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a : town of Maryland, in Alleghany county, 
of Patomac river; 14 miles , of Cum- 
berland. Nl t. 39° 38'.—Alfo, a aida of North — 
lina, near Brunfwick —Alfo, an Indian town, in o 
the 54 iflands referved by the Indians for their ve in 
Penobicot. 
OLDCASTLE, Sir Joun, in Biography, pe uearaed 
denominated the good lord Cobham, was born in the reign 
of Edward III., and is faid to have been the fit author, as 
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or 
Rome, "he, in great "E Glecfure, cofiened him to its sae 
He was accordingly fingled out as a proper victim of eccle- 
nan feverity, whofe punifhment it was thought would 
ftrike a terror into the whole party, and teach them they 
mutt areca no mercy. e was indi&ted at the inftance of 
Arundel, archbifhop of Canterbury, who, with the me 
Londen, Winchefter, and St. 
made his efeape before the day appointed for his execution. 
He retired into Wales, where he lay concealed for four years. 
ham 
fures, caufed the gates of the city to be fhut, to prevent any 
eg cement of the ollards, as they were denominated, 
rom that quarter, came into t eld in the night-time, 
Gad fuch pa aol as appeared, and took prifoners 
many others whom he apprehended on their road. bham 
himfelf again made his efcape, but was a taken, 
when he was hanged asa traitor, and his body was burnt on 
the gibbet, in — . the fentence eyesaune ced again 
him as a heretic rote « Twelve Conclufions, ad- 
dreffed to the Parliament “of Englan 
LDCASTLE, in Geography, a fmall poft-town of the 
county of = ath, ints: 41 miles N.W. from Dublin. 
O OLD, a town of ee in the bifhopric 
of Munteey 2 20 miles S.E. of Mun 
O » a town cei in a province of Bergen; 
95 miles N.N.E. 0 
OLDENBROECK. a om of the duchy of Bremen, 
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at ae ba of a {mall river, which runs into the Elbe; 
27 miles N.W. of Stade. N. lat. 53° 52’. E. long. 
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OLDENBURG, Henry, in Biography, a learned Ger- 
man in the feventeenth century, was defcended from the 
Afterwards he accepted the office of tutor to 
lord Hen an, a young Lrifh nobleman, whom he at- 
ary O’B 
tended to the univerfity of Oxford ; and-in 1656 he entered 
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eae ftudent in that univerfity, in order that he mighs 
ean opportunity of os fuch books as he wanted, 
chiefly i in the Bodleian lib toe was fome time after this 
appointed tutor to lord William Cavendifh, and became the 
intimate pe and friend of the illuftrious John Mil- 
to him four lettersin his «“ Epiftole Fami- 
He v was elected one of the earlieft members of the 
na ba Society, and was soba chofen affiftant fecretary 
to ilkins. No foo ad he undertaken this office, 
than he applied himfelf to mel feveral duties attached to his 
office with the utmoft affiduity and zeal, and publifhed the 
firft number of the «“ Philofophical TranfaGtions.”? He 
eftablifhed a correfpondence with more than ala perfons, 
in different parts of the world, on a vaft variet fubjeGs. 
The method which he contrived to get throug his bufinefs 
was to proceed in his by the moft fimple mode; he 
never read a ree chek i had before him, pen, ink, and 
paper, ready to anf{wer i it forthwith, fo that the multitude 
Es by - declaration from the council of the Royal 
“ that the publifher of the T'ranfactions had carried 
1677, the publication was difcontinued, till it 
was refum Dr. Nehemia r. Oldenburg 
died in Auguft 1678, at the age of fifty-two. He publithed 
numer chiefly on theological fubje&ts, and tranf- 
ook of Revelations, 
Pigat nis 5 ;” and of “The Life of the 
azarine.’ 
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Duchefs of Ma 
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a meafures 40 miles in tenes h, and fomewhat more 
an 30 in breadth, and belongs to the ing of Denmark, 
The foil, generally fertile, affords excellent pafturage, and 
reed oO horne cattle a nd horfes. It has, h 
the above county, feated on 
the Hunte, regularly fortified, and containing two churches. 
The citadel is the lees of a governor ; 2. mile es E.S. a 
of Emden. 53° 7. . long. Ifo, 
town of Weltphalia, in the bifhopric of Paderborn oak 
a fortified caftle ; 16 miles E. of Pad 
OLDENBURGER, PeueAveR, in Basis, 
a jurift and political writer, was fettled at Geneva, lead Ps 
taught law and hiftory with much reputation. He w 
great number of oa Tearned ai feveral of which ‘he 
publifhed under borrowed names. One of thefe was Bur- 
goldenfis, which was his real name reverfed with a little 
variation. The principal - thefe works are; 1. “ Notitia 
Imperii, five Difcurfus ad Inftrumenta Pacis Ofnaburgo- 
Monafterienfis :?’ this contains an ufeful lift of the Asie man 
3C 2 hiftorians 
