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of tone and completion of cliaraaer. His pencil is exceed- 

 ingly light and dexterous ; and by continual praiftice upon the 

 fame fyllcm, lie liad acquired a promptncfs almoft unparal- 

 leled. This freedom of execution enabled him to paint an 

 immeufe number of pifturcs : it was not unufual for him to 

 finidi a picture in a day ; and he ufcd jocofely to obferve, 

 that to contain all the piftures he had painted, it would be 

 iieceffary to have a gallery two leagues long. He not un- 

 frequently affiiled the landfcape painters of his day, by 

 putting figures into their pidures ; and many works of Ar- 

 tois, Van Udcn, Breughel, and many others, owe an in- 

 creafed value to this circumftance. His works are numerous 

 in the coUcftions of this country, and ftill bear very high 

 prices. Teniers lived to the advanced age of eighty-four, 

 and died at BruiTels in 1694. 



He had a younger brother named Abraham, who alfo 

 painted the fame kind of fubjcfts in the fame ftyle, and from 

 this circumftance his works are fometimes miftaken for 

 thofe of David, though they are much inferior in tafte and 

 execution. 



TENINE, in Geography, a town of South America, in 

 the province of Tucuman ; 20 miles S.W. of St. Yago del 

 Eftero. 



TENIS, a lake of Ruffian Tartary, 60 miles in circum- 

 ference. N. lat. 53° id. E. long. 74° 4'. 



TENISON, Tjiomas, in Biography, aixhbilhop of Can- 

 terbury, was the fon of the Rev. John Tenifon, reftor of 

 Mundefley, in Norfolk, and born in the year 1636. He 

 received his univerfity education at Benet college, Cam- 

 bridge, of which he became a fellow in 1662. Having 

 officiated for fome time as a tutor in his college, he was pre- 

 fented in 1 665 to the cure of St. Andrew the Great in Cam- 

 bridge, and continued his attention to his parochial duty 

 during the plague. In 1667 he became chaplain to the earl 

 of Manchefter, and obtained a reftory at Huntingdonfhire. 

 His firft publication appeared in 1670, and was entitled 

 " The Creed of Mr. Hobbes examined, in a feigned Con- 

 ference between him and a Student in Divinity." In 1674 

 he was chofen principal minilter to the church of St. Peter's 

 Mancroft, Norwich ; and in 1678 he publiflied a " Difcourfe 

 of Idolatry," and in 1679 " Baconiana," or fome pieces of 

 the great lord Verulam, with a general account of his 

 writings. As he was one of the royal chaplains in 1680, he 

 graduated D.D., and was prefented by the king to the vi- 

 carage of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, London. As an an- 

 tagonift. to popery, the apprehenfion of which was then 

 very prevalent, he wrote feveral works againft it, and alfo 

 againil Socinianifm ; and whilft he was guarding the church 

 againft thofe whom he conceived to be its enemies, he ac- 

 quired ftill greater honour by liberal benefaftions to the 

 poor, and by laying the foundation of an endowed fchool and 

 public library, which he afterwards completed. He blended 

 gravity with moderation to fuch a degree, as to command 

 general efteem ; and accordingly he was felefted by the un- 

 fortunate duke of Monmouth to prepare him for his execu- 

 tion. He alfo conduced himfelf with fo much prudence at 

 court, that he is faid to have had a perfonal intereft even 

 with James II. In the reign of William he avowed himfelf 

 a friend to the dift'enters and toleration ; and after his pro- 

 motion to the archdeaconry of London, he was appointed 

 one of the commiffioners for reviewing the Litany, with a 

 \-iew to the comprehenfion of the Separatifts. He thus re- 

 commended himfelf to queen Mary, and by her intereft he 

 obtamed the fee of Lincoln, in 169 1. Within three years 

 he was unexpededly advanced to the archiepifcopal fee of 

 Canterbury, more on account of his moderate and pacific 

 principles, than for any preeminence to which he had at- 



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lained among men of letters or theologians. He attended 

 queen Mary on her death-bed ; and incurred the feverc 

 animadverfions of the deprived biftiop Ken, for not having 

 reminded her majefty of her culpable want of duty to her 

 father, by confenting to wear a crown which rightfully be- 

 longed to him. His conduft during the reign of king Wil- 

 liam was uniformly confiftent with his principles, and both 

 were fo pleafing to his majefty, that he diftinguilhed the 

 prelate by many tokens of refpedl and confidence. In the 

 reign of queen Anne, he was not, as we may naturally ima- 

 gine, much regarded ; more efpeciall)' as he retained his juft 

 ideas of toleration, and refifted, though not without a ftiarc 

 of obloquy, fome of the high-church meafures which were 

 then countenanced. Neverthelefs he difplayed on various 

 occafions his attachment to the eftabliftied church, as well as 

 his habitual bounty to the indigent. His laft public aiS. 

 was the corpnation of George I.; and afterwards finking 

 under the decay of advanced age, he clofed his life at Lam- 

 beth, December 17 15, in the leventy-ninth year of his age. 

 As he left no iffue, he bequeathed a confiderable part of his 

 property to charitable purpofes. His charafler was uni- 

 formly refpeftable ; and his conduft in difficult times was ir- 

 reproachable and exemplary. Biog. Brit. Gen. Biog. 



TENMENTALE, or Tenmantale, in our indent 

 Cujloms, originally fignifies the number of ten men, which 

 number, in the time of the Enghfli Saxons, was called a 

 decennary ; and ten decennaries made what we call an 

 hundred. 



Thefe ten men were bound for each other to preferye the 

 public peace ; and if any of them was found guilty of a 

 breach of it, the other nine were either to make fatisfac- 

 tion, or to bring the criminal before the king. 



Tenmentale was alfo ufed for a duty, or tribute, paid to 

 the king, confifting of two (hillings for each ploughland ; 

 probably thus called, becaufe each perfon of the decennary 

 was bound to fee it paid. 



TENNA, in Geography, a river which rifes in the Apen- 

 nines, and crofling the marquifate of Ancona, runs into the 

 Adriatic, about 4 miles E.N.E. of Fermo. 



TENNE', Tenny, or Taiuney, in Heraldry, a bright 

 colour, made of red and yellow mixed ; fometimes alfo 

 called briijk, and exprefl'ed in engraving by diagonal lines 

 drawn from the dexter to the finifter fide of the ftiield, ti'a- 

 verfed by perpendicular lines from the chief ; and marked 

 with the letter T. 



In the coats of all below the degree of nobles, it is called 

 tenny ; but, in thofe of nobles, it is called hyacinth ; and, in 

 princes' coats, the dragon's head. 



TENNEAH, in Geography, a town of Bengal ; 35 miles 

 N. of Midnapour. 



TENNEBERG, a mountain of Saxony, in the princi- 

 pality of Gotha ; 4 miles S.W. of Gotha. 



TENNELIE'RES, a town of France, in the depart- 

 ment of the Aube ; 4 miles E. of Troyes. 



TENNESSEE, one of the United States of America, 

 fituated between 35° and 36° 30' N. lat., and 4° 26' and 

 13° 5' W. long, from Waftiington. It is bounded on the 

 north by Kentucky end part of Virginia, on the fouth by 

 Georgia and the Miffifippi territory, on the eaft by North 

 Carolina, and on the weft by Mifiburi territory. Its extent 

 from north to fouth is 102 miles, and from eaft to weft 

 420 miles. Its area is 40,000 fquare miles, or 25,600,000 

 acres. The Indian claim has been extinguiflied in X.\ro por- 

 tions of this country, the eaftern and the weftern, compre- 

 hending one-third part of the ftate. The former is bounded 

 north by Virginia, from the fouth-eaft corner of Kentucky, 

 to the north-weft of North Carolina ; eafterly by North 



Carolina ; 



