BON 



crime on the part of either, as in cafe of old age, difeafe, 

 barreiinefs, monachifm, captivity, or the like. 



Bona rfefunai ad collignuliim. See Colligendum. 



Bona Alob'tlia. See Mobilia. 



Bona Notabilia, in Law. Where a perfon dying has 

 goods, or good debts, in another diocefe, but within the 

 fame province, befides his goods in the diocefe where he 

 dies, amounting to the vaUie of five pounds at leaft, he is 

 faid to have bona notalUia : in which cafe, the probate of his 

 will, &c. belongs not to the bifhop of the diocefe where he 

 dies, whofc jurifdiftion cannot extend beyond the bounds of 

 his own diocefe, but to the archbithop of the province. 



Though if a perfon happens to die in another diocefe 

 than that wherein he lives, on a journey ; what he hath 

 about him above the value of five pounds, &c. fliall not be 

 bona nolab':lia. 



Bona Patna, a jury or affife of countrymen, or good 

 neighbours. See Assise and Jury. 



Bona penfura, perifliable goods. By ftat. 13 Ed. 1. 

 cap. 4. the cargo of a fhip that hath been cad away fliall be 

 kept for a year and a day, and reltored to the rightful 

 owner ; but if the goods be fuch as will not endure fo long, 

 they are bona perilura, which the fheriff is allowed to fell, 

 and to account in money for the value. 



Bona ■vacantia, goods, fuch as royal filh, (hipwrecks, 

 treafure-trove, waifs, and eftrays, in which no one can claim 

 a property. Thefe goods, by the law of nature, and by 

 the imperial law, belonged to the firft occupant or finder ; 

 but in the modern conilitutions of European governments, 

 they are annexed to the fupreme power by the pofitive laws 

 of the ftate. 



BONACCIOLUS, Lewis, in Biography, a phyfician 

 of great eminence and authority, praftifed medicine at Fer- 

 rara, in the early part of the i6th century. His great work 

 " jEnneas muliebris, five de foetus formatione," was firft 

 publi(hed in 1503, in fol. " qua, prxter alia, plurima quo- 

 que ad coitum, et ad rem veneream facientia, diftione liber- 

 rima defcribuntur." It was neverthelefs dedicated to Lu- 

 cretia, daughter to pope Alexander VI. But the dedica- 

 tion, Blomenbach obferves, is only to be found to the folio 

 edition, princip. which is extremely rare. A copy of this 

 edition was fold by Paterfon, in 1791, with the fplendid 

 Paris library. This writer, Douglas fays, was the firft who 

 diftinguifhed the clitoris from the uymphae, and ftiewed them 

 to be diftinft parts. The TEnneas was again printed in 1587. 

 It was alfo inferted by Cafpar Wolfius in his Colleftion of 

 Treatifes, called " Gynecia, five de muherum morbis," 410. 

 1586, re-edited by If. Spachius, fol. 1597 ; and with Pi- 

 nxus's phyfiologlcal treatifes. Though of little value now, 

 the work was for a long time held in great efteem ; the au- 

 thor having given in it a more accurate anatomy of the 

 fcEtus, and of the partes generationi fubfervientes, than any 

 preceding writer. Douglas Bib. Hal. Bib. Anat. 



BONACHI, in Geography, a town of North America, 

 in New Navarre, 180 miles S. of Cafa-grand. 



BONACOPUS, Hercules, \n Biography, of Ferrara, 

 and for fome years profeffbr in medicine at Bologna, pub- 

 lifhed, in IJ52, " De affeftu quern Latini tormina appel- 

 lant, 4to. ; " De humorum exuperantium fignis ac ferapiis, 

 de compofitione Theriacie, de modo preparandi aquam ligni 

 fanfti, &c." 4to. 1553; the latter medicine was now in the 

 zenith of its reputation for its powers in curing the lues ve- 

 nerea ; " De curatione pleuritidis, ab Hippocratis, Galeni, 

 &c. monumentis deprompta,"4to. 155J. He died in 1558. 

 Bonacopus had much learning, and contributed by his works 

 to revive among his compatriots a tafte for literature, parti, 

 cularly for the works of the ancicat Creek fathers in medi. 



BON 



cine. His brother, or near relative, James Bonacopus, was 

 alfo in much efteem. He was phyfician to pope Paul III. 

 He died in 1553, aged 69 years. Aftruc. de Morb. Gall. 

 Haller. Bib. lYIed. 



BONAFIDES, Francis, profeffor in the praftice of 

 medicine at Padua, pahhfhed, in 1^33, " Qiixftio de cura 

 pleuritidis per vensefedlionem, adverfus Curtium," 410. Ve- 

 net. He defends the praftice of the Arabian phyficians, 

 who recommended bleeding by the vena faphaena, on the 

 fide oppofite to the part affefted, in plethoric habits ; in 

 debilitated conftitutions, by the bafilica in the arm, of the 

 fide where the pain was felt ; a diftinftion not attended to 

 in modern praftice. Haller. Bib. Med. 



BONAIRE, in Geography, an ifland almoft uninhabited, 

 near the coaft of South America, about 20 leagues from the 

 continent, and 14 S.E.of Cura9oa, belonging to tlie Dutch. 

 It is about 50 miles in compafs, and has on the S.W.fide, near 

 the middle of the ifland, a good bay and road. Here were 

 formerly a few houfes, with a fort guarded by a fmall num- 

 ber of foldiers ; and five or fix Indian families rcfidsJ here, 

 and cultivated maize, yams, potatoes, &c. The ifland has 

 plenty of cattle and goats, which are annually falted and 

 fent to Cura^oa. On the fouth fide is a good fait pond, 

 from whence the Dutch procure iait. N. lat. 12° 16'. W. 

 long. 68° 18'. 



BONAMES, a town of Germany, in the circle of the 

 Upper Rhine, 3 miles N. N. W. of Frankfort on the 

 Mayne. 



BONAMY, Peter-Nicholas, \n Biography, was born 

 at Louvres, in the diftrift of Paris, in 1694, and educated 

 for the ecclefiaftical profeffion. But, devoting himfelf en» 

 tirely to literature, he became under-librarian of St.Viftor, 

 and diftinguiflied both by the politenefs of his manners, and 

 the variety as well as afliduity of his ftudies. In 1727, he 

 was admitted a member of the Academy of Infcriptions and 

 Belles Lettres, and made many valuable contributions to its 

 Memoirs. His papers are charafterifed by fimple but correft 

 language, variety of erudition, clearnels of argument, and 

 foUdity of criticifm. At the inftigation of M. Turgot, a 

 place was created of hiftoriographer of Paris, and Bonamy 

 was appointed to occupy it. He was thus led to write va- 

 rious memoirs relative to the hiftoi-y and antiquities of the 

 city ; and on occafion of a bequeft of a curious library to 

 the city, he was made librarian. From the year 1747, he 

 condufted the " Journal of Verdun" with tlie ftrifteft pro- 

 priety and decorum. In univerfal efteem for candour and 

 probity, as well as learning, he died at Paris, in 1770/ aged 

 76. Gen. Biog. 



BoNAMv'j Point, in Geography, lies on the fouthern fide 

 of Chaleur bay, at the N.W. extremity of Eel river cove, 

 and forms the S. limit of Riftigouche river. 



BONANA, in Ornithology, a fpecies of Oriolus, of a 

 fulvous colour, with the head and breaft chefnut ; back, 

 quill, and tail feathers black. Gmel. 



This is called by Bnffon xanthormus, and h carouge. It 

 is fuppofed to xochiiototl of Hern. Mex. and xochitotl altera 

 of Ray. Brown names it the bonana bird. 



The length of this bird is feven inches : bill black ; bafe 

 of the lower mandible grey ; head, neck, and breaft chef- 

 nut ; upper part of the back velvet black ; lower part, with 

 the rump, belly, thighs, and under the wings, a deep 

 orange red ; vent the fame, tipped with chefnut ; greater 

 wing coverts, quills and tail, black ; legs and claws grey. 

 The female differs in having the colours lefs vivid than in 

 the male. 



The bonana bird is a native of Maitinico, Jamaica, and 



the other iflands in the Weft Indies, where it chieily inha- 



4 bits 



