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who are very numerous in the adjacent parts, choofing 

 rather to buy what they want near at hand, than to fend 

 for it from the Bafleterre. Beiides, during the hurricane 

 feafon, fliips have a fafe ftation in this port : another advan- 

 tage they have here is, that when they fet out for Europe, 

 they are to the windward of all the iflands, and fave about 

 300 leagues in their paffage, which they would find by the 

 way of St. Domingo, or Porto Rico. N. lat. 14° 53'. 

 W. long. 61° 8'. 



Trinity Bay, a large but not a very deep bay of the 

 South Pacific ocean, on the north-eaft coaft of New Hol- 

 land, between Cape Grafton and Cape Tribulation — Alfo, 

 a large bay on the eaft coaft of Newfoundland. N. lat. 48'. 

 W. long. 53' 10'. 



Trinity Harbour, a cove on the north-weft end of 

 Trinity bay, on the eaft coaft of Newfoundland. N. lat. 48^ 

 W. long. 53° 10'. 



Trinity Inlet, a bay of the North Pacific ocean, on the 

 weft coaft of North America ; 30 miles S. of Queen 

 Charlotte's Sound. 



Trinity IJland, an ifland in the North Pacific ocean, 

 difcovered by captain Cook. Captain Vancouver pafTed 

 this coaft in the year 1 794, and fays it appeared to be divided 

 into two iflands, with feveral others of inferior fize lying to 

 the north, between them and the land about Cape Trinity. 

 The eail point of the eafternmoft is, according to his obfer- 

 vations, fituated in N. lat. 56" 33'. E. long. 206^47'. 



TRINIUMGELD,or Thkiniumgild, a compenfation 

 ufed among our Saxon anceftors for great crimes, which 

 were not abfolved but by paying a fine thrice nine times. 

 See Geld. 



TRINK, in our SUitutes, is ufed for a fi(hing-net. 

 z Hen. VI. cap. 15. .Blount. 



TRINO, in Geography, a town of France, in the depart- 

 ment of the Sefia, lately belonging to the duchy of Mont- 

 ferrat, fituated in a marfhy foil : the country near produces 

 great quantities of corn, rice, and cheefe, by fome fuppofed 

 equal to thofe of Piacenza or Parma. The fortifications 

 are for the moft part demolifhed. It has one collegiate 

 and feveral parilh churches, and religious houfes ; 10 miles 

 S.S.W. of Vercelli. N. lat. 45° 17'. E. long. 8° 16'. 



TRINOBANTES, Trinouantes, or Trinovantes, 

 in Ancient Geography, were inhabitants of Britain, fituated 

 next to the Cantii northward, and occupied, according to 

 Camden and Baxter, that country wliich now compofes the 

 counties of Eflex and Middlefex, and fome part of Surrey. 

 But if Ptolemy be not miftaken, their territories were not 

 fo extenfive in his time, as London did not then belong to 

 them. The name of this Britiih nation feems to be derived 

 from the three following Britifti words ; Tri, Now, Hant, 

 which fignify the inhabitants of the new city. This name 

 was perhaps given them by their neighbours, on account of 

 their having newly come from the continent into Britain, 

 and having there founded a city called Tri-Now, or the New 

 City, the moft ancient name of the renowned metropolis of 

 Britain. The Trinobantes had come fo lately from Bel- 

 gium, that they feem hardly to have been firmly eftabhfhed 

 in Britain, at the time of the firft Roman invafion. For 

 their new city, which foon after became fo famous, was then 

 fo inconfiderable, that it is not mentioned by Cajfar, though 

 he muft have been within fight of the place where it was 

 fituated. They were then at war with their neighbours, the 

 Cattivellauni, whofe king, Caffibelanus, commanded the 

 confederated Britons agninft the Romans ; and, on this ac- 

 count, the Trinobantes were amongft the firft of the Britifh 

 ftates who deferted that confederacy and fubmitted to Casfar. 

 They fubmitted again to the Romans, on their next invafion 



in the reign of Claudius, with the fame facility, and almoft 

 for the fame reafon. For, in the interval between the i 

 invafion of Julius and that ot Claudius, the Cattivellauni had i 

 reduced them under their obedience ; and, in order to eman- 

 cipate themfelves from this fubjeAion to their neighbours, 

 they put themfelves under the proteftion of the Romans. 

 But the Trinobantes foon became weary of their obedience 

 to their new mafters. For the Roman colony at Camulo- 

 dunum, which was within their territories, depriving fome 

 of them of their eftates, and oppreffing them feveral other 

 ways, they joined in the great revolt of the Britons under 

 Boadicea, and (hared very deeply in the miferies of that 

 revolt. From that time the Trinobantes remained in 

 peaceable fubjeftion to the Romans, as long as they con- 

 tinued in Britain. The country of the Trinobantes was 

 greatly valued and much frequented by the Romans, on 

 account of the excellence of its foil and chmate, and 

 the many advantages of its fituation. That fagacious 

 people foon fixed their eyes on the new town of the Trino- 

 bantes ; and obferving its admirable fituation for health, 

 for pleafure, and for trade, great numbers of them fettled in 

 it, and giving it the name of Londinium from its fituation, 

 and of Augufta from its grandeur, it became in a httle 

 time the largeft and moft opulent city in this ifland. In the 

 reign of Nero, as Tacitus informs us, London was become 

 a city highly famous for the great conflux of merchants, 

 her extenfive commerce, and plenty of all things. No 

 fewer than feven of the fourteen journies of Antoninus 

 begin or end at London ; a plain proof, among many others, 

 that this city was the capital of Britain in the Roman times, 

 as it is at prefent the great and flourifhing metropolis of the 

 Britifh empire. Camulodunum, now Maiden in Eflex, 

 was the feat of the firft Roman colony in Britain, and a 

 place of great beauty and magnificence in thefe times ; 

 though at prefent few or no veftiges of its ancient gran- 

 deur remain. Casfaromagus, from its pompous name, was 

 probably a place of fome note in the Roman times ; but it 

 is now fo entirely ruined, that it is difficult to difcover the 

 ground where it once ftood ; fome of our antiquaries placing 

 it at Chelmsford, and others at Dunmovv. The Colonia of 

 Antoninus was probably Colchefter, and Durolitum, as 

 fome think, Leiton, but, according to others, Waltham. 

 But though the county of Eflt^x was certainly very much 

 frequented by the Romans, who erefted many noble works 

 in it, yet time, cultivation, and various accidents, have made 

 fo great a change in the face of that country, that very few 

 veftiges of thefe works are iiow remaining. The territories 

 of the Trinobantes were included in- that Roman province 

 which was called Britannia Prima. See Caminlodunum. 

 TRINOUA Necessitas, in our Ancient Cuftoms, a 

 threefold neceflary tax, to which all lands are liable ; vi%. 

 expeditio, Cs" reparatio pontis, isf arcis ; going to the wars, 

 and repairing of bridges and of caftles. 



Thefe were the three exceptions anciently inferted in the 

 king's grants of land to the church, after the words that 

 freed them from all fecular fervice. 



Trinoda, or Trinodia Terra, in fome Ancient Writers, 

 denotes a quantity of land containing three perches. 



TRINOMALY, in Geography, a town of Hindoofta 

 in the Carnatic, near which the troops of Hyder Ally wer 

 defeated by the Britifti, under colonel Smith in the yeaf 

 1768, with the lofs of the greateft part of their .artillery ;^ 

 45 miles S.S.W. of Arcot. N. lat. 12° 13'. E. long. 

 79° 10'. 



TRINOMIAL or Trinominal Root, in Mathematics, 

 is a root confiftirig of three parts, or m,onomes, conneftci! 

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together by the figns + or — . 



