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permiffion to have only one fragal 
meal on each day is order was confirmed in 1126 by 
pope Honorius I1., and in a very fhort time Norbert fuc- 
eeeded in founding eight other mona'teries, which adopted 
his difciphne. Inthe year 1127 the people and clergy of 
Magdeburg prevailed upon him to accept of the arch- 
bifhopric of their city. In 1131 he was prefent at the 
council of Rheims, which confirmed the election of pope 
Innocent II.; and he accompanied the emperor Lotharius to 
Rome, when he advanced with an army to expel from the 
feat of papal government Anacletus II., the rival of that 
pontiff. He died at Magdeburg in 1134, when he was only 
fifty-two years of age. He was placed in the catalogue of 
faints inthe year 1584. The only part of his writings that 
has come down to our times is a fhort moral difcourfe, in the 
form of an exhortation to the monks of his order, which is 
inferted in the 21ft volume of the Bibl. Patrum. 
Norgert, a Capuchin friar, famous for his adventures, 
and his hoftility to the Jefuits, was the fon of a weaver at 
Bar-le-duc, of the name of Parifot, where he was born in 
perpetual filence, and 
poft of attorney-genera 
he went to Pondicherry, and was made a p 
that cit Dupleix, the governor. Here 
relled with the Jefuits, and removed from the Eaft Indies to 
merica. In different parts of this country he exercifed the 
minifterial funétions for a few years, and returned to Rome 
i 4. e was now employed in drawing up an account 
of the religious rites of the Malabar Chriftians, and that he 
into the Jndies,”’? in two vols. 4to. is work abounds 
in curious faéts, and excited a great fenfation at its firft ap- 
pearance, by difcovering the means made u/e of by the mif- 
fionaries of the fociety of Jefus, in order to increafe their 
number of converts. This exafperated the Jefuits againft 
him, and he was obliged to quit his country ; he went firft 
i Holland, and afterwards to England, 
manufactories of tapeftry. From London h 
Pruffia, and from thence into the duchy of Brunfwick. Here 
he was allowed by the pope to affume the habit of a fecular 
He now affumed the name of the abbé Platel, went 
the artillery, joined the Swedifh army, then encamped be- 
. 
brated of the German Iiterati, and was promoted to be firft 
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chaplain tothe royal life-guards, and chaplain to the court. 
After the battle of Pultowa he was taken prifoner by the 
Ruffians, but was permitted to remain im the fame place with 
to Scandinavia, and in his expedition to Norwa Towards 
the clofe of the year he was appointed to the living of St. 
Clara and St. Olaus, at Stockholm, and in 1734 was felected 
to compofe a hiftory of Charles XII., a tafk which he exe- 
cuted in a very ample manner, partly from tacts derived from 
his own obfervation, and partly from information communi- 
cated to him by various perfons who had accompanied the 
northern h . This work, after frequent 
revifions, was publifhed at Stockholm in the year 4740, 
o volumes folio, and afterwards tranflated into the Ger- 
man and French languages. The author of it died in 1744. 
He was always held in great efteem by his fovereign, and 
after his death he enjoyed the tavour of the queen Ulrica 
Eleonora, the king’s fifter. Befides his hiftory, he publifhed 
fome funeral fermons, of which he wrote a great number. 
EN, Freperic Lewis, a naval officer im the 
Danifh fervice, was born at Glucxftadt, in Holftein, in the 
He was {killed in mathematics, in fhi i 
Egyp 
Mr. Norden, while at Florence, received an order to extend 
his travels into that country. lifh 
commercial, witha good harbour; 15 miles N. of Emden, 
N. lat. 53° 34’. E. long. 7° 10!. 
NORDENBURG, a town of Pruffia, in the province 
of Natangen, founded by the Teutonic knights in a lake in 
13053 45 miles S.E. of Konigfberg. N. lat. 54° 16! 
- long. 21° 45/. 
NORDERNAY, an ifland in the German ocean, ‘near 
the coaft of Eait Friefland, about four miles long, and two 
at its greateft breadth. N. lat,53° gol. E. long. 7° 8'. 
D FIORD, a bay on the N, coaft of Iceland, N. 
lat. 66°. W. lon ° 46. : 
NORDFOE, a lake of Norway, 32 miles in circume 
ference; 50 miles W. of Chriftiania. 
NORDHALBEN, a town of Bavaria, in the bifhopric 
of Bamberg ; 36 miles N.E. of Bamberg. N. lat. 50° 
23'. E.long. 18° 37’. 
NORDHAUSEN, a city of Germany, fituated on the 
rge, between the county of Hohenitein and the lordfhip 
of Klettenberg, and divided into Old and New; car 
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