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very iinporuuit iirnl vvain» debate between Lewis XIV. uiid 

 pope Innocent XI. which began about the year 1678, and 

 was carried on with great animofity and contention for 

 feveral years after. Lewis was defirous, that nil the churches 

 in his dominion fhould be fubjedt to the regale. Innocent 

 pretended, on the contrary, that his claim could not be 

 granted with fuch univerfality ; nor would he confent to 

 any augmentation of the prerogatives of tiiis nature that 

 had formerly been enjoyed by the kings of France. Lewis 

 fummoned, for fettling this difputc, the famous aflembly of 

 thirty-five bilhops, and as many deputies of the fccond 

 order, which met at Paris in the year 1682, and which ex- 

 tended the regale to all the churches in France, without 

 exception. In this convocation the ancient doftrine of the 

 Galilean church, that declares the pov/er of the pope to 

 be merely fpiritual, and alfo inferior to that of a general 

 council, was drawn up in four propolitions, which were 

 folemnly adopted by the whole aflembly, and were pro- 

 pofed to the whole body of the clergy, and to all the uni- 

 verfities through the kingdom, as a facred and inviolable 

 rule of faith. 



Regale, Regalia, a magnificent treat, or entertainment, 

 given to ambaffadors, or other perfons of diftinftion, to en- 

 tertain or do them honour. 



In Italy it is ufual at the arrival of any traveller of emi- 

 nence, to fend him a regale, that is, a prefent of fruits, 

 fweetmeats, &c. by way of refrefhment. 



REGALIA, in Law, the royal rights or prerogatives 

 of a king. 



Thefe are reckoned by civilians to be fix. i. Power of 

 judicature. 2. Power of life and death. 3. Power of 

 war and peace. 4. Maderlefs goods, as waifs, eftraye, Sec. 

 5. Affefl'ments. 6. Minting of money. 



Regalia is alfo ufed for the feveral parts of the appa- 

 ratus of a coronation : as the crown, the fceptre with the 

 crofs, fceptre with the dove, St. Edward's itaff, four feveral 

 fwords, the globe, and the orb with the crofs, &c. ufed at 

 the coronation of our kings. 



Regalia of the Church, are thofe rights and privileges 

 which cathedrals, &c. enjoy by grants, and other concef- 

 fions of kings. 



Regalia is fometimes alfo ufed for the patrimony of a 

 church ; as, regalia Sanili Petri. And more particularly, 

 for fuch lands and hereditaments as have been given by 

 kings to tke church. 



" Csepimus in manure noftram baroniam et regaha quae 

 archiepifcopus Eborum de nobis tenet." Pryn. Lib. Ang. 

 Thefe regalia, while in pofleiTion of the church, were 

 fubjeft to the fame fervices as all other temporal inherit- 

 ances ; and after the death of the bi(hop they reverted to 

 the king, till he mvefted another with them ; which, in the 

 reigns of William the Conqueror, and fome of his imme- 

 diate fueceflqrs, was frequently delayed, and as oft did 

 the bifhops make complaint of it, as appears from Malmf- 

 bury, Neubrigenfis, &c. 



This lafl author fays, that great complaint was made 

 againft Henry II. " Quod epifcopatus vacantes, et pro- 

 renientia perciperet commoda, diu vacare voluit, et eccle- 

 fiafticis potius ufibus applicanda in fifcum redegit." 



Regalia Facere is ufed for the bifhop's doing homage, 

 or fealty, to the king, when he is inveiled with the regaha. 

 Thus Malmftury, in Anfelm : " Regalia pro more iltius 

 temporis faciens principi vii. kalend. Oftobris Cantuaris 

 affedit." 



REGALITIES. See Royalties. 

 REGAN, in Geography, a town of Perfia, in the pro- 

 vince of Kerraaiij and diftrid of Nurmanlheer, on the 



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frcjnlier of KeiiiiiiM to the eall, whicli chili ici ib about 90 

 miles in length, and in breadth from 30 to 80. Thit dif 

 u'iGl is bonnded on the N. and S. by a range of mountains, 

 thofe to the S. being covered with fuow during the greater 

 part of the year. The foil is fertile, the diflrift populouo, 

 and well watered by llreams from the mountains, and the 

 climate hot in the plain, but cold on the mountains. The 

 Afghans were lately expelled from this dillriA by the Per- 

 fians, who invited diffeiient tribes of Balouches to occupy 

 the deferted villages. 



Regan is a neat little town, furrounded by a mud wall, 

 within which the cattle of the inhabitants are driven every 

 night for pioteftion. The fort is quadrangular, the walk 

 high and in good repair, and flanked with baftions; with 

 one gate, conltantly guarded for preventing the entrance of 

 ftrangers. The capital of Nurmanfiieer is Krook, which is 

 the refidence of the governor, and built in the. fame ftyle 

 as Regan, but larger, and furrounded by a deep ditch. 

 Before the expulfion of the Afghans, a city, called Bumm, 

 was confidered as tlie frontier town of Perfia in this quarter. 

 This city is ilrongly fortified by a high mud wall, flanked 

 with towers, furrounded by a deep and broad dry ditch, 

 with one gate ; and it has a bazar tolerably fupphed with 

 dates, milk, and fruit. The ruins of Bumm teflify that 

 it was formerly of much greater extent than it is at prefent. 

 The fountains are faid to have thrown water to an amazing 

 height, and the gardens, which appear to have been walled 

 in, and adorned with elegant fummer-houfes, produce the 

 moft delicious pomegranates. Kinneir's Geog. Memoir of 

 the Perfian Empire, 18 13. 



REGARD of the Forefl, the overfight, or infpeftion, 

 of it ; or the office and province of the regarder ; which 

 is, to go through the whole foreft, and every bailiwick 

 of It, before the holding of the feflions of the foreft, or 

 juftice-feat, to fee and enquire of the trefpafles in it, and 

 for the furvey of dogs. A court for this purpofe is to 

 be holden every third year. See Expeditation, and 

 Forest. 



" Ad vivendum, ad inquirendum, ad certificandum, &c." 

 See Regarder. 



Regard is alfo ufed for the extent of the regarder's 

 charge, i. e. for the whole foreft ; or all the ground that 

 is parcel of it. 



REGARDANT, in Heraldry, is underftood of a lion, 

 or other beaft of prey, borne in a pofture of looking be- 

 hind him, with his face towards his tail. 



Others apply it to a beaft, which only fhews the head, 

 and fome part of the neck, as moving from out of fome 

 divifion of the coat into another. He bears azure, three 

 bends, or, in a chief, argent, charged with a lion regardant, 

 gules. 



Regardant Villain, or Regardant to the Manor, de- 

 notes an ancient fervant or retainer to the lord ; thus called, 

 becaufe charged to do all bafe fervices within the manor, 

 to fee the fame freed of all filthy and loathfome tilings 

 that might annoy it, &c. Coke upon Littleton, fol. 1 20. 



REGARDER o/"a Forefl, Regardator Forefltt, an ancient 

 officer of the king's foreft, whofe bufinefs was every year, 

 upon oath, to make a regard, i. e. to take a view of the 

 forell limits ; alfo to enquire of all offences and defaults 

 committed by the forefters within the foreft, and of all 

 the concealments of them ; and whether all the other officers 

 did execute their refpecftive duties or not. 



Manwood refers this inftitution to king Henry IL but 

 Spelman thinks the name, at leaft, was given fince ; and 

 that they were the fame with thofe officers called cuftodes 

 venation'ts. 



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