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portage of n miles to lake Ontario. It difcharges itfelf 

 by the river Trent, into the head of the bay of Cjuintc. 



RICEBO ROUGH, a town of America, in Liberty 

 county, Georgia, In- the county courts are held. r I'he 

 county contains 6228 inhabitants. 



RICERCARE, Ital. tofeek; whence rkercata, a re- 

 search, a flourilh, a prelude, an impromptu, a voluntary. 

 See' Research. 



RICEYS, Lks, in Gibgraphy, a town of France, in the 

 department of the Aube, and chief place of a canton, in the 

 dillricl of Bar-fur-Seine ; 6, 7, and 8 miles S. of Bar-fur- 

 Seine. The place contains 3842, and the canton 7875 in- 

 habitants, on a territory of 167^ kiliometres, in 8 com- 

 munes. 



RICH, Cai'L, a cape on the weft fide of Newfoundland, 

 towards the north end, and is the N.E. part of the gulf of 

 St. Lawrence, having the ifle of St. John, and fome other 

 fmall ides, to the N. This cape was the boundary of the 

 French privilege of fifhing, which extended from hence 

 northward, and round to cape Bonavilla. 



Rich Inlet, a narrow channel between two fmall iflands 

 near the coatt of North Carolina. N. lat. 34° 14'. W. 

 long. 77 52'. 



RICHARD of St. Fiaor, in Biography, a celebrated 

 divine and fcripture commentator in the 12th century, was 

 a native of Scotland, who went to purfue his ftudies at the 

 univerfity of Paris. Here he entered among the canons 

 regular of St. Auguftine, at the abbey of St. Victor, and 

 became a pupil of the famous Hugh, who, like him, de- 

 rived his furname from the fame houfe. Uader this mailer 

 heafliduouny ftudied the feveral branches of fcience, as far 

 as they were then known, particularly theological and 

 biblical literature ; and he acquired great reputation by his 

 proficiency, as well as the friendfhip of the moil eminent 

 in that teat of learning. In 1164 he was elected prior 

 of his monailery, where he died, in the year 1173, equally 

 refpected for his virtues as for his learned attainments. His 

 critical pieces are very accurate for the time in which he 

 lived. His ftyle, however, is not very elevated ; on which 

 nit his pious treatifes, though abounding in excellent 

 matter, are greatly deficient in weight and energy. His 

 works confilt of critical obfervations and remarks on fome 

 of the hiftorica] parts of the Old Teftament, relating to 

 the tabernacle and the temple of Solomon ; allegorical and 

 moral " Commentaries" on feveral of the Pfalms, the Song 

 of Songs, and the Apocalypfe ; queilions on certain dif- 

 : ' pailages of St. Paul's epiftles, and other parts of the 

 lible; and numerous critical, doctrinal, and practical 

 ifes. The whole have been frequently printed in a col- 

 ■ <• form ; and the belt edition is faid to be that of 

 Rouen, in i'iJO, in 2 vols, folio. 



RlCHARD 1., king of England, furnamed Caitr de Lion, 

 ton ot Henry II. by Eleanor Guienne, was born in the 

 I 1157. A* fecond fon he was mvetted in the duchy 

 of Guienne, and county of Poitou. In 1 173 he united 

 with his brothers, Henry and Geoffrey, in a rebellion againlt 

 his father, which was loon quelled, and forgiven by the 

 reigning monarch. Richard was now fent to Poitou to 

 reduce (ome revolted barons, where lie dilplayed that martial 

 ipirit lor which he was afterwards celebrated, and on account 



■ A which he obtained his furname. Refuting to pav homage 

 lor the duchy of Aquitainc to his elder brother Henry, a 

 war broke out between them in France, which their father 

 found great difficulty in terminating. Henry foon after 

 this died, and Richard, being now heir apparent, was re- 

 quired to rcfign Aquitaine to his youtigeit brother, John. 

 This lie retufed, and new wars enfued. In 1 180, he joined 



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Philip Auguflus, king of France, againll his own father, 

 and did homage to the French king 1 poffeflions 



which he held on the continent. A war was the confe- 

 quence of this unnatural junction, in which Henry was 

 haraifed and worn out by Richard, while he found him- 

 felf abandoned by his youngelt fon John. Henry died in 

 July of the fame year, and was fu'eceeded in his throne by 

 the Subject of this article. He is faid to have vifited his 

 father's corpfe on the day after his deceafe, and exprefling 

 great remorfe for his pad behaviour, charged himfelf with 

 being his murderer. Richard was crowned at Weltminlter, 

 received into his confidence the faithful fervants of the late 

 king, and discountenanced all thofe who had been abettors 

 in his own rebellion. He fet at liberty his mothei, queen 

 Eleanor, who had long been in a ttate of confinement, and 

 endeavoured to conciliate the affection of his brother John 

 by grants of great extent in England and France. Richard, 

 while prince, had taken tiie crofs along with his father ; and 

 now he had come to the crown, he was determined to give 

 fcope to his martial talents in the Eaft. Having made the 

 requifite preparations, he, in 1 190, had an interview with 

 Philip of France, who had alfo taken the crofs, at which, 

 mutual conditions were agreed upon refpecting their co- 

 operation in the expedition, and the peace of the kingdoms 

 during their abfence. As a prelude to their enterprize, 

 which, according to the opinion of the times, was regarded 

 as extremely pious in its object and motives, Richard and 

 his nobles, who had embarked in the fame caufe, exercifed 

 their zeal in a horrible maffacre and pillage of the Jews in 

 feveral of the principal towns, which was ended by a bon- 

 fire of the bonds which the Chriilians had entered into 

 with this much injured people. 



About the middle of the year, the kings of England and 

 France muttered their forces, which amounted to 100,000 

 men in arms, in the plains of Vefelay, on the borders of 

 Burgundy. Richard then proceeded to Marfeilles for 

 embarkation, and in September the two monarchs met at 

 Medina, where they (pent the winter, in the courle of 

 which, diffentions arofe that were nearly breaking out into 

 open hollilities, but which ended in a new treaty, in which 

 all differences were for the prefent adjulted. Richard had 

 long been under engagements to marry Adelais, Philip's 

 fitter ; but an attachment which he had formed to Beren- 

 garia, daughter of Sanchez, king of Navarre, together 

 with fome mifconduct of the French princefs, induced him 

 to break the contract, in which it appears that Philip 

 acquiefced. Eleanor arrived at Medina with Berengaria [ 

 but Richard) without waiting to celebrate his nuptials, fet 

 fail in April, 1191, with his Heet, which was foon difperfed 

 by a ttorm. The king failed into Crete ; but three of his 

 (hips, with his intended bride, and his filler, the queen of 

 Sicily, on board, were (trended on the coaft of Cyprus. 

 The king of that ifland treated the unfortunate crews and 

 the princefles with great rigour, in 1 ir which 



inlult, Richard landed his army in the ifland, defeated the 

 inhabitants in two battles, and reduced the king to the fur- 

 render ol himfelfj his only daughter, and his Sovereignty. 

 In this ifland he conlummated In; marriage with Beren- 

 garia, and then embarked for Paleftine. 



The liege ot Acre, celebrated likewife in modern timi 

 which hail been commenced two years before, was Hill 



carrying on by the relics ol the emperor Frederic's army, 

 with the other Chnllian adventurers who had at different 



times joined the banners of the crofs, while it was ob- 

 llinately defended by a numerous Saracen garrifon, fup- 

 ported by Saladin at tin- lie.nl of a powerful hoil in the 

 field. The anival of the two kim s ipfufed new vigom 



