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feveral years in France, he embraced. an opportunity of 
retiring into Holland. Here he lived the laft twenty-five 
years of his life, and obtained a high Na ges de as a learned 
theologian. He die in the year 1751, aged about 76. 
Tndependendy of his controverfial w riting’s, hel left behind him 
tranflation of the Bible 3’? * The Chriftian’s Manual ;”” 
and other valuable theological works, and fome pieces 
againit u ury. 
Gross, or Grofus, ‘in our Ancient Lacw Writers, denotes 
a thing abfolute, and not depending on another. ‘T 
villain in gros villanus in grofe, was a fervant who did not 
belong to the land, but ‘immediately to the perfon of the 
‘lord; or a fervile periai not appendant or anrlexed to se 
Bid or manor, and to go along with the tenures as ap 
tenant to it; but like other perfonal Bus aad ree ee 
hiis lord, at his lord’s pes and difpo 
Ciniae: oe on in. DVOW are 
Gross-Bean oology, a naine by which we commonly 
call the oars, called alfo at Sits times the Jaqw- 
Jinch. This is the loxia Cr rele | in the Linnean fyftem. 
Gross, in common. OMMON, 
’ Gross Weight, is the weight of merchandizes and goods, 
with their duit and drofs, as alfo of the ba ag, cafk, chelt, 
&c. wherein they are eee out of which grofs weight 
allowance i is to be made of tare and tret. 
ROSS Average. oe V 
7 eee e Ne ufed for he quantity of tw avg dozen. 
ee A, a groat. * Concefla 
Bess peal berg denarios, de pea viro et muliere,’ 
ic] 
“ 
of Dalia 
Elong ie af 
SSE a an ‘iad fituated in the river Detroit, ia 
Canada ; containing feveral thoufand acres of ex- 
Upper 
cel ect t lene, and plenty of good wood, in a high ftate of his ma 
ent. 
é xy Ute Ia Ia, the ‘name given by the Canadians to the 
. Michie 
ROSSETO, a town of Etruria, the fee of a bifhop, 
fata n of Sienna, on a branch of the Ombrone ; 14 
es E. S. E. of Paabin N, lat. 42° 49! E. ome 
try.” dhe. went fo Pas and made ‘nengtclt 
ae of ¢ the. ced language. : = sey, ifs read 
esis at Oxford on hifofoph feet fe desogs 
ete oo the ea Li 
Walls, he who: ag to him, a erous 
font we each e he was Segre to ee 
him, but he are fare ae taapone the bif 
when a mandate ey arri rem Rome, 
d he was ag 
incoln by the <4 aa of that “‘T 
tron, 
ee 
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objeéts of bis, j OUP: he was upteseelefal, and Bhngert 
recurn he w a letter to the p 
Febeh the. court "of Be as fro 
beara une seals the whole rape hutch 
e pape threatened our worthy prelace with a heay 
poanee ; he had been accuftomed to iffue his bulls, but never 
efore to be admonifhed by a perfon of inferior rank, and took 
every opportunity in his power of harafling him during the 
remainder of his The Englith bifhop had,, however, 
Sere the of before a bag to. reafon with the 
bifho and he 
e lived. pip friend he ste of ee and in com- 
y_ he was lively and affable 3 to thofe who needed his 
help he was beneficent, and h Bag hofpitable to 
: were very. elevated ; his 
biographer, Dr. Pegge, fays of him, « oa fate » hi sh in 
his ideas concerning the privileges and prerogatives 
clerical order, that he even leaves archbifhop Becket far 
rind him.’’ e left numerous treatifes on 
shiletaphical and. Nea eaccaoes fubjeéts, fome of which are 
ay the former 
* Opufcula Varia,” pu pu ublifhed at Venn in in 15045 
«« Compendium Saber, Mundi ;”? « Commentarius in Lib. 
poiter. Ariit ;” “ Difcourfes ;”? and 6 Letters.” oe 
GROSS Tl Gri os Go aS concerto gr ia in Mu. 
PL Concerti groffi, grand concertos. 
or double trumpet! " Ballo e Ho, 
a double b 
i eta, in i Betanys a a Latin name, of ne 
nati f for the goofeberry, borrowed undoubtedly 
a little unripe aan, ie 
ge feberries an als prs e. Riker of 
which me Plumier ine luded the iftin® 
