NOB 
mined as witnefles, either in civil or criminal cafes, they muft 
be fworn. In their abfence from parliament, they are al- 
Cc. 34. . AI. 11. 
cannot lofe his nobility but by death or attainder. 
LIAMENT. 
Guillim obferves, that if an appeal of murder, or felony, 
ued commoner again{t a peer, he fhall be tried by 
_commoners, not peers. See APPEAL. 
us. The nobles, among the 
‘yaifed to the magiftrature, or defcended from magiftrates : 
there was no fuch thing as nobility by patent. 
Bartoh fays, that doCtors, after they have held a profef- 
for’s chair in an univerfity for twenty years, become noble, 
and are entitled to all the rights of counts. 
But this claim is not admitted at court, &c. though 
Boyer fur la Cottume de Berry ; Faber C. de Dig. 
&c. which laft, however, reftrains Bartoli’s rule to 
t 
whenever they think goo 
NOBLE, Nosizis, a perfon who has a privilege which 
raifes him above a commoner, or peafant, either by birth, by 
office, or by patent from his prince. 
d comes from the Latin nobilis ; formed from the 
ancient nofeibilis, diftinguifbable, remarkable. 
I word noble is of a narrower import than 
in other countries; being confined to perfons above the de- 
gree of knights; whereas, abroad, it comprehends not only 
knights, but what we fimply call gentlemen. 
The nobles of England are alfo called pares regni, as being 
nobilitatis pares, though gradu impares. 
The Venetian nobleffe is famous: it is in this that the 
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hic cratic. 
The third confifts of fuch as have bought the dignity of 
noble Venetians. 
This laft clafs is only admitted to the inferior employs; 
the two former, to all indifferently. 
The title of noble Venetians is fometimes alfo given to 
foreign kings, princes, 
OBLE alfo denotes a 
fhillings and eight-pen 
T 
c. 
money of account, containing fix 
ce. 
e noble was anciently a real coin, under the denomina- 
re 
of ac alf was called obolus, containing 
4od. its fourth part the guadrans, or farthing in thofe days, 
Nosie, EustacuE Le, in Biography, a copious and very 
mifcellaneous writer, was born in 1643, of a diftinguifhed 
He was educated for the profeffion of 
Pp e 
eight. He was reduced to fuch a ftate of indigence, that 
he was buried at the charge of the parifh, though h k 
12mo. They have been divided into three claffes. 1. e 
ferious, confifting of hiftori 
wit. 2. The ro 
half hiftory and half romance. 3. The poetical, confifting 
of tranflations, fables, tales, comedies, epiftles. 
L H, in Geography, a townfhip of 
America, in Lincoln county, Maine, incorporated in 1788, 
and containing 804 inhabitants ; 10 miles S.E. of Newcaftle. 
Alfo, a town in the Herkemer county, New York, on 
the head-waters of Canada creek. 
NOBODY KNOWS WHAT, a name given by Capt. 
Cook to the northern arm of Dufky bay. 
NOBREGA, Manoet pa, in Biography, the head of 
the firft Jefuits that ever fet foot in Sout merica, 
country in which that body of people have exerted them- 
felves more than in any other part ef the world, He was 
a native of Portugal, ftudied firft at Coimbra, and aftér- 
wards at Salamanca, then returnin oimbr gra- 
duated in canon Jaw. His father and uncle held high aie 
ations 
