A supplement to The great historical, geographical, genealogical and poetical dictionary: being a curious miscellany of sacred and profane history / Collected especially out of Lewis Morery, D. D., his 8th ed. cor. and enl. by Monsieur Le Clerc; in two volumes in folio. By Jer. Collier. Together with a continuation from the year 1688, to this time, by another hand.

  • Moréri, Louis, 1643-1680.
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1705
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Credit: A supplement to The great historical, geographical, genealogical and poetical dictionary: being a curious miscellany of sacred and profane history / Collected especially out of Lewis Morery, D. D., his 8th ed. cor. and enl. by Monsieur Le Clerc; in two volumes in folio. By Jer. Collier. Together with a continuation from the year 1688, to this time, by another hand. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    whether he was Rdlpr’dy by having his Banilliment miiitted', does not appear, neither is (t material. But tftp 'vc Hnd, that there were tvvo (uch Pridfs from the time oh Aaron, and continued to the Captivity, Numb. 3. 4. 1 Chron. 24. 2. 2 Kings 25. 181 fer. <52. 24. and horn Sp. Luke 3.2. Tis not improbable this Culfom obtain'd in our Saviour’s time. Farther, after the new Eftablifhment of the Temple Service and Oeco- noiny,thc Succclhon of the High-Priefllicod was reckon¬ ed from Zadoc, who was the fil'd High-Pried of the Temple, as formerly it was from Aharon-, and m.ftead of the Sons of AarongXx Pridfe were afterwards called the Sons of Zadoc, and indead of the Houfeof Aaron, the Stile ran, The Houle of Zadoc. Ez,ek. 11. 46. 43. 19. 44. 15. 48. 2. 2 Chron. 31. 10. It is likewiie obfervable, that the Temple Oeconomy was wholly Divine, exprel- ly ordered by God him (elf, and not left to the Dilcretion of any Humane Power or Authority. From whence it follows, that tho’ the Sentence of Solomon again!! Abia- thar had been an Ecclefiadical Sentence, and amounted not only to Deprivation, but Degradation, it could not have been urged as a Precedent for the Prerogative of the Kings his SuccdTors. For this ought to be lookt upon as an Exempt and Privileged Cale, and reckoned a Prin¬ cipal part of the new ordering of the Courlcs of the Prieds, which was particularly commanded by God to D.tv.id, and accordingly the Scripture informs us, that Solomon put this Order in execution : The words run thus; And he appointed,according to the Order of David his Father, the Courfes of the Prjejh t o their Service-- For Jo had David the Ad an of God commanded, 2. Chron. 8. 14. To proceed; If the Kingly Power of the Jens extended to the depriving of Prieds, and putting whom they thought fit in their room, then Solomon might have put any other whom he plealed, and not Zadoc in the room of Abiathar; and if lb, Solomon or any other SuccdTors might have quite altered the whole Temple Oeconomy, and made wnat new Didributions of the Courlcs of the Prieds they thought fit, and have carried the Innovati¬ on through all the Work of the Service of the Houfe of the Lord: For both tliele are jovned together, and alike commanded,1 Chron. 28.13. And by the 2td Verle of this Chapter it appears, drat the Courles of the Prieds were fixt and unalterable, and not left to the dilpolal of the Prince; for this is there put as part of David's Charge to Solomon: And behold the Courfes of the Priejls and the Levites are all for the Service of the Houfe of the Lord. Farther ; II Abiathar, or Eli before him, of the Houfe of Ithamar, had uturped the Supreme High-Priedhood from Zadoc and his PredccdTors of the Houle of Eleavdr, as Jojephus (Antiq. lib. 8. cap. 1.) leeins to luppo(e,and reckons tip five of the Family of Elea^ar who led a private I.ite, while the Higli-Pricdhood was in the Branch of Ithamar, which Interruption continued through the Succelfcn of four lihamarian Bigh-Prieds, (viz.) Eli, Ahitub, Abimelech and Abiathar; and therefore this Hidorian remarks,that Zadoc was the fil'd High-Pried under David, lie means, I luppofe, of the Houle of Eleaz,ar. Notv, if the Cale dood thus, Solomon's removing Abiathar, and putting Zadoc in Ins Place, was only redoring the right Line; For this was only a Civi l controverly,the Cale was to be determined by examining Records, and inlpeCting Ge¬ nealogies, which belongs to a Court of Juflice, and lies within the ordinary Juf.ldiction of Princes. * Salian. & Torniel. Annal. in I'd. Tefl. Spondanus and Arch-Bijhop VJbcr s Annals, £?c. See Engltjh Mor cry, Vol. I. A BIB, the firlf Month ol the Sacred Year among the Hebrews, which anfvvcrs to part of our March and April. In this Montli, in Judea, the Corn uled to be near.ripe. Twas foinetnnes called Nijdn, which, before the Children of IJrads going out of Egypt-, was the fe- '•venth Month of the Year ; but afterwards,by God’s cx- prets Command,’twas reckoned for the firlf; ror the fird, 1 lay, in the Religious Computation: For Ticri was the firlf Month of the Civil Year; it came in about Autumn, and was the beginning, not only of the Year,but of the World too, according to Scahger, Calvifius, Schotanus, and a great many others, whole Realons for the Atfir- niativc, are not .confuted by thole of a contrary Sentiment. Upon the Fourteenth day of this Month Abib,God commanded thePaflovcr to be killed. * Philo fud. Exodus 12. Leviticus 23. 'Bochart. Hkrdz,.'par. 1. /.£. cap. 50. g ■ '/ A B 11, a People ( zs_Stephamsv:\\\ have i't) of Scythia, tho’ others .make Thrace tlieir Country. Thele People, who .had defended their Liberty bravely,-from the Reign ol Cyrus, made Alexander the Great a Prefent of it at Mvracanda. They arc thought to, be lo called, bccaule they dwelt upon the River Abianus. Some will have their Name proceed from their' Peaceable Temper; and bccaule they never offered, any Violence to. their Neigh¬ bours : And thus they are derived from - Privativa,and i 1 , Ziolentia. There are feme other Etymologies of thcan, -which I (hall omit. * Bochart. Phaleg. 1. 3! c. a. ABIMELEG H, King of Gcrar in Bale fine, waS Contemporary, with Abraham This Patriarch retired into Abimelech s Dominions, and being apprchcnlive he might lufter upon Sarah'saccountjhe gave out (he was his Siller. This was the iecond time that Abraham had made ufe of this Expedient, for which, St. Chnfojhme leems to enlarge too inuch upon his Commendation. ’Tis not impolfible but this Abimelech might be the lame witli him that made a Treaty with Ifaac) but it is more bre- bable’twas his Succcfbr, bccaule Ifaac came into this Abimelech'sT mi tones after Jacob had bought his Brother EJaus Birth-Right, at which time Ifaac could be no Ids than Eighty years of Age, being Sixty when Efau ancf Jacob were born; whereas on the other fide, Abimelech1 who fell in love with Sarah, was a King before thcBirtii of Ifaac; lo that he mull have been, at lcall, a Hundred years old ; befides, had he been the (bit Abimelech, it is likely he would have undcrltood IJdac s meaning,1 in laying, Rebecca was his Siller, and not have fallen’into the old Miftakc,which had like to hate been fatal to him before. * St. Cftryjojl. ^2. in Genef, siwbroJ. etc Abrah. lib. I. cap. 2. Jofph. Antiq. lib. i. cap. ii.Gchel.cap 20. er 12. &r cap. 26, Ox. • • • - A B I N G d O N - A B B E Y. See Menaftery (Abington.) A B J U R A TIO N, (The form of.) With the £n?~ l’/hj Abjuration was anciently an Oath, taken by him that was guilty of Felony, and had fled, either into a Church or Church-yard, to lave his Lift; by virtue of which, he Swore, That he would depart his Country, and lubmit to perpetual Banilhment; to avoid the Pe¬ nalty ol the Law - as we may read in Stamford's Pleas of the Crown • where lie Informs us,That this Law was firil made by St. Edward the Confefior. The Proceeding was thus; When any Perlon guilty of a Capital Crime’took Sanctuary, he had the Privilege of tlie Place, and as loon as lie was known to be there, the Coroner went to liim, and took his Confdlion which being publiliicd, lie commanded him to depart the Kingdom within forty Days. After this, the guilty Perlon left the Sanctuary, being drefitd in his Hurt and Coat,with a w ooden Crols in his Hand, as a Badg of his being preferv’d by Religi¬ on ,as Polydure Virgil relates it; The Tenor of the' Abjura¬ tion runs thus in Stamford: Mr. Coroner, 1 cemffs my Jelj before you to be a Shccp-jieaier, Horfe-fiedlcr, or, that I have been guilty of Murthir in a fmgle Infiance or farther, and that I am guilty of Felony agawjl our Sovereign Lord the Kmg ; andvecaufe l have been guilty of a great many Crimes and Roberies in this Country, I therefore abjure the Realm Of our Sovereign Lord, the King of England, / Ukewife confej my felf obliged to Jet forward to .the Port ajjigned me, and that I will travel to it by no other Road than that enjdynedg and if /goe any otlyer way I am willing to be apprehended as a Thiel and Felon againjt our Sovereign Lord the King. / likewije promife, when I come to that place, to do my bejFfor d ([age,and that I'll flay no longer there than the flowing and ebbing of the Tide, provided I can have a Paffage. ’ And if V have no opportunity of Embarking in that time, I will go every Day up to my Knees into the Sea to try to TranJ'port my felf. And if I cannot gain a Paffage within forty Days, LIl return back again to the Sdnftuary jrom whence 1 came; as a Thief and Fdon of our Sovereign Lord the King. So help me Godt&c. The Cufiomary of Normandy is fomew-hat larger upon this Head, cap. 24. ’Tis thus reported by Du Erefm; The Malefactor, upon liis.retiring to a Church or lome other Privileged Place, is permifed to continue eight Days in the Church without Dillurbance, but upon the ninth Day he nitift be examined. Whether he will fjibmit to be Trycd by the Civil Court, or hold to the Privilege of the Church: If lie choblcs to hold by the,Church,'' he is then obliged to Abjure his Country in Form, iii the pretence 01 Ionic Knights, and odier Perlbns of Conjklerarion, who may lerve •• for a Record of what pafles, if it happens to be neceflary. Then tlic Periods, fliat give- him the Oath, are to lay, Thou art to SrvCar in die hearing of all the Company, That thou wif never for the future return into Normandy, or do any Ptrjon any MifchieJ or Damage, either by thy Jelf or by any other for being