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fubfi by navigation and oe ; and near it is a forge for 
s N.E. of Stockholm. N. lat. 
RTGAU a country of Germany, called alfo the 
«6 Upper Palatinate,” of which Amberg is the capital. 
See PALATINATE 
NORTH, Francis, Lord GuiLrorp, in Biography, 
oe keeper of the oS feal in the reign of Charles LI. and 
mes IJ., was the third fon of the fecond Dudley lord 
North; baron of Kertling, vulgo Catlage, &c. From B 
{chool, where he made great proficiency in grammar learning, 
linefs of his converfation. 
to the Middle Temple, and profecuted various ftudies with 
fingular diligence; fo that he not only gained the know- 
ledge of the French, Italian, Spanifh, and Dutch languages, 
d lawyer, and a proficient in hiftory, ma- 
y the variety of his 
he was 
the Hv as 
Norfolk cient, era) he vtaally attended, ae was ceake 
counfel in y important caufe. Tired of the routine of 
his profeffion, aft er having been both folicitor and attorney- 
general, he afpired to the poft of lord chief juftice of the 
common pleas, and at length fucceeded to his wifhes in ob- 
taining it. Upon the death of the chancellor Nottingham, 
the great feal was committed to his cuftody, an 
vanced to the peerage with the title of lord Guilford, by 
his conne@tions after the death of king Charles, induced him 
to requeft the king’s leave to quit the feal. Not fucceeding 
in his application, he fought temporary relief by retirement 
but he died at his houfe in Wroxtora, in 
Philofophy and {cience, during the 17th century, feem to 
have interefted thenifelves, and lent their aid in the refinement 
and melioration of mufical found, more than at any other 
period. Sir Francis Bacon, Kepler, Galileo, Merfennus, 
Des Cartes, Kircher, and, after the eftablifhment of the 
Royal Society in London, lord keeper North, lord 
Brouncker, Narciflus, bifhop of Ferns, Dr. Wallis, Dr. 
dire&ted to a Friend.” ome of the philofophy of 
this effay has been fince found to be falfe, and the reft has 
been more clearly illuftrated and explained, yet, confidering 
the {mall progrefs which had been made in fo obfcure and 
fubtil a ig as the sage of found, when this es 
was writte e experiments and con njeCtures muft be 
lowed to ae San eBle merit. The Scheme, or table ‘of 
NOR 
a at the beginning, fhewing the coincidence of vibrae 
s in mufical concords, is new, an a clear idea 
containing only 35 pages, was 
of the author; but afterwards acknowledged to have been 
the work of lord keeper North, in the life of that nobleman, 
written by his brother, the honourable Roger North. His 
delineation of the harmouical vibration of ftrings —— . 
have been adopted by Euler, in his ‘ Tentamen nov 
Theorie mufice.’’ The keeper is faid, in the Biographical 
Diétionary, to have compofed feveral concertos in two and 
a parts. Now no compofition, in fewer than four or 
ve parts, is ever honoured with the title of concerto; nor 
was this title given to inftrumental mufic durirg the life of 
lord keeper North, who died in 1685. The concertos of 
Corelli, Torelli, and Aleffandro Scarlatti, in feven and 
eight parts, the firft of the kind, were not publithed till the 
beginning of the laft century. Fancies in two and three 
parts, indeed, were, we believe, fometimes called conforts. 
And when it is dea ipt in the fame ditionary, that lord 
keeper North may be efteemed the flee of mufical philo- 
fvphy, it fhould hase rie ie » in this country ; for Ga- 
rance, had deeply invefti. 
he Rev. In thefe pieces 
there is much curious and truly valuable information, but 
= without conceals partiality. 
er North was ape — _ 
sae alte" a radia in Rae Ww 
w nai latter end 
oo for a ga 
purpofe for its reception. 
this ialcamee which we faw 17525 
yet its tone was as brilliant, on infinitely more ae than 
if the pipes a ii all of metal. 
x, Lord, the third baron of that family, 
life he paffed in retirement, and wrote a 
mifcellanies, in profe and verfe, under the title of “<A Poet 
7 promifcuous 
