HER 
‘Hity of sa 3 25 miles E. of Glogau. 
N. late 51° 3’. 
-E. long. 16 
HERRNWERTH, or HERRN Chiemfee, a town a ca 
Bavaria; the fee of a bithop, founded, in 1215, by Eve 
0 Il., archbifhop of Salzburg; 27 miles W. of Salz- 
“HERRSBRUC K, atown of Germany, in the territory 
of Nuremberg, tinted on the Pregnitz, hens about 
226 houfes; ye miles E. of Nuremberg. N. lat. 49° 28’. 
“=. lon 
HERSCH CHEL, JACOB, in Biography, brother of our 
aftronomer, and matter of the king’s band at Hanover, 
was an excellent sadterinehcat compoler, in the beft tafle of 
Germany at the time, which was more ferious and fimple 
than the eis and more refembled that of Abel than 
Haydn e have feen only one fet of his fonatas for two 
violins th rig printed in England by Bremner, which 
are ao pleafing ; but he left behind } him many compo- 
fition er clafs ; and fons able to execute them, or 
any ace that rie be oe before them. 
Ja 
es 
> nae sed in Afr aN ar 
Its ak or cm 
Italians call it Ouranos or Urania, bu 
vi Englih denominate it the GrorGian Planet ; which 
“HERSE, in Fortification, a lattice, or portcullice, in 
form of a harrow, betet with iron fpikes. 
he word herfe is French, and literally fignifies harrow ; 
being Sagi of the Latin herpes, or irpex ; which denote 
the fam 
a is ely hung by a rope faftened = a moulinet ; 
> cut, in sat J furprize, or w the fir 
oe is broken with a petard; that the Keefe may fall, 
and = up the paffage of the gate or entrance of the 
Bakes is otherwife cal'ed a farrafi n, OF catara@ ; and 
pat it confilts of ftraight ftakes, without any crofs pieces, 
s called orgues ; whic ee. 
ERSE is fo a harr 
chevaux de frife, lay either in the way, or in breaches, with 
the points up, to incommode the march as well of the horfe 
as ry. 
Fi in Mytholo, 
ry. She ha a temple at Ath 
” HERSENT, or Hersant, in B 
ih 
: ye Wvancing fome peculiar n notions on grace. 
See PorTcuL- - 
ow, which the befieged, for want of d 
, the ee of fetes 4 byes : 
ed Fs or he fettled t 
HER 
—- under the name of “ Herta,” or the goddefs of 
HE RSILLON, in the Military Art, a fort of plank, or 
beam, ten or twelve feet long, whofe two fides are driveu 
full of fpikes, or nails, to incommode the march of the in- 
fantry or cavalr ry: 
The word isa Seas of herfe; the herfillon aie 
the office of a little her 
HERSIPHORIA. “Bee ARRHEPHORIA: 
HERSOU- TOUKA, in Geogr ‘aphy, a town of Chinefe 
Tartary. N. Jat. 43°26. E. long. iat g's 
HERSTAL, or eae AL, a town of France, in tlie 
department of the Ourthe, feated on He Meufe, with a 
caitle ew belonged to Pepin, father to Charles Martel, 
old to the king of Pruffia in 17415 4 miles N 
Liege 
RSTEIN, a town of France, in the department of 
the Sadne. The-place contains 408, and the canton 8011 in- 
abitants, in 38 communes 
TFORD;> 2 borough and market-town, in the 
county of the fame name, in England, is of confiderable an- 
tiquity, but of uncertain origin ; though it is known to have 
attained importance very ently in “the Saxon times; and afynod 
is recorded to have been held here either in the year 670 or 
673. — Its fituation, on ore Ermin ftrect, and on a ford of the 
river Lea, is fuppofed to have oceafioned its prefent name, 
which is See to be a corruption from Here roe, ome 185 
the Army : this aa ms is sei by 
in ancient charters. 
Elder, about the year go9 : bel is *alfo recorded to ens built 
and fortified the town, which had probably been wholly de- 
e Danes. the time of the 
two ebnkeest ‘the land ae 
tween the king and eight of his ceo officers, among 
whom was Peter de Valoines, who had been conitituted go- 
vernor of Hertford caftle, and was afterwards conur tee 
that poft b nary I. ‘In the reign © 
cle was aoe defended by fir "Walter de elas then 
t the dauphin and the eevee peor 
might be «¢ lodged and accommodated in a manner 
+0 Tas dignity : while it was in his poffeffion, it was the occa 
fional oe ficton R ce of the two illuftrious prifoners, 
ki e, and David, king of the Scots. . 
his court here at the tame 
and on the duke’s sfeniptio of reg 
he town and caftle on his queen c% : 
The honour was afterwards beftowed on Catharine: — Print ie 
of Lapcitct,, Hept 
Richard’s pe vie ; 
e died'in Gueen of Henry V. Henry VI. kept his court in the 
He was vay ie of a e on Solomon’s Song, jy his feventh year sind i beside nie ate fettled a4 
 uERSEELD = * iy. his queen, of Anjou. «In feveral fubloquet rg 
, or pia in €0 oe ——— the importance ere 
fe See, oe ‘anita! of of the ins of the origi Cee 
elonging t w itanding, and thefe are principally confined to HIT 
walls; fanked with towers, aes containing chain five hundeed — whic thw 4 4 > Gt: bie etd and. fome angular 
© ry —— a public feminary, a rich hofpital, " pelaietg st”: t body is eas — appa 
Apr of mediciaal water ; 32 miles S.S.E. of Caffel. Ni fst, rently of the Hin of Dalles or Charles I. cept the towels 
é: 53 E. long. 9 40% is of greater antiquity. "The walls h : ' 
HERS RSILIA, in , > ithe: wife of motu, re 
