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Downs, and the coat of France. This fortrefs is appro- 
priated for the r<fidence of 2 Warden of the Cinque- ports; 
and fur chis purpole, a few years ago, ap principal apart- 
ments were handfomely fitted up for Mr. Pitt, on his tem- 
porary retirement from _ c eallorbip of the exchequer. 
EAL, a town of a 
and county of Monm uth, - miles S.. of Shrewfbury, ta 
which the inhabitants of Philadelphia refort, in fummer, for 
health and pleafure. 
ULATORY, or Amputacrum, from deam 
bulo, a lobby or portico for walking in, anciently ve ry com~ 
s or other fimiar ba aildings which were 
One of thefe deanybu- 
latories, in length haifa furlong, is to be a ou the eaf 
fide of the hofpital of St. Crofs, near Winche 
DE AMICIS, Anna, in Biography, an exquilite ne 
Italian finger and a¢trefs, arrived in England in t Ae autum 
of 1762, with her family, a ll engaged for the poeie, 
but all in fubordinate parts, except herfelf, mee aS ape 
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was cigged at Milan, as firft fer woman, in whic 
acter fhe fung at the minor hes oO Italy with al 
aaa till 1773 n fhe was again called to Milan, 
to cr departure to Peterfburg, whither fhe went 
her p ofeffional ac and amiabie character 
DEA NeETTLE, a name provincially applied to the weed, 
wild hem 
DEAN, a 
a prime dignitary in moft cathedral aus collegi- 
ate Seen being ufually the hae of the chapt 
dean, decanus, of the Greek dex, ten, as eu 
DEA 
rary over theiy canons in all civil or criminal matters s 
thouzh fometimes this belengs to them in common with the 
eheuk r. 
In Iingland, as there are two foundations of cathedral 
and elle churches, the old and the new (the latter be- 
ing thofe founded by Henry VIII. on the fuppreffion of the 
abbots and priors, when their oo were turned into 
dean and chapter); fo there wa ays of _ 
deans. Thofe of the old founds ae the dea 
Paul’s, York, &c. are raifed to their digecg mee tke @ 
bifhop; the king firft fending out his conge d’clire to the 
chapter; the chapter then oe ane axing yieldieg his 
royal affent, and the bifhop con 
mandate to to him 
deans of Canterbury, Dur m, Ely, Nor 
&c. are paar and abe jattalled bya ioe ports 3; only 
by the king’s letters patent, without cither election or con- 
firmation, and are vilitable only by the lord chancellor, or 
by fpecial commiffion from the king; but the letters patent 
are prefented to the bifhop for infliiution, and a mandate 
for inftallment goes forth. 1 Init. 5. 
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Canterbury, Norwich, Winchette 
ter, Worce(ter, and Carlifle. ‘The new deaneries and chap- 
ters to new bifhoprics are a Peterborough, Chefter, Glou- 
cefter, Briftol, and Oxfor 
eaneries and preben vie 3 may ea void, like a ioe ies 
before poflefled are void; 
in right of his prerogative royal. But ae are not void by 
the eleétion, but only by the confecratio 
ere are fome cathedral churches nie never had a dean; 
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ad of the chapter, and in his abfence the archdeacon. The 
bithop is deemed es quati decanus,’ ad and has, i t is fai, ait an 
1th echoir. 
St. Afaph and Bangor, the two other Walt ‘cathedrals, 
have the dignity of ge diftinét from that of bifhop; but 
the patronage of deaneries is in the refpeCtive bifhops, 
ie pane) neither seas py the chapter, nor donative in 
e nit. n Ireland the king appoints to 
deaneriee as to bifhoprics, bp letters patent. Jd. 
Conftantine, we are told, erected an office of nine ‘hundred 
or a litter, to carry the bodies in. It is fuppofed to be thofe 
who, under Conftantius, began to be called copiate; i. e, 
clerks dettined for labour; for they are ire ranked among 
the clerks, and even before the chanto By a law of the 
year 3 57) it appears that there were ioe of see. copiataz 
it 
EAN is alfo a title applied among us to divers perfons 
that are the ch - of fom e peculiar churches, or 
as, the dea cts el, who ues ue a 
ecu liar, 
