EN FIELD 



Enfield. Urban dist. and market 

 town of Middlesex, England. It is 

 10 m. N. of London by the G.N. 

 and G.E. Rlys. The New River 

 intersects the town. The chief 

 buildings are a 16th century palace 

 opposite the church, used by the 

 Constitutional Club, a grammar 

 school founded in 1557, and the 

 parish church of S. Andrew, which 

 contains a beautiful 15th century 

 brass. The Ridgeway is a residen- 

 tial district, and in the neighbour- 

 hood are Forty Hall, White Webbs 

 House, and Middelton House. The 

 famous chase of Enfield was dis- 

 forested in the 18th century. At 

 Enfield Lock is the Royal Small 

 Arms Factory, erected in 1856, 

 where the once celebrated Enfield 

 rifles were made. Pop. 56,338. 



Enfield is mentioned in Domes- 

 day Book as Enefelde. Edward VI 

 and Queen Elizabeth lived here, and 

 the chase was a favourite hunting 

 ground of James I. It has associa- 



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ENGELBERG 



Engadine. 



Village of Samaden in 

 Rosatscb 



into a freehold. This can be done 

 by mutual consent, or at the in- 

 stance of the lord of the manor or 

 the tenants thereof. If they cannot 

 agree on the terms, these are 

 settled by the Board of Agriculture. 

 Engadine. Upper portion of 

 the Inn valley, Switzerland, in 

 the canton of Grisons. Divided 



tbe Upper Engadine, with the Piz 

 on tbe left 



Engagement. Word meaning 

 originally to bind by a gage or 

 pledge, and used in several senses. 

 It means an undertaking to marry 

 and also a more general kind of 

 pledge e.g. an engagement to pay 

 a debt or to meet a friend. It is 

 also used as a synonym for a battle ; 

 this comes from an old meaning of 



Enfield. Tbe mark 



parish cburcb of S. Andrew Engelberg. The Swiss village at tbe foot of the Titlis Alp 



tions with Keats, Captain Marryat, 

 and Charles Lamb, who lived at 

 Chase Side. During the Great 

 War it was a busy munition centre. 



Enfield Lock. Lock on the 

 river Lea, Enfield, Middlesex. 

 The name is also applied to the 

 district around it. 



Enfilade (Fr. enfiler, to thread). 

 Military expression which indicates 

 fire along the direction of the 

 enemy's line or trenches i.e. from 

 a flank. It robs the defenders of an 

 entrenched position of their cover 

 unless the line is very well traversed 

 and few weapons in the line can 

 be brought to bear to counter it. If 

 a unit in action has to change its 

 front it runs grave risks of coming 

 under enfilade fire at once. The 

 advantage of gaining a position on 

 the enemy's flank when attacking 

 is enhanced by the opportunity it 

 gives of subjecting him to enfilade 

 fire. See Artillery ; Tactics. 



Enfranchisement (old Fr. en- 

 franchir ; en and franc, free). In 

 English law, a term meaning the 

 turning of an estate of copyhold 



into the Upper and Lower .Enga- 

 dine, it stretches 60 m. between 

 two chains of the Rhaetian Alps, 

 and is 1 m. to 1 m. broad. From 

 Martinsbruck, on the border of 

 Tirol, it runs S.W. up to the 

 Maloja Pass, traversed by a good 

 carriage road, and there are rlys. 

 to S. Moritz and Pontresina. The 

 Upper Engadine has a series of 

 small lakes and is more frequented 

 than the Lower Engadine, which, 

 however, has the attraction of its 

 mineral springs at Schuls. The 

 sides of the surrounding mts. are 

 covered with pine forests to the 

 height of 7,200 ft. The strong, 

 bracing air of the valley renders it 

 an extremely popular health resort. 

 The inhabitants, mostly Protest- 

 ants, still speak Latin or Romansch, 

 a speech akin to Italian and French. 

 Engadine. British seaplane 

 carrier. She was present with the' 

 fleet at Jutland, May 31, 1916, and 

 sent out the seaplanes that scoutc-d 

 for Admiral Jellicoe. Later, she 

 towed the Warrior out of the 

 firing line. 



engage, that of joining or fastening, 

 as when, in architecture, two beams 

 are said to engage or interlock. 



Historically, the engagement is 

 the agreement signed, Dec. 26, 

 1647, by Charles I and the Scots 

 represented by the marquess of 

 Hamilton. Charles was a prisoner 

 at Carisbrooke, and he agreed, in 

 return for Scottish assistance in 

 restoring him to the throne, to 

 establish Presbyterianism in. Eng- 

 land. See Charles I ; Civil War. 



Engelberg. Village of Switzer- 

 land, in the canton of Unter- 

 walden. It stands at the N. foot 

 of the Titlis, 14 m. by electric rly. 

 S. of Lucerne. It is a favourite 

 summer and whiter tourist resort, 

 with numerous hotels and board- 

 ing-houses and an English church. 

 The abbey church is interesting ; 

 and the library has 20,000 vols. and 

 210 MSS. The large Benedictine 

 abbey, founded 1120, was re built in 

 1729 ; it has a school and its farm is 

 noted for its cheeses. Engelberg 

 owns common lands, which help 

 to maintain its poor. Pop. 2,434. 



