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which were numerous, are the following : «' A Hiftory of 

 the Swedi(h Church ; or a Chronicle of the Bifhops, in two 

 Parts ;" " Sermons on Chrift's Sufferings ;" " GlofTarium 

 Lingu'x Gothics ;" befides a great number of hymns, and 

 various fermons. 



SPEIGHT'S Town, in Geography, a fea-port of the 

 ifland of Barbadoes, fituated on the weft coaft, near the 

 northern part of the ifland, formerly much frequented by the 

 Brillol traders, and thence called Little Briftol. It is a 

 handfome town, containing about 350 well-built houfes, 

 difpofed into four regular and fpacious ftreets, of which the 

 longeft is called Jews'-llreet, and, with the other three, 

 leads down to the water fide. The planters in that part of 

 Barbadoes called Scotland, ufcd to (hip off their goods here 

 for England, which occafioned the building of ftore-houfes, 

 and a concourfe of people, to the great advantage of the 

 town; but mod of the trade is now removed to Bridge-town. 

 It has a fpacious church, dedicated to St. Peter, which gave 

 name to its precinft, and is the place where the monthly 

 feffions are held. The town is defended by two forts, befides 

 another in Heathcote's bay, fome diftance fouth of the 

 town. One of the above forts ftands in the middle of the 

 town, and is mounted with 14 guns ; the other, which hath 

 32, Hands at the north end of it : but there are, befides 

 thefe, feveral platforms on the fea-(hore. N. lat. 13° 15'. 

 E. long. 58° 31'. Edwards's Weft Indies. 



SPEISSE, in Mineralogy, a name given by the Germans, 

 and other workers on cobalt, to a fort of impure regulus of 

 bifmuth, fometimes occurring in their procefles. 



It is not uncommon for ores of bifmuth to be mixed with 

 the cobalt in the fmalt-works. Both this ore and the cobalt 

 yield the blue vitrifiable earth of which fmalt is made ; but 

 in one of them it is blended with arfenic, and in the other 

 with the bifmuth. The feparation of it from thefe two mine- 

 rals requires different proceifes, and the workmen, therefore, 

 feparatc the two minerals, and work each by itfelf ; but it 

 fometimes happens that the ore of bifmuth is fo like to the 

 true cobalt, that it cannot be diftinguilhed by the eye, and 

 fo intimately mixed with it, that it cannot be feparated from 

 it ; in this cafe the whole is expofed to the lire toorether, 

 and after the arfenic is fublimed in form of meal, there re- 

 mains a coarle and impure regulus of bifmuth, which having 

 mixed itfelf with the earth of the cobalt, and other extra- 

 neous fubftances, is of a reddilh-white colour, and very im- 

 pure and friable. This gives them the trouble of a fecond 

 operation, by which they feparate the pure regulus of bif- 

 muth, and the remainder being a mixture of Us earth and 

 that of the cobalt, is run together into the blue glafs called 

 ftnalt, the earth of bifmuth ore being of the fame nature 

 with that of cobalt. Phil. Tranf. N° 396, p. 199. 



SPEL, in Rural Economy, a term provincially ufed to 

 fignify a bar. It alfo fignities the thin ftraight or bent ribs 

 in the work of ba(l<et or fieve-making in fome places. 



SPELE, in Geography, a town of the ifland of Candy ; 

 15 miles S.E. of Candy. 



SPELK, in Rural Economy, a fmall thin rod, or piece 

 of wood uled in thatching. Small hazel rods are moftly em- 

 ployed in this way. 



SPELL, a kind of charm, to drive away a difeafe, by 

 hanging a word or fentence written on a paper about the 

 neck. See Charm. 



Spell, in Sea Language, the period in svhich a failor, 

 or gang of failors, is employed in a particular exercife, 

 from which they are relieved as foon as the limited time ex- 

 pires. Such are the fpcUs to the hand-lead in founding, to 

 the pump, to look out on the maft-head, &c. and to Iteer 

 the ftiip, wliich laft is generally called the trick. 



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Spell alfo implies the relief or return of duty to thofe 

 fervices : thus it is faid, fpell the pump, fpell the lead, 

 &c. 



SPELLING, that part of grammar properly called or- 

 thography. 



Dr. Jones gives the following rules, or maxims, of 

 fpelling. 



1. That all words were originally pronounced as fpelt. 



2. That in all words whofe iounds have been fince altered 

 (the origin of the difficulty of fpelling), the alteration was 

 made for the fake of eafe and pleafure. 



And hence, 3. All words that can be written feveral ways, 

 mult be fpelt according to the hardeft, harftieft, and moft 

 unufual found. 



SPELLO, in Geography, a town of the Popedom, in 

 the duchv of Spoletj. This was anciently Hifpellum, and 

 being made a Roman colony by Julius C^far, was by liim 

 named Colonia Julia HilpeUa. In the year 1529, it was 

 facked by Philibert de Chalons, prince of Orange, general 

 of Charles V. ; and three years afterwards the walls were or- 

 dered to be pulled down by pope Paul III.; 10 miles S.W.- 

 of Nocera. 



SPELMAN, i'/V Henry, in Biography, an eminent an- 

 tiquary, was defcended from an ancient family fettled in 

 No'f Ik. He was born in 1562, at Congham, near Lynn, 

 and having received a common education, he was fent at an 

 early age to Trinity college, Cambridge. Owing to his 

 father's death, he was called from tiie univerfity before he 

 had completed his 17th year, and he was afterwards entered 

 of Lincoln's-Inn. in ordc-r that he might ftudy the common 

 law, but his inclination was not favourable to legal purfuits : 

 he feems to have given a decided preference to polite litera- 

 ture and antiquities, but thefe purfuits were cut (hort by an 

 early marriage, which induced him to fettle upon his eltate, 

 and take the management of it in his own hands. He did 

 not, however, abandon his antiquarian purfuits, and while 

 he was yet a very young man, he drew up a treatiie in the 

 Latin language, entitled " Af^pilogia," relative to armorial 

 bearings, and made tranfcripts of feveral charters of mo- 

 nafteries in Norfolk and Suffolk. He was alfo affociated to 

 the original fociety of antiquarians, and became the intimate 

 friend of Cotton, Camden, and other favourers of that clafs 

 of ftudies. In 1604 he was elefted high flieriff of the 

 country, and about the fame time communicated to Spwd a 

 defcription of Norfolk, for his work entitled " The Theatre 

 of Great Britain." In 1607 he was nominated by the king 

 one of the commiflioners for fettling the titles to lands and 

 manors in certain counties of Ireland, and on this occafion 

 he went thrice to that country. Farming now became irk- 

 fome, becaufe he probably found it unprofitable : he fold 

 oft his ftock, let his ettates, and came with his family to 

 London, and he chofe as the particular objeil of his ftudies, 

 the antiquities of Englifii law, as deducible from Enghfti 

 records ; but he was diverted from his objeft by an inciden- 

 tal fubjett. During his refidence on his ellatc, he had pur- 

 chafed the lands of two fupprefled monafteries, and being 

 involved in a troublefome law-fuit in order to defend his title, 

 he began to entertain fcruples concerning the fecuhrization 

 of property once belonging to the church. When, there- 

 fore, an uncle of his complained to him of difficulties which 

 he had met with in building upon the glebe of an impropriate 

 parfonage, he plainly gave his opinion, that it was a token of 

 divine difpleafure for keeping the parfonage in lay hands, 

 and he drew up a work in 1613, with the title " De non 

 temerandis Ecclefiis ; Churches not to be violated ; a TraA 

 of the Rights and Refpefts due to Churches, &c." He 

 praftifed what he had pleaded for in theory, and being pof- 



feffed 



