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liave free accefs to the Medicean library, which had been re- 

 fufed to him as a ftranger when on his former tour. Fi'om 

 Florence lie went to Rome, whence he returned to Leghorn, 

 and embarked on board a vclTel for London, with a rich 

 cargo of MSS., gems, coins, and other valuable antiquities. 

 Uponliis arrival in England he found his native country dil- 

 traded by the contells between the king and parliament : he 

 was, from principle, a friend to the royal party, and in- 

 volved himfelf in much trouble by the zeal which he difplay- 

 ed in the caufe of monarchy, and in his attachment to arch- 

 bilhop Laud. Having made a fliort Hay at Grefham college, 

 he went to 0.^furd to digell and prepare his papers fur pub- 

 lication, in which he was alTiRcd by archbifliop Ulher, who 

 had long known and eftcemtd him ; and he now drew a map 

 ot the Lefier Afia, at his grace's requeft, who was writing 

 Ins diflertation on that country, which was printed in 164 1. 

 In this year archbifliop Laud having prefcntcd to the uni- 

 verlity a iecond collection of mcdah, the talk of arranging 

 them was confided to Mr. Greaves, which he performed to 

 tlie entire fatislaftion of that learned prelate. By continu- 

 ing to refide fo long at Oxford, Mr. Greaves loil his profef- 

 lorfliip at Grefliam college, but he was almolt at the fame 

 time cLofenthe Savilian profefTor of aftrcnomy at Oxford, 

 and obtained likewife a royal difpenfation to hold his fel- 

 lowfliip at Merton college, on account of the diminution in 

 his llipend as profedor, ariling from the circumftances of tiie 

 civil war. The labours of tlie profefForKiip being fufpended, 

 he proceeded with his literary avocations, and in theyear 1644 

 tranflated into Latin the '• Lemmata of Arcliimedes,'' cor- 

 rcding tlie diagrams, and fupplyingwiiat was frequently found 

 defeftivejn the demonllratiun itfelf. This piece was publilhed 

 by Mr. Samuel Folier in his Mifcellanies, or " Mathemati- 

 cal Lucubrations," 1659. Mr. Greaves, about the fame 

 time, compiled " A Perfian Lexicon,'' out of fuch words as 

 could be met with in the evangelills, the pfalms, and two 

 or three Arabian and Perfian nomcuclators. In 1645 he 

 drew up a feheme for gradually introducing the new or Gre- 

 gorian llyle, by omitting the intercalary day of the leap- 

 year for forty years, which feheme was highly approved by 

 the king and council, and would probably have been carried 

 into execution, had the times been favourable to the innova- 

 tion. In 1646 iie publifliedhis work entitled " Pyramido- 

 graphia," or a defcription of the pyramids of Egypt, and 

 loon after a " Difcourle on the Roman Foot and Denarius," 

 from whence, as from a common llandard, the meafures and 

 veights ufed by the ancients may be deduced. About the 

 year 1648 Mr. Greaves found that he (hould be under the 

 neceffity of refigning his profefTorfhip, he accordingly, before 

 his interell was entirely gune, introduced a fucceffor, v'lz. 

 Mr. SethWard, aftervrards bifliop of Sjhlbury. He then 

 went to London, wiiere he married, and hving 'upon his pa- 

 trimony, devoted his time to hterary labours. He publilh- 

 ed many learned works, among which was " Elementa Lin- 

 gua; PeiJic.T," 4to. to which the author fubjoined " i\nony- 

 nius Perfa Siglis .Arabum et Perfarum Allronomicis." In 

 1652 he publifhed an allraiiomical work, to which he pre- 

 fixed " A (liort Hillury of the Riie and Progrefs of Agro- 

 nomy among the Arabians," and fuhjoined his Bins Tabula;. 

 Belides thefe, he publilhed many other works, and had 

 prepared many more fur the prcfs, 'when he was attacked by 

 a dilorder that proved fatal to him. He died in the fiftieth 

 year of his age. Of his learning, ingenuity, diligence, and 

 wonderful perleverance, there is abundant evidence. He was 

 highly efteemed by many of his moll eminent contempora- 

 ries both at home and abroad ; fleady in his principles and in 

 his frienddiips, and his death was lamented as a real lofs 



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Biog. Brit. 



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GREBANISH He.\d, in Geography, a cape of Scot- 

 land, on tlie E. coaft of the peninfula of Harris. N. lat. C7 ' 

 48'. W. long 6'^ 43'. ^ 



GREBE, in Urniiholn^y, is claffed by Linnxus under 

 the genus of Colyml/us, which fee. 



GREBENAU, in Giograjhv, a town of Germany, in 

 the principality of H-ffe Dannltadt ; 35 miles S. of Caffel. 

 N. lat. 50 43'. E. long. 9' 31'. 



GREBEiMSKOI. See Cos.sacks. 

 GREBENSTEIN, a town of HcfTe-CafTel, 12 miles 

 N.W. ofCaCel. N. lat. 51 26'. E. long. 9' 22'. 



_ GREBER, GlACOMO, in Biography, a German mufi- 

 cian, who had been fome time in Italy, and who brouglit 

 hither a female finger, his fcholar, la figujora Margarita di 

 I'EfTme. He fet to mufic a palloral entertainment, entitled 

 " The Loves of Ergafto," after the manner of the ItaHan 

 opera, that is, in recitative, with airs intermixed. Tliis waj 

 the firil performance in fir John Vanburgh's new theatre iiv 

 the Haymarhet, afterwards called the Opera Houfe. Gre-. 

 ber's fcholar, Margarita, fung in moll of the early attempts at 

 operas in England, and from the name of her mailer, Greber, 

 was long called '.' Greber's Peg ;'' which occufioned his name 

 to be better known, and longer remembered than his works. 

 See M.AnGAiuTA. 

 _ GRECI, in Geography, a town of Naples, in the pro- 

 vince of Principato Ultra, foimded by a colony of Alba- 

 nians, who left their country after their prince George Caf- 

 triot, near Ariano. 



GRECOURT,,Tonx-EAPTi.sT Joseph ViLLAHT de, ia 



Biography, was born at Tours, in France, in 16S3. He was 

 devoted by his friends to the church at a very early period, 

 and was in poiTeilion of a canonry when he 'was on^y four- 

 teen years of age. He became celebrated as a preacher, but 

 his difcourfes were fatirical rather than moral, and did not 

 redound much to his credit as a preacher of the gofpei. 

 Quitting his profefhon he became a man of the world, and 

 made his way to the fafiiionable circles by his convivial talents, 

 and his faculties of writing and reciting Hcentious and bur- 

 lefque verfes. He was patronized by the marihal duke 

 d'Etrees, who frequently carried him to his feat, which th- 

 poet called his eartlily paradife. The hfe « hich he led would 

 not bear refledion ; and though he apparentlv fpent a joyous 

 courfe, yet there was a fmall portion cf re'fpedjbility at- 

 tached to his charafter. He died in 1743. His printed 

 works were tales, epigrams, fon^s, fables, and other light 

 pieces. Few of them rife above mediocrity, but they are 

 lively, pleafant, and popular. His poem, entitled " Plidota- 

 nus," wiiich was a fatirical hillory of the bull Unigenitus, 

 had prodigious fuccefs. The verfes are buriefque, fome of 

 them e.\tremely humorous, though their general texture is 

 mean and vulgar. Moreri. 



GRE DING, m Geography, a town of Germany, in the 

 principality of Aichllatt, on the Schwarzach ; 12 miles 

 N.E. of Aichllatt. 



GREE, 3. town of Perfia, in Segellan ; 20 miles S.W. of 

 Meimeud. 



Gkee, in our Law Boohs, fignifies agreer.'.ent, content- 

 ment, or good liking. Thus, to make gne to the parties, is 

 to latisfy them for offence done. " Judgment Ihall be put 

 m iufpenee, till gree be made to the king of his debt." Stat. 

 25 Edward III. ^ 



The word is formed from the French ^re, good iviU, ■yood 

 hhiiig, or allowance. "^ 



9^i5^^^' '" Geography, a country of Europe, fubied 

 to the Turks, and more generally known under the name of 

 7 iirh'y in Europe, which fee. 



GRliECE, in J iiciait Geography. Sec Gk.ECIA. 



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