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BAT 



having on the right fhoulder the badge of the order tied 

 about the neck with a cordon, the fame as^he k:iight's ; under 

 it is a furcoat hke the efquirc's, with a j^old chain about their 

 necks, to which is pendant an etcutcheon of gold, thereon 

 enamelled the badge of the order ; except that on collar days, 

 the badge is worn pendant to a red ribbon. The office of 

 gtnealogilt is a diftinci office of record for the pedigiees and 

 coat armour of the knights of the order and their efquires, 

 which are entered in a regular feries from the year 1399 to 

 the prelent time. The office of genealogift has, from the 

 revival, been fucceffively tilled by John Anftis Efq., John 

 Sufficld Browne Efq., and George Naylor Efq., York herald, 

 its prefent pcflclTor. 



The order of the bath doth not appear to have been cf 

 greater antiquity, in this kingdom, than the reign of 

 Henry IV. who, on the day of his coronation, conferred 

 that dignity upou forly-fix efquires, who had watched all 

 night before, a:d had lathed thetnfelves ; yet this degree 

 of knighthood may jullly boall of a much earlier antiquity. 

 The learned William Camden, and Jean Du Tiilet fuppofe 

 it to have been prafiifed by the old Franks, or inhabitants 

 of lower Germany : with whom Mr. Anflis (who was genea- 

 logill of the order on its revival) is of opinion, the Saxons, 

 who invaded Encrland, h.ad the l<«me common cefcent ; and 

 who, upon their fettlement in Englaiid, introduced the fame 

 method of knighthood. Du Tiilet further remarks, that 

 thofe ancient Franks, when thev conferred knighthood, ob- 

 ferved many folemn rites. Before they performed vigils, 

 they bathed, to figr.ify that fueh as were admitted to this 

 degree (hould be ot a pure mind and honed intentions ; be 

 willing to confliiS with any dangers or difficulties in the 

 caufe of virtue ; take care, both in their words and adlions, 

 to follow the maxims of prudence ; and, on all occallons, 

 relijjiouily obierve the motto of the order, " Tria junSa in 

 uno;" which implied a true belief of the Trinity: which rites 

 and conditions, according to his tellimony, llill continued to 

 be pradifed in England ; and from the praftice of thefe, gen- 

 tlemen were denominated knights of the bath. Mr. Anftis, 

 with his ufual precifion and clearnefs, hath fully pi-oved that 

 William the Conqueror, and the fucceeding kings of Eng- 

 land, conferred this degree of knighthood as well in Nor- 

 mandy as in England. We have a very particular detail of 

 the ceremonies that were ufed in creating knights of the 

 bath, at the coronation of king Henry V. : and our hillo- 

 rians and records amply vouch that from that time, till the 

 reign of king Charles W. inclufive, it was the ufual praclice 

 to create knights of the bath at, or previous to, the corona- 

 tion of our kings, the creation of princes of Wales, and at 

 the celebration of their nuptials, and thofe of others of the 

 royal family. King Charles H., previous to his coronation, 

 created no lefs than fixty-eight knights of the bath ; from 

 which time no knights of that degree were created, until 

 the revival by George I. in 1 72 J. 



Bath Metal is a preparation of copper with zinc, which 

 gives a more beautiful colour than the calamine uled in the 

 preparation of the com'non brafs. 



Bath Kol, in Jeiv'ifi Antiqmty, a fpecies of revelation by 

 a voice or echo from heaven. 



The wordligniiies, in the Hebrew original, daughter voice, 

 or daughter of a •voice ; for it may be interpreted both ways. 

 It feems to have been thus called with refpecl to the ora- 

 cular voice delivered from the mercy-feat, when God was 

 confulted by urim and thummim : this latter was the 

 grand and primary voice of revelation ; the former, of 

 fecondary dignity, and inferior to it as the daughter co the 

 mother. 



The Jewilh writers fpeak of three kinds of revelation 



among them : the firft by urim and thummim, which ob- 

 tained from the erefting of the tabernacle to the building of 

 the temple ; the fecond by the fpirit of prophecy, which 

 prevailed from the beginning of the world to the death of 

 Malachi ; the third, the lath kol, or flia vocis, which took 

 place when the fpirit of prophecy wholly ceafed in Ifrael; 

 and was, fays Grotius, the fole oracle which remained during 

 the time of the fecond temple. 



Tiiis bath kol, fays Dr. Prideaux, was no fuch voice from 

 heaven, as the Jewifli, and particularly the Talmudical, 

 writers pretend ; but only a fantaftical mode of divination of 

 their own invention, refembling the " Sortes Virgilianse" 

 among the heathens. (See Sortes.) Prrd. Conn. pt. 2. 

 b. 5. vol. 3. p. 463. Godw. Mofes and Aaron, lib. 4. c. 8. 

 Lightfoot's Works, tom. i. p. 485. Grot, in John, xii. 28. 



Danzius has a,diflertation on the iniquity and impoduro 

 of the bath kol : " De iilia vocis nefanda, divinaj Kmula." 



BATHA, in ylncicut Geography, the ruins of an ancient 

 city of Africa, in the kingdom of Algiers, about 2 leagues 

 fouth of Oran, which was deftroyed in the wars that raged 

 between the African powers, about the beginning of the 

 feventh century. It has bten remarkable, in more modem 

 times, for a little chapel, eredled in memoiy of a marabout, 

 who lived among thefe ruins, and by the prefents he received 

 for his hofpitality to travellers, became rich enough to main- 

 tain 500 difciples, whofe employment it was to go through 

 a long litany of all the divine attributes, by th:; help of their 

 beads, at certain hours of the day : but the feci has of late 

 declined and is almoil extinft. 



Bath A, a town of Ethiopia, near E^vpt. Plinv. 



Bat HA, Bach, ox Bachia, in Geogniphv, a town of Hun- 

 gary, fituate near the Danube, and capital of a county of 

 the fame name. It was formerly the fee of a bilhop, now 

 united to Colocza ; 20 leagues fouth of Buda. N. lat. 

 46^40'. E. long. 20° 40'. 



BATHA,a town of Ethiopia, on the confines of the country 

 called by the Arabs Berbera, and more commonly Zangue- 

 bar. 



Bath A, a name fom^tiraes given to the ifle of Bas ; which 

 fee.- 



BATHASECH, a town of Lower Hungary, in the 

 county of Telna, on the Sarwitz. 



BATHENAS, in Ancient Geography, a town of Syria, 

 between Cynhus and Edelfa. Anton. Itin. 



BATHGATE, orBATHCET, in Gra^ra/i^y.amarkettown 

 in thecounty of Linlithgow, in Scotland. There are three fair& 

 held annually in Bathget ; fecond Wcdnefday in April, firft 

 Wednefday after Whitfnnday, O. S. fourth Wedncfday in 

 June, third Wcdnefday in July, third Wednefday in Auo-ud 

 N. S. and hrfl Wednefday after Martinmas. The circum- 

 jacent country is rather hilly, yet by no means deftitute of 

 agricultural improvement : the foil of late is made to yield 

 abundant ciops ; and rural economy advances daily. In a 

 morals, about a quarter of a mile from Bathget, fome (light 

 traces of the principal relidence of Waller, high fteward of 

 Scotland (the founder of the royal houfc of Stuart), are flill 

 difcernible. The manlion, and lands thereto belonging, were 

 the dowry bellowed on the high fteward's wife, Jadf 

 Margery, by her father king Robert the Bruce, ia 

 A.D. 1316. 



BATHING, the aft of ufing or applying a bath ; that 

 is, of immerging the body, or part of it in water, or other 

 fluid. See Bath. 



Bathing, on a religious account, is more properly called 

 ablution, or baptism. 



Bathing is a praftice of antiquity. The Greeks, as early 



as the heroic age, are faid to have bathed themfelves in the 



5 I 2 fea. 



