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54 : ill H<-»e!in5's 5C ; and in Mr. I'lamfteed's catalogiif 54; 

 ol whicli one, in the (kirt of his coat, is of the fiift tnagni- 

 tude, and called Arftunis ; which fee. Wt hav; fome ac- 

 C'l'int of the rrfprAiv^ hi'.lre of the liars in Bootes by Dr. 

 Hcrfchel in the P'.M. Tranf, for 1797, p. joy. 



Bootes is repnfentcd as a man in a walking poflure, with 

 liis righl hand grafpiii^r a tluh, and his lift extended up.vards, 

 and holding the cord ofthe two dogs whicli fcem baikiig at 

 the great hear. The Greeks give no certain account of the 

 orijjin of this condellation. The poets fay, that Bootes was 

 learns, the father of Eri^onus, whom Jnpiter placed in the 

 lieavcns. Others fuppofe him to be Areas, the fon of Ca- 

 lifto. Thofe, who, at a very early period, fuppof^d the ftars, 

 which were afterwards forr".ed into the great bear, to re- 

 prefcnt a waggon drawn by oxen, made this Bootes the 

 driver of them ; from which circiinillance he was called the 

 waggoner ; others continued the office when the waggon was 

 deltroyed, and made it hij office to drive the two bears round 

 about the pole ; and fome, when the {greater wa;jgon was 

 clianged into the greater bear, wifhed flill to prefervc the 

 form of that machine in the flars which conftitute Bootes. 



This condellation ir, called bv various other names, as 

 Areas, Arftophylax, Arfturus Minor, Buhulcus, Bubulus, 

 Clamator, Icarus, Lycaon, Piorans, Plaiirtri-Cullos, Philome- 

 tus, Thcgnis, and Vociferator ; by others, Ccginus, Lance- 

 ator, Septcntrio ; by Hefychins, Orion ; by others, Canis 

 Latrans ; by the Arabs, Aramech, or Arcamech. Schil- 

 ler, inftead of Bootes, makes the figure of St. Sylvefter ; 

 Schickhard, that of Nimrod ; and Wcigelius, the three 

 Swedifh crowns. Wolf. Lex. Math. p. 266. 



BOOTH, Botha, denotes a ftall, or ftanding in a fair or 

 market ; the term is alfo applied to any temporary ftruilure 

 formed of boards and boughs, and defigned for fhade and 

 flielter. 



Booth, YI^sky ,\n Biography, earl ofWarrington, and ba- 

 ron Delamer of Dunham Mafley, an upright fenator, anddi- 

 ftinguirtied patriot, was defcended from a family of great anti- 

 quity, and born in 1 65 1. During the life of his father, he was 

 Cuftos Rotulorum for the county palatine of Chefter, and re- 

 prefented that county in feveral parliaments during the reign 

 of Charles II. His zeal for the proteftant religion, and for the 

 liberties of his country, was confpicuous at an early period 

 of his hfe. He was aflive in proiriviting the bill for exclud- 

 ing the duke of York from the throne ; he alfo made a fpi- 

 rited fpeech in fupport of frequent parliaments, and againft 

 governing by favourites ; and he oppofed, with a manly 

 firmnefs, the unjuft and arbitrary power affumed by the 

 privy. council, of imprifoning men contrary- to law. He was 

 anxious likewife for preferving parliament uncorrupt ; and 

 with this view contended for an aft to puniih thofe who had 

 received bribes from the court, as members of the parliament 

 denominated the penfion-parhament. He alfo fpoke in par- 

 liament againll the corruption of the judires, charging them 

 with having fold, denied, or delayed juftice, and recom- 

 mended an inquiry into their conduft, and that thofe who 

 were found guilty might receive merited punifliment. His 

 zeal againft the papifts, and his vigorous oppoiition to the 

 arbitrary meafures of the court, rendered him particularly ob- 

 noxious to the governing powers ; fo that he was turned out 

 (if the commifnon of the peace, deprived of his office, as 

 Cuftos Rotulorum of the county of Chefter, and committed 

 «lofe prifoner to the tov/er of London, from which, how- 

 ever, he was after a few months releafed. After the accef- 

 fion of James II. he was twice committed to the tower ; and 

 in thebegiiining of the year 1686, brought to trial, under a 

 charge of high treafon. Judge Jefterics maintained, on this 

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ftiotild be two pofitive witneffes, in order to conviA a man of 

 treafon ; and that if there was only one pofitive wilnefs, addi- 

 tional circumflances might fupply the place of a fecond. Lord 

 Delamer, who came to the title in 1684 by the death of his 

 f,ither, made an able defence ; and was unanimoufly ac- 

 quitted. I'Voni this time he lived in retirement at his feat 

 at Dunham Malfey ; but wlicn matters became ripe for the 

 rcvoluti;)n, he exei'tLd himfelf in the promotion of that great 

 event. In a note to Dr. Akenlide'r. ode addreffcd to the 

 earl of Huntingdon, it is faid, that at Whittington, a vil- 

 lage on the edge of Scarfdale in Dcrbyfhire, the carls of 

 Devonfliire and Danby, and the lord Delamer, privately- 

 concerted the plan of the revolution. The houfe in which 

 thty met is at prefent a farm-houfe ; and the country-people 

 dillinguifii the room where they fat by the name of the 

 " plotting-parlour." Lord Delamer appears to have been 

 one of the firft who took up arms in favour of the revolu- 

 tion. After he had joined the prince of Orange, he was 

 deputed, in Decem.ber 1688, together with the marquis of 

 Halifax, and the earl of Shrewfbury, with a melTage to king 

 James, intimating to him, that he mult remove from White- 

 hall. To the refpeftful manner in which he executed this 

 commiffion, James bore tettimony, after his retirement to 

 France ; obferving that " the lord Delamer, whom he had 

 ufed ill, had then treated him with much more regard thaa 

 the other two lords, to whom he had been kind, and from 

 whom he might better have expefted it." His lordlhip, 

 however, was fully convinced of the neceflity of dethroning 

 the king ; and in a debate, relative to declaring the throne 

 vacant, he faid, that " it was long iince he thought himfelf ab- 

 folved from his allegiance to king James ; that he owed him 

 none, and never would pay him any ; and if king James came 

 again, he was refolved to tight againll him, and would die 

 fingle witli his fword in his hand, rather than pay him any 

 obedience." Such were his fervicesin fupport of the revolu- 

 tion, that he was honoured with feveral official appoint- 

 ments at that period. The offices of lord-lieutenant of tha 

 city and county of Chefter, and of Cuftos Rotulorum of 

 that county, to which he was promoted, he enjoyed for 

 lite. Lord Delamer, however, feems to have beeu no fa- 

 vourite at court ; his difpofition did not feem to have been 

 formed for a pliant courtier under any eftablifhment ; and 

 with refpeft to his polit'cal fentiments, he feems to have 

 been one of thofe who wifhed for more retrenchments of the 

 regal prerogative than were made at the revolution. But 

 though his loidftiip was removed from the adminiftration, 

 letters patent were iffued, in 1650, for creating him tarl of 

 Warnngton, in the county of Lancaller, to continue to him 

 and the heirs male of his body ; and a penfion likewife of 

 20C0I. per annum was granted to him, for tiie better fupport 

 of that dignity ; but it is faid, that this penlion was paid to 

 him only for the firll half year, and afterwards fufFered to 

 run in arrear. On the 3d of January 1692-j, the earl of 

 Warrington figned a proteft againft the rejeftion of the bill 

 for incapacitating perfons in office under the crown, either 

 civil or mihtary, from fitting in the houfe of commons. 

 This patriotic peer died at London on the 2d of January 

 l^9.)"4' '" ^^'^ 4-<i year of his age. He left four fons and 

 two daughters ; but his fecond fon dying in 1758, without 

 heirs male, the earldom became extinft. Mr. Granger fays, 

 that lord Delamer was " a man of a generous and noble na- 

 ture, which difdained, upon any terms, to fubrait to fervi- 

 tude ; and whofe pafFions feemed to centre in the love of 

 civil and religious liberty." In every part of his life, indeed, 

 he feems to have been aftuated by the fame principles ; and 

 in his " Advice to his Children," printed in his works, ha 

 fays, " There never yet was any good man, who had not an 



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