in a prebend of Ely, on the 14th of the same ford Warwick, during the civil wars, died 1662.month. His great knowledge in ecclesiastical ASHE, Samuel, a judge of the Supreme court antiquities was excelled by none, and equalled of North Carolina, and afterwards governor of by few as his MS. remarks upon the Fathers, that state, died 1813. and corrections of the mistakes of translators, sufficently show. ASHE, John Baptiste, a representative in Congress, from, and governor of, the state of N. Carolina, died 1802. ASHLEY, Jonathan, a distinguished minister of Deerfield, Mass., died 1780, aged 68. He published several sermons. ASHLEY, Robert, a lawyer, distinguished as an eminent writer, &c., died 1641. ASHTON, Dr. Thomas, rector of St. Botolph Bishopsgate, a popular preacher and excellent divine, born 1716, died 1775. ASHWELL, George, his writings were on divinity, but not in high esteem; he died 1693. ASHWOOD, Bartholomew, a minister of Axminster, in Devon, author of several tracts, &c. ASHWORTH, Caleb, patronized by Dr. Doddridge, and successor to him in his school, was created D. D. by a Scotch university; he died 1774. ASKEW, Anthony, a native of Westmoreland, eminent as a physician, died 1784. ASHMOLE, or ÁSMOLE, Elias, a celebrated English philosopher and antiquary, and founder of the Ashmolean museum at Oxford, was born at Litchfield, in Staffordshire, the 23d of May, 1C27. Besides filling several offices, civil and military, Mr. Ashmole was a diligent and curious collector of manuscripts. In 1650 he published ASKEW, Anne, an accomplished lady, daugha treatise written by Dr. Arthur Dee, relating to ter of Sir William Askew, of Kelsay, in Linthe philosopher's stone; together with another colnshire, was born in 1529. She received a tract on the same subject, by an unknown au- learned education, and in early life showed a thor. About the same time he was busied in predilection for theological studies. By these preparing for the press a complete collection of she was led to favour the reformation; she was, the works of such English chymists as had till in conseqence, arrested, and, having confessed then remained in manuscript: this undertaking her religious principles, was committed to Newcost him great labour and expense; and at length gate. She was first racked with brutal cruelty the work appeared toward the close of the year in the Tower, and afterwards burned alive in 1652. The title of this work was, "Theatrum Smithfield, July 16, 1546; a punishment which Chemicum Britannicum," &c. &c. He then ap she endured with amazing courage and firmness, plied himself to the study of antiquity and re-adhering to the last to the principles of her faith. cords. In 1658 he began to collect materials for ASPASIA, a native of Miletus, celebrated for his "History of the Order of the Garter," whichber wit and learning, though her character was he lived to finish, and thereby did no less hon-licentious. our to the order than to himself. In September} ASPASIA, a Grecian lady, celebrated for her following, he made a journey to Oxford; where excellence in philosophy and rhetoric, was born he set about a full and particular description at Miletus, but settled at Athens; where, though of the coins given to the public library by arch-she exercised the calling of a courtezan, her bishop Laud. Upon the restoration of Charles scholastic talents induced the virtuous Socrates H., Mr. Ashmole was introduced to his majesty, and other of the greatest men of the age to visit who received him very graciously, and, on the her house. She was afterwards married to Peri18th of June, 1660, bestowed on him the place cles, one of the greatest men that ever flourished of Windsor herald; a few days after, he ap-in Greece. ASSELIN, Giles Thomas, respectable for his piety and poetical talents, died 1567. ASSELYN, John, a historical and landscape ASSER, a Jewish rabbi of the 5th century, author of the Talmud of Babylon, &c. ASSER, of St. David's, a learned author in the reign of Alfred. pointed him to give a description of his medals, ASPELT, Peter d', studied medicine at Paris; which were delivered into his possession; and he died 1320. King Henry VIII.'s closet was assigned for his use. On the 8th of May, 1672, he presented his "Institution, Laws, and Ceremonics, of the most|| noble Order of the Garter" to the king, who re-painter, died 1650. ceived it very graciously, and, as a mark of his approbation, granted him a privy seal for 4007. out of the customs of paper. On the 26th of January, a fire broke out in the Middle Temple, in the next chamber to Mr. Ashmole's, by which ASSHETON, Dr. William, born at Middleton, he lost a noble library, with collection of 9000 in Lancashire, 1641, was the projector of the coins, ancient and modern, and a vast repository scheme for providing a maintenance for clergyof seals, charters, and other antiquities and cu- men's widows and others, by a jointure payable riosities; but his manuscripts, and his most val- by the Mercers' Company. Dr. Assheton wrote uable gold medals, were luckily at his house, at several picces against the papists and dissenters, South Lambeth. In 1683, the University of Ox-and some practical and devotional tracts, and ford having finished a magnificent repository died at his rectory of Beckenham, in Kent, 1711. near the theatre, Mr. Ashmole sent thither his ASSOUCI, Charles Coypeau, Sieur d', a poet, eurious collection of rarities; and this benefac-whose works contained more immorality than tion was considerably augmented by the addi-wit; he died 1679. tion of his manuscripts and library, at his death, ASTELL, Mary, born at Newcastle-uponwhich happened at South Lambeth, May 18, Tyne, about the year 1688. Her uncle, a clergy1692.-Ile was interred in the church of Great man, observing marks of a promising genius, Lambeth, in Surrey, on the 26th of May, 1692. took her under his tuition, and taught her maASHMÚN ELI PEASE, a distinguished law-thematics, logic, and philosophy. She left the ver of Northampton, Mass.; he was a member place of her nativity when she was about 20: of the senate of that state, and afterwards a se-years of age, and spent the remaining part of nator in Congress, died 1819 her life at London and Chelsea, in writing for the advancement of learning, religion, and vir-him in the government of the church of Alextue, and in the practice of those religious duties andria. This was in 326, when Athanasius is which she so zealously and pathetically recom-supposed to have been about 28 years of age. It mended to others. She was remarkably abste is controverted among learned men, whether mious, and seemed to enjoy an uninterrupted Athanasius composed the creed commonly restate of health till a few days before her death;ceived under his name; though the best and when, having one of her breasts cut off, it so latest critics, who have examined the thing most much impaired her constitution, that she died exactly, make no question but that it is to be in 1731, in the 63d year of her age, and was ascribed to a Latin author, Vigilius Tapsensis, buried at Chelsea. an African bishop, who lived in the latter end of the 5th century, in the time of the Vandalic Arian persecution. ASTERIUS, an Arian of Cappadocia in the 4th century. ASTERIUS, bishop of Amasia, in Pontus, in the 4th century. ATHELING, Edgar, grandson of Edmund Ironside, king of England, made some unsuccess ASTERIUS, Urbanus, a bishop of the 3d cen-ful attempts to obtain the crown. tury, engaged in a controversy with the Montanists of Ancyra, in Galatia. ATHELSTAN, the natural son of Edmund the Elder, made king of England, 925. ATHENAGORAS, an Athenian philosopher who became a convert to Christianity. He lived in the 2d century. ATHENÆUS, a Greek grammarian, born at ATHENEUS, a mathematician, 200 B. C. ATHENÆUS, an orator of Rome in the age of Augustus. ASTLE, Thomas, an eminent English antiquary, born at Yoxall, Staffordshire, December 2,1735, and originally bred to the law; the early pursuit of which profession led him to give particular application to the decyphering of an-Naucrates, in Egypt, flourished in the 3d century. cient records; in which he soon excelled all his|| cotemporaries, and qualified himself to be of infinite advantage to historical literature. In 1783, he was appointed keeper of the rolls and records in the tower of London; and in 1787 elected a trustee of the British museum. The principal one among his numerous works is, "On the Origin and Progress of Writing, as ATHIAS, Joseph, a learned printer of Ainwell Hieroglyphic as Elementary," 4to., 1784;sterdam, died 1700. of which work a new edition was published just before his death, which happened at Battersea, December 1, 1803. ASTLE, John, a portrait painter, born at Whem, in Shropshire. ASTOLPH, king of Lombardy, attacked the pope's dominions, and died 756. ATHENODORUS, a stoic philosopher, preceptor to Augustus. ATHIAS, Isaac, author of an explication of the law of Moses, a Jew of Spain. ATKINS, James, D. D., a learned Scotchman of Kirkwall, in Orkney, died 1687. ATKINS, sir Robert, lord chief baron of the exchequer, born in Gloucestershire, in the yeat 1621, died in the beginning of the year 1709. He was a man of much probity, as well as of great skill in his profession, and a warm friend to the ATKINS, sir Robert, son of the foregoing, ASTON, Sir Thomas; in the civil wars he was born in 1646. He became very early a great raised a troop of horse for the king, but was de-proficient in the laws and antiquities of his couns feated, and afterwards taken prisoner; he died try, which afterwards led him to write "The 1642, in consequence of a blow received in at-Ancient and Present State of Gloucestershire," tempting to make his escape, printed in folio, 1712. This great and valuable ASTORGAS, marchioness of, a lady in the work he lived to perfect, but died the year before reign of Charles II. of Spain; she killed her hus-it was published. band's mistress. ATKINSON, Theodore, chief justice of New ASTRONOME L', a historian of the 9th cen-||Hampshire, and a delegate to the convention at ASTON, Sir Arthur, a brave man in the ser-constitution. vice of Charles I. tury. Albany which formed the plan of union for the defence of the colonies, died 1779. ATKYNS, Richard, suffered during the civil wars for his attachment to the royal cause, and ASTRUC, John, a physician of France, born at Sauves, a town of Lower Languedoc, the 19th of March, 1684; died at Paris, the 5th of May, 1766. He was the author of several use-died 1677. ful and curious works. ATLAS, king of Mauritania, a celebrated asASTYAGES, a king of Media, 594 B. C.,tronomer, said to have been cotemporary with called by some, the Ahasuerus of the Scriptures. Moses. From his making astronomical obserATA, Abdal, a mussulman dervise in the age vations on high mountains, it became a fable of Tamerlane. that he was turned into a mountain. He is ATABALIPA, or ATAHUALPA, the last likewise represented as an old man bearing the king of Peru of the race of the Incas, barbarous-world upon his shoulders; and general descrip ly put to death by the Spaniards, 1533. tions of the whole globe, in sets of maps, are to this hour called Atlases. ATHALIAH, wife of Jehoram, she obtained the sovereignty of Judah, which she held seven years. ATHANASIUS, St., was born at Alexandria, of heathen parents. He was noticed, when very young, by Alexander, bishop of that see, who took care to have him educated in all good learning; and when he was of age, ordained him deacon. He took him in his company when he attended the council of Nice, where Athanasins greatly distinguished himself as an able and zealous opposer of the Arian heresy, Soon after the dissolution of the council, Alexander died, and Athanasius was appointed to succeed ATRATUS, Hugh, or Black, called the Pho nix of his age, from his great powers of mind, ATTALUS I., king of Pergamus, a great patron of learning, died 198 B. C, ATTALUS II., son of the preceding, reigned 21 years, and died 159 B. C. ATTALUS III., nephew of the second, died 133 B. C. ATTALUS, a native of Pergamus, was burnt alive for professing the Christian reli gion, 177. ATTENDULI, Margaret, a sister of Sforza, grand constable of Naples, ATTERBURY, Lewis; he took the degree of D. D. at Oxford, and was drowned 1693. ATTERBURY, Lewis, son of the preceding, one of the chaplains of the princess Anne, died 1731. AUBERT, Peter, a French lawyer, died 1733. AUBERT, William, an advocate a Paris, author of some works of merit, died in 1601. AUBERT DU BAYET N., a French officer, engaged in the American war. AUBERTIN, Edme, minister of the reformed church at Charenton, died 1652. AUBERY, or AUERY, John, a physician of Bourbonnois, a learned author. AUBERY, Anthony, a lawyer of Paris, and ATTERBURY, Francis, bishop of Rochester, was born March 6, 1652, at Middleton, or Milton Keynes, in Buckinghamshire. He had his edu cation in grammar learning at Westminster school; and thence, in 1680, was elected a student of Christ-church College, Oxford, where he ja remarkable student, died 1695. soon distinguished himself for the politeness of his wit and learning. In 1690 he took orders; in 1691 he was elected lecturer of St. Bride's Church AUBESPINE, Claude de l', usefully employin London, preached at Bridewell Chapel, and ed in the service of Francis I., Henry II., and was soon afterwards appointed chaplain to king his two successors; he died in 1567. William and queen Mary. He was for some AUBESPINE, Charles de, marquis of Chayears after this engaged in a religious contro-teau-neuf, chancellor of France, an able statesversy with Dr. Bentley, Dr. Wake, and other man, died 1653. AUBERY, Louis, sieur du Maurier, author of some valuable works, died 1687. learned divines. In 1713, the queen, at the re- AUBESPINE, Gabriel de l', an ambassader commendation of lord chancellor Harcourt, ad-in England, 1630. vanced him to the bishopric of Rochester, with AUBESPINE, Magdelene de l', wife of Nithe deanery of Westminster in commendam.colas de Neufville de Villeroi, celebrated for her At the beginning of the succeeding reign his wit and beauty at the court of Charles IX. tide of prosperity began to turn; and he re- AUBIGNE, Theodore Agrippa d', a very ilceived a sensible mortification presently after lustrious Frenchman, and grandfather of the no the coronation of king George I., when, upon less illustrious Madame de Maintenon, was born his offering to present his majesty (with a view, about the year 1550. His parts were so uncomno doubt, of standing better in his favour) with ||mon, and his progress in letters so very rapid, the chair of state and royal canopy, his own that he is said to have translated the "Crito" of perquisites as dean of Westminster, the offer Plato from the Greek into French when no more was rejected, not without some evident marks than eight years old. His principal work is of dislike to his person. In 1722, on a suspicion "Histoire Universelle, from 1550 to 1601, with of his being concerned in a plot in favour of the a short Account of the Death of Henry IV.," in pretender, he was apprehended August 24, and three volumes, folio. Aubigne died at Geneva committed prisoner to the Tower. A bill soon in 1630. after passed in parliament, the tenor of which AUBREY, John, an eminent English antiwas, that he should be deprived of all his quary, born at Easton Piers, Wiltshire, 1626, offices, dignities, benefices, &c., and suffer per-died 1700, leaving many works behind him, parpetual exile. He died at Paris, February 15,ticularly a "History of Surrey," 5 vols. 8vo., a 1731-2. volume of "Miscellanies," and several MSS., ATTICUS, one of the most singular person-which are in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. ages in ancient Rome. He understood the art of He seems, however, to have been a credulous conducting himself so well, that, without de-man, and to have been frequently imposed upon parting from his neutrality, he preserved the with marvellous tales and absurd hypotheses. esteem and affection of all parties. He reached AUBREY, John Baptist, a French Benedictthe age of 77 years almost without knowingine, prior of the house of Commercy, died 1809. what sickness was, but at last fell sick. His His writings on theological and philosophical illness, which was slight for three months, at subjects are numerous. length becoming painful, he sent for Agrippa, his son-in-law, and two other persons, and declared to them a resolution to put an end to his AUBUSSON, Peter d', grand master of the life by abstinence from food. Agrippa remon-order of St. John of Jerusalem, a warrior and strated with tears, but in vain. After two days abstinence the fever left him, and the disease abated; but Atticus persisted, and died three days after, in the year of Rome 721. ATTICUS, Herodes, a celebrated orator, born at Marathon, died in 76. ATTICUS, patriarch of Constantinople, died in 427. ATTILA, a famous general of the Huns, usually called "The Scourge of God," died 453. AUBRIOT, Hugo, builder of the Bastile, 1369, died in 1382. statesman, died in 1503. AUBUSSON, Francis d', duke de la Feuillade, distinguished himself in the wars of Flanders, died in 1681. AUCHMUTY, Samuel, D. D., rector of Trinity church, New-York, died 1777. AUCHMUTY, sir Samuel, knt., son of the above, was born in New-York, and, taking side against his countrymen in the Revolution, he entered the British army, and rose to the high rank of lieutenant general, after holding vaATWOOD, William, chief justice of the co-rious honourable and lucrative stations under lony of New-York, and judge of admiralty for the British government. He died at Dublin, New-England, New-York, and New-Jersey, in while commander-in-chief of the forces in Ire1701. land, 1822. ATWOOD, George, of the parish St. Clement AUDEBERT, Germain, a counsellor of Or Danes, a tutor and fellow of Trinity College,leans, and a poet, died 1598. Cambridge, and lecturer on experimental philosophy to the university. He was eminent as a profound mathematician and financier, and for his skill in the theory and practice of music; and was the intimate friend of the prime minister, Pitt. He died 1807. AUDEBERT, John Baptist, a French naturalist, engraver, &c., died 1800. AUDIFRET, Jean Baptiste d', a native of Marseilles, author of a geography, died 1733. AUDIFRET, Hercules, of Carpentras, preceptor of Flechier, died 1659. AUDIGUIER, Vital d', known for his adventures in quest of independence, died 1630. AUDIUS, founder of a sect in the 4th cen tury. AUDLEY, James, lord, distinguished for his valour in the wars of France, &c., died in 1386. AUDLEY, Edmund, was successively made bishop of Rochester, Hereford, and Salisbury, and died in 1524. AURIGNY, Gilles d', an ingenious French poet of the 16th century. AURILLON, Jean Baptiste Elie, a Frenchman, admired for his eloquence, &c., died 1729. AURIOL, Blaise d', known by some poetica! pieces and treatises on jurisprudence, died 1540. AURISPA, John, patronised by pope Nicholas V. AUROGALLUS, Matthew, assisted Luther AUDLEY, or AWDELEY, Thomas, appoint-in translating the Bible into German, and died ed chancellor in the room of sir Thomas More,||1543. died in 1544. AUDRAN, Girard, esteemed the most correct historical engraver that ever lived, died in 1703. AUDRAN, Clande, brother to Girard, a historical painter, died in 1684. AUDRAN, John, nephew of Girard, an engraver of Lyons, died in 1756. AUGER, Edmund, whose eloquence converted 40,000 protestants to the catholic faith, died 1591. AUGURELLI, John Aurelius, a poet and philosopher of Rimini, died in 1524. AUROUX, Matthew, a lawyer, author of a curious commentary on the costume du Bourbounois, in the 18th century. AUSONIUS, Decinus Magnus, a Latin poet of the 4th century. AUSSUN, Pierre d', a distinguished officer in the French service, died 1563. AUSTIN, William, author of the "Excellen[cy of Women," &c. AUTELS, Gillaume dcs, an indifferent French poet, died 1576. AUTEROCHE, Jean Chappe d', a Frenchpope||man, distinguished for his early and rapid progress in learning; he went to Tobolsk to observe the transit of Venus over the sun's disk, June 6, 1761. AUGUSTIN, Antony, employed by the as ambassador to England, died in 1587. AUGUSTINE. St., a father of the church, made bishop of Hippo, died in 430. AUGUSTINE, Leonard, commonly called Agostini, an antiquarian of Sienna in the 17th century. AUTHON, John d', historiographer to Lewis XII., died 1532. AUTOMNE, Bernard, author of a commenAUGUSTIN, or AUSTIN, St., the first arch-tary on the provincial law of Bordeaux, died bishop of Canterbury, was originally a monk in 1666. the convent of St. Andrew, at Ronie, and edu-) AUTREAU, Jacques d', a painter of Paris, cated under St. Gregory, afterwards pope Gre-who began to write for the stage at 60, with sucgory I., by whom he was despatched into Britain,cess; he died 1745. with 40 other monks of the same order, about AUVERGNE, Anthony d', director of the the year 596, to convert the English Saxons to opera at Paris, and an eminent composer, died Christianity. He died at Canterbury, 604. 1797. AUGUSTULUS, Romulus, the last emperor AUVIGNY, N. Castres d', born in the Haiof Rome, spent the last part of his life in ob-naut, intimate with l' abbe des Fontaines; he scurity. wrote much on historical subjects, and died AUGUSTUS, Caius Julius Cæsar Octavia-1743. nas, the first Roman Emperor, a prince of great moderation and prudence, died A. D. 14. AUHADI-MARAGAH, a mussulman poet, about 1319. AULUS GELLIUS. See GELLIUS. AUMONT, John d', count of Chateroux, marshal of France, &c., died 1595. AUXENTIUS, a native of Cappadocia ; he was made bishop of Milan, but was afterwards excommunicated, and died 374. Another of the same name challenged St. Ambrose to a public disputation, which he rejected. AUZONT, Adrian, a native of Rouen, a mahematician, said to be the inventor of the miAUMONT, Anthony d', grandson of the pre-crometer; he suggested the idea of applying the ceding, also marshal of France, &c., died 1669. telescope to the astronomical quadrant, and died AUNGERVILLE, Richard, tutor to Edward 1691. III. of England, died 1345. AVALOS FERDINAND, Francis d', marAUNOY, Marie Catherine Jumelle de Bern-quis of Pescara, distinguished for his valour in ville, countess d', known as the writer of nu merous romances, died 1705. the service of Charles V., died 1525. AVALOS, Alphonso d', marquis del Vasto, assisted Charles V. in Italy, died 1546. AVANTIO, John Marion, a learned civilian, AURELIAN, son of a peasant, raised to the throne of Rome after Claudius IL, died 275. AURELIUS VICTOR, Sextus, a Roman his-settled at Padua, died 1622. torian of the 4th century. AVED, Jaques Andre Joseph, a painter of AURELLI, or ARELLI, John Mutio, a Latineminence, died at Paris, 1766. poet, died 1520. AVEIRO, Joseph, duke of, a Portuguese nobleman conspired against king Joseph I., and AURENG-ZEB, the great mogul, a famous conqueror, but detestable parricide who poison-was executed 1759. ed his father to possess his throne, died 1707, aged near 100. AUREOLUS, Manius Acilius, from a shepherd became a general; he died 267. AURIA, Vincent, a native of Palermo, dis-a tinguished as a man of letters, died 1710. AURIFICUS, or ORIFICUS BONEFILIUS, Nicholas, author of several religious works in the 16th century. AVENPACA, a Spanish Moor, a peripatetic philosopher in the 12th century. AVELAR, a Portuguese painter. AVELLANEDA, Alphonsus Fernandes d', Spanish writer, native of Tordesillas. was author of a Continuation, or Second Part, of Don Quixote," 8vo., 1614. It has been twice translated into English; and Pope, in his Essay on Criticism, has versified a tale from it. The time of his birth or death has not been ascer AURIGNY, Hyacintha Robillard d', regent of the college of Alencon, wrote some chrono-tained. logical memoirs on history, &c., and died 1719. AVENTIN, John, a celebrated scholar, and author of the "Annals of Bavaria," born 1466,ledge of the national antiquities and municipal at Abensperg, in the country just named. He rights was very extensive. died 1534. AVENZOAR, an Arabian physician of the 12th century. AYLON, Luke Vasques d', a Spaniard engaged in the discovery and conquest of America, 1520. AVERANIUS, Joseph, a native of Florence, AYMAR, James, a peasant of Dauphine, prepossessed strong powers of mind; he died intended to discover secrets, &c., by means of a 1738. sacred wand; he died 1708. AVERANIUS, Benedict, brother of the preceding, early distinguished by advancement in literature, died in 1707. AVERDY, Clement Charles de l', minister and comptroller of the finances under Lewis XV., guillotined in 1794. AYMON, John, a Piedmontese, embraced the tenets of Calvin, in Holland, but returned to the Romish church; he purloined and published some books from the king's library at Paris. AYRES, John, an English penman of considerable eminence about 1694. AVERROES, one of the most subtle Arabian AYRMIN, or AYERMIN, William, made philosophers, and a native of Corduba, flourish-chancellor of England by Edward III.; he was ed in the 12th century. AVESBURY, Robert, an English historian. AVICENNA, a celebrated philosopher and physician among the Mahometans, was born in the year 980, and died in 1036. The number of his books, including his smaller tracts, is computed at near 100, the majority of which are either lost or not known in Europe. AVIENUS, Rufus Festus, a Latin poet of the 4th century. AVILA, Louis d', a general of cavalry under also sent ambassador to Rome. AYSA, a Moorish female, taken prisoner by the Spaniards under Charles V., at the siege of Tunis. AYSCOUGH, George Edward, an Englishman; he was an officer in the foot guards, distinguished for his literary acquirements, and died 1779. AYSCOUGH, Anne. See ASKEW. AYSCOUGH, Samuel, assistant librarian in the British Museum, but chiefly memorable for his patient industry in that most useful, but too much despised province of literature, called index making. He published, among other works, a "Catalogue of the MSS. in the British Museum; and also a Catalogue of Ancient Char&c,ters in that matchless collection, amounting to about 16,000. He was born at Nottingham, in 1745, and died in the British Museum, October 30, 1804. AVILA, John d', a learned and pious ecclesiastic of Toledo, died 1569. AVILA, Sancho d', bishop of Murcia, distinguished for his piety, died 1626. AVILER, Augustin Charles d', wrote on architecture; he died 1700. AVIRON, James le Bathelier, author of com- AYSCUE, Sir George, a gallant English admentaries on the provincial laws of Normandy.miral, from an ancient family in Lincolnshire; AVISON, Charles, an eminent English mu-in 1666 he commanded the Royal Prince, the sician and composer, and author of a treatise largest ship in the world; it was captured by on "Musical Expression," died at Newcastle, the Dutch. May 10, 1770. AVITUS, Mark Mæcilius, emperor of the West, on the death of Maximus, 455. AVOGARDI, Lucia Albani, a celebrated Italian poetess. AXERETO, or ASSERETO, Blaise, a Genoese admiral, defeated and took prisoner Alphonso V., king of Arragon, in a naval battle, 1435. AXITHEA, a female philosopher, in the age of Plato. AXTEL, Daniel, a colonel in the parliamentary army; from a grocer he became a soldier, was one of the officers employed at the trial of the king, and for his concern in his execution, he suffered death in 1660. AYESHA, most beloved of the wives of Mahomet, died 677. AYLESBURY, Sir Thomas, a native of London, and a patron of literature, distinguished as a mathematician and man of science, died 1657. AYLESBURY, William, son of the preced-| ing, and tutor to the young duke of Bucking ham and his brother, died in Jamaica, 1657. AYLETT, Robert, a master in chancery of Trinity-hall, Cambridge, 1614. AYLIN, John, author of the history of Friuli, an Italian author of the 14th century. AYLMER, John, bishop of London, born in Norfolk 1521. He preached frequently in his cathedral, and had an admirable talent at captivating the attention of his hearers. He died at Fulham, the 3d of June, 1594, aged 73. AYLOFFE, Sir Joseph, bart., V. P. A. S., and F. R. S., born 1708, died 1781. His know-ll AZARIAH, or UZZIAH, king of Judah, lived 810 B. C., became an idolater, and died a leper. AZARIAS, a rabbi, author of several Hebrew works. AZEVEDO, Ignatius, a Portuguese Jesuit, a missionary to America, murdered by pirates,1570. AZAICUETA, Martin, a lawyer of Pampeluna, distinguished as a professor in several universities, died at Rome, in 1586. AZORIUS, John, a native of Lucca, eminent among the Jesuits, as a professor at Alcala and at Rome, died 1603. AZZI DE FORTI, Faustina, writer of a volume of Italian poems, died 1724. AZZO, Portius, professor of law at Bologna, died 1220. AZZOGUIDO, Valerius Flaccus, a learned antiquarian of Bologna, died 1728. AZZOLINI, Lawrence, secretary to Pope Urban VIII., and bishop of Narni, died 1522. BA BAAHDIN, Mahomet Gebet Amali, a learned Persian, author of a summary of civil and canon law, which was enforced through Persia, by command of Abbas the Great. BAAN, John de, a Dutch painter of some eminence, patronised by Charles II. of England, and the grand duke of Tuscany; he died 1702. BAARSDORP, Cornelius, was physician and chamberlain to the Emperor Charles V. BAART, Peter, a Latin and Flemish poet and physician, author of the Flemish Georgics and other poems. Year of his death unknown. |