DAN 
the foldan, and the firft A gies fhips failed to Alexandria 
“hi fi 
in 1345. is new trade occafioned a war between the 
republics of Genoa and Venice, which continued with vari- 
ous fuccefs fome years, and whic ve rife to a correfpon- 
dence between the doge, and the celebrated Petrarch. 
san author 
tained confiderab!e reputation for impartiality, and for the 
exhibition of authentic h the author pro- 
odern Univer. Hitt. 
ANDRIDGE, in Geography, deriving its name from 
the maiden name of the wife of the pre refident Wafhington, a 
ica, in the te of Teneffee, 
iles W ington 
ient Geography, a people of Ger- 
my | in a neighbourhood of the Ta- 
e Nert 
a St Laure 
is pretended, fell miraculoufly from heaven, and revived the 
courage of Wilderman’s foldicrs, fo that they beat the Livo- 
nians in a battle, in which they were at that time engaged. 
This ftandard, in which was feen a white crofs, was called, 
in the language of the country, ‘* Danebroz,”’ or ‘* Danen- 
burgh,’ 7. e.the ftrength ofthe Danes. Chriftian V. in the 
year 1671, revived the order, which had fallen to decay. The 
badge of the order i is “a crofs pattée enamelled white, charged 
with 11 diamonds.’ e collar worn on grand days, is **a 
haa, conti ting if the (ee W. C. alternately, and crown- 
Denmark ; 
d red, worn fcarfwile from right to left 
The knights likewife have embroidered on their coats a filver 
flar, furmounted with a crofs argent, edged gules, and thus 
ae C. V. Resriruror. 
pi, GioseFro, and Gio. SrTEFano, called 
eae Montalti, in Biography, two painters, natives of 
Treviglio, a town in the ftate of Milan, where they flourithed 
in the 17th century. They were both educated in the 
{chool of Morazzone: the former, however, afterwards ftudied 
with Guido Reni, whofe ftyle he fought to imitate, as ap- 
pears by his Murder of the Innocents, in the church of S. 
Sebaftiano, at Milan. 
too ak poet! pervades his works. 
Stefano ae in 1689, at the age of 81. His brother died 
at the age of 70, but " — year is unknown. 
DA NEMORA. ANNEMORA. 
DANEGELT, or Dae -geld, from Dane and gelt, figni- 
- to ae his aaa with heavy aa, called dan 
DAN 
fying in Dutch, money, an —_— tax laid on our anceftors, 
firft of 15. afterwards 25 auld es of land ee the 
realm, for maintaining ‘fach a r of forces as 
thought fufficient to clear the Britifa fens of Danith ae 
which aaa preatly anyoyed our coats. 
t was a flanding yearly tax on the whole 
nation, one Se Ethelred, A.D.991. That prince, 
ays Camden, Britan. 142. agen oe by the continual 
invaftons of the Dane $ peace, was compelled 
negelt. At 
firft they paid 10,000/, then 16,oco/. then aq cost: after 
that 36,0o00/, ae atl, 48,0001, ad annum. 
“thelre ade orous effort to vee his 
people fr oa one eee ine by a general tax on all 
the land of the kingdom, for fitting out a fleet, which might 
efletually guard againft the Danes. 
t appears a records, that danegelt was levied in the 
he Confeffor, not to be paid to the Danes, 
—_ us a very 
out of charity to the poor. . 
this emporary evil was no“ proper caufe for abolifhing a t 
which at other times might be neceflary, to pe iene ; and 
therefore ae Lyttelton much doubts the hittorian’s exa 
nefs in faying it was fo abolifhed. Edward’s fuceelioe, 
Tarold, oe ‘together a fleet of 7co fhips of war; and yet 
we do not find tbe dauegelt, or uaa ne impolition, 
was levicd by t prince. In the year 1083,.0r 1 
Wiliam i Conqueror apprehending a great ¢ ovation of 
England from Denmark an anders, revived danegel 
and aienceas it to fix eng 
little more than had been 
t appears by ?? commonly called 
a. fifth of king Seana but which Mr. "Madox has demon- 
ftrated to belong to the reign of Henry I. that it was col- 
leé&ted fix years together by that king, and accounted for in 
the fame words that were wont to be ufed in accounting for 
the fettled yearly revenue. Of Stephen’s reign we have no 
rolls ; but fome hiftories take notice of his levying of dane- 
gelt, which he had a good pretence'to do, as he was in per- 
petual fear of invafions from Normandy, or other parts of 
France, i in favour of Matilda, or her fon. 
the au of that c pape ape 
was often made, in every age, li 
defence of the Britifh ‘teas, oud "Tecurity of - 
Lord Lyttelton’s Hittory, &c. vol. tii. p. 65, & 
DANE-LAGE. See Common Law 
DANE-WORT, in eae 
Danewort, in Agriculture, is a 
pioaeci ly to that Tort of dae wafually known 
of dwarf- elder and wall-wort, (Sambucus ebulus). 
ingdom, 
- sie BUCUS. 
fometimes applied 
names 
