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o a place in the excife. In 1643 ne t0 °k tne covenant, and 

 ir Thomas Fairfax, to whom he was nearly related, being 

 nude general of the parliamentary forces, appointed Mr. Rufh- 

 jvorth to be his fecretary. In this fituation he was very 

 tealous and active in performing his duties, public and pri- 

 vate. In 1649 he attended Fairfax to Oxford, where he was 

 :reated M. A. as a member of Queen's college. When Fair- 

 fax refigned his comniiffioii, Rufhworth took up his refidence 

 in London, and v. as nominated in 1652, by the houle of 

 ;ommons, one of the commiilioners to reform abufcs in the 

 jommon law. At this time he was engaged in the compila- 

 tion of his " Hiftorical Collections," of which the firit part 

 appeared in 1659, dedicated to Richard Cromwell, at that 

 time Protector. He was at this period member of parliament 

 For Berwick-upon-Tweed. In 1660 he was appointed one 

 d{ the clerks of the new council of date. After the Rcitora- 

 tion, he endeavoured to ingratiate himlelt with Charles II. 

 by prefenting to him feveral books of the privy-council 

 during the former reign, which he had preferved from de- 

 struction, for which, however, he probably received no higher 

 reward than that of thanks. In 1667, fir Orlando Bridge- 

 man, keeper of the great feal, made him his fecretary, when 

 he was again elected representative for Berwick in the par- 

 liament of 1678-9, and the fubfeqtient one held at Oxford. 

 After the dillolwtion of the latter, having always been 

 carelefs of his private aftairs, he fell into neceflitous circum- 

 ftances, and lived in great oblcurity in Weitminiter, affi- 

 duoufly employed in his Collections, of which he publifhed 

 the fecond part in 1 680. He was at length arretted for 

 debt, and committed to the king's bench prifon, where he 

 fpent, in great wretchednefs, the lail fix years of his lite. 

 He died in 1690, at the age of 83. He had feveral daugh- 

 ters, one of whom was married to fir Francis Vane. The 

 " Hiitorical Collections" of this author include private 

 paffages of (late, weighty matters of law, remarkable pro- 

 ceedings in parliament, &C. and they commence in the reign of 

 king James, in the year 161 8, and were brought down to I 740. 

 The third and fourth parts, printed from his MSS., extend to 

 the deatli of Charles I. in 1648-9. The whole was reprinted 

 uniformly in 7 volumes, folio, 111 1721. Ot his Collections, 

 the writer in the Biographia Britamuca fays, all that have 

 written on the Puritan or Prcfbyterian fide have highly ex- 

 tolled, nay almoit idolized them ; fuch as C >ke, Rapin, 

 Oldmixon, &c. Others, on the contrary, who were fa- 

 vourers of king Charles I. and kis caufe, condemn them as 

 extremely partial, and have difcredited them as much as 

 poffible. But the perion who profefledly fet himfelf to op- 

 pofe them was John Nalfon, L.L.D., who publifhed, by 

 command of king Charles II., " An Impartial Collection of 

 the great Affairs of the State, from the Beginning of the 

 Scotch Rebellion in the Year 1639, to the Murder of King 

 Charles 1." &c. Dr. Nalfon did not continue his hiftory 

 lower than January 1641-2. He brings four capital accu- 

 fations agahilt Rulhworch, viz. that he does not inform us 

 whence he had his material , and tin refore that his facts do 

 not itand upon fuffieient authority ; — that he prints falfe and 

 erroneous copies of fome paper ; — that, under the colour of 

 epitomizing others, lie lias not only ohfeured, but, in many 

 places, corrupted and difguifed the fenfe ; — and that he has 

 recorded little but what relates to the justification of Chofc 

 whom he favours, and their proceedings, omitting what 

 might ferve to manifelt the king's innocence. In a com- 

 pilation of fuch extent, it is no wonder there lhoahl !)•■ er- 

 rors, and the writers of the " Parliamentary Hiftory" have 

 taken pains to frame a long lilt ot las miftakes, which is 

 copied in a note to the article RUSUWORTH, in the Biog. 

 Brit. ; they, however, attribute them rather to the negligence 



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and ignorance of tranferibers, than to wilful mifreprefenta- 

 tion. It can, however, fcarcely be expected that a man, 

 writing as he did, fhould be free from partialities, or that his 

 perfonal attachments fhould not enter into his work. Be- 

 fideSi it is certain that the firlt part of his work was fub- 

 mitted to the revifion of Oliver Cromwell, who being 

 too much occupied to examine it himfelf, put it into the hands 

 of Whitelock, under whom it underwent various alterations. 

 Neverthelefs, Mr. Rufhworth profeffes great impartiality and 

 faithfulnefs, affuming that he muftbe in poffeffion of a fuffi- 

 cient degree ot knowledge and information for all the ob- 

 jects he had in view ; and he, moreover, gives himfelf as an 

 inllance, that it is poffible for a man to be of z. party and not 

 partial. The value of the " Hiltorical Collections" arifes 

 from their having preferved together feveral detached pieces, 

 which othcrwiie would have been loft, and from being the 

 fulled compilation during the period of which they treat. 

 Biog. Brit. 



RUSHY Land, in Agriculture, that which is much in- 

 feftedand troubled with the growth cfrufhes upon it. Lands 

 of this nature and quality prevail in many places to very con- 

 fiderable extents, which, when properly reclaimed and ma- 

 naged, conttitute extremely good meadows and paftures. 

 They are alfo, in fome cafes, capable of being broken up 

 and converted to the purpofe of tillage, with great advan- 

 tage. 



In many inftances of this nature, very great benefit has 

 been derived from a thick covering of chalk rubbifh, or the 

 rubbifh of lime-ftone and free-Hone quarries, applied in a 

 considerably reduced or powdery ft ate, after the land had 

 been fufficiently freed from Itagnant water by means of 

 pipe or other kinds of under draining, as fuch heavy mate- 

 rials foon fink in the ground, and by confolidating it are the 

 caufe of bringing up another fort of better plants of the grafs 

 kind. When fuch rufhy lands have once acquired a certain 

 itatc and degree of firmnefs by thefe or any other means, they 

 may be further benefited and improved by rolling, and clofe 

 feeding down with Iheep ftock, which Ihould be confined on 

 particular portions of them, in great numbers, in order to 

 infure the fulleft effect and advantage. 



It is better likewife, where they are capable of it, to let 

 thefe forts of lands remain for fome years in the Hate of 

 pafture, than to bring them directly under the mowing fyf- 

 tem ; as, in that way, they are conllantly advancing to a more 

 lolid and finer liate of herbage, whereas under the contrary 

 practice, they are invariably getting more open, loofe, and 

 coarfe in their produce. See Rusn. 



RUSIBIS Poirrrs, in Ancient Geography, a port of 

 Africa, in Mauritania Tingitana, between the mouth of the 

 river Cofa and that of Afama, according to Ptolemy. It is 

 called Rutubis Partus by Pliny. 



KUSICADA, Sgigata, a town of Africa, according to 



Mela and Ptolemy. It was fituated towards the middle ot 

 the gulf of Numidia, about 30 miles E. of Collops Magnus. 

 In the Itinerary of Antonine, this town i : placed in Mauri- 

 tania C:efarienfi% upon the route from Carthage to Le- 

 ninx, between Chilli Municipiuin and Paratianx. Here are 

 fome remains of antiquity. Its ciftern fei ■■< as a corn ma- 



RUSICIBAR, a town of Africa, 111 Mauritania Cicfari- 

 cntis, between Ruflonium and Medunga, • to Pto- 



lemy. Antonine calls it Rufubbicari, and in the Peutinge- 

 rian Tables it is Rufibricaii Mat' 



RUSIN, in Geography, a town "I Bohemia, in the circle 

 of Schlan ; 4 miles N. W. ol Pr: gue. 



RUSK, Al, a town of Curdiltan ; 18 miles S.E. o f 

 Amadieh. 



RUSKO, 



