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iufticiary's was diminifhed ; which did not happen till after 

 the deceafe of king Henry II. Indeed thefe offices could not 

 poffibly have fubfilled together, in the height of their power ; 

 the fuiiftions and dignity appertaining to each of them having 

 been nearly the fame. But m the reign of Henry II. that of 

 fenefchal was much inferior to the other ; and the authority 

 of it feems to have been not very different from that of 

 the lord fteward of the houfehold at prefect. 



The ancients ufed the term fene/callus indifferently with 

 that of Japifer ; whence we are fure it lignifies/^iyar^/. 



SENESCHALLO et marejhallo quod non teneant plac'ita 

 de libera tenemento, in Law, a writ direfted to the fteward 

 and marftial of England, inhibiting them to take cognizance 

 of an aftion in their court that concerns freehold. 



SENESINO, Francesco Bernardo, Detto, in Biogra- 

 phy, cAled Senefino, from being a native of Siena, one of the 

 greateft fingers and the beft aftor who performed in Han- 

 del's operas during the Royal Academy of Mufic, efta- 

 bhfhed in the year 1720, and diffolved in 1729. He con- 

 tinued finging in England till the year 1735; but in an 

 opera elliibhihed by the nobility and gentry in oppofition 

 to Handel. 



We have converfed with feveral good judges of mufic, 

 who had been conftant in their attendance at the operas of 

 thofe times, who always fpoke of Senefino's voice, llyle of 

 linging, figure, and a(iion, in the higheft terms of admira- 

 tion. In early youth his voice had been a foprano, but it 

 had dcfcendcd into the fulleil, moft melifluous, and moll 

 flexible contralto, that was ever heard in this country. He 

 had not more than fix or feven notes in his compafs ; but 

 thefe were fo mellow and powerful, and his execution of 

 diviCons fo granito, or diftinft, that, without the rapidity 

 of a bravura finger, he feemed poflefled of every folid and 

 latting charm of a great performer. Quantz, who lieard 

 him at Drefden in 17 19, gives him the following charafter. 

 " Francefco Bernardo, called Senefino, had a powerful, 

 clear, equal, and fweet contralto voice, with a perfeft in- 

 tonation, and an excellent fhake ; his manner of tinging 

 was mafterly, and his elocution unrivalled ; though he never 

 loaded adagios with too many ornaments, yet he delivered 

 the original and eliential notes with the utmoft refinement. 

 He fung allegros with great fire, and marked rapid divifions, 

 from the chert, in an articulate and pleafing manner ; his 

 countenance was well calculated for the ilage, and his 

 aftion was natural and noble : to thefe he joined a figure 

 that was truly majeftic, but more fuited to the part of a 

 hero than a lover." 



When he returned to his own country, he fung no more 

 on a ftage ; but retired to Siena, the place of his nativity, 

 where he built himfelf a magnificent manfion, called there 

 a palazzo, and ended his days in fplendid tranquillity. 



SENETOSO, in Geography, a cape on the S.W. coail 

 of the ifland of Corfica ; 20 miles W. of Sarcena. 



SENEZ, a town of France, in the department of the 

 Lower Alps, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrift of 

 Caftellane, before the revolution the fee of a bilhop, fuf- 

 fragan of Embrun ; 6 miles N.W. of Caftellane. The 

 place contains 768, and the canton 2081 inhabitants, on a 

 territory of 180 kiliometres, in 4 communes. 



SENFTENBERG, a town of Auftria ; 3 rtiles N. of 

 Stais. — Alfo, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of Koni- 

 gingratz ; 3 miles N. of Geyerft)erg. — Alfo, a town of 

 Saxony, in the marggravate of MeilTen, containing about 

 300 houfes, furrounded with ramparts and ditches ; 32 miles 

 N.E. of Meifien. N. lat. 51° 31'. E. long. 14° i'. 



SENGANA, a town of Hindoottan, in the Mewat 

 country ; 95 miles S.W. of Delhi. 



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SENGBEST, a town of PerCa, in the province of 

 Khorafan ; 25 miles S.E. of Mefghid. 



SENGEN, or Sensen, a river of Switzerland, which 

 joins the Sanen river, near Laupen, in the canton of 

 Berne. 



SE-NGEN, or Sen-guen, a city of China, of the firft. 

 rank, in Quang-fi. N. lat. 23^ 24'. E. long. 107= 34'. 



SENGERSHASARA, a town of Perfia, in the pro- 

 vince of Ghilan ; 69 miles N.W. of Relhd. 



SE-NGIN, or Se-ngi EN, a town of China, of the 

 third rank, in Quang-fi ; 25 miles N.W. of King-yuen. 



SENGLEA, a town of the ifland of Malta, divided by 

 a canal from Vittoriofa ; and containing about 4000 in- 

 habitants. 



SENGMA, a town of Africa, tn the country of Cal- 

 bari ; 5 miles N. of Cape Formofa. 



SENGOA, a town of Perfia, in the province of Adir- 

 beitzan or Axcrbijan ; 48 miles S.E. of Tauris or Ta- 

 breez. 



SENGREEN, in Botany. See Saxifraga. 



SENG WARDEN, in Geography, a town of Germany, 

 in the lordftiip of Kniphaufen ; 6 miles E. of Jever. 



SENJEN, a fmall ifland in the North fea, near th» coaft 

 of Norway. N. lat. 69" 15'. 



SENIGAGLIA. See Sisigaglia. 



SENINGHEM, a town of France, in the department 

 of the Straits of Calais ; 9 miles W. of St. Oraer. 



SENIONITZ, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of 

 Konigingratz ; 6 miles N. of Konigingratz. 



SENIORE, a town of Algiers ; 22 miles W. of Tif- 

 feih. 



SENITO, a river of Naples, which runs into the 

 Sibari. 



SENITZ, a town of Hungary ; 25 miles W. of To- 

 poltzan. 



SENKE', a town of Thibet ; 24 miles E. of Toud- 

 fong. 



SENLIS, a town of France, and principal place of a 

 diftrid, in the department of the Oife, before the revolu- 

 tion the fee of a biftiop, fuffragan of Rheims ; 5^ polls 

 N.E. of Paris. The place contains 4312, and the canton 

 1 1,690 inhabitants, on a territory of 222^ kiliometres, in 

 18 communes. N. lat. 49° 12'. E. long. 2° 40'. 



SENN, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in the government 

 of Moful, on the Tigris ; 80 miles S.S.E. of Moful. 



SENNA, or Sesnah, a moft romantic and flourifliiiig 

 little town of Perfia, in the province of Ardelan, fccluded in 

 the bofom of a deep valley, well cultivated and interfperfed 

 with orchards of peach, apricot, pear, apple, and cherry trees. 

 Its population amounts to about Sooo perfons, of which 

 number 2000 are Jews, Armenians, and Neftorianf, who trade 

 to Moful, Bagdad, and Ifpahan. The Wallea, who feldom 

 quits this place, refides in a fumptuous palace, built on the 

 top of a fmall hill in the centre of the town, where he 

 maintains a degree of ftate and fplendour fuperior to any 

 thing in Perfia, except at court. His houfe is ever open 

 for the entertainment of ftrangers, and he always retains 

 about his perfon a body of horfe. The mountains to the 

 W. of Senna are covered with forefts of oak, which pro- 

 duce fine timber and abundance of gall-nuts. The former 

 is made into rafts and floated down the Tab into the Tigris; 

 the latter is an article of trade, and exported to India. A 

 fmall river of the fame name flows about one mile and a half 

 or two miles from it. The route from Tabreez by way of 

 Maraga to Sennah is 223 miles; that from Senna by Ker- 

 manihaw to Bagdad is 303 miles ; and that from Senna to 

 Hamadan is 89 miles. 



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