FRI 
shoe a arc in. ee by, a town of Africa, i in 
mbo. 
Con 0, on om Zaine, 
F 
Italians fra, ae the Peak aaa that is, brothers i is a 
€om e pias - = ira ; founded on this, oat 
there isa rotherhood, prefumed be- 
f fra 
tween the feveral gon tone of the fame convent or 
mon he ky 
monks as are not priefts; for thofe in orders are ufually 
dignified with the eopelatian of father. 
“niars, or Ferrers, obfervant, fratres obfervantes, = a 
sea = the Francifcans ; thus called, becaufe not com- 
bine gether in any cloyfter, convent, or corporation, as 
the pea sane als are, but only agreed among themfelves to 
obferve the files of their ones, and that more ftriétly than 
the conventuals did, from whom they feparated themfelves 
out of a fingularity of zeal, living in certain places of their 
owne ufing. 
IAR’s Cowl, in Botany. See Aru 
Friar’s Head, in es a cape on athe E. coaft of 
Antigua. at. 17? ae 
Friar’s Hood, me, Of (Caton near the coaft ; 
68 ae E. of Can 
FRIARY fe. Holy Trine. See Tr 
FRIAS, in Geography, a tosvn of Spain, 3 in n Old Caftile, 
fituated on an eminence, near the Ebro 05 . miles N. N. E. 
of Burgos. N. lat. 42? 4o!. ong. 3 
FRIBU H, Frip BURG or Feuletorg, among our 
Anglo-Saxon anceftors, = ted the fame as frank-pledge 
did after the time of the conqueft. 
“ — erea eft queda ae ee et maxima 2 fecuritas per 
es ftatu firmiffimo fuftinentur, Vie yee 
oo 
decem | hominum numerum.”? LL. 
ce Re with the other eight, were 
Great men were not combined in any or ieee ae 
er dozen, as being deemed a ee aflurance for them- 
felves and their menial fervan 
I , or | REX BURO, in Geography, a town of 
any, the circle of Swabia, as vie ies of the 
Anftrian Baga (ceded to the duke of a by the 
that cs Luneville j in~ 
Traifam. ‘This town was founded, in 1118, by Berchtold 
TII. duke of sepa from w shioni it came to the counts 
of Furfteaber 
¥RI 
Hae of Auftria, fo that. the town became Lubjed to a 
mily. The French took and difmantled it in 17 . 
was again taken by the French in 17 796. and foon Gres ; 
to the archd ke. The ftreets are ac and well paved ; 
oy o 
, neipal bufinefs of the town is that of 
+ polithng cryftals and aie fees 3 34 miles S.S.E. of 
trafburg. N. lat. on 
Fripure, or Paes, called Friburg i in Uckland, by 
way of diftin&tion from Friburg in the Brifgaw, a town = 
Sv oo = capital of a canton, i which it gives name.’ 
This s built, in 1179, by Berchtold IV., duke: of 
ee i endowed by = with confiderable privileges. 
In i218, the aba ye efcen 
burgh, in right of h s wife ae. 
Berchto 
Eb 
unti 
the fale of the 15th peed when it ou itfelf mee the 
rotection of the duke of Savoy. From this era it occali ion- 
y affifted the cantons againft the houfe of Auftriz 
toon after the battle of Morat, in which its troops had 
vare in the victory then obtained, it became a i hae 
peg republic, and, in — it was a 
f the Helvetic confederacy. 
one of the 
ta 
fo entirely concealed e circumjacent” hills, that 
the i {carcely catches the fmalleft glim 
upon a 2 of the whole town from the over hangin ng: 
orti eons, contifting’ of high walls ‘and 
owers, ‘élole: a circumference of about four miles ; within 
comprehend a fingular mixture of 
thickets, and meadows, vary rig inftantly 
from wild to agreeable, Gon the buftle of a 
folitude of the deepeft retirement. The San 
aH oa courfe, fo as to form, within the {pace of two 
si e angles, between which the different parts of the 
are nearly pdrallel to each other. On all fides the 
rat to the town is extr emely fteep, and in one place the’ 
itreets even pats above the roofs of the houfes. Many of 
the edifices are raifed in regular Ss like the ae ot 
from a 
an amphitheatre. The moit extraordin nary point of view is 
from the Pont-neuf. The houfes, ‘conftrnéted with a a pri 
see oe 
ae ie end of the “rath aie a remarkable for 
ae height and folidity of the tower. % 
» on his return from ite 
arded as an emblem of Swifs ey, ‘The fociety of 
Friburgh is very agreeable ; the gentry are frank and hof. 
piable, and rae "French politenefs with great fimplicity of 
man The bifhop of Laufanne, called here the bifhop 
of Fr hae: a in this city. Under the old eftablifh. 
ment, at the recom. - 
he was appointed by the Popes vudually 
Ze & menadation 
