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liiftories of Romift faints. Before the altar lay two rich 

 fcrafs figures of Ralph, lord Cromwell, who died in 1455, and 

 ci' Marg.iret his wife, wlio died in 1453. This nobleman, 

 in the feventeenth yen.r of Henry VI., obtained a licence to 

 make the church of Tatterflinll collegiate, for a matter or 

 warden, fix priefts, fix fccular clerks, and fix choriflers. 

 He alfo founded, near the church-yard, .an hofpital or alms- 

 houfe, for thirteen poor men and women. At the dilfoliition, 

 the collegiate revenues were granted to Charles, duke of 

 Suffolk. The hofpital Hill remains, with a fmall endow- 

 ment. The population report of the year 1811, Hated that 

 Tatterfliall contained 506 inhabitants, occupjnng 105 houfes. 

 The market is held on Tuefdays, and there are three fairs 

 annually, — Beauties of England and Wales, vol. ix., Lineoln,- 

 ihire.byJ.Britton, F.S.A. Hiftory, &c. of Tatterfhall, with 

 plates, 8vo. 1801. 



TATTICOMBA, a town of Hindooflan, in Myfore ; 

 4 miles N. of Dindigul. 



TATTO, Ital. from Tamils, Lat. in Aliific, implies a 

 meafure, or bar, the period when the hand or foot is beaten 

 down in marking the time. See Tactus, and Battuta. 



TAT-TOO, q. d. Tap-to, a beat of a drum, at night, to 

 advertife the foldiers to retreat, or repair to their quarters in 

 a garrifon, or to their tents in a camp. See Retreat. 



TATTOOING, in Modem Hiflory, a name given at 

 Otaheite, and other iflands of the South fea, to the operation 

 of ftaining die body. For this purpofe they prick the fliin, 

 fo 2S juft not to fetch blood, with a fmall inftrument, fome- 

 what in the form of a hoe, or blade of a faw : that part which 

 anfwers to the blade is made of a bone or fliell fcraped very 

 thin, and from a quarter of an inch to an inch and a half 

 Avide : the edge is cut into Iharp teeth or points, from the 

 number of three to twenty, according to its fize. When this 

 .is to be ufed, they dip the teeth into a mixture of a kind of 

 lamp-lack, formed of the fmoke that riles from an oily nut 

 which they burn inllead of candles, and water, or charcoal- 

 dull diluted with water ; the teeth, thus prcp.ircd, are placed 

 upon the fkin, and the handle to which they are laftened, 

 being ftruck by quick fmart blows, with a (lick fitted for 

 the purpofe, they pierce it, and at the fame time carry into 

 the punfture the black compofition, which leaves an indelible 

 llain. This operation is performed upon the youth of both 

 fexes, when they are about twelve or fourteen years of age, 

 in fever.il parts of the body, and in various figures, according 

 to the fancy of the parent, or perhaps the rank of the party. 

 The women are generally marked with this ftain in the form 

 of a Z, in every joint of their fingers and toes, and fre- 

 quently on the outfide of their feet : the men are alfo marked 

 with the fame figure ; and both men and women have fquares, 

 circles, crefcents, and ill-defigned reprefentations of men, 

 birds, or dogs, and various other unintelhgible devices, im- 

 preffed upon their legs and arms. But the part on which 

 thefe ornaments are lavifhed with the greateft profufion 

 ta the breech ; this, in both fexes, is covered with a deep 

 black ; above which, arches are drawn over one another, as 

 high as the ftiort ribs. Thefe are often a quarter of an inch 

 broad, and the edges are indented. Thefe arches are exhi- 

 bited, both by the men and the women, with fingular often- 

 tation. The face in general is left unmarked. Some old 

 men had the greateft part of their bodies covered with large 

 patches of black, deeply indented at the edges, like a rude 

 imitation of flame. It is only at New Zealand, and in the 

 . Sandwich iflands, that they tattoo the face. There is alfo 

 this difference between the two laft, that, in the former, it is 

 done in elegant fpiral volutes, and in the latter, in ftraight 

 lines, crofling each other at right angles. The hands and 

 £j"ms of the women are very neatly marked, and they have 

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among them a fingular cuftom, tlic meaning of which could 

 not be learned, th,at of tattooing the tip of the tongms of 

 the females. This cuAom of t.attooing, it is apprehended, 

 is fn qnently defigned as a fign of mourning on the death 

 of a chiif, or any other calamitous event. Pc rfons of the 

 loweft clafs are often tattooed with a mark, that diftinguilhet 

 them as the property of the feveral chiefs to whom they be- 

 long. Hawkefworth's Voyages, vol. ii. p. 189. Mar- 

 chand's Voyage, vol. i. p. 99. Cook's Third Voyage, 

 vol. iii. p. 155. 



TATTUBT, anciently Taditti, in Geography, a town 

 of Algiers, formerly a confiderahle city, now almoft com- 

 pletely in ruins : fome beautiful granite pillars were dug up 

 ionie years ago, and placed in a niofque at Conftantina ; 25 

 miles S. of Conftantina. 



TATU, in Ancient Geography, an ifland fituated in the 

 Nile, in the vicinity of the town of Meroe. Pliny. 



Tatl', in Zoology, the Brafilian name for the armadillo, 

 or niell-lu dge-hog, or dajypus of Linnieus. See Dasvi'I's. 



T :\Ti:-j-Ipar(i, the name of a creature of the armadillo 

 kind, being the three-banded or triciniliis dafypus of Lin- 

 njeus. See Da.syi'US. 



This animal burrows under ground, keeps its hole in the 

 day, and rambles out at night : when it would fleep, or 

 when it is afraid of being taken up, it contrafts its cruft 

 into a round figure ; and hiding its whole body within, it 

 might fooner be taken for a fea-(hell than a land-animal. It 

 is hunted with little dogs, .feeds on potatoes, &c. drinks 

 much, grows very fat, and is reckoned dehcious eating when 

 young, but when old, has a mufky difagreeable tafte ; breeds 

 every month, and brings four at a time. Ray and Pennant. 



TATV-MnJellims, the IVeafel-headcd ylrmadUlo, the name 

 of a Imall animal of the armadillo kind. This is the dafypus 

 iwkhUliis of Linnoeus, and banded armadillo of Pennant : it 

 has a very flender head, fmall ereft ears, the cruft on the 

 Ihouldcrs and rump confifting of fquare pieces ; eighteen 

 bands on the fides ; five toes on each foot ; length from nofe 

 to tail about fifteen inches ; the tail five and a half. It in- 

 habits South America. Ray, Pennant, and Grew's Muf. 

 Reg. Soc. p. 19. 



"VATV-Paba of Brafil, is the fix-banded dafypus of Lin- 

 na;us, having the cruft of the head, flioulders, and rump, 

 formed of angular pieces, and between the bands, and alio 

 on the neck and belly, a few fcattered hairs ; the tail thick 

 at the bafe, tapering to a point, and not fo long as the body, 

 and five toes on each foot. It inhabits Brafil and Guiana. 

 Pennant. 



TA'VV-Porcinus, the name of the pig-headed armadillo, 

 or nine-banded dafypus of Linnveus, with long ears, cruft 

 on the head, flioulders, and rump, marked with hexangular 

 figures ; the nine bands on tlie fides diftinguiflied by tranf- 

 verfe cuneiform marks ; breaft and belly covered with long 

 hairs ; four toes on the fore -feet, and five on the hind ; the 

 tail taper, and a little longer than the body ; and length of 

 the whole animal three feet. This animal inhabits South 

 America : and one, that was brought into England a few 

 years ago from the Mofquito (hore, was fed with raw beef 

 and milk, but refufed our grains and fruit. Pennant. 



TATUETE, the name of a fpecies of tatu, or arma- 

 dillo, being the nine-b;uided dafypus of Linnxus, though 

 BufFon and Pennant afcribe to it only eight bands ; it has 

 upright ears, two inches long ; fmall black e)Ts ; four toes 

 on the fore -feet, and five on the hinder ones ; the length 

 from nofc to tail about ten inches, the tail nme : it is of an 

 iron colour on the back, and whitifh at the fides ; its belly 

 alfo is whitifh and naked, except for a few hairs. It inha- 

 bits Brafil. 



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