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Michael Foster, that the practice of im- 

 pressing, and granting power to the Ad- 

 miralty for that purpose, is of a very an- 

 cient date, and has been uniformally con- 

 tinued, by a regular series of precedents, 

 to the present time, whence he concludes 

 it to be part of the common law. The dif- 

 ficulty arises from hence, that no statute 

 has expressly declared this power to be 

 in the crown, though many of them very 

 strongly imply it. The statute 2 Richard 

 II. c. 4, speaks of mariners being arrested 

 and retained for the king's service, as of 

 a thing well known and practised without 

 dispute, and provides a remedy against 

 their running away. By statute 2 and 3 

 Philip and Mary, c. 16, if any waterman, 

 who uses the river Thames, shall hide 

 himself during the execution of any com- 

 mission for pressing for the king's service, 

 he is liable to heavy penalties. By sta- 

 tute 5 Elizabeth, c. 6, no fisherman shall 

 be taken by the queen's commission to 

 serve as a mariner ; but the commission 

 shall be first brought to two justices of 

 the peace, inhabiting near the sea coast 

 where the mariners are to be taken, to 

 the intent that the justices may choose 

 out and return such a number of able bo- 

 died men as in the commission are con- 

 tained, to serve her majesty. And by sta- 

 tute 7 and 8 William, c. 21 ; 2 Anne, c. 

 6 > 4 and 5 Anne, c. 19 ; 13 George II. c. 

 17, especial protections are allowed to 

 seamen in particular circumstances, to 

 prevent them from being impressed. All 

 which do most evidently imply a power 

 of impressing to reside somewhere ; and 

 if any where, it must, from the spirit of 

 our constitution, as well as from the fre- 

 quent mention of the king's commission, 

 reside in the crown alone. The Livery- 

 men of London claim an exemption from 

 being impressed; but, by a late decision 

 of the Court of King's Beech, this exemp- 

 tion is denied. Landmen, entering into 

 the merchant service, and apprentices, 

 are exempt for two years from the im- 

 press, and all apprentices to the sea-ser- 

 vice under eighteen. 



IMPRESSION denotes the edition of a 

 book, regarding the mechanical part only: 

 whereas edition, besides this, takes in the 

 care of the editor, who corrected or aug- 

 mented the copy, adding notes, &c. to 

 render the work more useful. 



IMPRISONMENT, is the restraint of 

 a man's liberty under the custody of ano- 

 ther, and extends not only to a gaol, but 

 a house, stocks, or where a man is held in 

 the street, or any other place; for in all 

 these cases the party so restrained is said 



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to be a prisoner, so long as he hath not 

 his liberty freely to go about his business, 

 as at other times. None shall be* impri- 

 soned but by the lawful judgment of his 

 peers, or by the law of the land. 



IMPROPRIATION, is properly so call- 

 ed, when a benefice ecclesiastical is in 

 the hands of a layman ; and appropriation, 

 when in the hands of a bishop, college, or 

 religious house ; though sometimes these 

 terms are confounded. It is said there are 

 three thousand eight hundred and forty- 

 five impropriations in England. 



IMPULSE, in mechanics, the single 

 and instantaneous action or force by 

 which a body is impelled, in contradis- 

 tinction to the application of continued' 

 forces. 



INACCESSIBLE, something that can- 

 not he come at, or approached, by reason, 

 of intervening obstacles, as a river, rock, 

 &c. It is chiefly used in speaking of 

 heights and distances. See SURVEYING. 



INARCHING, in gardening, is a me- 

 thod of grafting, commonly called graft- 

 ing by approach, and is used when the 

 stock intended to graft on, and the tree 

 from which the graft is to be taken, stand 

 so near, or can he brought so near, that 

 they may be joined together. The me- 

 thod of performing it is as follows : take 

 the branch you would inarch, and having 

 fitted it to that part of the stock where 

 you intend to join it, pare away the rind 

 and wood on one side, about three inches 

 in length. After the same manner cut 

 the stock or branch in the place where 

 the graft is to be united, so that the rind 

 of both may join equally together ; then 

 cut a little tongue upwards in the graft, 

 and make a notch in the stock to admit it; 

 so that when they are joined, the tongue 

 will prevent their slipping, and the graft 

 will more closely unite with the stock. 

 Having thus placed them exactly toge- 

 ther, tie them with some bass, or other 

 soft tying; then cover the place with 

 grafting clay, to prevent the air from en- 

 tering to dry the wound, or the wet from 

 getting in to rot the stock : you should al- 

 so fix a stake in the ground, to which that 

 part of the stock, together with the graft, 

 should be fastened, to prevent the wind 

 from breaking them asunder, which is 

 often the case when this precaution is 

 not observed. In this manner they are 

 to remain about four months, in which 

 time they will be sufficiently united, and 

 the graft may then be cut from the mo- 

 ther tree, observing to slope it off close to 

 the stock ; and if at this time you cover 

 the joined parts with fresh grafting clay, 

 it will be of great service to the graft. 



