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TRANCHE', or Trenche, is ufed by the French 

 armorifts, to exprefs that manner of partition called among 

 us, party per bend dexter. 



A feutcheon is faid to be tranche cut, when it is divided 

 in two diagonally, the divifion coming from the dexter angle 

 of the chief to the finifter angle of the point. When it is 

 divided contrariwife, it is faid to be faille, or party per tend 

 Jinijler. 



TRANCHEFILE, in the Manege, the crofs chain of 

 a bridle, that runs along the bit-mouth, from one branch to 

 the other. 



TRANCOSO, in Geography, a town ef Portugal, in 

 the province of Tra-los-Montes. In the beginning of the 

 1 2th century, Alboa^an, a Moorifh king of Badajoz, laid 

 fiege to this town, and perfevered with great obftinacy, till 

 the inhabitants were driven to the laft extremity, but were 

 relieved by king Alphonfo Henriquez, who defeated the 

 Moors with great flaughter ; 9 miles W. of Pinhel. 



TRANE, a town of Sweden, in the province of Skene ; 

 9 miles W. of Chriftianlladt. 



TRANEKIAR, an ancient fortrefs of Denmark, in the 

 ifland of Langeland. 



TRANEMO, a town of Sweden, in Weft Gothland; 

 46 miles E.S.E. of Gotheborg. 



TRANENT, a market -town in the prefljytery and ftiire 

 of Haddington, Scotland, is fituated on the eaftern fide of 

 a narrow valley, 10 miles E. from Edinburgh, and 380 miles 

 N. by W. from London. It was anciently called Tree-ar- 

 Nent and Travernent, fignifying the habitation in the vale. 

 The church is an ancient incommodious fabric, of a very 

 pecuhar form. On the outfide, it appears to confift of 

 three feparate oblong houfes ; but when entered, is found 

 to be only one building, A fquare tower rifes from the 

 centre, fupported by the fzde-walls of the middle building, 

 and by crofs arches. Two weekly markets are well fup- 

 pHed with butcher's meat. The parifh of Tranent extends 

 about fix miles in length, and three miles in breadth, and is 

 divided by the great call road into two nearly equal parts. 

 It comprifes the villages of Cockenzie, Port Seaton, Seaton, 

 St. Ckment's Wells, and Wefter Falfide. The furface is 

 level and well cultivated. The coafl abounds with oyfter- 

 beds, but they are nearly exhaufted by over-dredging. 

 Coal is abundant, and is worked at three collieries to a great 

 extent. At Cockenzie is a great manufaftory of common 

 fait; and at St. Clement's Wells is the mod confiderable 

 diftillery in Scotland. According to the population return 

 of the year 181 1, the inhabitants of this pari{h were 3036, 

 occupying 640 houfes. Here is a parochial fchool, with a 

 falary to the mailer of 300 merks and perquifites : here are 

 alfo feven other fchools. After the reformation, the parifh 

 of Seaton was annexed to that of Tranent ; but it was re- 

 duced in 1606, by making the baronies of Prefton-Grange 

 and Prellon-Pans a new parifh, under the name of Prefton. 

 In 1695, the pariih of Tranent was further diminilhed, by 

 the north-eaft corner of it being annexed to the new parifh 

 of Glades-Muir. In 1493, a collegiate church was founded 

 in the village of Seaton, by George, lord Seaton, which is 

 ftill nearly .entire. The moft ancient edifice in the parifh is 

 that of St. Germans, now the feat of David Anderfon, efq. 

 where an hofpital was founded previous to the year 1296. 

 It was afterwards pofTefTcd by the Knights Templars ; and 

 after its fupprelTion, was granted in 1494, with mofl of its 

 revenues, by king James IV., to the King's College of 

 Aberdeen. The battle of Prefton, in 1745, was fought 

 partly in this parifh. — Beauties of Scotland, vol. i. 1805. 

 Chalmers's Caledonia, vol. ii. 1810. Carhfle's Topo- 

 graphical Diftionary of Scotland, 181 2. 

 Vol. XXXVI. 



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TRANFRANT, a town of Algiers, near the coaftj 

 30 miles S.W. of Oran. 



TRANG, a river of Lower Siam, which runs into the 

 Indian fea, N. lat. 7°. E. long. 99" 33'. 



TRANGANO, a town of Afia, in the kingdom of Jo- 

 hore, near the fea, on the fide of a river, v/hich has a fhallow 

 bar and feveral rocks fcattered about. There are about 

 1000 houfes; no miles N. of Pahang. N. lat. 5° 30'. 

 E. long. 103° 5'. 



TRANGARDE, a town of Hindooftan, in the comity 

 of Calicut ; 8 miles N.E. of Paniany. 



TRANGLE, in Heraldry, the diminutive of a feffe, 

 commonly called a iar. 



TRANI, in Geography, a city of Naples, and capital of 

 the province of Bari ; tne fee of an archbifhop, and refidence 

 of t"he governor; 21 miles W. of Bari. N. lat. 41° 19'. 

 E. long. 16° 28'. 



TRANKEY, a name given in the ifland of Carrick, 

 near the Perfian fhore, to a veffel about the fize of a Peter- 

 boat, fharp at both ends. It is built of very rough pieces 

 of wood, rudely put together, and covered over with a thick 

 coat of bitumen, with which the country aboonds. Tliefe 

 veffels fail with great fpeed with either end foreraoft, having 

 no diflindlion of head from fterii. The ifland of Carrick is 

 about twelve miles long and feven broad, and contains be- 

 tween 600 and 700 inhabitants. It abounds with goats, but 

 has very few cows, and no beafla of prey ; nor are there any 

 fowls, tame or wild, except ftork and turtle-doves. It 

 produces few vegetables, but has wheat, rice, and barley, 

 though not in fufBcient quantity for the inhabitants, whofe 

 food is fifh, with which they are plentifully fupplied from 

 the vicinity of the ifland. Here is alfo very fine turtle, but 

 not eaten by the natives. 



TRANQUEBAR, in Geography, a fea-port town of 

 Hindooftan, in the country of Tanjore, fituated on the 

 coaft of Coromandel, with a harbour, at the mouth of one 

 of the branches of the Cauvery, defended by a fortrefs, 

 erefted by the Danes in the year 1 621, who had obtained 

 a grant of the town, and a fertile territory, from the rajah 

 of Tanjore, for an annual rent of about 720/. In the be- 

 ginning of the prefent century, the prince of Tanjore at- 

 tempted to feize on Tranquebar, and began a regular fiege ; 

 but by the afliftance of the Enghfh, he was compelled to 

 give over the attempt, and make peace. The town is be- 

 tween tv^o and three miles in circumference, and furrounded 

 with a wall and feveral baflions, well provided with artil- 

 lery : within the walls are three Chriftian churches, one of 

 which is for Roman Catholics, defcendants of Portuguefe 

 in pofTeflion of the town before the Danes ; a large mofque 

 for the Mahometans, and feveral pagodas for the Gentoos. 

 The territory belonging to the town is confiderable, and is 

 full of populous villages ; 56 miles S. of Pondicherry. N. 

 lat. 11° l'. E. long. 79° 54'. 



TRANQUILLITY, a town of New Jerfey ; 8 mile* 

 S. of Newtown. 



TRANQUILLO, a cape at the fouth end of the ifland 

 of Rhodes. N. lat. 36° 2'. E. long. 27° 28'. 



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

 Ille and Vilaine ; 6 miles S.E. of Dole. 



TRANSACCO, a town of Naples, in Abruzzo Ultra j 

 8 miles S. of Celano. 



TRANSACTION, Transactio, in the Civil Law, 

 an accommodation of fome bufinefs or difpute between two 

 parties, by a mutual and voluntary agreement or contraiSl 

 between them. 



Transactions, Phihfophical, are a kind of journal of 

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