DEB " 
that for a feries of years the dread of it has excited very un- 
argument. - Thomas Brown (Pfeudo-doxia Epi- 
demica, b. ii. c. 7.) long ago obferved, “ he that could ex- 
tinguith the terrifying apprehenfions hereof, might prevent 
the paffions of the heart, nae many cold {weats in grand- 
-mothers and nurfes.”? Wit e feelings of thefe perfons, 
a well- oma fatirilt = in ae following lines : 
——_———  “ a wood-wor 
That lies in old eo, like a hare in — 
With teeth or with claws it will bite or wil fe Bele 
And cha shaban wes this worm a DEATH -WATCH 
Becaufe like t always cries click, 
Then woe ee to o thot in the houfe, who are a 
For fure as a gun, they will give up the gho! 
If the maggot cries clk, when it {eratches the poft.” 
n’s Head, or Human Skull, in Heraldry, is often 
& 
oned. An order of 
Dear 
and vevived in the year 1709, by Louifa Eli- 
zabeth, widow of Philip, duke of Saxe-Mafburg, and young- 
eft daughter of the founder. The enfign of this order is 
a death’s head enamelled white, furmounted with a crofs 
pattée fable ; above the crofs pattée ee crofs, comvofed 
of five large jewels, by which it hangs a black sete 
es with white ; on the Bbhons is this eres ae 
Mor 
A, in Ancient Geography, a river of tha which 
-has its = foures to the north tn the mountains, abou i 
and running S.W. dicen itfelf into the Euphosves 
ae 37 45'» 
i 
wn of Afia in Syria, fituated in Comagené 
upon a > fircam, to the S.W, of Doliche, and W.o ol Zetons 
about lat. 36° 25'.—Alfo, a town of Afia, in Mefopotamia, 
fituated on the Tigris. Ptolemy. 
DEBALPOUR, in Guna hy, a town of Hindcoftan, 
-and capital of a diftrié in the country of Moultan, funated 
.on the great road from De E 
iles S. 
haere aud 150 wn of Hin- 
dooltan, in the Malwa ane 21 miles W. of Endore, 
and 13 ’s. i: Ou 
DEBEN, a river - England, in the county of Suffolk, 
a rifes near Debenham, and runs into the fea near Har- 
. This river is a from its mouth to the town 
of "Woodbridge. See 
DE BENE ESSE, a Latin aha ufed in our law-books. 
“To take, or do, a thing de bene effe, is to a accept, or allow 
it as well done for the prefent ; but when it comes to b 
more fully examined, or tried, to ftand or fall, to be allowed 
or difallowed, according to the merit or wells -being, of the 
thing in its ee nature ; or,’ as we fay, * Valeat quantum | 
ar er 
in ake ry, upon motion to have one of the lefs 
principal defendants in a caufe examined as a witnefs, the 
t (not then thoroughly ee the juftice of it, 
objected on the other fide) 
a 
4. e. that his depofitions fhall be allowed, or fuppreffed, at the 
hearing of the caufe upon a full debate of the eee as the 
-court fhall think fit; but for the nae on a well- 
eing, or a loa oa 3 When a com- 
plainant’s witnefles aged or fick, or be ond fea, 
and the plaintiff is in ance of ape ie teftimony, the 
DEB 
court will order them to be examined de bene effe : fo as to 
be valid if the plaintiff hath not an opportunity to examine 
them afterwards ; 3 a8 if they die before anf{wer, or do 
de be 
or rejeted upon the approbation or exceptio 
tif’s attorney. 
livered de hene effe. 
ENHAM, in Geography, a market town in the 
hundred of Thredling, in the county of ashes England ; 
is diftant from Ipfwich 12 miles, and 82 m London. It 
is fituated on the fide of a bill, which beclines - - river 
Deben. The church is a handfom 
ket houfe a good building. 
by fir Robert Hitcham. 
fuffered feverely by fire. It as a {mall market on Friday 
and one annual fair on the 24th of June. The cane 
of honfes appears, by the returns made under the late ad, 
of the plain- 
Declarations likewife are Tenens de- 
n the yea Pend —— 
knowledgment o 
money due, for value received or fervices ee le oa 
what fimilare toabond. They were firft ifued in this coun- 
try in 1649, by the commonwealth, for curing to the es 
diers, or their afligns, the fums due to them 
the accounts being audited; and they have nee fiuce aed 
to the army, purfuant to feveral acts of parliament, likewife 
to the fervants of the king’s houfhold for falaries, board- 
wages 
In 1700, the debentures a had been iffued for arrears 
due to the officers of the » and for eee fervice, 
and for clothing the aetna were dire€ied to be taken a 
fterling money, in sae of the forfeited eftates in "Ireland 
: ela convicted of treafon ; but this provifion being in- 
cient, 5 per cent. intereft was allowed on the debentures, 
t! ill the principal part of them was fub{cribed into the ori- 
ginal lai of the South Sea co 
1 debentures were iffu ea | by the commi iffioners for 
trade ad piaqecene to the proprietors and inhabitants of 
the ie of St. Chriftopher _ Nevis, who had f{uffered 
great the invafion of t rench, in 1705. Thefe 
debenturet carried oe a inert oa it was not paid 
ery regularly: a part of them was paid off, and the re- 
ane fubferibed into 3 per cent. hee 
Debentures have fince been elarly iffued for tempo- 
rary purpofes; thus, after the conclufion of the American 
is) 
cs sae bearing 34 per c 
called loyalift de, ete 
about £°2,000,000, and were gravely difcharged at fubfe- 
oe and as 
e occafion to dif- 
st has fometimes been very confiderable. 
1784 and 1785, it was thought proper to for t 
principal part of the ordnance debentures then eat taading, 
by funding them-in 5 per cent. tock. 
EBENTURE, in Commerce, a certificate iffued by the of- 
ficers of the alone entitling the exporter of goods to a 
bounty or drawback of duty, aia to a& of apie nea 
In order to obtain the debenture, it is neceffary, wit 
{pect to foreign produce, to trace the articles on ‘which the 
allowance 
n the years 
