F OT 
while fhe is afloat, either under fail, orat anchor. It is 
er: a bafket is 
by which it is plunged repeatedly in the water, 
as clofe as ‘poilible to the place where the leak is conje€tured 
to lie. The oakum or chopped rope-yarns, being thus 
gradually fheken through the twigs, or over the top of the 
bafket, aré frequently fucked into the hole along with the 
water, fo that the leak is choaked, and the entrance of the 
Falconer’s Mar. Di&. 
HAY, in i = parifh in the 
hundred oF Waele eee Northam mpton, 
eighty-five miles diftant e tomee, pare as it has 
pan in the 
reign of Edward IIT. y Edward Lees duke of 
York, who erected the ek in the fhape of a fetterlock, 
the emblem or device of the rik By marriage this for- 
trefs . ecame th eons refidence of the 
t ingr oa s 
dence in the twenty-fecond year of his reign; when Alex- 
ander, f Scotland, had an audience, and - ifed to 
do homage and fealty to the crown of En In the 
reign of Elizabeth the cuftody of this cattle was " confided 
to fir William Fitzwilliams, at which period it was rendered 
a {cene of woe, at the mere idea of which humanity fhud- 
ders, and the mind ftarts back _ horror from the fangui- 
naty Bote ca. dere Mary wart, queen of Scots, 
was long imprifoned, then tried, pone ned, and executed, 
in the year 1580. Refpeting the ia or injuftice 
the melancholy event much has been written; and while 
the ingenious Buchanan has ufed all his efforts to detect, 
Its; a no lefs er, Whitaker, a nae the 
énergies of his See and the weapons of his learning, to 
eltablifh her innocenc demonttrate ie prised tor’s 
guilt. Camden, "Ava a cotemporary, and poffefled 
ample means of arriving at the truth, endeavours to avoid 
entering into any difcu upon the point ; obferving, 
os ever a oe ] poffible, but if not, let it 
ver be wrapped up in filen Fotheringhay, however, 
ee ee the referv Of fome, and t ifreprefent- 
ation of others, sperma Wing the caftle is demolifhed, 
The caftl 
ftru 
saenicts a red by rongly ae ifie 3 walls, a double 
ditches moated r e acceffion of James to 
the crown of Pagina: an ee was iffued for its Sua 
demolition ; and nothing at prefent remains except the {cite, 
marked out by the moat and part of the agger on which 
the ae was erecte 
- ened a nunnery had been founded here, 
on me he of which Edward Langley, duke of York, erefted 
and endowed a fecular college for a mafter, twelve chap- 
L. XV. 
FOU 
lains, eighteen clerks, and thirteen chorifters ; the annual 
revenucs of which, at the cg wees amounted, according 
to Speed, to 489/. 155. 9 
comma : by se oa munificence 
alfo a an fchool w een ana 
‘This village, fo diking vuithe d in lee was “former! 
confiderable town, and ee a weekly market on Wetec, 
and three annual fairs. At prefent it puea of one ftreet, 
containing only 46 Goules and 307 inhabit 
his oa8 the birth-place of ear Plantagenet duke of 
Gloucefter, ale me Richard III.; in whofe perfon, 
Fuller obfe “ Ajax and Ulyffes mee ” poffeffia g elo- 
quence to a “and cee to fight.”” He was deformed in 
body, and by ‘the generality of hiftorians he has b 
prefented as {till more deformed in mind. dh 
waded to the throne through the blood of his nephews, 
ichard, duke of 
was dillinguithed by the enaétment of feveral excellent eee 
and he was not Bae in perfonal courage. aving met 
He enry, duke Richmond, who had affembled an army 
againit him, in "Bolworth field, after performing prodigies 
oft both his crown and his hfe. 
of valour, the king there ’ 
See Camden’s Britannia, and the Beauties of asl and 
and Wales. 
FOTIPET, atown of Hindooftan, in Bednore ; 
E.N.E. of Bednore 
FOTOQUE, in ‘the Japanefe Theology, the name of an 
order of deities ; ae er order being called Camis. Fro 
the beg of this life, and fron the 
former thofe which wie oa future life. 
F US, in "Medicine, the fame as fomentae 
FOU, in Geograph » atown of China, of ae fecond 
rank, in the province of eae ; 420 miles. S.W. of Pe- 
5 aus 
ing, N. lat. 26° 5’, E.lon oa! 
F N, a town of ne eaten of Corea; 35 
miles W. N. W. of Cou-fou. 
FOUCAULT, Nicuonas-Josrrx, in Biography, was 
fon of a fecretary to the council of ftate, and was born at 
Paris in 16 fle was educated for ihe “French bar, at 
which he afterwar ds obtained ~~ celebrity, and paffed 
through various offices till he became a mafter of requefts, 
and chie the council of m oa duchefs of Orleans, 
At the aa of the edi& of Nantes, he exercifed fuch 
rudence in the diltri&t over which he was the intendant, 
that much of the mifchief was prevented which that -arbi- 
trary meafure was calculated to produce. So grateful are 
the people, in almoft all cafes, for favours done them, that 
in this inftance a medal was ftruck in gratitude for tne libe- 
rality exhibited by Foucault. At 
which he fuftained any public 
arts and local eftablifhments and improvements calculated to 
benefit the trade of the country. He was the firft to fet 
on foot the conftruction of new roads, canals, havens, and 
bridges ; and to fanétion, with all his influence, inftitutions 
for the promotion of the ufeful arts and {ciences. 1s own 
— pal and cabinet were ever open to thofe who 
able to ufe the added much to the ftock of au-« 
tiquaran agvieaa. by the mere which he made in 
P 1704, 
