ROC 



RoccA di Neto, a town of Naples, in Calabria Citra ; 

 four miles S.S.W. of Strongoli. 



ROCCA del Omjle, or Wejl Rock, a rocky iflet among the 

 Canaries ; fix miles S.W. of Alegranza. 



Rocca Romana, a town of Naples, in Lavora ; fix miles 

 N. of Capua. 



Rocca Valli Ofcura, a town of Naples, in Abruzzo 

 Citra; five miles S. of Sulmona. 



Rocca Vecchia, a town of Naples, in Lavora ; 14 miles 

 N.E. of Sezza. 



Rocca Voltraia, a town of Etruria ; three miles N.E. 

 of Voltcrra. 



ROCCABIANCA, a town of the duchy of Parma ; 

 15 miles N.N.W. of Parma. 



ROCCAB1LIERE, a town of France, in the depart- 

 ment of the Maritime Alps, and chief place of a canton, 

 in the diftrict of Nice. The place contains 1 143, and the 

 canton 3631 inhabitants,--*!! a territory of 455 kiliometres, 

 in five communes. 



ROCCALANA, a town of Italy, in the country of 

 Friuli ; 16 miles N.N.W. of Friuli. 



ROCCARION, a town of France, in the department 

 of the Stura ; four miles S.W. of Coni. 



ROCCELLA, in Botany, an Italian name for that fpecies 

 of Lichen, known to our dyers under the appellation ot 

 Argol, or Orchall ; for which, in dyeing red or purple, the 

 Scottifh Lichen iarlarcus is but an inadequate fubftitute, 

 the colours it affords being far lefs permanent. See Lichen, 

 feci. 8. n. 115. 



ROCCO Rodio, in Biography, an ancient Neapolitan 

 contrapuntiil and writer on mufic. Padre Martini (Hor. 

 della Muf. vol. i. p. 447.) places Rocco Rodio at the head 

 of the Neapolitan fchool, after Tinctor. But it is difficult 

 to afcertain the exaft period when Rocco Rodio fiourifhed. 

 We have, however, been fo fortunate as to find an edition 

 of his precepts, to which P. Martini alludes, that was 

 printed at Naples 1 609 ; but this date tells us nothing, as 

 the work had certainly appeared much earlier in another form. 

 Battifta Olifante, the editor of this edition, feems not to 

 give the rules of Rocco Rodio in his own words, but expla- 

 nations of the doctrines and examples he had left. If this 

 expofition of the rules eftablifhed by Rocco Rodio was 

 written bv himfelf, he mult have fiourifhed late in the fix- 

 teenth century : as Adriano Willaert and CipWano Rore are 

 both mentioned in the text : and both thefe mafters were 

 living after the year 1550. The full title is the following : 

 " Regole di Mufica di Rocco Rodio, fotto breviffime rifpolte 

 ad alcuni dubij propoltogli da un Cavaliero, intorno alle varie 

 opinioni de Contrapontilti. Con la Dimoftratione di tutti i 

 Canoni fopra il Canto-fermo, con li Contraponti doppij, e 

 rivoltati, e loro regole. Aggiontavi un' altra breve Dimo- 

 ftratione de dodici Tuoni regolari, finti e trafportati. Et di 

 nuovo da Don Batt. Olifante, Aggiontivi un Trattato di 

 Proportioni neceffario, a detto Libro, e riftampato. In 

 Napoli, MDVIIII." 



The rules and examples for compofing canons of all 

 kinds are remarkably fhort and clear in this traft, which is 

 fo fcarce, that we have never feen it in any public library or 

 catalogue of books ; and P. Martini, who mentions the 

 work, feems never to have been in pofl'efiion of it. Our 

 copy was purchafed at the fale of the late Mr. Behvav's 

 collection of mufic, the admirable organift of St. Martin's 

 church. 



Rocco, in Geography, a town of the Ligurian republic ; 

 II miles S.E. of G 



ROCELLA, a town of Naples, on the coaft of Calabria 



ROC 



Citra, near which is a celebrated coral fifhery ; 10 miles N.E. 

 of Giarau. 



ROCH, Cape, a cape on the E. coaft of Majorca. N. 

 lat. 39 40'. E. long. 3 5'. 



ROCHDALE, a market -town and parifh in the hundred 

 of Salford, and county of Lancafter, England, is fituated 

 in a valley watered by the river Roch, at the diftance of 46 

 miles S.E. from Lancafter, and 197 N.N.W. from London. 

 In the town, befides the parifh church, there are places of 

 worfilip for Prefbyterians, Baptiits, and Methodifts. Here is 

 a free grammar -fchool, founded by archbifhop Parker, alfo an 

 Englilh free-fchool, erected and endowed by Mrs. Hardman, 

 and feveral Sunday-fchools. The market days are Monday 

 and Saturday ; and there are fairs annually on the 14th of 

 May, Whit-Tuefday, and the 7th of November. The 

 petty feflions for Rochdale and Middleton divilion of the 

 hundred of Salford are holden here. This town is fituated 

 in three townfhips, viz. Caftleton, Spotland, and Wardle- 

 worth. The largeft portion of it is within Wardleworth. 

 The parifii is of great extent, and is divided in feven diftricts, 

 or townfhips, viz. Blackenworth, Butterworth, Todmorton, 

 Wtierdale, and the three townfhips above-mentioned, all of 

 which maintain their poor feparately. According to the 

 late parliamentarv returns, thefe united diltridts contained 

 6552 houfes, and 37,224 inhabitants. The vicarage here is 

 fuperior in value to any other living of a fimilar defcription 

 in the kingdom. In the reign of Henry VIII. it was rated 

 as low as 11/. 4*. <)\d., but it has fince increafed to nearly a 

 hundred and fifty times that amount. It is in the gift of 

 the archbifhop of Canterbury, to whom the tithes belong, 

 which are let for a term of years. Nine chapels of eafe are 

 attached to the church of Rochdale, viz. St. Mary's in the 

 town, Littleborough, Milnrow, Todmorton, Whitworth, 

 Friermeer, Lydgate, Saddleworth, and Dobcrofs : moft of 

 which are in the patronage of the vicar. Rochdale parifh 

 is rich in the mineral produces of flate, iione, and coal. It 

 is alfo, and has long been, diltinguifhed for its trade. A 

 branch of the woollen manufacture is its ftaple, of which 

 the chief articles are bays, flannels, coatings, and broad 

 cloths ; but there is likewife a confiderable cotton trade 

 carried on both in the town and its vicinity. In the town- 

 fhip of Whitworth formerly relided Meflrs. John and George 

 Taylor, better known by the name of the Whitworth 

 Doctors. " The fame of thefe ruftic artilts," fays Dr. 

 Aikin, " is almoft equal to that of the celebrated Svrifs 

 doctor mentioned by Mr. Coxe, and has fpread not only 

 over the more immediate neighbourhood, but to remote parts 

 of the kingdom, and even to the metropolis itfelf. They 

 were chiefly noted for fetting broken and difiocated bones, 

 and for the cure of cancerous and other tumours by cauftics, 

 properly termed by themfe'ves keen." Lord Byron, the 

 poet, is lord of the manor of Rochdale, and takes his feat 

 as an Englifh peer under the title of baron Byron of 

 Rochdale. At his court-leet, the officers and conltables 

 for the civil government of the parifh are annually ap- 

 pointed. 



The principal feats in this vicinity are Belfield, which 

 formerly belonged to the Knights Templars ; Foxholes, the 

 refidence of the Entwifle family ; and Studley, long the 

 property of the Holts, a memorable name in this diftrict of 

 the country. The houfe appears to have been erected by 

 Robert Holt, efq. in the reign of Henry VIII. and confifts 

 of a centre and two wings. Whitaker, in his Hiitory of 

 Whalley, defcribes it as containing within " much carving in 

 wood, particularly a rich and beautiful fcreen between the 

 hall and the parlour, with a number of crefts, cyphers, and 



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