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.HBon the- melted copper ; a fort of pellicle forms h'felf by raifed to theliig^li office of lora mayor of the city of Lon- 

 .this means on the furfacc of the matter, which they take don, was born ui 15 19. He received an academical educa- 

 lile hot with pincers of iron, and immediately throw- tion at Cambri^dge, but being defigned to follow the com 



-off 



inir it into a large' veffel of cold water, it forms that red mercial biifmefs of the family, he was bound apprentice to 



powder, wliich is called the grenaille ; they repeat the his uncle fir John Grefliam, and thus became a member of 



operation every time they in this manner feparate the cop- the Mercers' company. His father was agent of the king's 



per ; and this fiirnilhcs them with a-, much of the grenaille money concerns at Antwerp, and Thomas expeifted to be 



as they have occafion for in their china works. Obferva- his fucceffor in this biifinefs, but the preference was given to 



tions fur les Coiitume.s de I'Afie, p. 309, 



GRENAHEN, in Gmgniphy, a town of Switzerland, 

 in the Valais ; 25 miles E. of Sion. 



GRENAT, in Ormlhology. See Trochilus Aura- 



.iuj. 



GRENIER, in Gmgr/T/i/jj, mountains of Hindooflan, in 



the country of Guzerat, near Junagur. 



GRENNA, a town of Sweden, in tlie province of Sma- 

 land ; 10 miles NN.E. of Jonkiopin 



another perfon, by whofe mifmanagement they wei'e brought 

 intoa deplorable condition. Recourie was now Ind to the 

 fubjeft of this article, who was fent over in 1532 by the re- 

 gency in the minority of Edward VI., iu order to retrieve 

 them. In this affair lit exerted fo much talent, that in two 

 years he was able to pay off the whole of a loan bearing 

 enormous intcrelt, and raifed the king's credit to the moll re- 

 fpeftable rank. At the acceflion ot Elizabeth, he was for 

 a time deprived of his office, but it was rcltored to him again. 



GRENOBLE, an ancient, large7 and well-built city of and he continued in it as lung as he lived. He alfo received 

 France, and capital of the department of Ifere, fituated in at the hands of his fovereign the honour of knighthood, 

 a marlhy but fruitful plain, at the foot of a hill, near the Hetranfafted many important pecuniary negociations of that, 

 conflux of the river Ifere. Before the revolution it was the long and glorious reign, and was a mofl fpiritcd promoter 

 capital of Dauphiny, the fee of a bifliop, and the fent of a of the infant manufattures of the kingdom, thofe of fmall 

 .parliament. It was the fcene of many cruelties in the reli- wares in particular being eftabliffied chiefly through his 

 gious wars, A.D. 1562. It is divided by the river Ifere means. His own property, derived by inheritance, with 

 into two unequal parts, the largell of which is regularly that acquired by his induffry and talents, made him the 

 built. Its manufaftures are cloth, hats, gloves, &c. The richeft fubjecl iu the metropolis, and he made ufe of his 

 number of its inh.abitants is 23,500 in 3 cantons, on a terri- wealth to noble and exteniively beneficial purpofes. In 1564 

 .tory of 265 kiliometres, in 26 communes. To the north he had the misfortune to lofe his only fon, and lie fell upon 

 are the ruins of a citadel, on an eminence, which commands the means of diverting liis grief on this melancholy occafion 

 an agreeable profpeft of the town, the banks of the Ifere, by public undertakings. The lirft defign of building an ex- 

 and leveral fertile valhes. In a rugged valley, watered by change for merchants, in imitation of that of Antwerp, was 

 the rapid Drac, about 5 leagues S. of Grenoble, are the entertained by his father. Sir Thomas carried the plan into 

 mineral fprings of La Motte, highly efteemcd as a remedy effett, and completed the noble building in three years, 

 for fluxes and all diforders of the ftomach, but little ufed on {See Royal Hxchangc.) When the troubles in the Low- 

 account of the difficult accefs to them. Four leagues N. of Countries interrupted the accuftomed loans to the crown from 

 Grenoble is Le Grand Chartreufe, a famous Carthufian mo- Antwerp, fir Thomas advifed the miniiler to apply to the 



nafl;er)', founded A.D. 1086, confifl;ing of an excellent li- 

 brary, and many apartments, on an eminence environed by 

 rugged precipices of difiicult acceis. N. lat. 45"' 1 1' 59''. 

 E. long. 5^ 43' 10" 



merchants of his own country, and this may be confidered as 

 the commencement of the iinmenfe advances iince made to 

 the crown from the fame body. Sir Thomas Grefliam next 

 determined to bellow a part of his wealth in founding a col- 



GRENOUILLES, Le.s, a duller of rocks in the Weft lege for the fciences in his native city. The principal peo- 

 Indian ocean, about 36 miles S.E. from point Morand, p!e in the univerfity of Cambridge endeavoured to diffuade 



in the ifland of Jamaica 

 32 



E. long. 76 



N. lat. 17- 32'. 

 GRENVILLE, a town of Nova Scotia. See Gran- 



him from thus eftablifliing a rival inftitution ; but liis deter- 

 mination was fixed. He deviled by will his houfe in Bilhopf- 

 gate-ftreet for the purpofe of being converted into habita- 



VILLE. tions and leClurc -rooms for feven profeffors, or leiilurers on 



Gren"VILI,k, a county in Upper Canada, bounded on the the feven liberal fciences, who were each of them to receive 



F. by the county of Dundas, on the S. by the river St. a falary out of the revenues of the Royal Exchange. Thefe 



Lawrence, and on the W. by the townfliip of Elizabeth 

 town, rnnning N. 24 W. till it interfetls the Ottawa or 

 Grawl river, aud thence defcending that river until it meets 

 the north and wefterumoft boundary of the county of Dun- 

 das. This county comprehends all the lands near to it in the 

 j-iver St. Lawrence. 



Gken'Ville'j Canal, a channel of the N. Pacific ocean, 

 which feparates Pitt's Archipelago from the coaft of New 

 Cornwall. 



leftures arc Hill given in apartments in the RoyalExchange, 

 whenever there are a fufficient number of auditors affembled 

 to call for the exertions of the letturer. The fubjefts of the 

 leftures are Jivini/y, law, phxjtc, ajlronomy, geometry, mvfic, 

 and rhetoric. Sir Thomas endowed many public charities. 

 He died iuddenly in his own houfe in the year 1579, and 

 was buried in a fumptuous manner in the church of St, 

 Helens, Blfliopfgate-ftrcet. He had expended large fums of 

 money in ereftingcorn, oil, and paper-mills upon the llream 



GRENZHAUSEN, a town of Germany, in the county of the Brent, near his favourite villa at Oilerly-park. Bio°-. 



of Wied ; 5 miles N.E. of Coblentz. 



GREPPEN, a town of Switzerland, in the canton of 

 Lucerne ; 5 miles E. of Lucerne. 



GRES, Cai'E AU, a promontory on the E. fide of the 

 Miffifippi, in the N. W. territory, 3 leagues above the Illi- 

 nois river, and the tract of country fo called extends 5 

 leagues up that river. 



GRESHAM, cj;V Tiioma.s, in Biography, an eminent 



iiOndoD merchant^ fon of fir Richard Grefliam, who was act of 15 Geo, III. 



Brit. 



Gr-E-SHAm College. See College. 



GRESHOLM, in Geography, a fmall ifland of Denmark, 

 in the Categat ; 4 miles N.E. of Leffoe. 



GRESI, a town of Turkifli Armenia ; 28 miles S.E. of 

 Rizeh. 



GRESLEY's Canal, is an inland navigation in Stafford- 

 fliire, near Newcaftle-under-line, made in purfuance of an 



To the account given in our article 



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