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fame appellation ; and that, therefore, the cure of difeafcs 

 is not to be cffedicd by applying a certain^ remedy to a 

 certain tlifeale nominally the famt, but only by llrll afoer- 

 iHining the laws of the living body, and of its various 

 organs, both in a Hate of healtli and of difeafe : in 

 other words, the proper application of remedies can only 

 be learned by much obfervation of difeafes, after a previous 

 :1udy of the anatomy and ptiyliology of the animal frame. 



Kemudiks ytppeiiikJ. See Ai'PENSA. 



Remedy for ihe Majl^r of the Mint, in Coinage, denotes 

 a certam allow;mce for deviation from the Itandard weight 

 and finenefs of coins. In fomc places the remedy is al- 

 lowed in the weight, in others in the linenefs ; but moftly 

 in both weight and finenefs. It ia confidered generally as 

 an allowance for the fallibility of workraandiip ; but in 

 fome foreion mints it is made a fource of emolument : and 

 when governments iHiic corns at a rate above their intrinfic 

 value, the profit thus m^ide is called " feignorage." Out 

 of every fifteen pounds of gold coined at the mint in Lon- 

 tJcn (according to the account pubhdied by the learned Mr. 

 Folkes, in his curious tables of Englifh filver coins), fome 

 pieces are taken at random, and depofited in a flrong box, 

 tailed the pix ; at certain intervals, fometimes of one year 

 and fometimes of feveral years, the pix ia opened at Weft- 

 minfter, in the prefence of the lord chancellor, the lords 

 commiflioners of the trcafury, and others ; portions taken 

 from the pieces of each coinage are melted together, and 

 an affay made of the coUeftive mafs by a jury of the gold- 

 fmiths' company. At this trial the mint-mafter is held 

 excufable, though the monies be either too bale, or too 

 light ; provided the imperfeftion and deficiency together 

 are lefs than the fixtii part of a carat, which amounts to 

 forty grains of fine gold on the pound of itandard, or the 

 one hundred and thirty-fecond part of the value. It is 

 faid that this remedy is contained within as narrow limit?, 

 as any w^orkers can reafouably be fuppofed to make them- 

 felves anfvverable for. The remedy, for filver coins is two 

 pennyweights in the pound. If the deficiency or excefs of 

 the coin (hould be more than this, either in the weight, 

 or in the finenefs, or in both together, the money mull be 

 recoined at the expence of the mailer of the mint ; and no 

 allowance is made for remedy unlefs the error is fuppofed 

 to have cafually happened. 



REMEE, in Geography, a town of Bengal; i6 miles 

 S. of Koonda. 



REMEMBRANCE, is when the idea of fomething 

 formerly known recurs again to the mind, without the ope- 

 ration of a like objed. on tlie external fenfory. See Me- 

 MoriY, Reminiscence, and Recollection. 



REMEMBRANCERS cf the Exchequer, are two of- 

 fleers, or clerks, therein, formerly called clerks of the remem- 

 biance. 



They are now diftiiiguilhed by the appellations of the 

 hin'^'s remembrancer, and the hril treafurer's remembrancer. 

 There is alfo another officer, called the remembrancer nf frji- 

 fniils. Their bufinefs is to put the lord_ treafurer and 

 "iullices of the court in remembrance of fuch \hings as are 

 to be called upon, and dealt in for the king's benefit. 



Remembrancer, The King's, enters into his office all 

 recoo-nizances taken there before the barons, for any of 

 the king's debts ; for appearance ■ cr for obferving orders ; 

 and makes out procefs againil the coUeftors of cuftoms, fub- 

 iidies, excife, and other public payments, for their accounts. 

 All informations upon penal ftatutes are entered in this 

 office ; and there all matters upon Englifh bills in the ex- 

 uhequer-chamber remain. He makes the bills of compofi- 

 tion upon penal laws ; takes the llatement of debts j has 



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delivered into his office all manner of indentures, fines, and 

 other evidences whatfoever that concern the affuring of any 

 lands to the crown : he every year, in craflino /^n'rmarun?, 

 reads, in open coort, the ftatute for election of fheriffs, and 

 gives them their oath, and reads the oath of all the officers 

 of the exchequer, where they are admitted. 



Remembuancer, The Lord Treafurer's, is charged to 

 make procefs againfl all fheriffs, efcheators, receivers, and 

 bailiffs, for their account ; precefs of fieri facias, extent for 

 any debts due to the king, either in the pipe, or with the 

 auditors ; and procefs for all fuch revenues as are due to 

 the king, by reafon of his tenures. He alfo makes record, 

 by which it appears, whether flierifts, or other account- 

 ants, pay their proffers due at Eafler and Michaelmas. He 

 makes another record, whether IhcrifTs, or other accountants, 

 keep their days of prcfixion : all eilreats or fines, iffues, 

 and amerciaments, fet in any of the courts of Weflminfter, 

 or at the affixes or feffions, are certified into his office, 

 and arc by him delivered to the clerk of the eflreats to 

 write procefs upon them, &c. 



Re.membrancer of the Firjl Fruits, he who takes 

 all compofitions and bonds for firll fruits and tenths ; 

 and makes procefs againil fuch as do not pay the 

 fame. 



Rememivrancer is alfo the title of an oflicer in the city 

 of London, who is to attend the lord mayor on certain davi, 

 and whofe bufinefs is to remind his lordfhip of the fek-ft 

 days, when he is to go abroad with the aldermen, &c. 

 He is to attend daily at the parliament-houfc during the 

 feffions, and to report to the lord mayor their tranfaftions. 



REMI, St., in Biography, archbifhop of Rheims, who 

 converted Clovis to Chriflianity, and baptized that monarch. 

 He died about the year 535. There are lome letters which 

 pafs under his name, but they are of a very doubtful autho- 

 rity. There was another faint of this name, or, as he is 

 fometimes flyled, Remigius, who was archbifhop of Lyons, 

 and prefided in the council of Valentia in 855. He was 

 a fleady fupporter of the dodtrine of St. Augufline, on 

 grace and prcdellination, in feveral works that are now 

 extant. He died in 875. 



Remi, Joseph Honore, an advocate in the parliament 

 of Paris, was born in 1738. At the age of eight he loft his 

 fight, and it was believed irrecoverably, by the fmall-pox j 

 but when he had attained the age of fourteen he was in 

 the enjoyment of his eyes. He was author of a burlefque 

 poem, entitled " Days," in oppofition to Young's Night 

 Thoughts ; but his principal work is an eloge on the 

 chancellor de L'Hopital, which was crowned by the 

 French academy in 1777, and cenfured by the Sorbonne. 

 He alfo wrote the eloges of Moliere, Colbert, and Fenelon, 

 and furnifhed the articles relating to jurifprudence for the ' 

 French Encycloptcdia. He died in the year 1782. 



Remi of Auxerre. See Remigiuf. 



Remi, Order of St., or of the Holy Vial, an order of 

 knighthood in France, which, according to the moft ap- 

 proved hiilorians of that kingdom, was inftituted by Clovis, 

 king of France, in the year 499. The reigning king of 

 France is always fovereign of this order, and the knights 

 companions are never more than four ; nor is it ever con- 

 ferred on any perfons but the barons, Terrier, Belel^re, 

 Veneflre, and Louverfe, who ftile themfelves baron knights- 

 of the Holy Vial, and are the bearers of the canopy under 

 which the vial is carried from the abbey of St. Remi to the 

 cathedral of Rheims, for the inauguration of the kings of 

 France at their coronations. The badge of this order, 

 which is worn pendant to a black ribbon, is " 3 crofsof gold, 

 enamelled white, cantoaed with four fleur-de-lis ; on the 



ciofs. 



