NUNC DIMITTIS 



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Nufiez oe ARCC 



Hmr<lirtinr Order, or of om f tin- 



orders springing from it. \\..ii.-n 



!ii to the unliTB of friars 



. Franciscan, and 



1 1. .in. in. .ui -are known as Sisters, 



aa are the members of the many 



iimiliTn congregations of women, 



wlu-thiT rnittemplative or active. 



Most n-rciit . cin^iviMtiori- fallow 



some modification of the Augus- 



tiiii.ui Rule. <SVe A*ia; Benedict- 



inea ; Monasticism ; Poor Clares ; 



. Sisters of. 



Nunc Dimittis. Opening words 

 used aa the title of a Latin canticle 

 nrhyiuu(" l.onl, now lottest Thou 

 Thy servant depart in peace ") in 

 the Book of Common Prayer. It 

 is the Song of Simeon (Luke ii, 

 29-32), his hymn of praise and 

 thanksgiving on being permitted 

 to see the infant Saviour. From 

 very early times the Christian 

 Church has used the hymn at 

 vespers or at compline. In the 

 Anglican Church it is sung after 

 the second lesson at Evensong. 



Nuncio (Lat. nuntiua, a mes- 

 senger). General term for a diplo- 

 matic representative of the pope, 



Nuneaton. Warwickshire. Astley Castle, formerly a resi- 

 dence oi the dukes of Suffolk, where Lady Jane Grey's 

 childhood was passed 



acting with powers restricted by 

 his instructions. The members of 

 the Polish diet were called nuncios. 

 See Ambassador ; Diplomacy ; 

 Legate. 



Nuncomar OR NANDA KUMAR 

 (d. 1775). Indian official. Governor 

 of Hooghli in 1756, he was deputy 

 to the nawab of Murshidabad when 

 Warren Hastings was appointed 

 resident there in 1758. Discovered 

 in treasonable correspondence 

 against the East India Company, 

 he was sent to Calcutta in 1770, 

 and there implicated in charges of 

 corruption brought against the 

 diwans of Bengal and Bihar. In 

 1775 he accused Hastings, then 

 governor, of peculation. Before the 

 matter had been gone into by the 

 council, Nuncomar was arrested 

 on a charge of forgery, tried before 

 Sir E.Impey, found guilty, and exe- 

 cuted. Impey and Hastings were 

 impeached, but exonerated. See 

 Hastings, Warren ; India. 



Nuncupative Will (Lat. nun- 

 cupaiuji, called by name). Will 

 made by word of mouth in the 

 presence of witnesses. At Common 

 Law such a will was effective to 

 dispose of personal property, but 

 not of realty. The Statute of 

 Frauds and the Wills Act, 1837. 

 made such wills ineffectual, except 

 in the case of soldiers on active 

 service and mariners and seaman 

 at sea, where verbal wills are still 

 of the same force and effect as at 

 Common Law. See Frauds, Statute 

 of; Will. 



Nuneaton. Mun. bor. and mar- 

 ket town of Warwickshire, Eng- 

 land. It is on the Anker, 97 m. from 

 London and 9 m. from Coventry, 

 and is served by the L. & N.W. 

 and Mid. Rlys. and by a canal. 

 The chief buildings are the 

 churches of S. Nicholas and 8. 

 Mary, and there is a grammar 

 school dating from the 16th cen- 

 tury and a free school of 1712. 

 Its main industries are the mak- 

 ing of cotton, woollen, and worsted 

 goods, hats, tools, bricks and tiles, 

 also ironworks ; it is a rly. junction 



and around are 



coal mines. The 

 manufacture of 

 ribbon has de- 

 clined. A house 

 for Benedictine 

 nuns was founded 

 here in 1150 and 

 around it Nun- 

 eaton grew up. 

 There are a few 

 remains of the 

 nunnery. Having 

 grown consider- 

 ably in the 19th 

 century, it was 

 made a borough 

 in 1907. George 

 Eliot was born at Arbury Farm, 

 in the neighbourhood, and around 

 are other places associated with 

 the novelist's life and work. 

 Market day, Sat. Pop. 37,000. See 

 Eliot, George. 



Nuneham Park. Seat of Vis- 

 count Harcourt. Situated on the 

 Thames, in Oxfordshire, outside 

 Abingdon, the _ 

 house, built by 

 Simon, Earl Har- 

 court, in the 18th 

 century, is fam 

 ous for its picture 

 gallery and gar- 

 dens. The park 

 extends over 

 1,200 acres. In it 

 is a conduit, a 

 Renaissance 

 structure, re- 

 in o v e d here in 

 1787 from Ox- 

 ford, where it had 

 stood since 1610. 



Nune*. RAFAEL (1825-04). Co- 

 lorn bian politician. Born at Carte - 



P-II.I, IP- -fit.T.-.| th- < -on^n-i* of 

 Colombia in 1851. After being 

 secretary of the treasury, be served 

 as consul in Liverpool and else- 

 where. Having returned home, he 

 was, in 1880, chosen president, and 

 remained in office until his death, 

 being re-elected several times, al- 

 though he was too feeble to act for 

 himself during the last few years. 

 His work included the suppression 

 of a serious rebellion in 1H84-85, 

 and a thorough reform of the con- 

 -'.tiiii,,M in 1886. See Colombia. 



Nunez Cabeza de Vacs, AL- 

 VARO (c. 1490-c. 1564). Spanish 

 explorer. In 1527 he sailed from 

 Spain with a i expedition which 

 met with disaster in the Gulf of 

 Mexico, but Nunez reached land, 

 and after a most adventurous 

 journey reached the city of 

 Mexico, in 1536, and returned to 

 Spain. In 1540 he was appointed 

 governor of the provinces of the 

 La Plata river, and reached Asun- 

 cion in 1542. The colonists re- 

 volted and sent him home in 1645, 

 and later he was sentenced to 

 banishment. Before his death he 

 was pardoned and made a judge. 

 Nunez wrote an account of his 

 first expedition (Eng. trans. 1851), 

 and also some commentaries. 



Nunez de Arce, GASPAB (1834- 

 1903). Spanish poet and dramatist. 

 Bora at Valladolid, he was in- 

 tended for a priest, but, refusing to 

 adopt that vocation, he went to 

 Madrid and became a journalist. 

 He was only a youth when his first 

 play was produced, and somewhat 

 later he served as a war correspond- 

 ent in Africa. Soon he was conduct- 

 ing a paper of his own, and in 1865 

 he definitely entered political life, 

 his liberal views having attracted 

 attention. In 1868 he was made 

 governor of Barcelona, and from 

 1882-90 he was a cabinet minister, 

 being in turn in charge of the 

 colonies, home affairs, the finances, 

 and education. He died at Madrid, 

 Feb. 12, 1903. His lyrics are con- 

 sidered his best work. 



Par 



; Oxfordshire. Main front ot the country 

 teat ol Viscount Harcourt 



Bf r*nrly / Country lift. Ut 



