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taken his mailer's degree in i C90, lie wns foon after prefented 

 by Dr. Radcliffe, the celebrated phyficiaii, to the reftory' of 

 Headbourn-Worthy, ntarWinchcfter; a preferment, which, 

 though not exceeding in value lool. a year, afforded him 

 accefs to the valuable library at Wincheller, and enabled him 

 to profecute the arduous undertaking, to which, in thi» re- 

 tirement, he devoted much of his time and labour. Ac- 

 cordingly, the firft. volume of his learned work, entitled 

 «' Origines Eccleliafticse, or the Antiquities of the Chriftian 

 Church," appeared in 1708. It was completed in ten 

 volumes, Rvo. and contains a judicious and candid, as wtU as 

 ample account of the Ciiriflian clergy and churches from the 

 carlieft times. Btfides this work, which was th.e rcfult of 

 much reading and indefp.tigrble application, he publiflicd, in 

 1706, "The French Church's Apology for the Church 

 of England ; or, the Objeftions of the DifTenters aj,'ainll the 

 Articles, Homilies, Liturgy, and Canons of the Englidi 

 Church, confidered and anfwered upon the pii-ciples of the 

 Reformed Church of France, &c." 8vo. His avowed 

 dclign in this work was to reafon dilTenters " inio union 

 upon fuch principles as arc common to all the chur^-hcs of 

 the reformation." However laudable the defign, unifor- 

 mity of fentiment is not likely to be produced by any rca- 

 foning, as long as men are allowed to cxercife the right of 

 private judgment, and the only practicable union feems to 

 be that which refults from mutual forbearance and benevo- 

 lence. Mr. Bingham likcwife publiflicd " A Scholaftic 

 Hiftory of Lay-Baptifm," in two parts, 17 1 2, Svo. ; and 

 " A Difcourfe concerning the Mercy of God to Penitent 

 Sinners." All his works were collefted and pubhUied in 

 2 vols. fol. Lond. 1725. Notwithftanding the acknovs-- 

 ledged learning and meritorious fervices of Mr. Bingham, 

 he had no other preferment befides that above-mentioned, 

 till the vear 17 12, when he was collated to the reflory of 

 Havant near Portfmouth. He died in 1723, and was 

 buried in tlie church-yard of Htadbo'irn-Worthy, without 

 any monument, of which he declared his diflike.in his laft 

 will. Biog. Brit. 



B1NCH.1M, in Geography, a tovi-n of Nottinghamfhire, in 

 England, ftands nearly in the centre ot the vale of Belvoir. 

 It confifts principally of two llreets, running nearly parallel 

 to each other, with fonic fmaller ilieets branching from 

 them. Near the centre of the town is a fpaeious market-place, 

 where a weekly market is held every Thurfday ; it has alfo 

 three annual fairs, and a large ftatute fair yearly, for hiring 

 of fervants. Bingham is dated by Thoioton to be much 

 reduced fmce the reformation, as, previoufly to that event, it 

 contained three chapels, exclufive of the pariih church. The 

 latter was collegiate, and is ftill a large handfome ftrufture, 

 with a tower and fpire, fide ailes and chancel. It contains 

 numerous monuments, among which is a plain one infcribcd 

 to the memory of Robert White, a native of this place, 

 where he died, in 1773, at the advanced age of eighty. He 

 was author of an annual publication, entitled " The cosleftial 

 Atlas, or New Ephemeris." The reclory of Bingham is 

 tfleemed one of the moll valuable in the county of Nottmg- 

 liam, and is in the gift of lord Chellerlield, who is lord of 

 the manor. This town is 124 milts north from London. 

 It contains 220 houfes, and 1082 inhabitants. 



At Aflafton, about two miles call from Bingham, arch- 

 bifliop Cranmer was born. About two miles north from 

 Bingham is EaftBridgeford, where are the remains of an 

 entrenchment, and where fome coins, urns, &c. have been 

 found. Horflcy places the Roman llatinn, Margidu'uim, 

 " near Eall Bridgcford," from its fituation near the fofs- 

 road, and fiora the agreement of dillances, between this and 

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the other ftations named in the Itinerary. Thoroton's Hif- 

 tory' of Nottinghamdiire. 



BINGIUM, in ylnc'unl Geography, a town of Gaul, in 

 Germania Prima, weft of Mogcntiacura ; now Bingen, which 



fee. 



BINGLESTEIN, in Geography, a town of Germany, 

 in the circle of Weftphalia, and biihopric of Paderborn, 3 

 miles fouth of Bureii. 



BINGO, a fmall coimtr)- of Japan, in the ifland of Ni- 

 pon,fituate in N. lat. about 3+° 3c'. E. long. I34'='. 



BINGUM, a town of Germany, in the circle of Weft- 

 phalia, and county of Eaft Friefland, one mile north-well 

 of Ort. 



BINGUT Cape and Bay, lie about E. by N. from 

 Al<^iers, on the coafl of Africa, in the Mediterranean. The 

 town of Bingut is at the bottom of tlie bay of its name, 

 about 12 or 13 leagues from Algiers. 



BINIESZKY, a town of Lithuania, in the palatinate of 

 Wihia, 44 miles S.E. of AVilna. 



BINN, b'mna, a fort 'of cheft or cupboard, wherein to 

 lock up bread, meat, or other provifions. 



The word is alfo ufed for a place boarded up to put corn 

 in. The peafe and oalmeal, ul'ed at fea, are apt to fpoil in 

 cades. Dr. Hales propcfes to prevent this by putting them 

 into large binns, with falfe bottoms of hair-cloth laid on 

 bars, whereby fredi aiiinay be blown upwards through them, 

 at proper times, with fmall ventilators. 



BINNA, in Jnclent Geography, a town of Affyria, ac- 

 cording to Ptolemy. 



BINNINGER, John Nicholas, in Biography, born at 

 Montbeliiard, in 1628, ftudied medicine at Padua, and then 

 went to Baflf, where he was admitted to the degree of doc- 

 tor in that art in 1652. Returning to his own country, he 

 foon acquired fo much fame for his fl<ill in his profcffion, that 

 he was appointed profeiTor of medicine, and phyfician to the 

 family of the duke, his fovereign. He left " Obfervationum 

 et Curationum medicinalium, centurias quinque," Svo. 1673, 

 Month, containing fome curious and valuable obfcrvations. 

 Haller. Bib. Med. Eloy. Did. Hift. 



BINNIGUET, in Geography, a fmall ifland near the 

 weft coaft of France, about a league fouth-weft of Le Con- 

 quet, and i weft of St. Matthew's point. N. lat. 48° 19'. 

 E-long. 1° 5'. 



BINN-NA-BAIRD, andBivN-vA-MuiCK-DuiDw ; are 

 the names of two lofty mountains, in the parifh of Crathy, 

 Aberdeenlhire, in Scotland. Thefe eminences are conllantly 

 covered with fnow, and extending in the fame lidge with the 

 Cairngoram mountain, contain the fame fpecies of topaz, 

 which bears the name of Cairngoram ftones. Emeralds have 

 been fometimcs difcovered here ; alfo a fpecies of brov.-n fili- 

 ceous ilone, which bears a very fine poHfh. 



BINOCLE, or Binocular Tele/cope, from hhras, dou- 

 hk, and octihis, eye, in Opties, that to which both the eyes 

 may be applied, and confequently the fame objeft be ob- 

 fcrvcd at the fame time by both. It confifts of two tubes, 

 with two fcts of glaffi;s of the fame power, and adjniled to 

 the fame axis ; and fome hive pretended that it reprefents 

 objefts much larger and clearer than a fingle or monocular 

 glafs. But this is perhaps only an illufion, occafioned by 

 the llronger impreffion, which two equal images alike illu- 

 minated make upon the eyes. This method of conftruiilion 

 was invented by father Pv.hcita, and brought into ufe by fa- 

 ther Cherubin of Orleans. There are alfo microfcopes of 

 the fame kind, but very fcldom ufed. 



BINODIS, in Eniomology, a fpecies of Formica, de- 

 fcribed by Fabricius as a native of Egypt. It is black ; 



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