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ttioiigh no perfon be in the (hop, he is guilty of felony 

 without benefit of clergy, by lo & li W. III. c. 22. 



SHORAB, in Geography, a town of Perfia, in the pro- 

 vince of Segeltan ; 30 miles W. of Meimend. 



SHORAY, a town of Hindooltan, in the circar of 

 Chanderec ; 22 miles N. of Kimlafla. 



SHORE, Jane, in Biography, the concubine of king 

 Edward IV., was the wife of Mr. Matthew Shore, a gold- 

 fmith in Lombard-itreet, London. Hiltorians reprefent 

 her as extremely beautiful, chearful, and generous. The 

 king, it is faid, was no lefs captivated with her temper than 

 her perfon ; (he never made ufe of her influence over him 

 to the prejudice of any one ; her importunities were always 

 in favour of the unfortu.iate. After the death of Ed- 

 ward, fhe attached herfelf to the lord Haltings ; and when 

 Richard III. cut off that nobleman as an obftacle to his 

 ambitious fchemes, Jane Shore was arretted as an accom- 

 plice, on the accufation of witchcraft. For this (he was 

 doomed to a public penance, and to the lofs of her pro- 

 perty. She was alive, buf probably in a very wretched 

 ftate, under the reign of Henry VIII. when (lie was feen 

 by fir Thomas More, poor and old, and without the fmalleit 

 trace of her former beauty. Mr. Rowe, in his tragedy of 

 Jane Shore, has adopted the popular ftory, related in the 

 ballad, of her perilhing with hunger in a place wherie 

 Shoreditch now Hands. But Stow allures us, that this 

 place had its name long before her time. 



Shore, John, a famous performer on the trumpet. 

 Matthias Shore, the father of John, and Colley Gibber's 

 wife, was fergeant-trumpet, in which office he was fuc- 

 ceeded, firft by his brother William Shore, and afterwards 

 iiy his fon John. His daughter, Mrs. Gibber, had been a 

 fcholar of Purcell in finging and playing on the harpfi- 

 chord ; in the e.\ercife of which talents at home, her con- 

 queft over the heart of Colley Gibber firft began. Purcell, 

 from his connexion with the family, and his admiration of 

 John's performance on the trumpet, took every opportunity 

 in his power to employ him in the accompaniment of his 

 longs and other theatric compofitions ; and this accounts 

 for the frequent ufe he made of that martial and field in- 

 llrument, even when the fubjeft of the poetry was pacific. 

 John Shore lived till the year 1753, when he was fucceeded 

 as fergeant-trumpet, by that admirable performer the late 

 Mr. Valentine Snow, whofe exquifite tone and fine (hake 

 mult be llill remembered by many perfons living, who have 

 heard him at Vauxhall, and in Mr. Handel's oratorios. 



Shore, among Builders, &c. See Shoar. 



Shore, or Common Shore, a corruption oi fewer. See 

 •jewers. 



Shore, in Agriculture, a fort of artificial drain or courfe 

 formed in low flat lands for the purpofe of freeing and re- 

 Keving them from the collefted furface-waters. The want 

 of (hores is now moft common in walle and unreclaimed lands ; 

 but it occalionally occurs in thofe of other kinds, in wet 

 feafons, to the great injury and prejudice of the prevailing 

 crops, and the future produftivenel's of the land, as the 

 loitering furface-water can get off in no other way. There 

 are very great extents of even appropriated lands, in fome 

 cafes, that are greatly damaged and inconvenienced by 

 water lodging and ftagnatiiig in the furrows of the ridges 

 and the ditches, for want of having fulficient proper (liores, 

 or public drains, for drawing it o(f ; and of public proper 

 laws and regulations for enforcing the re-opening and 

 the cleanfing, from time to time, of thofe which have been 

 formed at former periods ; as well as for the preferving of 

 the whole always in a fuitably open Hate. 



It ie extremely probable, that a large proportion of the 



\av fiat lartds of this country, which are now in a fome* 

 what dry condition, were, in their natural (late, liable to be 

 at times covered with water. This appears to have been 

 the cafe, from the compaft gluey compofition of the foil, 

 and the (ligiit covering of black vegetable earth which 

 (till forms the lurface of them, where the work of tillage 

 has not been performed upon them. And, from many of 

 fuch low flat grafs lands now lying in a tolerably dry ftate, 

 from large trafts of thofe of the arable kind, whofe foils 

 are now barely out of the reach of water, which, in wet 

 feafons, fill their drains and ditches to the brim, as well as 

 from the lefs admilTible evidence of tradition in low-lying 

 diftriAs, — it would feem, it is faid, to be equally probable, 

 that much induftry and exertion have at former periods 

 been employed, to free the lands of this fort in the country 

 from the ftate in which nature and time had placed them. 



The feudal fyftem is fuppofed to have been particularly 

 favourable to undertakings of this ufeful kind, and that, 

 fince its decline, the courts of the manorial defcriptioD, 

 which fucceeded and furvived it, have contributed to en- 

 force its beneficial regulations. But that as they have now 

 for the moft part loll their power, exiftence, and authority, 

 or where they are Itill continued and retain them, what re- 

 lates to the bufinefs of public drains and water-courfes, in 

 their management, is too often negledled and overlooked. 

 Hence it is noticed by a late writer, that, " relative to this 

 important department of rural economics and internal 

 policy, the country may be faid to have been moving, and, 

 in a general view of it, ftill continues to move, in a retro- 

 grade direftion." 



In a great number of Ctuations, vaft injury and incon* 

 venience are at prefent fuftained from the want of the (hores, 

 drains, ditches, and other outlets for drawing off the water 

 being kept properly open and funk for its difcharge into 

 the adjoiniiig rivers, brooks, or feas. 



Some fufncient power and authority for the regulation of 

 all matters of this nature (hould certainly exill in every 

 diftrift of the kingdom ; which is not now the cafe, at 

 lead to any full and eftcdlual extent, as many moft import- 

 ant benefits and advantages would necelTarily refult from it, 

 in the management and improvement of lands, as well as 

 in the increafe of the produce of it. 



It has been fuggefted, that a great deal may be effefted 

 in this way, by the having recourfe to the appointment of 

 juries for the condufting of the bufinefs of Jlirtres and 

 •water-courfes, wherever there are the flighteft remains of the 

 exiftence of manorial courts. And that, even where there 

 is nothing of this fort to be met with, it would not fail to 

 have a good effeft, in many cafes, where the lands are con- 

 fiderable, to have flunding ivquefls, chofen from among the 

 neighbouring tenantry in an annual or other manner, for 

 the purpofe of directing the proper regulation of the 

 public Jhores, drains, 'waler-courfes, and other modes of 

 conveying away the fuperabundant water from the land. 



Shore, Sea, is a general name tor tlie fea-coaft of any 

 counti-y. A bold fiiore is a coalt which is fteep and 

 abrupt, fo as to admit the clofeft approach of (hipping 

 without expofing them to the danger of being ilranded. 



The (hores of the fca are divided, by count Marfigli, 

 into three portions, according to whicii, all his dcfcriptions, 

 in his account of the bafoii of the lea, arc given. The 

 firft part of the (liore is that trad of land to whicli the 

 fea juft reaches in llorms and high tides, but which it never 

 covers ; the fecond part of the (hore is that which is covered 

 in high tides and llorms, but is dry at other times ; and 

 the third is the dclcent from this, which is always covered 

 with water. 



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