FRA 
Malice pert al Cantus,” Milan, 34065 Paeed x49 . 
° Y2e {7 cell : 
I dae This work, we are told by Pantaleene Melegulo, his 
countryman and biographer, was written when Gafforio was 
forty years of age, that is to wi in the year 1501 
though the Ba is dark and difficult, it was Ztclaely 
neceffary underftanding- the cnc authors. If, fays 
nia a life fpent in labour fog 
{cience enc in aferies of laudable ais, canentitle a hus 
‘man to fame in this world, and felicity in the next, the 
claim of Gafforio to both feems indifputable. 
The doétrines of this venerable and excellent dicot, who 
i courfe of this 
tents, or extracts 
We were difappointed = ne finding the name of Franchinus 
or Gaffurius, for he is called by both thefe titles in mufical 
books © ither in Ducange or Fabricius. An authority fo 
ufe of mufical terms in the Latin 
a 
obliged to eite: and Fabricin, who fo frequently {peaks of 
mufical traéts a 
- work and his readers with a dinate and interefting article, 
n giving an account o affurius and his writings, ices 
Sone chiefly compofed in Latin, had a c on : is notic 
FRANCHISE, a fpecies "0b i incorpor Stared 
ren the privilege or exemption from Laan surifdiGtion 
And the term is at ufed for an immunity from the ordinary 
tributes and taxe 
_+ This is either real or perfonal ; 
uing on accoun 
politic ; 3 ino 
vefted eather i in natu perfons, or bodies 
anchife that has icine 
er in many ; e fame identi cal fr 
been: 
would prejudice the former grant. 
_franchifes are the following : to bea 
-ghife vefted in a number o fons q 
for a number of perfons to be pried elaetie and fubfi a 
‘Body politic, witha p mai erpetual fiewlion 
ber es: 
hav 
fith, forfeitures, 
con of one’s hey or libert of 
trove 
e~ : 
fo that no ie ek fhall try caufes bene within that eat « 
diétion; to have a bailiwick, or liberty exempt from the 
fheriff of the a wherein the grantee only and his offi- 
cers are to execute all procefs ; 
the right of taking toll, eee hoe or at any other public 
places, as bridges, ghd a d the like; which tolls mu 
chafe, par 
! pate ne of: royalty. 
See the feveral articles above recited. 
FRANCHISE, /llowance of. See Quo Warranto. 
the eavantenent vf 
of con- - 
nd of their authors, might have furnifhed - 
_lo ges 
FRA 
ee Difterbance of. See DisturBANCE. - 
NcuISsE is alfo ufed = an afylum, or fan@uary, where 
eon are fecure of their &e, 
Churches and: ae eat in Spain are aia for crimi« 
nals ; fo were they anciently in England, till-they were abufed 
to fach a degree that there was a par te for abolifhing the 
cuftom. 
bese of the ine remarkable’ capitulars made by Chaile. 
in his-p ied eda , in J19» was that relating to 
the ae a pre . The right of franchife was held 
fo facred, that even ie ee religious a obferved it to a 
degree of ae but, to fu ch excefs in time was it 
carried, that 1 to reduce} it ng- 
ly he Faxed any provifion being carried to emis pera 
into ae or ‘refu 
FRANCHISE of Qe rites, is a certain {pace, or diftri& 
Rom ie where in are the houfes of the organs s of the 
princ urope ;,and where fuch,as retire cannot be 
area 
piel or yea by the fkirri, or fergeants, nor pices at 
ople of Rome look on this as an old ufurpation, 
anda fandalou baba ie ieee ambafladors, out of a jea- 
loufy of their power a great length in the fifteenth 
century, a gis “Infenfibly the dependencies of. their 
palaces and houfes, within which the right of franchife was 
anciently confined. Several of the iu 
iar againgt thi 
able a cof the city from their authority, and rendered it 
ie son Innocent XI. exprefily refufed to receive any 
ore ambafladors, but fuch as w make a formal renun~ 
cae of the franchife of quarter 
RANCHISE, oe isa - oes the king’s writ runs 
not 3 as at Chefter an am ; and anciently at Tyndal, 
and Hex amfhire i in Northumberland. But Bra¢éton aA that 
a franchife royal is where the sa) grants to one and his heirs 
anexemption of toll, &c. 
F ISING. See Papcincuinen and Ma- 
NUMISSION. 
FRANCIA, Francesco, in Biography, an _hiftorical 
painter, who is known by that name, but whofe real one was 
Raibolini. He was born at Bolo a in 1450, and was bred 
te the snes of 2 urea which he exercifed for fome. 
time with ve it el having the coinage of 
the city of ‘Bolo ogna under his 
His defire of reputation, an his acquaintance with An- 
drea Mantegna and other painters, led him to the 
pute. 
colour ; on. 
ian. Bellino fullnefs of outline and breadth af drapery.; 
and if the beft evidence of his me merit, the authority of Ra- 
phael, be of weight, in procefs of time he excelled them both. 
Tn a letter dated 1 508, edited a Malvafia, Raphael declares, 
that th onnas of Francia were inferior in his opin 
x beauty, dévoutnefs, and form. His idea of Franca’s 
talents exhibited itfelf {till ftronger in his entrufting his pic- 
ture of St. Cecilia, deftined for the church of St. Gio da 
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