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fto'cn (^oocls, but the svidcncc being infufiicicnt to conviA LiLV .■•//'hoi^c/, m J^ct,ir.y. See Criki-m. 



him he was acquitted.' In 1659, he received a haiHlfome "Lu.X, bH-idnnitti, ilaffodil, Gucritfiy, Mexican, znA Japan, 



gold chain and medal from tlie king of Sweden, on account names ufed by di!fercut iiuthors It*- the amarylhs, or liUo. 



of his havinjr mentioned that monarch in his ahnanac for narcitTus of Liiiiia;us and Touniefprt. 



two fncceffive years with applaufc. On tlic reftoration of 

 Cliarlcs II. he was examined as to the perfon who decapi- 

 tated the late kinj,s and declared that it was cornet Joyce. 

 On account of the part which it was known he hid taken 

 during the commonwealth, he was glad to fue out a pardon 

 under the great feal, which was granted him. In i66j, 

 when the plague raged in London, he removed to Herfliam. 

 After the great fire of London in 1666, he was examined 

 as to the perpetrators of the deed, but he was unable by his 

 art to fatisfy his employers. Shortly after this he adopted 

 for a fon a perfon named Henry Coley, a taylor by trade, 

 and gave him the profits of his almanac. Lilly died at 

 Heriham in 1681, when he was about feventy-nine years of 

 age. I^tis works were numerous, the titles of which are 

 piven in the Biog Brit., and alfo in Hutton's Mathematical 

 Diftiorary : the chief of them are " Chriftian Adrology ;" 

 •' A CoUedion of Nativities ;" " Obfcrvations on the Life 

 and Death of Charles Lite King of England ;" and «' Annus 

 Tcnebrofus, or the Black Year." 



Lilly of Paracelfus. See Tinctuke of Mdah. 

 Lilly Point, in Geography, a place of America, in King 

 William County, Virginia, in which is a pod-office; 134 

 miles from Washington. 



LILOAN, a town on the E. coaftof the iflandof Sibu ; 

 J>I. lat. 10 40'. E. long. I2_5^4j'. 



LILY, WiLLl.\.M, in Biography, a famous fchoolmaller 

 and grammarian, was born at Odiham, in Hamptliire, about 

 the year 1466. He was educated at Magdalen college, 

 Oxford, where he took a degree, and tlien went on a pilgri- 

 mage to the Holy Land. On his return he puifued iiis lludies 

 at Rhodes, which ifland, after the capture of Conllanti- 

 rople, was the refidence of feveral learned men, under the 

 protcftion of the knights, its potTetTors. Here he itudied, 

 and made great progrefs in, the Greek language ; but for 

 farther improvement in it, and in the Latin tongue, he vi 



Lily, DaJfoillU Sec A.m.\kvl/,is and Paxckatiu.m. 



Lily, Day, or Si. Rruno\<. Illy. See He-mkrolallis. 



Lily, Hyacinth. See Scii.la. 



Lily, May. See CoNVAi.LAiaA. 



Lily, Pcrfan. Sec FiirriLLAiu.'V. 



Lily, Superb. See Gi.oiuosa. 



LiLY-?/or«. See Catesh.t'.a. 



Lily of the Valley. Sec Coxvallaria. 



Lily, lluiter. See Nymmi-t-a. 



Lily, Lefer yellow luater. Sec Mexyaxtiics. 



LILYTwEUM, nowylfi7r/(;/a, m Ancient Geography, ztowti 

 of Sicily, S.of Drepanum, and near the promontoiy of the fame 

 name, mow called Cape Bocco. It was the princij)al fortrefs 

 of the Carthaginians in Sicily, and ih.e only city that refilled 

 Pyrrhus wiien he paffed into this ifland in the 47 ^th year of 

 Rome ; but having been ineffeftually befic-ged for five years, 

 it was ceded to the Romans after the victory of Lutatius, 

 A. U. C. 511. The ifle Tligadcs, the modern Maretimo, 

 which is oppofite to Marfala, feenis to be the key of that 

 immcofe harbour. It is formed by rocks, little low iflands, 

 tongues of land, and fand-banks, which break the waves on 

 all fides, and form a large femi-circle, within which the fea 

 is always calm. It was from this fort that the formidable fleet 

 commanded by Scipio Africanus failed, when he let out for 

 Afiica in the fecond Punic war, A.U.C.548. The beauty 

 of this harbour induced the Saracens to call it " Marfala," 

 fignifying, in their language, tl e " Port of God." The 

 number of inhabitants at Marfala is clUmated at a^jOoo. 

 Of this famous port and impregnable city, the traces that 

 remain are fome few ruins of the ancient walls W. of the 

 town, built with enormous mafles of llone, whicii no machine, 

 before the invention of cannon, could fliake. In front of 

 thefe wall.s were deep ditches, hewn out of the rock, fome 

 parts of which ftill exilt. Here is no longer any anchorage 

 for fliipping, and the port is only fit for the reception of 



fited Rome, and attended tlie ledures of the moit celebrated fmall barks. It was dellroyed, as it is faid, by Don John 



profeifors. He now returned to London, and opened a 

 fchool for the learned languages, rhetoric, and poetry, 

 which he taught on pure clalhcal principles. In 15 10, 

 when dean Collet founded St. Paul's fchool, he app;)inted 

 Lily the firft mailer, a ftatiou which he occupied v.'ith An- 

 gular utility for twelve years. He died of the plague in 

 1.J22, or 1523. Lily was much elleemed by his contempo- 

 raries, as well for his moral cliaradler, as for his literary 

 abilities. He was the author of feveral Latin poems and 

 tracls, but is bell known for the grammar that goes under 

 his name, and is llill ulcd in our public fchools. This was 

 not wholly of his own compofition, having been afillled in 

 It by the labours of cardinal Wolfey and dean Collet. Biog. 

 Brit. 



Lily, Geor€;e, eldefl fon of the preceding, was born in 

 London, and educated at Magdalen college, Oxford, after 

 whicli he was made canon of St. Paul's and prebendary of 

 Canterbury. He was the firft perfon who publifhcd an 

 cxaft map of Britain : he died in 1559, and left behind 

 feveral works of merit, as " Antjlorum Return Chronices 

 Epitome ;" " Regum Anglix Genealogia ;" " Catalogus 

 five Series Pontificum et Casfarum Ronianorum," &c. He 



of Audria, who being unable to defend it, would not leave 

 it open to the Africans, who were only at the difl.ance of 

 JO leagues. At prefent Marfila has only a fmail road, to 

 which veflels refort, in order to load with tunny, and the 

 aflies of kali, which are made here in great abundance, and 

 form the principal and almoft fole objetl of the commerce 

 of the country. The merchants of Marfeilles come hither 

 to purchafe it for their foap manufactories. 



LIM.A, in Geography, an audience of Peru, ereftedin the 

 year 1542, which contains within its jurifdidion one arch- 

 bilhopric and four bilhoprics ; -ui^. thofe of Truxillo, Gua- 

 manga, Cu/,co, and Arequipa. The arcl.bllhopric of Lima 

 comprehends 15 jurifdiclions, w'a. the circuit of Lima, Chan- 

 cay, Santa, Canta, Canete, lea, Pifco, and Naica, which 

 three places form one jurildiilion, Guarachia, Guanuco, 

 Yauyos, Caxatambo, Sarma, Jouxa, Canchucos, Guyalas, 

 and Guamalies. The diocefe of Truxdlo contains fevea 

 jurifdiclions; that of Guamanga nine; that of Cuzco 

 fourteen ; and that of Arequipa fix. 



Lima, a famous city of the audience of Lima, and capital 

 of the vice-royalty of Peru. This city, called " Civdad de- 

 los Reye?," or the city of the kings, from its having been 



left likewife a MS. life of bifliop Filher, which is depofited founded by Don Francifco Pizarro, on the read of the Epi- 



in the library of the Royal Society. Biog. Brit. phany, A. D. 1 5^3 ;, is fituated in the fpacious and de- 



LlLY-, \n Botany. SceLlLlCM. ' lightlul valley of Rimac, whence, by corruption, the name 



Lily, in Gurj/i-mn^, the common name of this well known Lima is derived: Rimac being the ap'^ellation of an idol 



flower plant. See Amauxlus, and Lilil'M. to wliicb the. native Indians ufed to offer facrificcs, as the 



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