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kneeled down, kiffed it, and prayed witk great fervour. 

 A fermon was now preached, at the conclufion of which he 

 was afked to recant ; but he refufed, and with a fteadtaft 

 voice eried out, " May God's will be done." He was 

 tUen dripped to his fhirt, and fattened by an iron chain to 

 the fame ftake with bifhop Latimer. Every thing being 

 ready, a kindled faggot was laid at Ridley's feet, who, 

 when he faw the fire flaming up towards him, with a loud 

 voice commended his foul to God. Latimer's fufferings 

 were foon at an end, but Ridley endured the agonies of 

 dying a much longer time, till they were terminated by the 

 explofion of a bag of gunpowder, which had been fufpended 

 from his neck : after this he difcovered no figns of life. 

 Such was the end erf bifhop Ridley, who was unquellion- 

 ably one of the moil eminent inflruments in promoting the 

 caufe of the reformation. In private life he was a pattern 

 of all the virtues. His temper was excellent ; his manners 

 very affable and agreeable ; and of the benevolence of his 

 heart he gave abundant proofs, in his extraordinary libe- 

 rality to the poor. He was unqueftionably a man of great 

 learning, and was author of a number of works. Many of 

 his letters have been published by Fox, iu his " Acts and 

 Monuments ;" and may likewife be feen in Glolter's Life 

 of Bifhop Ridley, to which, to Wood's Athen., and Neal's 

 Hill, of the Puritans, our readers are referred. 



Ridley, Sir Thomas, a learned civilian, of the fame 

 family as the preceding, was born at Ely, and educated 

 firfl at Eton, and then at King's-college, Cambridge. He 

 afterwards became a matter in chancery, and vicar-general 

 to the archbifhop of Canterbury. He died in 162S, and 

 was author of " A View of Civil and Ecclefiaftical 

 Law." 



Ridley, Gloster, of the fame family with the pre- 

 ceding, was born in 1702, on board the Glouceiter Eaft 

 Indiaman, whence he derived his name. He was educated 

 in fchool-learning at Winchefler ; from which place he was re- 

 moved to New-college, Oxford, where he laid the foundation 

 for thofe acquirements, by which he was afterwards diftin- 

 guifhed as a poet, hiitorian, and divine. He obtained fome 

 preferment in the church; and in 1740 and 1742 he 

 preached eight fermons at lady Moyer's lecture, which were 

 publifhed. In 1763 he publifhed the ''Life of Bifhop 

 Ridley," to which we have referred ; and fhortly after, 

 " A Review of Philips's Life of Cardinal Pole." In re- 

 ward for his labours in this controverfy, and in another which 

 Mr. Archdeacon Blackburn's Confeffional produced, he was 

 prefented by Seeker to a golden prebend at Salifbury. He 

 died in 1774, leaving a widow and four daughters, one of 

 whom, Mrs. Evans, publifhed feveral novels. In the latter 

 part of his life he loft two fons, young men of confiderable 

 talents. The elder, James, was author of " The Tales of 

 the Genii ;" a humorous paper, called " The Schemer," 

 afterwards collected into a volume ; " The Hiftory of James 

 Lovegrove," and feveral other literary pieces. Two poems 

 by Dr. Ridley, one ityled " Jovi Eleutherio, or an Offering 

 to Liberty ;" and the other entitled " Pfyche," were 

 printed in Dodiley's Collection. " Melampus," the fequel 

 of the latter, was printed by fubfcription. His tranfeript 

 of the Syriac Gofpels was publifhed with a Latin tranfla- 

 tion, by profefl'or White, in 2 vols. 4to. Gen. Biog. 



Ridley, in Geography, a townfhip of America, in Dela- 

 ware oounty, Pennfylvania, containing 991 inhabitants. 



RIDOLLY, a town of Hindooftan, in the fubah of 

 Agra ; 35 miles S. of Agra. 



RIDZIN. See Reussin. 



RIE, in Rural Economy, a provincial term, applied to 

 the operation of turning grain in a fieve, fo as to bring the 



capes into an eddy at the top. It is performed by a parti- 

 cular kind of circular motion. 



RIEBACH, in Geography, a town of Germany, in the 

 county of Hohenloe ; 7 miles S.S.E. of Wt-ichenfheim. 



RIEBECK-CASTEEL, or the cattle or Van Riebeck, 

 one of the divifions in the diftridl of Stellenbofch and Draken- 

 ftein, in the Cape diftrift, Southern Africa, which may be 

 confidered as a prolongation of the Paardeherg (which fee), 

 terminating to the northward in a high rocky fummit. It 

 took its name from the founder of the colony having tra- 

 velled to this diftance from the Cape, which is about 60 

 miles, arid which, in that early period of the fettlement, 

 was as far as it was confidered fafe to proceed, on account 

 of the numerous natives, whofe race has now almoft difap- 

 peared from the face of the earth. The produce is the fame 

 as that of Paardeberg, in both which there are as many 

 corn-farms as freehold eftates. 



RIEBEN, a town of Brandenburg, in the Middle Mark : 



3 miles S. of Belitz. 



RIECHENAU, a town of the country of the Grifons ; 

 9 miles S.S.W. of Coire. 



RIED, a town of Bavaria; 18 miles S. of PafTau. — 

 Alfo, a town of Bavaria, in the principality of Aichftatt ; 



4 miles S.E. of Harrieden. 



RIEDEN, a town of Germany, belonging to Anfpach, 

 infulated in the principality of Culmbach ; 22 miles N. of 

 Anfpach. — Alfo, a town of Bavaria, in the Upper Pala- 

 tinate ; 9 miles S. of .Amberg. 



RIEDENBURG, a town of the bifhopric of PafTau, on 

 the Inn; 12 miles S.S.W. of Paffau. — Alfo, a town of 

 Bavaria, on the Altmuhl ; 17 miles N.E. of Ingolftadt. 



RIEDLIN, Vitus, in Biography, a diftinguifhed Ger- 

 man phyfician, was born at Ulm in March, 1656, where 

 many of his anceftors had pra&ifed the fame profeffion with 

 confiderable repute. He obtained his early education prin- 

 cipally at his native city, and terminated his ftudies by going 

 to Tuningeu in 1674, where he made great acquifition, 

 during a refidfiHce of two years, and afterwards into Italy ; 

 and he graduated at Padua, about the end of the year 1676. 

 He wifhed to have refided longer at this diftinguifned uni- 

 versity ; but his father having died in his boyhood, he was 

 unable to procure the necefTary means, and therefore he re- 

 turned to Ulm in the following year. In 1679 he was 

 elected a member of the college of phyficians at Augfburg, 

 where he fettled, and obtained a confiderable fhare of prac- 

 tice among the firft people ; but on the prefiing folicitations 

 of his countrymen, he returned to Ulm in 1704, and re- 

 mained there, in the enjoyment of extenfive repntation, till 

 his death, which took place in 1724. His principal work is 

 entitled " Lineae Medicae, continentes Obfervationes, Hif- 

 torias, Experimenta, Cauteles, Sec. a Menfe Januario 1695 

 ad Menfem Junium 1700," in ten fmall volumes. It is a 

 fort of journal, in which he not only recorded his own ob- 

 fervations, but thofe of others. It does not, however, com- 

 mend itfelf by much originality or good method. Eloy 

 Difl. Hift. 



RIEDLINGEN, in Geography, a town of Wurtem- 

 berg ; 27 miles S.W. of Ulm. N. lat. 48° 1 1\ E. lon°-. 



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RIEFF. See Riya. 



RIEGEL, Henry Joseph, in Biography, a mufician 

 born at Wertheim, in Franconia, in 1741. M. Laborde 

 does him the honour to call him a French compofer. He 

 fludied mufic under Jomelli, at Stutgard, and was recom- 

 mended by Richter to complete the mufical education of a 

 young lady of rank in France ; which having finifhed, he 

 eftablifhed himfelf at Paris in 1765. His paffion for the 



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