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of ae Dame; congregations, nunneries, and orders of 
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eee e Bay, in a a bay on the E. coaft 
of Newfoundland. N. lat WwW aol, 
OTRE Dame de Neves a town "of Brafil, in the jurif- 
dition of Fernambuc 
NOT’s ae a frnall ifland near the coaft of Virginia. 
N. lat. ae 38! Ww. long. 6° 
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America, bounded N. and N. 
was taken in the year 1788 ; containing a white, and 
5983 black people. 
NOTTALEN, a town of oe in the bifhopric of 
Munfter; 7 miles W. of Mun 
NOTTI hana 
34,253 perfons, of whom 6815 families are engaged in trade 
and manufactures. In 1801 the inhabitants were only 
eftimated at 28,861 in numb 
The origin of Nottingham is net lefs involved in yeaa 
than that of any other town in Great Britain, and few 
been the fubjeéts of more fpeculation on this point ana 
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hiftorians and antiquaries. J o r- 
wick, quoted by oton, in his “ Hiftory of Nottingham- 
fhire,’? places its foundation 980 years before the Chriftian 
ra; and fome other old authors tell hat a Britifh 
king, named Coilus, was interred here about the fame 
period. Stukeley fays, ‘¢ one may eafily guefs Nottingham 
to ha een an ancient t the Britons ;’? and hi 
oS is fortified with the opinion of Dr. Deering, 
o confiders the caves in this neighbourhood, (to be after- 
ie noticed,) as decided evidence of a Britifh colony. All 
thefe notions concerning the antiquity of the place, how- 
ever, are merely hypothetical, or reft upon the teftimony of 
ors of more than doubtful veracity. Nor does the idea 
was of fuch confequence as to give nam eto the fhire. It 
appears, however, to have much ene ae before the Nor- 
Domefday Book afligns to it only one 
hundred and twenty dwelling-houfes. ‘This diminution of 
extent may have probably been the refult of the Danifh 
ravages, and of the {tate of confufion into which the whole 
country was thrown by the fuccefsful invafion of William 
this fuperior lord, and from him 
Peverell court, continued to be held till the gth year of 
Edward II., when it was abolifhed, or at leait limited in 
its jurifdiGtion. 
town previous to the Conqueft, 1s almoft equally uncertain 
as any other part of its early hiftory; for though Deering fays 
it “ was doubtlefs a borough by prefeription before that 
event,” he does not furnifh any evidence to authenticate his 
NOT 
The firft charter, now extant, was granted in 
the reign of Henry IT. ; but as that deed merely confirms 
privileges enjoyed by dic burgeffes in the time of his grand- 
father, Henry I., it feems not unlikely that this one was 
the perfon who as Sere conftituted Nottmgham a cor- 
porate town. John confirmed the charter of his pre- 
deceffor, as did Hkewile Henry III. and Edward I., Bias 
laft empowered the burgeffes to ele& a mayor a 
affertion. 
fheriffs. He likewife gave power to the corporation to 
choofe from among themfelves feven een, who fhould 
n the own and county of 
act as at of the peace withi 
the town 
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granted, by king 
throne: and under the charter of this monarch the town is 
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men, a recorder, two fhe S) an 
spe compofed of twenty-four burg, hie 
om are chofen the freemen at lar ft 
e 
ae that the aay a an 
thefe oe there are a town-clerk and a 
feed Sache to the corporation ; and an officer called 
and another of the meado 
woodward, and attends and anfwers for the town at the 
foreft-courts. ‘The mayor holds a particular court of pleas 
of land ; and he and the fheriffs hold an ordinary court of 
record every alternate Wednefday. This town fends two 
members to parliament. ‘The right of election is vefted in 
the mayor and corporation, together with the freeholders of 
40s. per annum, the eldeft fons of freemen by birth, younger 
{ons of freemen, if they have ferved feven years’ apprentice- 
fhip any where, and the freemens’ apprentices, as was fet- 
tled by a decifion of the houfe of commons in The 
number of voters has been eftimated at 1700. 
Nottingham has been the {cene of many events of hifto- 
rical importance in almoft every era of the Englifh hiftory, 
In the year 852, the Danes, having taken poffeffion of this 
place, were befieged in it by Buthred, king of Mercia, but 
with fo little profpe& of fuccefs, that he was obliged to re- 
queft the affiftance of Ethelred, king of Weffex, and Alured 
his brother, who accordingly collefted an army, and fet out to 
jein the forces of the Mercian monarch. is aid, senate 
did not prove fo immediately effective as might 
fuppofed, for the Danes fought with fuch 2 en, een 
the Saxons found it prudent to,conclude a treaty with them, 
efted 
not long adhere to thefe terms ; for, returning the next year, 
they laid wafte a great part of that kingdom ak ais 
king Buthred retired to Rome. In 942 
Danes again took poffeffion of this town, and held it fe — 
years, when it was befieged an retaken by king Edmund, 
and remained in the poffeffion o ae ie ons yal Canute, the 
Dane, made himfelf mafter of all - 
During the troublefome reign a ing Stephen, Notting- 
ham, having been taken by the earl of Glocefter in see 
