FRO 
s¢ Gallorum fublimis honos at fama tuorum, 
Hic, Froiffarde, jaces, {i modo forte jaces. 
Hittorie vivus {tuduifti reddere vitam, 
Defunéto vitam reddct at illa tibi.”’ 
hough Froiffart was the author of thirty thoufand verfes, 
his poetical character is funk into oblivion, and he is celebrat- 
ed only as an hiftorian. In this capacity he is highly valued 
tr 
even in 
By the French he has 
tow ards the Englith ; 
it cannot be denied that Re were os a 
s of the age in nee they flou therefor 
oad hiftorian was obliged ae me hem in ie 
true colours, an . _ them the ane characters of the 
aye r. Johnes, in his edition of Froiflart’s Chronicles, 
has faceftlly vi aided the character of the hiftorian from 
he charge of lity : throughout the whole work, he 
ma 
= his hifto: 
over — death of each eee mae exults in the fuccefs 
ery hardy enterpri paaiade away almott by 
his chivalrous feelings, independently ee par 
publication of Mr. Johne ie in the beft 
edition oF the « Chronicles” was that of Lyons in four vo- 
tumes folio, 1559 Englith reader is referred to Mr. 
Johnes’s. oftavo edition of the Chronicle ~ farther particu- 
ars concerning Froiffart: but in the ‘* Memoirs of the 
Academy of Infcriptions” there are many curious and inte- 
roffing particulars relative to his life and writings. Moreri. 
Johnes’s edition of the Chronicles of England, France, &c. 
8vo. 1805. 
FROISS 
ment of the Oi fe, 
trit of Goa. 5 miles S.S.W. of Breteuil. 
place contains 663, a the canton 11 3234 eee on 
a territory of 180 kilio ometres, in 23 ¢ 
FROITZHE 
of the Roer, and chief place of acanton in the diftri& of 
Ajix-la-Chapelle. “The ean oe 384, and the canton 
8,156 inhabitants, in 30 com 
FRO 
Y,in aie hy, a town of France, in the depart- 
a canton inthe dif- 
nes. 
IS, a town of “Frances in the department of the 
of 
dte - Or; 21 miles N.W 
MAIL, a town i Walichia-; ry miles N.E. of 
, Perer, ‘in Biography, diftinguifhed for 
his great exertion — he Catholic miffionaries in the 
aft, was bornat Laon in the year 1678. 693 he en- 
tered the order of the Jefuits, bh on: account of his fubfe- 
Having 
nary to t 3; being ni 
fae ‘te Egypt, elas fi 2 all his aon wers in ‘acquir- 
‘ing a knowledge of the Arabic language, nor was he lefs 
“zealous in cane the duties attached to his different em- 
ployments, He was afterwards fent into Syria, where he 
tinguifhed by the name of Anti-Libanus. 
pe ae 
IM, a town of Par in the department 
FR O 
{pent the remainder of his life. Here he eftablifhed a prints 
ing prefs for the Arabic language, in the mo naftery of St. 
near Antura, a village inthe chain of mountains 
the > neceffar types 
and pro 
which is ; pablified w in 
the fynod in the eighth 
of the Miffions of the So- 
Fromage died in the year 
aeee a difeourfe at its opening, 
an sabe of ee eae 0 
volume ef the emoir 
ciety of Jefus in ae bee 2 
1740. i 
FROME, in Geography, a river of England, in the 
county of eau er which joins the Avon about s miles 
S.E. of Bath fo, ariver of England, which runs into 
the Lug, near oe ord.— A lfo, 
county “of Do rfet, hich paffes by 
runs into the fea in Poole har bour, a little below Wareham. 
Oy ariver of England, in the county of Gloucefter, 
w whic th joins the Avon at Brittol. —Alfo, a river of En a ndy 
He uich runs into the Severn near Berkeley, in Gloucefter- 
ire. 
Frome, or Irome Selwood, a large town in the hundred 
suet - merfetfhire, eos its firft denomination from 
ing i on a river that name, which rifing to 
ihe Path ‘of ae place, aie, ee - takes a northerly 
direction, and falls 1 into the Briftol elow radford, 
in the county of Wilts. The additonal ‘appellatio on it re- 
ceives from the diftri€& which formerly conttituted the 
tenfive a celebrated foreit of Selwood. _Leland deferibes 
it as j 
8 
ee 
ha 
pels, with a large renee pales tower, furmounted by 
an octagonal {pire, rifing 120 feet in height. re are alfo 
fix other places orfhip for various denominations of 
rote ene diffenters. 
and an alms-houfe for 
the cial return 
in the Re aa of a 
in other branches of bufinefs connected wv 
ad Upper Qffory. “The nee ‘nobleman has an Seas 
5 feat 
