DEN 
eighty-four. Under Severus and Gordianus ae corer 
their weisht, but with a confiderable ensiete alla 
Cafpar Eifenfchmid of Strafburg, in a book ‘ endian 
bus et Menfur's Veterum.” &c. publifhed i arty informs 
us, pe he found the weight ef the imperial denarius from 
0 to Sept. Severus, to be to the confular denarius in the 
preporrion of to 8. 
order to determine the value of the confular’ denarius 
e to corfider, that 
two penny weight, troy, of fine filver, and eighteen penny 
weight allay 3 and therefore the troy grain of fine filver is 
worth 6? ths of a farthing ; and fixty grains, or the de- 
paring worth fomewhat more than cight-pence pba 
and a half fterling ; and the as, or fixteenth part o e= 
narius, a i more than a half-penuy. Phil. Tranf. a Ixi, 
Rom man p 
Enghth grains to the filver penny, ny a our money ; 3 and 
the imperial denarius the eighth part of an ounce, and 
worth about 62d. flerlin 
.’Filemont Gbiewe.. that the denarius was held fuffi- 
cient to keep a perfon handfomely for a day; and, upon the 
whole, feems to intimate, that it was equal to twelve 
French fous, or eleven Englifh pence ; but this eftimate errs 
in excefs more than the preceding does in defer ee 
Greaves’s D: aye of the Denarius, in i aa by Dr. 
Birch, vol. i. p. 235, and Arbuthnot on 
Denasive is ale ufed, in our Law ae ine an Englith 
pen 
6s ‘Den narius doa ie qui nominatur fterlingus, rotundus 
fine tonfura, ponderabit 32 grana frumenti in medio {pice ; 
& 20 denarii facient unciam ; “K 12 unciz facient libram.’’ 
Stat. Ed. I. De menfuris. 
Denarius Dei denotes earneft-money ; ca'led alfo argen- 
tum Dei, by the French deniers de Dieu, and in fome parts 
-of our country ~ 
uter mercatorum ab illo contraétu poflit 
Denarivs ¢ertius comitatus, denoted 
rofits of county courts. hen thofe courts had fuperior 
acids before other courts were ere&ted, two parts of 
es, and other profits belonging to them, were referved 
‘to the ae anda third part to the earl of the county. 
Paroch. Ant 
Denarivus s Sti. Petri. See PETER-P 
DENAROS, in Ancient Geography, an ‘fland fituated at the 
satan siail of the ifle of Cyprus, near the promontory 
ae 
AT, in Geography, a {mall town of France, in the 
deparment of the Tarn, on the river Agout; 9 miles S. of 
Alby 
DENATES, i in Antiquity domeflic gods, more frequent- 
ly called Penates, whic 
_, DENAVACA, in Gengrap, a town of the ifland of 
Ceylon; so miles S. of Can 
DENBERA, in — iy eam the Saxon Den, a vale, 
and derg, a hog, denoted a piace for the rearing and feeding 
of ete in which they are penned; called by fome a /wine- 
ae) NBIGH, in Geography, the county town of a 
pbighthire, North Wales, is fituated on the fide and at the 
of acraggy and lofty hill, which rifes out of the beautifi a 
DEN 
fertile vale of Clwyd. This place was called by the Britens 
Feith ym Rhos, or the craggy bill in Rhos. ‘This part 
nty was given by Edward I. to David ap Gruffydd, 
once - Llewelyn the laft prince of North Wales, who 
being afterwards beheaded for high treafon, it was given to 
Lacy, earlof Lincoln, who fortified the town with a ftrong 
wall, and either built, or enlarged the caftle; but his only 
fon being an Aaah drowned in the well of this caft] le, 
his grief was fo great that he was induced leave it un~ 
finifhed. After the earl’s death, it went the marriage 
of his daughter Alice, into ay poficfion of ae ag of the 
Il. gave it to mae encer ¢ 
er Mortimer 
o 
taal 
earl of Salifbury, and was foon aft 
ortimers. After many changes it came to the houfe of 
rk, and now belongsitothe crown. Charles I. refided in 
fome time was delivered up to the parliamentary 
i 
army in 1646, and appears to have b 
aN ee that after the reftoration it was thought advifable 
to blow it up. The ruins of the caftle are ftill to be feen on 
the cae of a rock, which flopes on all fides but one, 
which is a precipice. The ae part of the caltle was 
buiit anno 1280, temp. Edward e grand entrance was 
through a large gate, ail a pointe . arch, flanked by two 
The caftle feems to have been of a fingu- 
Yy 
aie ad. in dryin 
itfe lf, ” The profpeé from the calles is 
od and delightful, commanding an extenfive 
of the banks of the Clwyd, interfperf:d with gentle- 
men’s feats. “Deabigh i is a borough town, governed by two 
aldermen, a recorder, — — ating as fheriffs, and twen- 
n council. ia 
patil y gran 
: the eleGion is 
ou 
ur 
e bailiffs are the eee urning @ The 
in nluencei Fae in the Middleton i, of Chirk-caitle, 
whofe a rs have reprefented the borough in various par. 
fame aie a 33 Henry VIII. to the prefent ti me. The 
town is not large, but generally well built, and contains 534 
houfes and 2391 inhabitants, of whom 794 were returned as 
being employed in trade and manufacture, particularly of 
a gloves, and other articles of leather, in which com mo- 
onfi erable traffic. 
ny 
in the parith of Henllan, ‘flood a priory of White et ; 
but little of it a part of the church, now c 
verted into a bar “Here are alfo the ruins of an bee of 
Black Monks ae the Benedictine order, founded and endow- 
ed by Adam Salufbury, in the reign of Henry ITI. Den- 
bigh is diftant from London 218 miles N.W. Evans? 
Cambrian ele 
coaft forms a i. 
“Zhe captain had fome 
ercourfe 
of land, on e 
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