ORD 
Britain, from a as occafion requires, his majefty’s 
armies are ies 
he matter- es 
rit and principal is the mafter-gencral, from whom 
are ae all orders and difpatches soe to the fame, as 
the fervice hall beft r uire, and who has the fole command 
ft has often been 
aid to th 
Juted by officers, the colours excepted. The firft mafter of 
the ordnance upon record was Rauf es who was ap- 
aaa to this office for life 2d of Jun 
er him is a eutenant-gencral of the era ace who re- 
ceives poner from the mafter-general, a e reft of the 
the 
e 
ext to him is the Laie Said who es ha hip aie 
of the ordnance, ftores, pr of w cuf- 
tody of the ttore keepers ; ie fllgw: all bills of Aa es 
acheck on labourers, &c. 
Under thefe is a clerk of the ordnance, — — all 
orders or inftruétions given from the government of the o 
fice ; with all patents, grants, names of officers, ee draws all 
eftimates for provifions, and fupplies all letters, inftructions, 
ons, deputations, contrats, &c. oad ferves as a 
nee between the two accomptants of the office, the one for 
money, the other for ftores 
his office has alfo a ffore-heeper, ied eee into a cuf. 
tion, ftore: thereto be- 
ents and gives in legal bere for the fafe 
keeping thereof ; aa renders an exact account from time to 
“Hee re is alfo a clerk of . deliveries, _— duty is to draw 
up all provifions, either a r any aes of his 
majefty’s magazines, to ik em duly honey 
To this office alfo belongs a sn i and pay- si through 
whofe hands paffes the money of the whole office, as well fo 
of the ordnance, there are rater and area &e. 
ili Cc e ordnance is under the direétion of a a 
ee Encin NEER, 
ORDINANCE, Spiing up the. See SpiKinc 
ORDINARI, in An ntiquity, were a fort af gladiators ; 
being thofe sete to exhibit combats on certain {tated 
ays, 
ORDINARIO, Ital. common, ufual, in Mufic, as 
tempo ordinario, the ufual time. Thefe words are ‘ufually 
pene to movements in common time, for ‘moderately 
quic 
ORDINARY, fomething that happens, or paffes fre- 
quently, or ufually. 
_We fay, the ordinary courfe of things : Neen is done 
without miracles, is done by yeaa oe ig 
Oxpinary Culvcrin. See CULV 
ORD 
Orpinary Minion, &c. See MINION, &c. 
ae Ambaffador, or Envoy in. See EMBASSADOR, 
an 
occalions. 
number of feamen in time of peace, according to the fize of 
But in war there is a crew of labourers enrolled 
in ie lift of the ordinary, who pafs from fhip to fhip occa- 
fionally to Pumps clean, moor, or tranfport them whenever 
it is _ 
The term aainey is hoes idea dap ] area, ele the inferior 
failors rae the able he latter are rate 
able on the navy books, ne faye a avers pay peice to 
that of thofe who are rated ordinar 
OrpI NARY ao in the Civil Law, is any judge 
eo 
=a 
Law, etes him 
who has ordinary or immediate jurifdiGtion in scclenulical 
caufes, as of courfe and common right; in oppofition to 
perfons who are extraordinarily appointed. 
In which fenfe archdeacons are ordinaries, 
appellation be _ frequently given to the bifhop of the 
diocefe, who the ordinary ecclefiaftical jurifdiction, and 
the collation to benefice therein. owever, in a more 
neral acceptation, word 
{tated) any 
n 
Though the 
empted from the jnrifaiétion of the ordinar 
The archbithop is ordinary of the whole province, to vifit, 
and receive appeals from the inferior judicatures. 
he Romith canonifts call the pope ordinary of ordinaries, 
fince by the Lateran council he has ufurped the right of col- 
lating, by oe to all benefices ; in exclution of the 
h ordinary collat 
OrRpINARY 0 of Af eand Se, efi ee si a deputy of the bifhop 
of the diocefe, anciently appo o give malefaCtors their 
neck-verfes, and judge ie ie read or not; alfo to 
eB dat divine fervice for them, and affift in preparing them 
fordeath, § 
Orpinary of Neqwgate, is one who is attendant in ordi- 
nary upon the condemned malefaétors in that prifon, to pre- 
pare them for death; and he records the behaviour of {uch 
perfons. 
RDINARY, or Honourable Ordinary, in Heraldry, a de- 
nomination given to certain charges properly belonging to 
t art. 
The honourable ordinaries are by fome Writers reckoned 
ven in number; wiz. the chief, pale, bend, feffe, bar, croft, 
faltier, cheoron, bordure, and e Cuirr, Pat 
ufed ever fince armory was fet on foot. An 
they denote the ornaments moft neceffary for n oble and ge- 
nerous men: thus the chief reprefents the helmet, wreath, 
or crown, covering the head; the pale reprefents his lance or 
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