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peatedly performed in the prefence of Chriiliana, queen of 

 Sweden, were very much applauded. 



At the Reftoration he was appointed to compofe the 

 mufic that was performed at Guildhall, on the day his 

 majefty and his brothers, the dukes of York and Glouceiter, 

 dined there with the lord mayor, by which he greatly in- 

 creafed his reputation. 



About this time he was chofen organift of Eton college, 

 which he religned foon after, on being invited to Oxford, 

 where he was appointed to the fame office in Magdalen 

 college. And in 1669, upon opening the new theatre in 

 that city, he was created doctor in mufic. He continued, 

 fays Ant. Wood, in the univerfity, where he was much 

 efteemed, till the year 1685, when he was ejected, in com- 

 pany with the fellows of his college, by king James II. 

 after which he long refided in the fkirts of the town, 

 wholly difregarded. 



" His compoiitions for initruments," fays Ant. Wood, 

 " whether in two, three, or four parts, have been highly 

 valued, and were thirty years ago always firft called for, 

 taken out and played as well in the public mufic fchools, 

 as in private chambers : and Dr. Wilfon, the profeffor, (the 

 greatell and moll curious judge of mufic that ever was,) 

 ufually wept when he heard them well performed, as being 

 wrapt up in an ecftaey ; or, if you will, melted down : 

 while others fmiled, or had their hands and eyes lifted up, 

 at the excellence of them." 



It is to be feared, that inftead of -weeping, the wicked 

 lovers of modern mufic would now laugh, if they were to 

 hear the quaint and itarched {trains, and fee on paper the 

 ruffs and roll-ups of honett Ben. Rogers at the Opera-houfe, 

 or profeffional concert, Hanover-fquare. But, alas ! what 

 is the fecular mufic, that thirty years have not wrinkled, 

 withered, and rendered fuperannuated ! 



Rogers'* Point, in Geography, a cape on the W. fide of 

 lake Huron. N. lat. 44 19'. W. long. 82 45'. 



ROGERSVILLE, the chief town of Hawkins county, 

 in the ftate of TeneiTee, pleafantly fituated in Carter's val- 

 ley, with a profpeft agreeably variegated by fome round 

 hills at a diflance. It contains about 20 dwelling-houfes, 

 fome public buildings, ftores, Sec. It has a number of 

 perennial fprings, and one above the level of the ftrects. 



ROGETS, a town of the duchy of Magdeburg, at 

 the conflux of the Oura and Elbe ; 16 miles N. of Magde- 

 burg. 



ROGGENDORF, a town of Auftria; 8 miles W. of 

 Aggfpach. 



ROGGEWELD, a tranfmontane divifion of the diltria 

 of Stellenbofeh and Drakenftein, at the Cape of Good 

 Hope, called the Rye-grafs country, and divided into 

 Upper, Middle and Little. Theie are the fummit of a long 

 extended Table mountain, whofe weftern front rifes out of 

 the Karroo plains, behind the Bokkeu eld, ahnolt perpendicu- 

 larly, to the height of two or three thouland feet. Stretch- 

 ing to the eallward, this fummit becomes more broken into 

 inequalities of fnrface, and rifes at length into the mountains 

 of Nieuwcld, the Camdcboo, and the Seeuwbcrg, which 

 may be confidered as one extended chain. The gre.it elevation 

 of the Roggeweld, and its being furrounded by the Karroo 

 plains, make the temperature in winter fo eold, that for four 

 months in the year, the inhabitants are under tin- in c.llity of 

 defcending to the feet of the mountain 1 ;, witli their horfes, 

 cattle, and fheep. The Itrongeil and largefl bred of horfes 

 in the whole colony is that of the Roggeweld. See Nik.l- 



WELD. 



ROGIERS, a town of Fiance, in the department of the 

 Var ; 4miles S.of St. Maximin. 



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ROGLIANO, a town of Naples, in Calabria Citra ; 9 

 miles S.S.E. of Cofenza. — Alfo, a town of the ifland of 

 Corfica ; 2c miles N. of Baltia. 



ROGME, in Surgery, a rupture or fra&urc. 

 ROGNES, in Geography, a town of France, in the de- 

 partment of the Mouths of the Rhone ; 13 miles N.W. of 

 Aix. 



ROGO, an ifland of Sweden, near the E. coaft, in the 

 Baltic. N. lat. 57 53'. E. long. 1 6° 36'. 



ROGONATGUNGE, a town of Bengal ; 30 miles 

 S.W. of Rogonatpour. N. lat. 23 17'. E. long. 86° 21'. 



ROGONATPOUR, a town of Bengal, and capital of 

 the circar of Pachete ; 150 miles S.S.E. of Patna. N. lat. 

 2 3° 33'- E - l°"g- 8 5° 44' — Alfo, a town of Bengal; 31 

 miles S.E. of Kifhenagur. 



' ROGOSNO, a town of the duchy of Warfaw ; 16 miles 

 N. of Pofen. 



ROGO WA, a town of Pruffia, in the palatinate of Culm j 

 7 miles E. of Thorn. 



ROGSTA, a town of Sweden, in Helfingland; 2 miles 

 N.E. of Hudwickwall. 



ROGUE, in Law, an idle and fturdy beggar, who, by 

 ancient ftatutes, for the lirfl offence, is called a rogue of the 

 Jirfl degree, and punilhed by whipping, and boring through 

 the griltle of the right ear, with a hot iron, an inch in com- 

 pafs ; and, for the fecond offence, is called a rogue of the fe- 

 cond degree, and ordered to be put to death as a felon, if he 

 be above eighteen years of age. For the defcription and 

 punilhment of rogues, as they are eilablillied by 17 Geo. II. 

 cap. 5, fee Vagabond. 



Rogues, or Whores' March, in Military Language, a beat 

 of the drum, accompanied by the fifes, when a foldier is 

 drummed out of the regiment, or common proftitutes are 

 drummed out of camp or garrifon. 



Rogues Tarn, a name given to a rope-yarn, which is 

 placed in the middle of every itrand, in all cables and cordage 

 in the king's fervice. It differs from all the relt, as being 

 untarred and twilled in a contrary manner, by which it is 

 eafily dtfeovered. The ufe of this contrivance is to exa- 

 mine whether any cordage, fuppofed to be ftolen or em- 

 bezzled, has been formed for the king's fervice, the poflcllor 

 of which is fubjeel to a heavy tine. Falconer. 



ROGUINS, in Geography, a town of France, in the 

 department of the Rhone and Loire ; 6 miles E. of 

 Roanne. 



ROGUN, a town of European Turkey, in Albania ; 6 

 miles W.N.W. of Arta. 



ROHACZOW, a town of Lithuania, in the palatinate 

 of Minfk, on the Dnieper ; 85 miles S.E. of Minfk. N. lat. 

 52 50'. E. long. 29° 33'. 



ROHALE, a fmall ifland on the W. fide of the gulf of 

 Bothnia, N. lat. 60 37'. E. long. 17°49'. 



ROHAN, Henry, duke of, in Biography, fecond of 

 the name, but one of the firft rank, talents, and character 

 of the French nobility of his time, was born in 1579, at 

 the cattle of Blein, in Britanny. At the age of fix teen he 

 diflmguifhcd himlelf at tlte liege of Amiens, under tin eye 



of Henry IV., to whom he was prefumptive heir, befwi 

 the birth of the dauphin. After the death of Henry, he 

 was at the head of the Calvinift party in France, a llatiou 

 which lie retained during three religious wars again!! the a 1- 

 thorityof Lewis XIII. In the lull, in 1621, In defended 

 Montauban inpeilon: the fiege was raifed, and m the fol- 

 lowing year a favourable peace was ./anted to the Proteft- 

 ants. The war was rekindled in 1625, but was [bon termi- 

 nated by a peace. At length Rich In u ref Ivedentirely to 

 fubdue a party which had become a fort of leparate republic 



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