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nutria ; cow hair is used largely for 

 roofing felts. Felting is probably 

 older than weaving, the cloth 

 having been used for tents, cloth- 

 ing, and other purposes from the 

 remotest times. The invention is 

 sometimes ascribed to Oriental 

 shepherds, and stories are extant 

 of kings, monks, and others putting 

 wool into their shoes or sandals 

 and finding it turned by walking 

 into a new fabric. Clement of Rome 

 was commemorated by hatters as 

 the inventor of felt. See Hat. 



Feltham. Urb. dist. and village 

 of Middlesex, England. It is 16 m. 

 W.S.W. of London, on the L. & 

 S.W.R. The London County Coun- 

 cil has an industrial school for boys 

 here, and there are large nurseries 

 and market gardens in the neigh- 

 bourhood. Extensive aeroplane- 

 building works were established 

 here by the Whitehead Aircraft Co. 

 during the Great War. Pop. 5,135. 



against Bucking- 

 ham, increased by 

 brooding over the 

 attacks on the 

 favourite, turned 

 his thoughts to 

 assassination, and 

 he mortally 

 stabbed the duke 

 at Portsmouth, 

 Aug. 23, 1628. He 

 was hanged at 

 Tyburn. Nov. 28. 

 Feltre (anc. 

 Feltria). City of 

 HH Italy, in the prov. 

 Feltham, Middlesex. The High Street looking tow ards of Belluno. A 

 the church of S. Catherine picturesque place, 



Felt. Table or plate machine for felting four pieces at one time 



By courtesy of W. Bywater Ltd., Leedt 



and his animosity Senegal and Portuguese Guinea. 

 Under the Mandingan name Jola 



Feltmakers' Company, THE. 

 London city livery company. Incor- 

 porated 1604 and an offshoot of the 

 Haberdashers, it 

 was founded to 

 regulate the mak- 

 ing and sale of felt 

 hats. Feltmakers 

 were formerly 

 known as felt- 

 mongers, and as 

 Feltmakers' such existed in the 

 Company arms 12th century. The 

 offices are at Arundel House, W.C. 

 Felton, JOHN (c. 1595-1628). 

 English soldier. He came of a good 

 Suffolk family, early entered the 

 army, and 

 served as lieu- 

 tenant at Cadiz 

 in 1625. Fail- 

 ing to obtain a 

 captain's corn- 

 mi ssi on, he 

 applied p e r- 

 sonally to the 

 duke of Buck- 



ingham, who 

 refused his re- 

 quest. Poverty 



John Felton, 

 English soldier 



From an old engraving 



standing on an eminence near the 

 Piave river, it is 34 m. by rly. N.W. 

 of Treviso. It has a ruined castle, a 

 cathedral, a modern palace, and a 

 municipal pawnshop, said to be the 

 oldest establishment of the kind in 

 Europe. Minor buildings include a 

 hospital, gymnasium, seminary, and 

 an asylum for orphans. In 1819 the 

 bishopric was incorporated with 

 that of Belluno. There is trade in 

 wine, oil, and silk. Pop. 15,465. 



Felucca (Arab, faluka, Ital. 

 feluca). Vessel used in the Levant 

 and on the Nile. It is propelled by 

 lateen sails and oars, and moves 

 swiftly. Sometimes the helm can 

 be used at either end of the hull. 



Feluja. Town of Mesopotamia. 

 Situated on the Lower Euphrates, 

 it is about 40 m. W. of Bagdad, 

 with which it is connected by a 

 rly. built by the British during the 

 Great War after the capture of 

 that city. It was occupied by the 

 British on March 19, 1917. 



Felup OR FULUP. Collective 

 name applied by Portuguese trad- 

 ers to numerous primitive negro 

 tribes in the coast-lands of French 



they extend into British Gambia. 

 Their allied semi-Bantu dialects 

 prevail from the Gambia and Casa- 

 mance to the Cacheo and Geba 

 rivers. The typical Felup are mus- 

 cular, flat-nosed, thick-lipped, dark- 

 bronze-coloured hunters, almost 

 unclad, using bow and arrow and 

 inhabiting roughly constructed log- 

 huts or earth-houses. 



Feme OR FEMME. Anglo-Norman 

 legal term for a woman. A woman 

 who is married is called feme 

 convert, and a woman who is either 

 a spinster, a widow, or divorced, is 

 feme sole. 



Feminism (Lat. femina, a 

 woman). Term which may be taken 

 to embrace the movement for the 

 raising of the economic, legal, and 

 political status of women. In the 

 decade before the Great War the 

 attention of feminists in most 

 European countries was necessarily 

 concentrated on the acquisition of 

 the right to vote, and now that 



Felucca. Egyptian sailing boat on 

 the Nile above Cairo 



