DEN 
eal charaéter he adhered to the king’s party, and was ap- 
pointed, foon after the breaking out of the civil wars, go- 
vernor of Farnham caftle; an honour which he foon Ae 
hie mind being ill-adapted to a military life, ill x 
mained with the court, and performed ial ree Cais 
for the king, pon his calamities, It does not appear how 
the poet was employed, or nae ? in 
between the aes of Cha 
his fucceffor. was eee ver ee the civil broils 
of the nation, ee he publifhed his poem, entitled +*Cooper’s 
Hill,” which very foon underwent feveral cunfiderable edi- 
tions, and which is fli. read and referred to, on account of 
fome excellent and highly expreflive lines, and alfo bec 
it is one of the earlieft examples of local defcription united 
with hiftorical and fentimental matter, ‘The lines which 
have excited aie moft attention are part of a defcription of 
the river Tham 
O could I flow like thee, and make ay ftream, 
My great example—as it is my theme 
Tho’ deep, yetclear; tho’ gentle, yet not dull; 
Strong without rage: without o plas full. 
Of thefe lines Dr. Johnfon fays: ** But fo much meaning 
is confined in fo few words; the eins a refemblance 
re fo perfpicacioufly colle &ted, and every mode of excellence 
ult, 
by fo nice a line of limita- 
adjulte ed, and the flow of the laft couplet is fo fmooth a 
{weet, that the paflage, however celebrated, bas not oe en 
praifed above its merit. It has beauty peculiar to itfelf, and 
muft be numbered among thofe felicities whic cannot 
produced at will by wit and labour, but mutt ri rife unexpected- 
ly in fome hour propitious to poetry.”” Muc s bee 
written by way of oe for the ieee of thefe lines: 
r. Mafon, in " a _ Power of Numbers and 
= 
Oo 
Tor 
tion he apni te office of lines. or of ae che s build- 
m of Inigo Jones, and was created knight of 
Amid& thefe 
a 8, acc 
covered, and continued a hilly tected che great and 
the wife till his death, which happened in the {pring of 1668. 
His remains were i in Weitminfter Abbey. Biog. 
Brit. Joknfon’s 
ENIA, in Latin Dianium, from Diana, in whofe ho- 
of Valencia, oppofite the ifland of Ivica, containing 
1500 inhabitants. N. la Ic haga ftrong cattle, 
nd a convenient harbour, and is remarkable for a tower of 
great height, from whence veffels are perceived at a great 
diftance at fea. The Moorith kings refided here from A. D. 
1OI§ to 1244. 
DENIER, in Coinage, the French penny ; a {mall copper 
coin, twelve whereof make’a fol, or French hilling. 
t. 38° 56. 
DEN 
T'he French denier is now about the twenty-third part of 
the Englifh penny. — is fubdivided into two mailles, an 
the maille into two cboles. Anciently denier was a genera 
name for all forts bos monies in France; as nummus for thofe 
d money was called denier 
: after the fame manner 
as the Romans {aid nummus aureus, and nummus argenteus 
ere are two kinds of denie Tournois, the 
other Parifis; whereof the latter was worth a fourth part 
more than the former, and w ed monnoy rovaie, or 
forte monnoye, and fometimes denier d’cr, and denier a 
valeur d’or. See Money, &c. 
There are at prefent in France feverallittle copper pieces, 
which, having no proper name, are diftinguifhed only by 
their value in deniers ;: 3: fuch are the pieces of 36, 30. 24. 
18. 12. 6. 4. and 2-deniers. ‘The pieces of 4 and 2 deniers 
were coined at Strafburg for currency in their province of 
cee purfuant to the declaration of Sept. hole 
of fix deniers were coined in the mints of Tontpelier, 
Rochell gaia and Nantz, ay the aia of 1709, and 
are hile current. . Di&. Com 
D ba St., in ae aphy. See a Den 
es chief. town of the ifle of Reva, fore 
merly called Eoabone ; and the refidence of the governor of ° 
the colony. The abbé de la Caille has, by aftronomical obs 
oe alcertained the rae of the town in a 51° S> 
m the meridian of 
o asthe king 
eee aL rd in m 
fubj and devife Jandsy- 
bie ets do: namely, ‘6 pasha poffefs, 
jiament :. for a ft 
or 
api ne 3 Res 
m, being a an alien, had no inheritable blood, sage 
Uh etore, Gaul convey none to éhe fon. And, upon a like 
defe& of hereditary blood, the iffue of a denizen, born before 
denization, cannot inherit to a but histflue born afters 
may. o. Litt. c. 8. 8 Vaugh. 285.) A’denizen is not 
excufed Poa paying the alien’s “hy ({tat. 22 — - II.) 
an ee other mercantile’ bur 
be o privy council, or eithe é of adn. or: 
have a “ofice of truft civil or nailitary, or be capable of any 
grant of lands, &c. from the.crown. . (Stat. 12 Will. TII.. 
cap. 2 See ALIEN. 
"Add, that, in the charter; whereby a pa is made a 
denizen, there is ufually fome claufe other, which 
abridges him of that full benefit which pave fubjects - 
a 
&.E 
When a man is thus enfranchifed, he is faid to be ad fidem 
regis Anghe, or under the king’s pro rite ; till fuch time 
his goods might be feized to the king’s t 
' DENM 
RK, in Geography, in Latin "Dania, | in-‘German 
Dan — one of the mott ancient monarchies of modern 
Europe mprifes +. Denmark Proper; or the peninfula of 
Jutland, oe fouthern part of which 1s called the duc hy of - 
Slefwick ; with feveral iflands in the Baltic, the principal of 
whichare Zealand, Funen, Laaland, Langeland Falflers 
2. The duchy of Holftein in Germany. - ingdom 
of Norway with Finmark and p Lapla oe 4. Ice=- 
Jand.. 5, The Faro or Ferro: ae. 6. ‘ Grebalands 7, The 
d3- 
