FRE 
long. from Greenwich. Its extreme length from E. to W. is 
upwards of 2000 miles, and its —— breadth about 1500. 
00,000 {quare miles, or 
fia, itis by t ze 
ee inh: Rees i ae the fame gen neal government. 
The Milfifippi river divides Fredonia nearly in_ its centre, 
leaving 1,000,000 fquare miles FE. of it, in the prefent United 
States, and nearly the fame number of fquare miles W. of it. 
The vale, if it may be fo called, between the Alleghany 
and Shining sell which is i 
fippi, oe — by its numerous and lar 
ern branches, contains nearly a million and a half {quare 
miles, a may be reckoned among the fineit portions of the 
globe. Fredonia has a fea-coaft of many thoufand miles in 
extent, along ee are but a re of much pcr 
but full of harbou s, many of them equal to in the 
world ts on. lakes, a rivers, are all nee a ae 
{cale. Its climate and foil are adapted to almoft all the 
riety of produétions which the earth affords. Over the \ raft 
t five mi 
Indians a event h part of onautie in flave re- 
donian cept the aboriginal inhabitants, aa the eae 
pond yaad, Africa, and their defcendants of 7 fhade, 
area people collected from almoft every nation in Europe, 
a defcription of Levine fee 
difference in climate, 
‘A. 
oO 
on 
orm national charaG@er 
thefe Obitacles, remains to be tried. Such a name has long 
been a defideratum. The author has formed an article Fre- 
donia as a fpecimen of the advantage and convenience of 
fuch a name. 
FREDONNER, Fr. in Mujfic, this word is only ufed 
in derifion, as we fay uavering. 
REA, in Geograpiy, a {mall ae on the eaft 
fide of the gulf oF Bothnia. N. lat. 63° E. long. 
20° 
FRE UM, in Antiquity, a compofition made by a 
an be freed from profecution, a third part a vbich 
was paid into the fifcus or exchequer ; or it was 
paid to the magiftrate for protection avant the ae oe of 
t e extraordinary cafes, where it was 
Q 
M 
des Loix, hb. xxx. : and Robert fon’ s Hitt. v 
chap. v. p 
cap. 20 
: 
term varioufly ufed; but generally in op- 
pofition to: ealeiet ie d, ‘or neceffitated. (See 
Frank.) Thus, a man is faid to be free, who is out of 
prifon ; and atid is free when let out of the cage: free from 
i. es void of pain; we fay, a free air, a free paflage, 
oe in fpeaking of things endowed with underftanding, 
cpak poe relation to the will, and implies its being 
at full liberty. 
The papers = that their fage or wife men alone- are 
See Liz 
free, 
FRE 
FREE is a re in ae ae to-flave. 
s foot on Englith gx gro pound, he be- 
comes to fome sent . The fineft legacy the ancient 
Romans could leave their flaves, was their freedom, 
Liperry. 
Free, aboa Ship. The feamen fay the pump frees 
the thip, when iene 7s out more water than pare a ik 3 
but, on the con trary, when it cannot throw out the 
as fait as it leaks in, they fay the pump a free pines! : 
alfo bailing or —s out water out of a boat is called 
freeing the boa 
FREE Agent. ‘Ge Ac 
FREE Bench, or franc Bane fignifies that eftate in copy- 
hold lands, which the wife hath after the deceafe of her 
a for her dower, according .to the cuftom of the 
ano: 
Fitzherbert calls free banc a cuftom, whereby, in certain 
cities, the wife fhall have her hufband’s whole lands, &c. for 
her dower. 
Thus, at Orleton, in the county of Hereford, the reli&t of 
a copyhold tenant is admitted to her free hench, i. e. to all 
her hufband’s copyhold land, during her life, at the next 
court after her hufband’s deat 
In the manors of Ea and Weft En 
a cuftomary tenant die, the widow ee ser a free be 
all ba copyhold lands, es dum fola a fuerit 
mits incontinency, fhe forfeits her eee but if fhe will 
come into court, riding backwards ona black ram, with his 
tail in her hand, rehearling a certain form ef words, i in the na- 
ture of a confeffion and petition, the fteward is-bound by 
the cuftom to reftore to her her fe bench. The words are 
bourne, in Berks, if 
can in 
fh 
“ HereLa 
Riding acon a ea = 
Lik 
as 
Have done this worldly fham 
— Pray, Mr. Steward, let me “have my land 
os aad 
eli - ages hold alfo in the manor of Chadleworth, 
f Tor, in Devonfhire ; and in fone other 
Free-booter, or Flibufler,a name given to the pirates who 
{cour the peste eas ; particularly fuch as make war 
the 
‘be adduced in w i “= 
whatever fell i in thei 
held a uthor oy 
ing on “their 
booters ; 
ted for their ae exploits.. 
Some nationt are nothing better than free-booters: thue 
we 
