BAN 



^BANNIMUS, q.d. "a^f ifl«i/S, from the oh^oUte l,mn!o, 

 tlie form of expulfion of any member fro:!! ihe univerfity of 

 Oxford, by affixing the fentence up in fome public place, as 

 a denunciation or pjoinulgation of it. 



BANNOCK, in Foail, is an oat-cakc, kneaded onK with 

 water, and baked in the embers. Thefc are common in Lan- 

 ca(hire and fome other counties. 



BANNOCKBURN, in Geojra/>/jj, a village of Scot- 

 land, in the county of Stirling, where was fought a battle 

 between the Englifti and Scots on the 25th of June 1314, 

 in which the Englifh were defeated with great iofs, and by 

 which the independence of Scotland was fecured, and Bruce 

 fixed on the throne of the kingdom; and where James III. 

 king of S-'Otland, was in 1487 overpowered by his fiibjcils, 

 wounded, and foon ?fter murdered by a piieil taking his 

 confclTion: two miles fouth of Stirling. 



Bx=^NNO\V, the name of a town which formerly exifted 

 in the county of Wexford, province of Leinller, Ireland, 

 fituated at the fouth-eaftcrn extremity of a fmall haven of 

 the fame name, formerly called Bagganbun. This is noted 

 as the place at wliich Robeit Fitzftephens, Harvey of 

 Mountmorres, ar.d Mai'.ricc of Pendergall (not earl Strong- 

 bovv, as fome accounts erroiicoufly (late), the firft of the 

 Englifh adventurers, landed in A.D. 1170. It is faid by 

 Giraldns Cambrenfis, to be a little creek lying in the county 

 of Wexford, near to Feathard a filhing town, the open fea 

 being on the eaft, and not far from the haven mouth cf 

 Wattrford on the fouth. The fame writer fpeaks of it as 

 very unfit for a harbour, and fays that it derived its name 

 from that of one of the (hips in wliich the Engiidimen ar- 

 rived. The name Bagganbun is retained in an ancient 

 rhyme : 



" At the creek of Bagganbun, 

 Ireland was loft and won." 

 And the place was fo notci', that fome old writers have 

 even fpoken of the whole ifland by the name of Bannow. 

 Thoucrh the town feems never to have arrived at the fame 

 confcquence that its neighbour Feathard did, it was- made 

 a borough and continued to tend members until the union. 

 " So late as the year 1626," fays the writer of a letter to 

 Dr. W. Hamilton, " Bannow is regiftertd in the cullom- 

 houfe books of Wexford, as having four ftreets which paid 

 quit-rent to the crown, and fome bu'ldi:;gs furrounding the 

 church." The name of one of thele ftreets. Weavers' ftreet, 

 indicates fome manufafturc to have been carried on. " The 

 only remains of it," continues thg latter writer, " which 

 ftand vifible at this day (1786) are the walls of its church. 

 There is not in or near the fite of the former town even one 

 fohtai-y hut. The election for the reprefentatives of the 

 town is held on the walls of an old chimney, adjoining to 

 the church, which tumbled down piecemeal, and forms the 

 council table of that ancient and loyal corporation. Towns 

 die as well as men ; the velliges of Bannow are traced with 

 difficulty amidft hei'ps of barren fand, and now the privilege 

 V/hich interctted fome in its continuance having ccaled, in a 

 few years it may be entirely forgotten. Its diftancc fouth 

 from Dublin is yfii Irifti miles, long. 6° 50'. W. lat. 

 52° iz'. N. Hollingflicad. Tranfadlions of Royal Irifti 

 Academy. 



BANNUM Capitis, was a mulft paid in cattle. 

 BANNIJS, or Banus, a title anciently given to 

 the governor or viceroy of Croatia, Duhr.alia, and Scla- 

 vonia. 



Bannus EpifroJ-nlis, was-a mulft paid to the blftiop by 

 thofe guilty ot facrilcge, or other crimes. 



BANONCOUR T, in Geography, a town of France, in 

 the department of the Mcufc, and chief place of a canton 

 Vol. III. 



BAN 



in the diftrift of St. Mihiel, ij league north of St. 

 Mihiel. 



BANOY, in Ornithology, the name given, by the peonle 

 of tiie Philippine iflands, to a kind of hawk, fonicwhat 

 larger than our fparrow-hawk, and of a yellowilli colour on 

 the back and wings, and white under the belly. It is the 

 moft common of all the kinds of hawk in that part of the 

 world, and is a very voracious animal. 



BANQUET, in the Manege, denotes that fmall part of 

 the branch of a bridle under the eye, which, being rounded 

 like a fmall rod, gathers and joins the extremities of the 

 bit to the branch, in fuch a manner, that the banquet is not 

 feen, but covered by the cap, or that part of the bit next 

 the branch. 



BANQUET-L/ni', is an imaginary line drawn by the bit- 

 makers along the banquet, in forging a bit, and prolonged 

 upwards and downwards, to adjaft the dcfigned force or 

 wcaknefs of the branch, in order to make it ftiff or eafy ; 

 for the branch will be hard and ftrong if the fevil-hole 

 be on the outlide of the banquet, with refpecl to the 

 neck ; and it will be weak and eafy, if the fevil-hole 

 be on the infide of the line, taking the centre from the 

 neck. 



BANQUET ING-7?5»m, or /jo«/-. (See Xenia, Saloom, 

 &c.) The ancient Romans fupped in the atrium of their 

 houfes : but, in after-times, magnificent fal )ons or banquet- 

 ing-rooms were built for the more commodious and fplendid 

 entertainment of their guefts. LucuUus had feveral of thefe, 

 each diftinguiftied by the name of fome god; and there was 

 a particular rate of exp'-nce appropriated to each. Plutarch 

 relates (in LucuUum, apud Oper. t. i. p. 519.) with what 

 magnificence he entertained Cicero and Pompey, who went 

 with dcfign to furprife him, by only telling a (lave who waited 

 that the cloth fiiould be laid in the Apollo. The emperor 

 Claudius, among others, had a fplendid banqueting-room, 

 named Mercury. But every thing of this kind was outdone 

 by the luftre of that celebrated banqueting-houfe of Nero, 

 called dortius aurea; which, by the circular motion of its 

 partitions and cielings, imitated the revolution of the 

 heavens, and rcprefentcd the different feafons of the year, 

 which changed at every fervice, and ftiowered down flow- 

 ers, eftences, and perfumes on the guefts. Hcliogabalus, 

 neverthelefs, is faid to have improved as much upon Nero, 

 as the latter had done on Luculius. Senec. Ep. 90. 



BANQUETTE, in Fort'ificaUon,\% a little foot bank, or 

 an elevation of earth forming a path which runs along the 

 iniide of a parapet; by which the mufqucteersget up to dif- 

 cover the countcrfcarp, or to fire on the enemies iu the moat 

 or in the covert-way. 



The banquette is generally between two and three feet 

 high, and three feet broad, and four feet and a half lower 

 than the parapet, having two or three fteps to mount it by. 

 Where the parapet is very high, they make a double ban- 

 quette one over the other. 



BANSTEAD, in Geography, a village of Surry in Eng- 

 land, is celebrated for its pafture downs, and the delicate 

 mutton they produce. The lliecp bred here are of a fmall 

 fpecics, and being fed moiUy on the fliort fweet herbage 

 which abounds with wild thyme, (uniper, &c. their flcfti is 

 peculiarly rich, and is often fold in the London markets for 

 lamb. (See Sheep.) The foil of thefe downs confifts of 

 chalk, flints, and a thin ftratum of blackifti mould. Here i> 

 an annual hoife-race, much frequented by the fporting peo- 

 ple of London. 



BANSTICKLE, in Ichthyology, a name fynonymous 

 with prickle -bag, prickle-back, and ftickle-back. Sec Gas- 



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