LOR 



So that wliere there is lord paramount, lord mefne, and 

 tenant ; the lord paramount is not very lord to the tenant. 



Lord Hi^h-Atlmh-al of England, is one of the great 

 officers of the crown, whofe trull and honour arc fo great, 

 that it was formerly feldom given, except to fome of the 

 king's youngeft fons or near kinfiaen. 



To him i'^, by the king, entnifted the management of all 

 maritime alTairs, as well in reipeft to jurifdiftion as protec- 

 tion ; with the government of the Britiih navy ; and a 

 power to decide all controverfies and caufes maritime, as 

 well civil as criminal ; fiich as happen either on our coafls, 

 or heyond fea, anKjng his majedy's fubjefts. 



T" him alfo belong fuch wrecks aiad prizes, as are called 

 lagon, jelfoii, i^nA Jlotfan ; that is, goods lying in the fea, 

 floating, or call afliore, excepting in fuch royalties as are 

 granted to other lords of nianors, &c. with all great fillies, 

 called royal Jill, except whales and fturgeon ; a (liare of 

 prizes in the "time of war, and the goods of pirates and 

 felons condemned. 



The lord high-admiral has under him many officers of 

 high and low condition ; fome at fea, others at land ; fome 

 of a military, others of a civil capacity ; fome judicial, 

 others miniftcrial. 



This great office is now ufiiallv executed by feven com- 

 miffioiiers, who are ftyled lords of the admiralty : one is called 

 the firft lord, with a falary of 3000/. a-year, the others have 

 looo/. a-year each. Under thefe there are a fecretary and 

 deputy-fecretary, and ftveral inferior clerks. See Lord 

 High Admiral of England. 



in the court, called the court of admiralty, all proce.Tcs 

 ilTue in his name, not the king's, as they do in a'l other 

 courts ; fo that the dominion and jurifdlclion of the fea may 

 jurtly be ftyled another commoni^ealth or kingdom apart, 

 and the lord high admiral the viceroy of the maritime 

 kingdom. 



He hath under him a lieutenant, or deputy, who is judge 

 of the admiralty, commonly a doctor of the civil law. See 

 Court of Admiralty. 



Lord Privy-fsal has his office by patent : before the 

 30th o-f Henry VIH. he was generally an ecclefiaftic ; fince 

 which, the office has been ufually conferred on temporal 

 peers, above the degree of barons. 



The lord privy-feal, receiving a warrant -from the iignet- 

 oflice, ilTues the privy-feal, which is an autliority to the lord 

 chancellor to pafs the great feal where the nature of the 

 grant requires the Seal ; which fee. But the privy-feals 

 for money begin in the treafury, from whence the firlt war- 

 rant iffues, counterligned by the lord treafurer. On the lord 

 privy. feal are attendant four clerks, who iiave two deputies 

 to adl for them. 



Loud Stituard of the King's Houfhold. is the principal of- 

 ficer for the civil government of the kmg's iervants below- 

 ftairs ; over the officers of which he has jurifdidion.. See 



HOUSHOLI). 



He is confVituted by the delivery of the white ftaff, which 

 is etteemed his commiffion. By virtue of his'officc, without 

 any other comn.iffion, he judges of all offences committed 

 within the court, or the verge therecf ; and gives judgment 

 according to their feveral deferts. See Court. 



At the death of the fovereign he breaks his ftaff over 

 therrave in which the royal corpfe is depofited, and thereby 

 difcha'-ges all the officers under his power. 



Lord Advocate. See Advocate. 



Lord High-Tnafurer. See Tre-VSureh and Hous- 



KOID. 



LOR 



LoLD Chamber, 

 Loud Great Ch 



■lain of the HovJJjold.' \ 

 hamberlain of En"latid. ) 



See CiiAMEtR* 

 .N and HoL'S- 



HOLD. 



See CjiancelloR, 



Lord High-Chancellor of England. 

 and Court of Chancery. 



Lords of the Bed-Chamber, are fourteen in number, under 

 the lord chamberlain. iSee Bkd-CIIAMBer, and Housuolb^ 



Lords, Houfs of. See Peers. 



Lords ofSi/Jlon. See Session'. 



Lords of the Treafury. See Treasury. 



Lords Lieutenants of Counties, arc officers of great diflinc- 

 tion, appointed by the king for the managing of the Handing 

 militia of the county, and all military matters therein. They 

 are fuppofed to have been introduced about the reign of 

 king Henry VIIL, for they arc mentioned as known oiacers 

 in theftatute 4 and 5 Ph. & M. c. 3. though they. had not 

 been then long in ufe ; for Camden fpeaks of them, in the 

 time of queen Elizabeth, as extraordinary magiftrates con- 

 ftituted only in times of difficulty and danger. 



They are generally of the principal nobility, and of tlie 

 beft intereft in the county : they are to form tlie mihtia ia 

 cafe of a rebellion, S;c. and march at the head of them, as 

 the king fhall direft. 



They have the power of commiffioning colonels, majors, 

 captains, and fubaltern officers ; alfo to prelent the king 

 with the names of deputy-lieutenants, who are to be felecled 

 from the beft gentry in the county, and act in the abCence o£ 

 the lords-lieutenants. 



Subfervient to the lord-lieutenants and deputyjieutenants, 

 are the juilices of peace; who, according to the order they- 

 receive from them, are to iffuc out warrants to the high and 

 petty-conftables, &c. for mihtary fervice, &c. 



Lord's Day. See Sunday. 



Lord Howe's Group, in Geography, a clufter of ifTands 

 in the Pacific ocean, difcovered by captain Hunter in the 

 year 1791. Thirty-two of thefe iflands were diilinftly 

 counted from the maft-head, and ihey lay at fuch a diftance^ 

 as to afford reafon for fuppofiiig that thoy were mere nunie-' 

 rous. Some of the natives, who appeared in a boat, were 

 clean, ftout, well-formed perfons, of a dark copper-colour; 

 their hair was tied in a knot at the back of their head, and 

 they feemed to have fome method of taking off their beards, 

 of which they were dellitute ; but they had an ornament, con- 

 fifting of a number of fringes, like an artificial beard, which 

 was faftened on between the nole and mouth, to which hung 

 a row of teeth, fo that they appeared as if they had a fecond 

 mouth lower tlian their natural one ; they had alfo pieces of 

 reed, or bone, thruft into holes in the fides of the nofe,. and 

 paffing through the feptuni ; their arms and thighs were 

 tatto.ved, and fome were painted with red and white ftreaks j 

 and their middle wns covered with a wrapper. Their canoe, 

 whicii was badly conftruaed, had an out-rigger, and was 

 about forty -feet in length. Thefe iflands appeared- to be 

 very thickly covered with wood, among which tlie cocoa-nut 

 was very diflinguifliable. S. lat. 5' 35^. E. long. 159* 

 24'. 



LORDOSIS, from XofSor, lent inwards, in Surgery, an 

 incurvation of the back bone ; or, a curvature of tUefpiner 

 forwards. 



LORE, in Geography, a town of the principality of 

 Georgia, in the province of Karduel ; 65 miles N.E. of 

 Erivan. * 



LOREDO, or LoKEO, a fee of Italj-, in the'Venetiaa 

 Dogada, near a canal of the Adis;e, anciently called •' Laii— 

 return Venctum." It is the principal place of a diiLncl,. 



and. 



