NOW 
hese . town of Hindooftan, in Bahar; 43 milts 
Ss. a of Ar 
NOWE, : a on of Pruffia, in the province of Pome- 
i on the Viftula; 40 ies S. of Dantzic.—Alfo, a 
n of America, in the flate of Tenneflee; 46 miles N. of 
Knoxvi e. 
NOWECZEITLY, a town of Auftrian Poland, in 
Galicia ; 28 miles E. of Lemberg. 
N CZELKO, a town of Poland, in Podolia; 64 
miles N.W. of seule 
, Nowe, i.e. knotted, in Heraldry, is bn oa 
to the tails of fuch pee Cre as are very long, and fome- 
times reprefented in coat-armour, as ye tied i in a 
OWELL, ‘ALEXANDER, in Biography, a learned divine 
of the church of England, was born at Read, in Lancafhire, 
in the year 1511. i 
1540. e he took the lt-mentioned dere he was 
eleGted flow of his college. ving ed a hig 
reputation for learning and piety, aad diitinguifhed himfelf 
by his zeal in promoting the reformation, he opened a {chool 
in the city of Weftminfter, where he educated his pupils in 
Proteftant principles. About the year 1550, king Edward 
VI. granted him a licence for preaching, and in the follow- 
r he was inftalled prebendary of Weftminfter. In 
a 
election was declared Nie it being eae gaee that aia: 
in the hou convocation, he 
fled 
acceffion of queen Elizabeth, he was one of the firft Proteftant 
exiles who returned to England, and foon obtained confider- 
able preferment. For thirty years together he preached the 
fir and laft fermons in Lent before the queen, “ wherein,”? 
to Anthony Wood, “he dealt piainly and faith- 
her favourite cece 
clofet window, commanding him to retire from that ungodly 
digreflion, and to return to histext. In 1562 dean Nowell 
was chofen prolocutor of the lower houfe of convocation. 
c ed 
advanced age of ninety, and retained to the latt the perfect 
ufe of his faculties. He ¢: eftate ook per ann. 
for the fupport of {cholarfhips in Brazen-nofe sad He 
a sm 
is a catechifm, publifhed by the unanimous manners of 
the convocation. He drew up alfo a fmaller catechifm in 
Greek and Latin, which was peated: into Englifh and into 
the Hebrew language. 
Nowe t, Lawrence, brother of the preceding, was alfo 
a clergyman of the church of England, and educated partly 
at Brazen-nofe college, and partly at Cambridge. Like 
his brother he fled to Frankfort from the perfecutions of 
queen Mary, and returned after her death, and was promoted 
to the deanery of Litchfield and the archdeaconry of Derby. 
NOY 
He alfo obtained prebends in the cathedral churches of 
York and Chichefter. He died in 1576, at the age of fixty- 
He was deeply learned in antiquities, and particularly in the 
Saxon language and literature, being, according to Camden, 
the firft who revived the ftudy of it in this kingdom. Under 
is inftrutions the famous Lambarde made himfelf matter 
of that tongue, and he is faid to have availed himfelf of the 
affiftance and notes of his tutor, when he wrote his work 
“ De Prifcis Anglorum Legibus.”” Mr. Noweil left behind 
him «¢ A Saxon Englifh DiGtionary,” in MS. {till remain- 
ing in the Bodleian library at Oxford, of which Francis 
Junius had a copy when he compiled his * Etymologicum 
Anglicanum,” and -_ made much ule, when he wrote 
his * Saxon Diétion made “ Colle€tions”? from 
curious ancient eitoael ens which are preferved in 
the Cottonian Par Biog. Brit. 
NOW ACLO, in Geography, a town of Aland, in 
Galicia; 44 les S.8.E. of Halicz. 
NOWGONG, a town of Bengal; 21 miles E S.E, of 
Nattore. 
NOWIDWOR, atown of Lithuania, in. the ‘md 
of Novogrodek ; 68 miles S.W. from Novogrode 
NO , a town . One.” in the circar of 
Kitchwara; 20 miles S. 
NOWOGROD, a town of Poland in the palatinate of 
Braclaw ; 24 miles S. of Bra 
helig POL, a town of Poland ; 56 miles N.N.W. of 
OQ 
be] 
aco 
NOWOSICKLI, a town of Poland, in the palatinate 
of Chelm; eight miles W.o 
N » in rs ial a provincial word fometimes ap- 
plied to neat cat 
Nowr- ba a a provincial word fignifying a cattle-herd, 
or keeper of c 
OWYLARG, in Geography, a town fal oe in the 
palatinate of Cracow; 40m Cra 
N, NoxonTon, or se Town, | a townof Ame- 
rica, in Neweallle county, in Delaware; 21 Oa: N. of 
Dover. 
NOY, WI ILLIAM, in Biography, an able and indudrious 
lawyer, was born in or about the year 1977, at St. Buriens 
in Cornwall. At he age of fixteen he was entered of 
Exeter college, Oxford, whence he removed to Lincoln’s- 
Inn to ftudy the law. In this profeffion he rofe to confider- 
able eminence, and was chofen reprefentative for Helfton in 
arbitrary exertions of the royal prerogative. 
was eleCted a member of the houfe of commons for St. 
Ives, and in the parliament of that year under Charles I., and 
a fucceeding one, he tata in the fame courfe of patriotic 
~ u o man furpaffed him in the diligence with whic 
fought all precedents favourable to dagen aoe? privilege, 
aa detected all the o methods employed by former 
ings in raifing money. was his ee in the 
houfe, and his ete deol the country, that it was 
thought defirable by the court to pyrchafe him, and accord- 
ng y the place of attorney- -generaf, conferred upon him in 
1631, gave acomplete turn to his min = and brought him over 
to the ro arty. From this moment ee was among the 
oting every violent 
a 
erocit 
and juttified the illegal aca of fhip-money : and his 
manners, fo far from attempting to conciliate the people, 
over whom he held his fway, peed the adioufneis of his 
public condu@, for he was ee ee rude, and a“ 
