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ae se obi 2 Jews eae tee the Perfian domt- 
nions , mber whom we red and meer “ed 
wit Anes ae rea ne 
revenge for the outrages which 
their progrefs to the yah and glory which they anticipated 
aah their leader. 
vip, Francis, a aed divine in the 16th century, 
was a pie of Hungary. Of the piace of his birth we have 
no account, nor are we informed under whom he {ludied; 
he began life a Catholic, and employed his talents in oppof- 
ing the progrefs of Calvinifm in Tranfylvania ; he afterwards 
became a convert to the Lutheran faith, which he foon 
abandoned for the principles of the reformed church. 
was next the advocate of Unitarian‘fm in its moft fimple ftate. 
pofed Socinusin the notion of giving worfhip to Jefus 
Chrift, declaring that to invoke him was an unchriftian error, 
which muft incur the difpleafure of the Supreme Being ; 
and that it was equally lawful to pray to the Virgin Mary 
and other eae faints, who have at no tim 
allied to Judaifm, and hones e ea is party were aie 
femi-Judaizers. David was Lae ted i Socinus and the 
feét over which he daily d by their means, or at lealt 
their connivance, he w aon n ae prifon, where he 
languifhed for fome heey aati his death, which happened in 
1579. He was author of ** A Letter to the Churches of Po- 
land, on the fubjec& ‘i Chrift’s Reign of a thoufand years 
upon Earth,”? and various ae pieces. Moreri. See alfo 
the article Socinus inthis di& ionary. 
AVID’s, ST., in Geography, is a city and fee of a bifhop 
in the sr gpl - Dewifland, or land of St. Dewy, i.e. St. 
David, and co of Pembroke, South Wales, England. 
t is fixteen aie fouth-welt o Pome Taner and two- 
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hundred and filty-feven from London. The city ftands near 
prlents at t nly re) ormer wriclen our. 
e nave, sohtde see as ‘part of the ids ty are has fe- 
veral chapels and oratories in a ruinous and contatning 
many ancient monuments. In the choir aretheton sof Owen 
ewdwr, or Tudor, and Edmund earl of Ri father to 
Henry the feventh. ¢ a was ree tom ud memo- 
ore central and eligible part of 
The cater: church has been lately repaired 
; the cieling of. Trifh oak is much admired, to- 
e policy of the Ene! ifh court, the 
bifhopric became fuffragan to the fee of Canterbury. 
The members of the prefent cathedral are the bifhop, who 
is allo dean, a precentor, chancellor, treafurer, four arch- 
deacons, eight prebendaries, fix canons, and curfal, amount- 
ing to twenty-two, which is the qimbee of prebends. 
other members are, a fub-chanter, four pricf-vicars, four 
lay. vicars, an organift, four chorilters, a matter of the gram- 
mar-{chool, a verger-porter, fexton, and keeper of the 
church ; in the whole forty-one 
“The epifcopal palace is now in ruins, and the bifhop’s ufual 
refidence is at Abergwily, near the town of Carmarthen, 
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St. David's has neither fair nor market. The number of 
inhabitants cannot be exaétly fpecified. By the returns un- 
der the late at for the cantreve, or hundred, the number of 
houfes was ,14, and of inhabitants 1803. Near St. David'se 
head is the land of Ramfey, called in Britith Ynys Devanog, 
the ancient Linden of the Romans ; upon which ,once food 
a chapel, dedicated to tek or St. Devanog. The iflard, 
which ts the property of the lop, abounds with rabbits, 
and is famous for a peculiar breed of wild fheep, nearly re« 
er the mouflon or the animal in its natural fate. N 
ey are feven {maller iflands, called “the Bifhop and his 
Cler erks,” in aliufion to the original inflitution of St. David’s. 
ae are little more than bare rocks, and are otal ‘ly dan- 
gerous to fhips ae from as wellward, en the wind 
Biowsitrongly in fhore. Evans’s Tour through Seat h Wales 
Brow wn Wil s’s Hiltory of St. Davids Mallsin’s Scenery of 
South Wales. 
Davin’ 's-ffland, St., a parifh in the Bermuda iflands. 
Davib’s-Poiat, 2 cape on the north ae of the ifland of 
Grenada. N. ise. 12° ne W. long. 61° 
D’s-fown, at of America, fated on the Affan- 
pink river, in the {tate ot Nes Jerfzy, and co i 
terdon, 10 or 12 miles from Trenton. 
a Fou lately opened by means of three locks between 
tnete 
AVIDE, Gracomo, in Biography, one of the greateft 
ads fingers, with a tenor voice, that appeared on our flage 
during the laft century, 
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great finger, with a good fue and an excellent adicr. 
was not without pathetic powers, and expreffion ; but he had 
fuch a facility in running divitions, that i rendered bravura 
every air he fung, into which he conftantly i introduced certain 
ae ee cf refearch an — y, which were pe robably of 
is which no other finger could execute 5 
vent eeu they lott their effe&, by 
ceafing to aes and to nderful | He never 
d eard, which with _ a 
voice and fober would have pleaie 
with lefs expenditure of notes, than by all the unintelligible 
and untelt d flicnities with which he cou!d di a the ori- 
ginal melody. fhort, 1b was one general cry, that * he 
fung too much, — the Italians exprefs a two fimple 
0 canta tro 
We have heard ‘nothing of him lately ; and he has proba-- 
bly cre now retired from if not from this world. 
DAVIDIST 
fe& of heretics, the eons of Dane George, a native of 
elft, who, in 1525, b O preach a new dorine, pub- 
lifting himfelf to be a eae Meffiah : and that he was. 
fent thither to fall beaven, which was quite empty for want 
Fe is likewile faid to have denied 
e of angels, good and evil, of heaven and bell, 
and to have reje€ted the doctrine of a futurejudgment. He 
rejected marriage, with the Adamites; held, with Manes, that 
the foul was not defiled by fin; and laughed at the felf-denial 
fo much recommended by Jefus Chriit. 
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e left fome difciples behind in, ty whom he promifed, 
that is would rife apain at the end of three years, No 
up, and burnt, toge- 
ther with his writings, by the common langman. 
There: 
