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rank again, their naftinefs fubjefts them to the fame vifita- prior of Barling's abbey, with the vicar and thirteen other 



tions of thefe vermin which It ufed to have. ring-leaders, fuffered death. In this town were anciently 



The people in general, in the Indies, are very fubjeft to eftablifhed three religions fraternities, called " The Guild of 



lice in their heads, though free from them in their bodies, our BlelTed "Lady, the Guild of the Holy Trinity, and the 



The reafon of this is, that their heads fvi'eat lefs than their 

 body, and they take no care to comb and clean them. The 

 Spanifh negroes wafh their headi thoroughly once every 



Chantry of John of Louth." King Edward VI. alienated 

 the funds of thefe guilds, and granted them for the purpofe 

 of eroding and endowing a free grammar fchool. The 



week with foap, to prevent their being loufy. This makes lands then produced 40/. per annum, but are now let at 400/. 



., r u u„.».-_ .!,„_ ^i,„ ,.»t ...u- -__ One-half of the produce was granted for a head matter'* 



falary, one-fourth for the ufhcr's, and the remainder for the 

 perpetual maintenance of twelve poor women. The truftees 

 of this foundation were incorporated by the name of " The 

 warden and fix affiftan's of the town of Louth, and frce- 

 fchool of king Edward VI. in Louth." Another free-fchool, 

 on a very refpeftable fcalc, was founded in purfuance of the 

 will ef Dr. Mcipletoft, dean of Ely, bearing date Auguft 

 17th, 1677. The church of St. James is a fpacious edifice, 

 confiding of a nave, two aifles, with an elegant tower and 

 fpire at the weft end. The eaft end, which prefents a fine 

 elevation, exhibits a large central window, having 



them efcape much better than the other negroes who are 

 flaves there, for the lice grow fo numerous in their heads, 

 that they often eat large holes in this part. 



M. de la Hire has given a curious account of the crea- 

 ture which he found on the common fly. Having occafion 

 to view a living fly by the microfcope,he obferved on its head, 

 back, and (houlders, a great number of fmall animals, 

 crawling very nimbly about, and often climbing up the 

 hairs, which grow at the origin of the fly's legs. He, with 

 a fii^.e needle, took up one of thefe, and placed it before 

 the microfcope, ufed to view the animalcules in fluids. It 

 had eight legs, four on each fide ; they were not placed 



„ _ . . ^ - , jj fix up. 



very diftant from one another, but the four toward the head right muUions and varied tracery, with two lateral windows 



were feparated by a fmall fpace from the four toward the opening into the aifles. Internally the nave is feparated from 



tail. The feet were of a particular ftrufturo, being com- the aifles by oftagonal columns, the alternate fides of which 



pofed of feveral fingers, as it were, and fitted for taking are relieved by fingle flutes. The chancel, which has an 



raft hold of any thing ; the two nearell the head were alfo altar piece containing a pifture of the Dt-fcent from the Crofs 



more remarkable in this particular than thofe near the tail ; by Williams, is of more modern date than the body of the 



the extremities of the legs, for a little way above the feet, church, and is probably coeval with the juftly admired fteeple. 



were dry and void of flefh, like the legs of birds, but above The latter was begun in the year 1501, and completed in 



this part they appeared plump and flefhy. It had two fmall 

 horHS upon its head, formed of feveral hairs arranged clofely 

 together ; and there were fume other clufters of hairs by the 

 fide of thefe horns, but they had not the fame figure ; and 



fifteen years. The height was originally 360 feet ;' but the 

 flat ftone on the fummit was blown off" in 15S7, and carried 

 with it part of the building into the body of the church. 

 The whole fpire being blown down Oftobcr nth, 1634, the 



toward the origin of the hinder legs there were two other prefent one was ereded. The tower part of the lleecle 



fuch clufters of hairs, which took their origin at the middle 

 of the back. The whole creature was of a bright yellowifli 

 red; and the legs, and all the body, except a large fpot in 

 the centre, were perfectly tranfparent. In fize, the author 



confifts of three ftories : each ftage terminates with elegant 

 pediments, fupported by ornamental corbels ; in this manr.er 

 diminifliing to the top, where are four odlagonal embattled 

 turrets. At eighty feet from the bafe, round the exterior 



believes it was about 5^"5,dth part of the bignefs of the head of the tower, runs a gallery, guarded by a parapet wall ; 

 of the fly; he obferves, that it is rarely that flies are found and at the height of 170 feet the battlements commence, 

 infefted with them. Mem. Acad. Par. 1693. The top ftone projeds with a cornice; the height of the 



Louse, Tree. See Aphis. fpire to the crofs is 141 feet ; the total height of the whole 



Louse, Wood. See Millepedes. 288 feet. The living of St. James is a vicarage, in the gift 



'Loxjsv.-'wort, in Botany. See Pedicularis. of a prebendary of Lincoln cathedral, to which it was an- 



LousE-'ifort, Tello'w. See Rhi.nanthus. nexed by the Conqueror. The vicarage houfe, which ftands 



The Dutch carry on a trade with the feeds and feed- contiguous to the church yard, is an old thatched building; 

 veffels of a fpecies of this plant, refembling the common and the prefent vicar has, in unifon w'th its appe.irance, 

 yellow meadow loufe-wort, to Germany, and call ii femen laid out his garden in a curious ftyle of ingenious rullicity : 

 faradittos i they ufe it for deftroying bugs: for this purpofe, it is denominated the hermitage. In Louth was formerly 

 they boil a quantity of the feeds and capfules in common another church, named St. Mary's ; it is now total 1) demo- 

 water, with which they walh their wainfcots, bedftcads, &c. liflied; but the church-yard is the place of fepulture for 

 where thefe infeds are lodged ; and thus they are eft'edually the town, as that of St. James has not been ufed for that 

 deftroyed. Miller. purpofe for forty years paft. The DiflTenters from the efta- 



LOU-TCHOU, in Geography, a river of Thibet, which blifhment have three places of worlhip ; one for Catholics, 

 runs into the Sampoo ; 22 miles S.W. of Tankia. - .- ^ . - . ...... 



LOUTESTINA, a town of Croatia; 12 miles S. of 

 Creutz. 



LOUTH, a large market town in the wapentake of 

 Louth Eike, in the Lindfay divlfion of Lincolnfliire, 

 England, is fituated in a fertile valley at the eaftern foot 

 of the Wolds, 26 miles diftant from Lincoln, and 153 

 from London. It was anciently called Luda, from us 

 proximity to the Ludd, a fmall rivulet formed by the 

 confluence of two ftreams. Among the few hiftorical events 



one for Baptifts, and one for Methodiits. The other prin- 

 cipal buildings are a town-hall, an aflembly room, and a 

 theatre. The civil government of the town is vefted in the 

 warden and fix afliltants, incorporated, as already mentioned, 

 by Edward VI., who in the fame charter granted two mar- 

 kets to be held on Wednefdays and Saturdays, and three 

 fairs to commence on the third Sunda'y after Eafter, St. 

 James's day, and the feaft of St. Martin ; with a particular 

 injundion, that they fliould continue two whole days after, 

 that the firll day of each tair might be appropriated " to 

 relative to Louth, we find that in the rebellion of the year hearing the word of God." Q'jeen Ehzabeth gave to the 

 1536, occafioned by the fuppreflion of the religious houfes, corporation ihe manor of Louth, of which the annual value 

 the inhabitants took an adive part, under Dr. Mackerel, was then 78/. i+r. \id. for the better fupport of the cor- 

 who was known by the name of captain Cobler, when the porate dignity ; and fome additional privileges were granted 



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