NOTARY-PUBLIC 



NOTTIXOHAMSHIRE 



than that f the sovereign ceasi-d I In- made : 1ml 

 when the state of the finances brought the mon- 

 arohv into dilticulticH am) |>erils Louis XVI., ;it 

 tin- instigation of the niini-tT Calonnp, had re- 

 course again to an Assembly of Notables, which 

 ini't 22d February 17S7, anil was dissolved 2.~>(h 

 May. It consisted of 13" memlicrs, among wlioin 

 were seven princes of the blootl, nine dukes and 

 peers, eicht marshals, eleven archbishops, twenty- 

 two nobles, eight councillors of state, four masters 

 of requests, thirty seven judges, twelve deputies of ! 

 the ray* d'Ktatsi the civil lieutenant, and twenty- 

 five p0nov* belonging to the magistracy of different 

 cities. See Lofis XVI., NKCKKI:. FRANCE. 



Notary-public is an officer of the Jaw or pro- 

 fcssion.il person who-,' chief function is to act as 

 a witnoxH of any solemn or formal act, and to give 

 a certiliciiti 1 of ilie same; which certificate, if duly 

 aulhenticati'il. is accepted as good evidence of the 

 act done in his presence, and attested hy him. 

 Solicitors are sometime* notaries-public, hut in 

 England there are fewer notaries, comparatively, 

 than in Scotland, where notarial acts ami certiti- ' 

 rail's are more largely used. The English courts 

 take notice of the seal of a notary, hut his certili- 

 cate if not generally received as proof of the facts 

 certified. A notary is employed in the noting and I 

 protest of foreign hills of exchange in case of non- 

 acceptance or non-payment. In the United Suites 

 the powers of notaries are defined liy the laws of 

 the dill'erent states. See Brooke, On the Office of 

 a Xutitry (eil. liy Leone Lcvi, 1876); and ProM'att, 

 Luif nf Xiiturlfx-inililir in I/if I'ltitrtl States (1877). 



Notation. For Chemical Notation, see CHEMIS- 

 TRY ; for Musical Notation. Mrsic. SOLFEGGIO; for 

 Mathematical Notation, NTMKRALS, ALGEBRA, 

 CALCULUS, GEOMETRY, QVATERXUINS. 



NotO. nti ancient episcopal town of Sicily, 1C 

 miles S\V. of Syracuse liy rail. 1'op. 15,925. 



NotOCllOrd. See F.MMKYOLOGY, AMI'HIOXt'S. 



Notorills, one among many of the family of 

 Rails, with wings so much reduced us to ! incap- 

 able of (light, and which have within historical times 

 jiecomc partially or completely extinct. Notornis 

 inhabited New Zealand, and within the 19tb century 

 three specimens have heen taken, one of them in 

 18X1, so that possibly there are still a few survivors 

 in out-of-the-way districts. 



\otollll-rilllll, a genus of gigantic fossil kan- 

 garoo like marsupials, found in Australia. 



Xot Proven. See CRIMINAL LAW. 



Notre Dame ( < >ld !>., ' Our Lady '), the name 

 of many churches dedicated to the Virgin Mary in 

 France, particularly the cathedral of I 



.Nottingham, a town of England, the capital 

 of Nottinghamshire, ami a parliamentary, muni- 

 cipal, and county Ixirongli (the first returning three 

 members), is seated on the Trent, I'JIl miles NN\V. 

 of London, l.'i E. of I>erhy. and .'is S. hy E. of 

 Shcllicld. Formerly surrounded liy ancient walls 

 (1MO-1285), of which all traces have now dis 

 appeared, the town covers an area of alnuit 111 

 K<|. in., and its appearance of late years has l>oen 

 milch improved hy the widening of its streets; liy 

 the erection of a new town hall, I'niversity College. 

 and other public buildings; by the opening mid 

 laying out of an arboielum of 17 acres, of a public 

 park and recreation grounds- of over 150 acres, and 

 of a tract of open land, called ' Kill well Forest 

 (136 acres); as also the spanning of the Trent 

 which is here about 200 yards wide -with a broad 

 granite ami iron bridge in the place of a formn 

 narrow structure of seventeen arches. Crowning a 

 1'iccijiitonn rock, which rises |;t.'i feet above the liver, 

 stands the castle, built ( 1074-83) on the site of an 

 ancient Norman fortress, dismantled during the Par- 



liamentary wars, and itself much damaged by fire 



during the Kei'orm Kill riots of 1*31. It was restored 

 in 1878, and transformed into nn art museum. 

 Near to it are the county hall (1770i: St Mary's 

 Church ( restored 1M17 85 I. a cruciform building in 

 the Perpendicular style, 110 feet in length: and a 

 spacious market place, f>A acres in extent, having 

 at its eastern end the exchange, with a richly dii-o 

 rated facade (rebuilt ISI4i. In another group not 

 far oil arc the guildhall and other niuniciiial > 

 ( 1888), in the French Renaissance style of architec- 

 ture : two theatres (1865-84); and I 'nivei sit \ College 

 ( 1879-81 ), mainly a science school, but accommo- 

 dating in ils wings a free library and natural his- 

 tory museum. Oilier edifices woithy of mention 

 comprise a hospital (1781. with additions 1 _".! 79 ); 

 a Human Catholic cathedral (1844). cruciform and 

 Early English ; and the high school, founded as a 

 grammar or free school in 1513, moved into new build- 

 mp in 1807, and since 1882 controlled under a new 

 scheme ; it has a large income from endowment . and 

 annually oilers for competition eight exhibitions of 

 an aggregate value of i'l.'i.'i. besides numerous 

 scholarships. On the outskirts of the town race- 

 meetings were held annually in March and October 

 for a hundred years until iS'JO: the Trent Itridge 

 cricket ground is the scene of the county's home 

 matches; whilst mention must not be omitted of 

 the annual goose fair held at Michaelmas. I If the 

 various manufactures carried on in the town the 

 most important are those of lace and hosiery : 

 baskets, bicycles. cigars, and needles are also made, 

 whilst several iron-fonndries are in operation, and 

 malting and brewing are 'Mcn-i\c!y carried on. 

 One of the most successful sewage farms in the 

 country has lieen laid out ,"i miles from the town, 

 the whole of whose sewage is here dealt with. 

 Pop. (1801) 28.KOI : ils:il i .-iii.'j'.Hi: i Issl) 186,575; 

 (1891) '.'13,"S4. In the history of Nottingham 

 (which was one of the Fi\e Borough*) the prin- 

 cipal incidents have been its occupation by the 

 Danes, and their withdrawal on the conclusion of 

 a treaty for peace (Mis): its destruction by fire 

 (1140 and 11531: the granting of its first charter 

 (11M)| the convening hen- ot thiee parliaments 



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(1330-37); the appointment of its first 

 bishop (l. r )34); the raising by Charles I. of his 

 standard at the commencement of the Parlia- 

 mentary war (1642); ami riots ( 1795-1810), partly 

 on account of a bread famine and partly owing to 

 the Luddites (q.v.). See local works by I tickin- 

 SOH (ISlli), \\xlie (is:,:! ;:,.. Mine (1876), and W. 

 II. Stevenson 1 4 vols. 1MMH, besides those cited 

 under the county. 



Nottinghamshire, or NOTTS, an inland county 

 of England, hounded on the N. by Yorkshire, K. by 

 Lincolnshiic, S. by Leicestershire, and W. by Herby- 

 shire. Its greatest length is .M) miles; average 

 bieiulth, 20 miles; and area. 8'Jt s<|. ill., or 527,7-VJ 

 a-n-s. Top. I ISOI) 1 |0.:C,0 ; i IVil .'J2.V4IKI; (1881) 

 391,815; (IS'.II) 44.-|,S-j:i. Ajiart from the valley of 

 the Trent, which is very Mat, the general aspect of the 

 county is undulating and well wooded, the higln -i 

 gioiiiid (KHI feet above the sea-level l>eing in the 

 west, in the vicinity of Sherwood Forest d|.v.). In 

 the south are the Wolds, consisting of ujdnnd 

 moors and pasture lands broken up by many feitile 

 hollows, whilst the northern Imimdary t'or upwards 

 of l.'i miles is skirted by the Car, a tract of low- 

 lying land, formerly a swampy liog. but since 1796 

 drained u>d brought into cultivation. The Trent, 

 with its tributaries, the Erevvash, Soar, and Idle, is 

 the principal river: and the l-'o-^e Dyke and Notts 

 and (iranthain canals, and Midland. Creat Northern, 

 and Manchester. Sheffield and Lincoln railways also 

 travels,, the county. The climni". especially in the 

 east, is remarkably dry. and the soil varies, sand 

 and gravel, clay, limestone, and coal-land prevailing 



