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place, was pulled down about the year 1787, on the erection 
of the Trinity Houfe in London; but here are ftill two hof- 
e 
are numerous and of eariceable value; 
in all.thofe piven ince to the year 1730 both parifhes have 
a joint ei 
Various improvements have been made at Deptford fince 
the twenty. tec of George II., when an a&t was pafled 
for paving and cleanfing a itreets, and for the’ Balter 
relicf and employment of the poor. e bridge over the 
ate years, at the expence of the 
parifhioners. Here, previous to the battle of Blackheath, 
in the reign of Henry VII., was a fkirmifh between lord 
Dawbeney’s army, and ‘ certayne arches of the rebelles, 
whofe arrowes,”’ 
time. 
Deptford ware, is carri n this manor 
town, 
houfe . Deptfor = wth its furounding eftate, which had 
obtained the na urt from its being long in 
ine palin . the Sayes, became in 1651 the refidence of 
fthe « Sylva,”” whofe 
aie at a ee are faid to have been the ae and 
admiration of the moft pa men of his time. Mr. 
Evelyn died in 1706. ¢ houfe and sane were after- 
wards entirely nealecied, A there is not now the leaft trace 
of cither. e prefent workhoufe was built on the fite i in 
the year 1729 yfons’ Environs of London al 
pee) of Kent: and the Beauties of England and Wales, 
vol. v 
een a town of America, in Gloucefter county, 
— Jerfey. 
EPTH, in Geometry, &c. 
a ot 
See Aurirupe, Eveva- 
EPTH of a Sail, denotes the extent of any fquare or 
oblong “fail from the head-rope to the foot-rope; or the 
length of the afrer-leech of any boom-fail or ftay-fail 
Derr of a Squadron, or aa is the number of men 
in a file, or the number of ra Infantry is now ieee | 
drawn up three ae nk in cae defenc eee -work 
only two deep. — is common! 7 oe a“ three 
deep. and fometimes oie eep. Ra 
DEPURANTIA, in the Mateni fa Medica, me dice: fup- 
pofed to correét or evacuate the impurities which, upon any 
occetion, prevail in the body; but as no fuch {pecific power 
is known in any particular medicine, except, perhaps, in mer- 
cury, in the cure of 5 sae the general term is groundlefs 
and improper, and {6 plode medical writers 
DEPURATI ON, a ceougo I purify, in Pharmacy, 
the fame as clarification, or purification; viz. the purging 
a body of all the lees, faeces, and ‘olher crafs, coarfe, and 
oo parts contained therein 
Fermentation ferves to depurate liquors : fyrups, j tag 
&ce. are ae by paffing them through sil manica Hip 
pocratis, or ftraining-bag. ee CLARIFICATIO 
DEPURATORIA Fesris, in pi ceape a ieee thus 
called by the illuftrious Sydenbam, which prevailed much 
in the years 1661, 2, 3, 4. This, fays he, ni to be the 
4 
DEP 
only one, as far as I could hitherto obferve, in which eed 
regulated all the fymptoms in {uch a manner, as to 1 
febrile matter, prepared by proper concoétion, - expifon 
a copious fwe eat, © a free r- 
call it 
maiter at the appointed time, as alfo sah it occurs more 
frequently than other fevers. It alfo reafonabie to 
ica ie other — ad irae are adap 
mary fever; by means of which it is to be regulated in {uch 
manner, ite the pees matter ay be prepared to make 
a proper crifis by {weat. 
UTATION, from deputare, to depute, a miffion of 
certain fele&t perfons out of a company, or body, toa a prince, 
or affembly, to treat, — matters in their name, or to profe~ 
cute sae vale 
eputations are more or lefs folemn, according to the 
epee of ole who fend ee and the bufinels they are 
tN) 
Defutation is sly properly applied where a ee 
with fuch commiffion ; but only where 
ot 
The chapter deputed” two canons to folicit their afar in 
council, 
DEPUTATUS, among the Ancietits, was applied, firft, 
to armourers, or workmen employed in the making of ar= 
mour in the forges, &e. And fecondly, to a fort cf active 
people, who followed the army, and in ce were 
trufted to bring off, and take care of the wounded. 
EPUTA exoutatos, was alfo an ee officer in the 
urch of Con oe whofe bufinefs was to call perfons 
of cont on the patriarch had a mind to {peek with, and to 
keep off the crowd gies that prelate walked. 
This deputy appears to have been a fort of ufher, or is 
ftaff; but he had likewife a care of the facred veftments 
in which he = dae the office of a facri 
DEPUTY, a perfor fen Nes or ee uted, ss fome commu- 
nity in their name and behalf. 
Derury is alfo trequently ufed among us for an office, 
or cate not a dignity ; and flands indifferently for a vice, 
or lieutenant. 
Deruty, in Law, is one who exercifes an office in an- 
of fuch 
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alas unlefs ‘ie grant of the office will juftify him in fo 
doing ; but when an office defcends to an infant, ideot, 8c, 
he may make a deputy of courfe (9 . A fuperior 
0 muft an{wer for his deputy in civil actions, but n 
in criminal cafes (2 Intt. rg1. 466.) Judges have no 
power to hold their courts by deputy (2 Hawk. P. C.c. 1. 
§9.): recorders, ever, a (1 Lev.°76.). Co- 
roners cannot appoint deputies, becaufe theirs is a judicial 
office of truft, annexed to their perfons (1 Lil. 446.). Shes 
riffs, Rewards of acourt, bailiffs of a liberty, and conftables, 
are allowed to appoint deputies (Cro. Eliz. 534. 2 Danv. 
82. 
i eee Rock, in Sis a fhoal in the found of oy 
land, near the north-eaft coatt of I way 
between the fouth end Copland iflan d, and Donaghadee, 
on which the leaft water is eight feet. Latitude 54° 38% 
Long. 5° 24/ W. from Greenwich. ne 
