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" Orchcftra Biirgundica ;" " Theatrum Hiiloricum Impe- 

 ratorum ;" " Comus, feu dc Luxu ;" " Dc ufu Biblio- 

 tlicca!," with a catalogue of the Ambrofiaii hbrary ; be- 

 lides feveral trails rehilive to clafhcal antiquities, printed 

 among the collctlions of Gra:vius and Gronovius. Moreri. 

 Bayle. 



PuTTEN, in Gcogr.iphy, a fmall ifland of Holland, in the 

 Meufe, E. of Voorn, 



PUTTERAHEE, a town of Hindooftan, in the circar 

 of Gohud ; 27 miles E.N.E. of Gohud. 



PUl'TOCKS, or VvvTOCK-Shrouds, otherwife called 

 futtock or foot-hook firoiiils, in a Ship, are fmall /hrouds 

 which go from the Ihrouds of the main-mail, fore-maft, and 

 mizen-maft, to the top-maft fhrouds ; and if there be any 

 top-gallant mail, there are puttocks to go from the top-malt 

 ftirouds into thefe. Thefe puttocks are at the bottom feized 

 to a llafF, or to fome rope which is feized to a plate of iron, 

 or to a dead-man's eye, to which the laniards of the fore- 

 mail (hrouds come. See Shrouds. 



PUTTY fometimes denotes a wliite powder of lead and 

 tin calcined togctlier, in the proportion of two parts of lead 

 to one of tin ; ufed in pwlifliing, and giving the laft glofs to 

 works of iron, fteel, Itone, and glafs. This is alfo the bafis 

 of white enamels, and glazings for earthen-ware. 



Putty is alfo ufed to denote fpodium. 



Putty, in its popular fenfe, denotes a kind of pafte, com- 

 pounded of whiting, with or without a little white lead, and 

 linfeed oil, beaten together to the confillence of a tough 

 dough ; ufed by glaziers for faftening the fquares of glafs in 

 fa(h-windows, &c. and by painters, to Hop up the crevices 

 and clefts in timber and wainfcot, to prevent the wet from 

 getting in, and ruining tlic work. 



PUTTYRAM, in Geography, a town of Hindooitan, in 

 Bengal; 18 miles E.S.E. of Dinagepour. 



PUTUAY, a fmall ifland on the coaft of Bengal. N- 

 lat. 22°4i'. E. long. 89° 28'. 



PUTUMAYO, a river of South America, which rifes 

 about 80 miles S. of Popayan, purfues an eaftern courfe, 

 inclining to the fouth, about 300 miles, and after being 

 joined by a branch of the Caquet, takes the name of lea, 

 and running S.E. about 200 miles, joins the river of the 

 Amazons in S. lat. 3° 30'. W. long. 50° 40'. — Alfo, a 

 town of South America, in the government of Popayan, on 

 a river of the fame name ; 50 miles E. of Paito. 



PUTURA, a cullora claimed by the keepers of forefts, 

 and fometimes by bailiffs of hundreds, to take man's meat, 

 horfe's meat, and dog's meat, of the tenants and inha- 

 bitants, gratis, within the perambulation of the forell, 

 hundred, &e. 



" Johannes clamat vmam puturam in prioratu de Penevoft- 

 ham, qui eft quiedam cella abbatix de Evelham, pro fe & mi- 

 niltris, equis, & garcionibus fuis, per unum diem & duas 

 noftes, de tribus feptimanis, in tres feptimanas, viz. de 

 viftualibus, ut & efculeiitis & potulentis, ad collas prio- 

 ralus prasdifti indebite." Placit. apud Praellon. lyEdw.III. 



This cuftom, within the liberty of Kuarelburg, was long 

 (jnce turned into the payment of four-pence, pro piitura. 



The land fubje<& to this fervice is called terra piiturata. 

 The learned Soniner has erred in his expofitiou of this 

 word. 



PUTYAJURY, in Geography, a town of Bengal ; 30 

 miles S.S.W. of Silhet, 



PUTZIG. See Pauzk. 



PUVIGLIO, a town of the duchy of Parma ; nine 

 miles N.E. of Parma. 



PUWAKHAGAi in Botany, the name by which fome 



authors call the faufel-trec, of whofe fruit the expreliej 

 juice called terra Japoiiica, or Japan earth, is made. 



PUXUANAIRO, in Geography, a town of Mexico, 

 in tiie province of Mechoacan ; 25 miles N.W. of Mc- 

 choacan. 



PUY, Pktku I)U, in Biography, the third fon of Claude 

 du Puy, a magillrate in the parliament of Paris, was born 

 in tliat city in 1582, and was educated with great care under 

 his father. While a youth, he made extraordinary pro- 

 ficiency in literature, and ftill further improved himfelf by a 

 journey to Holland, whither he accompanied the French 

 ambailador. After his return he laboured with great affi- 

 duity in afcertaining the rights of the crown of France 

 over fome of the neighbouring diftridfs, and for that pur- 

 pofe was indefatigable in his examination <,. ancient charters, 

 and thereby acquired a profound knowledge of French hif. 

 tory. The reward of this, and other labours of the fame 

 fort, were the places of king's couniellor, and keeper of the 

 royal library, in both of wliich he was diftinguirtied by his 

 patriotifm and love of letters. His works were numerous 

 and valuable. In almoft all of them he aims at reprcfiing the 

 ecclefiaftical authority, and the claims of the fee of Rome 5 

 hence they were not well received at the papal court. They 

 are, however, faid to contain a rich treafure of fadts relative 

 to all the matters on which he treats^ He died at Paris in 

 1 65 1, at the age of 69, and his life was written by his inti- 

 mate friend Nicholas Rigault. Some of his writings are as 

 follow : " Preuvcs des Liberies de I'Eglife Gallicane ;" 

 " Hiltoire Veritable de la Condemnation de I'Ordre des 

 Templiers ;" " Traite de la Loi Salique ;" " Du Con- 

 cordat de Bologne entre le Pape Leon X., et le Roi 

 Francis I ;" " Apologie de I'Hiftoire de M. le Prefident de 

 Thou." He had a brother, James, prior of St. Sauveur, 

 who became keeper of the king's library after the death of 

 Peter, whom he allifted in all his works, of the greater part 

 of which he was the pubhfher. He died in 1656, leaving 

 behind him a high charafter for learning and probity. An- 

 other brother, Chrillopher du Puy, was prothonotary to the 

 cardinal de Joyeufe, and by his remonllrances he prevented 

 the congregation of the Index from putting the firft of De 

 Thou's hiftory in the lift of heretical books. He was 

 king's alriioncr, and, wlule attached to cardinal du Perron, 

 he made a colleftion entitled " Perroniana." He became a 

 Carthufian, and died at Rome in 1554, proftor-general of 

 his order. 



Puy, Louis du, a man of letters, was born at Clarey, 

 in Bugey, in 1709 ; he ftudied in the college of Lyons, and 

 came to Paris in 1732. He was for a confiderable time 

 principal editor of the Journal des S5avans, and during thirty 

 years enriched this colleftion with a great number of critical 

 differtations. He was well verfed in the learned languages, 

 and in the mathematics, and acquired an extenfive know- 

 ledge of hiltory and antiquities. The prince of Soubife en- 

 trufted him with the management of his library, and by his 

 care it was rendered one of the moit valuable in the metro- 

 polis. In 1753 he was nominated fecretary to the Academy 

 of Infcriptions, in which iituation he pronounced the eu- 

 logies of twelve of his affociates, and edited from the 36th 

 to the 41ft vols, of its memoirs. He died in 1795. He was 

 author of " Obfervations on infinitely fmall Quantities, and 

 the metaphyfical principles of Geometry," inferted in the 

 Journal des S9avans for 1759; "A Tranllation of four 

 Tragedies of Sophocles," 1762; "A Tranflation of the 

 Greek Fragments of Anthemius on mechanical Paradoxes, 

 with Notes ;" fome memoirs on the Roman coin, the filver 

 denier of Charlemagne, and other antiquarian and literary 

 fubjeds. Du Puy v.-as highly eileemcd for itrjft probity, 

 H 2 fincerity, 



