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USER JJE Action, in Law, is the purfuing or bring- 

 ing an aftioa in the proper county, &c. See Action. 



USETIN, or WzETlx, in Geography, a town of Mo- 

 ravia, in the circle of Hradifch ; 30 miles N.E. of Hra- 

 difch. 



USEU, a town of Spain, in Catalonia ; 37 miles N. of 

 Balaguer. 



USEVASKOI, a town of Ruflia, in the government of 

 Archangel, on the Mezen ; 64 miles N.E. of Pineg. 



USHA, in Hindoo Mythology, is a name of Reti, the 

 wife of Kama, the god of love. She is fabled to have been 

 incarnate in the perfon of a daughter of a raja named 

 Bhima, to be efpoufed terrellrially by Kama, in an incarna- 

 tion of his in the form of Amrudha, a fon of Kriftina. 

 Kama is more commonly called Pradyamna in this avatara, 

 or incarnation. The amours and adventures of Anirudha 

 and Ufha are the fubjecl of a pretty tale, and a very inte- 

 refting drama in feveral of the languages of the Eaft. 



USHANT, or OuESSANT, in Geography, a fmall ifland 

 in the Pacific ocean, difcovered in 1768 by M. Bougain- 

 ville, near the coaft of New Guinea. S. lat. 11° 5'. E. 

 long. 146° 33'. 



UsHANT. See OUESSANT. 



USHENICK Point, a cape on the eaft coaft of Lewis. 

 N. lat. 57° 56'. W. long. 6^25'. 



USHER, HuissiER, fignifies an officer or fervant who 

 has the care and direftion of the door of a court, hall, 

 chamber, or the like. 



In the king's houfhold there are four gentlemen-ulhers of 

 the privy chamber, appointed to attend the door, to give en- 

 trance, &c. to perfons that have admittance thither : four 

 gentlemen-uftiers, waiters, and an afliftant gcntleman-uflier, 

 and eight genllcmcn-uftiers, quarter-waiters in ordinary. 



There are alfo in the queen's houfhold three gentlemen- 

 uftiSrsof the private chamber, three gentlcmcn-ufhers, daily 

 waiters ; each of whom has the fame annual appointment 

 with thoie of the king's houfhold ; and three gentlcmcn- 

 ufhers, quarterly waiters. In the French court, there are 

 two ulhers of the ante-chamber, or hall, where the king 

 dines in public. They wait, fword by fide, all tiie year, and 

 open the door to fuch as are to come in. There are above 

 fixteen ufliers of the chamber, two of the cabinet, and one 

 of the order of the Holy Ghoft. 



The ufhers of the Inquifition in Spain and Portugal 

 were perfons of the firft quality, who thought themfelves 

 highly honoured, by only looking to the doors of that fa- 

 cred tribunal. 



Usher is alfo ufed for an officer in the exchequer ; of 

 which fort, three or four attend the chief officers and barons 

 at the court at Weftminfter, as alfo juries, fhcriffs, and 

 other accomptants, at the pleafure of the court. See Ex- 



CHEQLEIl. 



Usher of the Black-rod. See BLACK-ro</. 



In a chapter held at Whitehall, 13 Car. II. it was or- 

 dained, that this office fliould be fixed to one of the gentle- 

 mcn-ufliers, daily waiters at court ; the eldeft of which 

 always holds the place, and is called gentleman-ufher, and 

 black-rod. 



In relation to the order of the Garter, he is appointed to 

 carry the rod at the fcaft of St. George, and other fo- 

 Icmnities, which he alfo makes ufc of as an authority to 

 attach delinquents, who have offended againfl the ftatutes of 

 the order, which he frequently doth by touching them with 

 it. He wears a gold badge, cmbellifhed with tlie cnfigns of 

 the order. He has a houfc in Windfor-caftle, and other 

 privileges. 



Usher, James, in Biography, archbifliop of Armagh, 



and primate of Ireland, was born at Dublin, January 4, 

 ij8o-i, being a defcendant of an Englifh family of the 

 name of Neville, long fettled in Ireland. He was taught 

 to read by two maternal aunts, who had been blind from 

 their infancy ; and having been inftruAed in the elements of 

 literature by two excellent fcholars, who had removed from 

 Scotland to Dublin, his proficiency was fuch, that in his 

 13th year he was lit for admiflion into the newly founded 

 univerfity of Dublin ; and lie was pne of the three matri- 

 culated ftudents on its opening in 1593. At this early 

 period he is faid to have been inchned to poetry ; but at the 

 age of 14, he was ferioufly engaged in hiftorical ftudies. 

 Such was his progrefs in this department of hterature, that 

 between his 15th and i6th years he had drawn up a chronicle 

 of the Bible, as far as the book of Kings. Divinity was 

 alfo an objeft that engaged his early attention, and the cir- 

 cumftances of the times led him to ftudy the points in con- 

 troverfy between the Catholics and the Proteftants ; and he 

 devoted no lefs than 1 8 years of the prime of his life to this 

 kind of employment. He was diverted, however, from his 

 academical career ; yet in 1596 took his degree of B.A. 

 It was the wifh of his father that he would purfue the pro- 

 feflion of law ; but his views and purpofcs were of a dif- 

 ferent kind : and that he might not be embarraffed and ob- 

 flrufted by law-fuits, to wiiich his patrimonial property 

 might be fubjecl, he refigned his inheritance to his brother, 

 referving only for himfelf a fufficicncy to maintain liim at 

 college, and to procure a fupply of books. Of his profi- 

 ciency in the Popifh controverfy, he gave an extraordinary 

 proof when he was about 1 8 years of age ; a challenge was 

 publifhed by a Jefuit to maintain in difputation the Catholic 

 caufe againfl the Proteflants. Ufher accepted the challenge, 

 and had an interview with the Catholic champion. The 

 difpute terminated by a difcontinuance of the conference on 

 the part of the Jefuit. In 1600 Ufher took the degree of 

 M.A., and was chofcn proftor and catechetical lefturer of 

 the univerfity; and in his 21ft year he was pcrfuaded, 

 though under the canonical age, to become a candidate for 

 ordination, which was conferred upon him by his uncle, the 

 archbifhcip of Armagh. Tlie fubjedl of his firft fermon was 

 tlie controverfy between the Prot'.flants and Catholics ; and 

 he took occafion, in the ardour of his zeal, to oppofe the 

 toleration, or indulgence, with regard to the exercife of 

 tlieir worfhip, which tlic Catholics were then endeavouring 

 to obtain, becaufe he confidered their religion as fuper- 

 iHtious and idolatrous, and the eftablifhed government in 

 church and tlatc as endangered by it. Tlie firft eccle- 

 fiaftical preferment conferred upon Ufher was the chanccUor- 

 ihip of St. Patrick's, Dublin, and this he held till he was 1 

 promoted to the epifcopal bench. In 1606 he revifited 

 England, and contradled an intimate acquaintance with the 

 two eminent antiquarians, Camden and fir Robert Cotton. 

 To the former he communicated information relating to 

 Ireland and Dublin, which was very ferviceable to him in 

 the compofition of his " Britannia." In 16&7 he took the 

 degree of B.D., and was foon after made profeflor of divinity 

 in the univerfity of Dublin, which office he occupied during 

 I 3 years. About this time his attention was directed to a 

 difpute concerning the Corban lands, anciently appropriated 

 to the chorcpifcopi, and free from fecular impoits and jurif- 

 diftion, but liable to certain payments and irrvices to the 

 bifhops. Tile fubftance of the treatife compofed by him on 

 this fubjeiht was tranflated into Latin, and afterwards pub- 

 liflicd by fir Henry Spelman, in the firft part of his Glof- 

 fary. On his next vifit to England, in 1609, he was no- 

 ticed at court, and very miicli augmented his literary coii- 

 ncdious J and from this lime he vitited England regularly 



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