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"Wheti a ilKui hath vsverfed tlse .outlawry, and can partici- 

 pate of the benefit of the law, he is faid to be rUliis in curia. 

 RECULVER, in Geography, ;i village and parilli in the 

 upper half-hundred of Blcan-Gate, lathe of St. Augudine, 

 and county of Kent, England, is fitiiated at the diitance 

 of lo miles N.E. by N. from Canterbury. It is; noted in 

 hiltory as the fcite of the Roman Regulhium, the itation or 

 caltle which defended the northern entrance to the cele- 

 bratcd Partus Rutupenfis. It is remarkable, that while the 

 ocean has receded from the fouthern entrance, leaving Rich- 

 borough (Rutupium) confiderably inland, it has gradually 

 advanced upon Reculver. This is proved on the authority 

 of feveral ancient writers, particularly Lcland, wlio dates, 

 that in his time it ftood about half a mile from the (hore, 

 v,-hereas, at prefent, the tide wafhcs the walls of many of the 

 village houfes, and threatens to overwhelm the whole at no 

 diftant period. Regulbium was a flation of much imjjort- 

 ance, as it not only commanded an extenfive view of the 

 open fea, but likewifc of the mouths of the Thames and 

 the Medway. It was therefore ufed as a watch-poll to dif- 

 cover the approaches of au enemy ; and alio as a light- 

 houfc to guide failors. In its pcrfedt (late the llalion was of 

 a fquare form, with tiic angles rounded iiff, and was en- 

 vironed by a ditch exterior to the walls, of which a con- 

 ijderable portion ftill remains. The extent of the inclofcd 

 area from eafl to weft is about 190 yards, and from ioutli 

 to north about 198 yards. The ancient town was without 

 the ftation, and is fuppofed to have ftood towards the 

 north, on that part of the coaft long iince Iwallowcd up by 

 the waves : " and from the prefent Ihore, as far as a place 

 called Black. Rock, feen at low water mark, w-here, accord- 

 ing to tradition, a church once ilood, there have been 

 found great quantities of tiles, bricks, fragments of walls, 

 teffellated pavements, and other marks of a ruinated town ; 

 and remains of the houfehold furniture, drefs and equipment 

 of the horfes belonging to its inhabitants, are continually 

 met with among the fands ; for after the fall of the chffs, 

 the earthen parts of them being wafhed away, thefe metal- 

 line fubftances remain behind," When a part of the cliff 

 here fell down about the conclufion of the feventeenth cen- 

 tury, a number of fmall vaults, arched over, and feveral 

 cifterns, were difcovered. The latter were all of the fame 

 figure, namely, fquare, and meafured from ten to twelve 

 feet in length each fide, and the fame in depth. They were 

 conftrufted of pofts, driven deep into the ground, with 

 planks two inches thick fixed to them. Their ufe was 

 evidently the reception and prefervation of rain water, 

 which the Romans thought more wholefome than fpring 

 water. Vaft quantities of Roman coins have been dif- 

 covered both in the fields and along the fhore here ; and 

 Du Frefne has produced many, which, from the markings 

 upon them, appear to have been flruck at a mint in this 

 place. Britifli and Gaulifh coins are likewife occafionally 

 found here ; alfo feals, keys, fpoons, gold rings, bracelets, 

 hgulx, bullae, belts, bridles, harnels, beams of fcales or 

 ftiliards, and many other articles of which the ufe has not 

 yet been determined. 



When Kent was fubdued by the Saxons, Regulbium 

 became a principal feat of the monarchs of that dynafty. 

 It was then called Raculf and Raculf-cejier ; and hither 

 king Ethelred retired with his court, after his converfion 

 to Chriilianity by St. Auguftinc. In the next century it ob- 

 tained the name of Raculf-minfter, from a Benediftine abbey 

 founded here by BafTa, a prieft and nobleman, to whom 

 lands were granted for that purpofe by king Egbert, as an 

 atonement for the murder of his two nephews. This abbey 

 was difTolved previous t.o the Conquell, having probably 



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been dellroycd by the Danes. The town, however, con- 

 tinucd in a flourifhing condition for many years after that 

 event, and had the privilege of a weekly market granted 

 to it in 1313 ; but this right has be(-n long difcontinued. 

 'I'he church here is an ancient and Ipacious edifice, confilt- 

 lug of a nave, with two aifles, a chancel, and two lofty towers, 

 furmounted by fpires at the angles of the well front. T.he 

 nave is feparatcd from the aillcs by five pointed arches, 

 riling from fliort oblong piers ; and from the chancel by 

 t!nve fmall feini-eircular archej, fpringing from tall round 

 columns, with very fingular capitals. In this church kings 

 Lthclliert I. and 1 1, are faid to have been btu'icd ; and a 

 monument i-rcdted to the memory of the firll is defcribed 

 by Wecver in his " Funeral Monuments," though it has now 

 difa])peared. On the floor of the chancel are feveral braffes 

 of girat antiquity. (See Richborouoh.) Beauties of 

 England and Wales, vol. vii. by E. W. Brayley. Hiliory 

 and Antiquities of Reculver and Heme, by W. Battely, 

 D. D. 8vo. 



RECUMPADO, in dography, a town of Hindooflan, in 

 the circar of Rajamundry ; 23 miles N.W. of Rajamundr)'. 

 RECUPERATORES, among the Romans, were com- 

 millioners appointed to take cognizance of private matters 

 in diiputo, between the fubjefts of the ftate and foreigners, 

 and to take care that the former had juftice done them. 



It came at lait to be ufed for commifTioners, to whom 

 the prxtor referred the determination of any affair between 

 one fubjeft and another. 



RECURRENS, in jinatomy, a name under which the 

 inferior laryngeal branch of the par vagum is often defcribed, 

 from the circumftance of its arifing in the chell below the 

 point of its diftribution to the larynx, and then going back 

 into the neck in a retrograde courfe. oee Nerve. 



RECURRING Sekiks, is a feries fo conftituted, that 

 each fucceeding term is connefted with a certain number of 

 the terms immediately preceding it, by a certain and inva- 

 riable law ; as the fums or differences of fome multiples of 

 thofe terms. Thus the feries 





7 

 5 ^--S 



9 x'' 



S &c. 

 II x\ &c. 



is a recurring feries ; for thefe terms being refpedively reprc- 

 fented by k, /S, y, J, Sec. we have 



y = 2 .r .S — x'' a, 

 i = 2 X y — x' $ 

 t = 2 xS — x^y 

 3= Sic. &c. 



that is, each term is equal to 2 x times that which precedes 

 it, minus x'^ times the one preceding the lall. 

 Or, generally, let 



a /3 y £ fl &c. 



a. 



i X, ex', Jx^, ex*, S^^i &c. 



be any ferise whofe terms are denoted as above, by a, 0, y, S, 

 &c. Alfo, let ju, V, 5, &c. reprefent the fucceffive multi- 

 pliers by which the terms are conncfted, fo that 



/3=;3 



y=ZfA.x^ + i'x'-a.+ &C. 

 S — fixy f V .v' /3 -t- &C, 

 £ = lixS + V x'y -\- &c, 



e = &c. &c. 



then this feries is called a recurring feries ; and (n -f » -f- 



&c. Dc Moivrc calls the fcale of relation, which is faid to 



be of one, two, three, &c. terms, according to the number of 



3 Z 2 multipliers 



