FOW 
-was taken in oppofition to the king’s affumption ee a dif- 
-penfing power, which tended to the fubverfion of the con- 
fitution, and to inveft him with arbitrary authority. 
clergy in this caufe were fupported by all the sae 
eae os eae among the — and in efta 
blifhm Whe ment was fe ttled, Dy, 
Fowl $ eee ng "and zeal were ise ee otten: he was in 
1691 nomiuated co the fee of Gloucefter, in which fituation 
he See difcharging with exemplary affiduity the duties 
of his bifhopric until eS difabled by his growing in- 
firmities. e died a Se near. London, in 
the elghty-fecond year isage. He ha 
writer, but his works ‘bein chiefly of the controverfial 
kind, it oul be of little ufe to enumerate them here, fince 
almoft all the fubjeéts then in difpute have long fince been 
Jaid at reftt. One of the principal of the bifhop’s works, and 
which refleéts much creat on his underftanding an m 
itled, «* The De a of Chri iia, ora 
or true holineley was the ultimate eid oe our Saviour’s 
coming into the world, and is the great intendment of his 
bleffed gofpel.””?  Biog. Bit. 
7 
“OoWLER, Tuomas, was born at York onthe 22d of 
January, 1736, a and, after having gene through a courle of 
claffical ‘and medical education, he engaged in the praétice 
1774, however, ine relingui och o 
order to apply ae more ctl 0 the dy of medical 
cience 3 or 
where he graduated 7 er ‘He ew fettled at Stafford, 
and was foon after elected phyfician to the infirmary at that 
place, where he — with conliderable reputation and 
fuccefs until be year 1791, when he returned to his native 
city ere he met with the moft flattering encovragemen nt 
int te exercile: of hi is pr rofeflion : but his ardent attention to 
of the pectoris.” After confultin y eminent 
phyficians, and trying a variety of medicines, with partial 
and naar ve relief, for two years, he 
prifed by a {fpontatieous and gradual decline of the fymp- 
toms, and was at length totally free a om them. Notwith- 
ftanding the check to his exertion h he received fon 
this ala abe his profeffional erclienks and reputation 
continued to increafe; and in 1796 he was appointed, with- 
out ieee ay ae even without a WA a phyfician 
to the lunatic afylum, near York, ed the * Retreat,’ 
eftablifhed by the oe of fguakers for - fond of or 
infane members o ig commun mber 
s of Tainbusgh, of ie aaedical for 
of the a medical fociety ; in 
he was propofed by a abet to 
1 he was perfonally anksiown, (Dr. Fox 
informed him of his election in an epiftle highly Aer 
to his literary and profeffional attainments. 
continued his au ber ae ai in ae duty. that. ite, 
lence pen nk p demand, and, in the exercife 
sion, ample of generoity, aie dili. 
n he died, on 
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3. 
ane 
what he eer pra ifed as a duty. see 
the method recommended by lord Bacon for ae improvee 
. Vou. XVe 
‘He was, 
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ment of Ts perhaps more age any of his predece ef. 
fors or contemporaries ; and fome idea of his indefatigable 
labours may be conceived, when we mention, that he oie in 
sanvleree the hiflory of more than fix thoufand cafes, which 
which was publifhed in the year 1 tyes 
and in the year following his fecond treatife appeared, u 
the title of * Medical aie on the Effe Cts of Ar fe nic 
ft ee pa w — 
S 
medies; and accordingly they are now, more efpecially the 
latter, in daily and familiar ufe, a nd rank ‘amor 1 
able articles of the Menara iin 
ey in which his lit 
ae in 1795 i detieted to the ‘ged Eccl of Edin- 
1 “ i 
ee oi to tie farther advancement of his favourite (oeice. 
efides, the author of feveral papers, printed in 
different volumes of the Medical Commeutaries, and An- 
nals of Medicine, fie by Drs. Duncan of Edinburgh. 
See Ann. of es for 1801. 
rE e at or art of catching birds with 
nets, birdlime, jae and other devices; as alfo of breed- 
ing up the fa 
Fowtine is alfo ufed for the purfuing and taking of 
birds with hawks, falcons, and other irds of prey 5 more 
properly called falconry and lane. 
OWLIN pac a portable Jfie-ari for the fhooting of 
bi Of ing pieces, thofe are 1eputed the beft, 
which have ae ae barrels viz. from 54 fee 
a moderate e; tho for 
fhould be of d: fferent forts and fize it Is 
tial the barrel be we!l polifhed, and ee within, and the 
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ore of an sea bignefs, from one end to anether g 
which vn be proved by thrufting in a-piece of w eect 
exa iy the bore of the ii pan own i ied ete ae ; 
ia.’ In forming oii gun- barrel, the workmen begin by 
heating and hammering out a bar a into act orm m ofa flat 
betta eed at the one intended fort muzz icker 
