GALLEY. 
fides of each other. They are fo calléd becaufe- ‘they are ob- 
long, and have ras openings, in which they are {uppofed 
to er e Ls ey 
n Nao al Language, a low-built veffel, going 
both a oars sand foc chiefly ufed by the flates bordering 
en the Mediterran 
The galley is called by the Greek authors under the eaftern 
empire yaw, and ywrse 3 and by the Latin authors of the 
fame time, galea ; whence the modern denominati Som 
ay it was called galea, on account of the figure of a cafke 
or helmet, which it A on its head or pfow, as Ovid attefts, 
De Triftib. aa call it galeré 3 becaufe they fay 
that the top of the is -ufually cut in ‘manner of a hat, 
avhich the Italians call es 
galere from ' ay: b alled yarsw 
La ly, A others that galley, galea,. galere, galeaffe, &c. from 
the Syria aldee gaul and gallin, a man expofed on the 
water, or ina ae of woo 
The largeft fort of thefe reels, called galcafes 3 is perciy td d 
only ay the Venetians. . The commonly aera 
feet 
ase 
aa orn ee 
ufually inal to it. 
~poun- 
ders, the fecond of two oe rs, and the uppctmat of 
me time keeping on their ad or bow, 
fo as. to be out of the direction of Sheir cann The $ 
next in fize to thefe, called alfo aif- eee are from 120 to 
130: feet long, 18 feet pe and nine or 10 feet deep. 
They have two m 
snares arryin eioa o 16 banks of oars. 
All the galleys, bath ancient at modern, are of a 
and fe mike saps ps. For. rmerly they made aver 
kinds ; at prefent the alle ae e all alike: all the difference- 
between them is as i fize, and nothing as to figure. he 
ulually keep towards the coafts ; though fometimes they 
crofs the fea. 
he king of France formerly kept up 40 alley s for 
e ule of Mediterranean, the arfenal thereof beng at 
yi ian The gen ral of the galleys bears a 
a rack of his 
Galleys in Satin. are called: biremes, triremes, and guadri- 
their having r four 
nether, as many learned men have 
rs bef 
imagined, ae part ee Scaliger and Snellius, though 
renies ¢ not on geen ca) two, three, 0 
Tr. 
this laft has wrote excellently on the fu bjec&t of navigation 5 | i 
ak he were ip aapesenels nor yet-on-account of their 
’ having but tw tae or three ur oars, for then they would 
mrs ai 3 but bce there were two, three, or four 
wers, a ae ° galleys ufei 
- as dees acl eae by the Jefuit Dechales in his «Art 
of Sailin ng..’. ‘The error-was occafioned by fome. ancient 
we 
r EiPres 
[wordjife, whofe thape this velfel Seale 
y be ftruck at pleafure, and 
"it is out of their 
for a whole 
galleys, sh abana ‘on medals, or baffo' relievos, wheréin 
ral: ran f 
a mere vifion ; inafmuch as 
Of 15, 20, 30, 40, 50 rows : fo that, if they 
were ranged over each other, tho pica we were only to allow 
four feet for each deck, there would be a diftance of 160 
fect between the loweft rowers and the higheft ; and yet we 
a eae that the higheft veffel ever. rr was only 72 feet 
high 
of w. aa Nilay tha 
galley of: 
a one man to oar. e Ew 
LEY, Captain, is the cca wiley of a ftate, com- 
meee by the captain-general of the galleys: in France the 
royal galley} is the fir 
‘ALL sabia. denotes the fecond galley both of 
Pence, Tuleany, 2 alta. 
The fecond eal of the galleys is always on boar 
so fe are and the lieutenant on board the pa-. 
“Th terms peculiar to galleys aré very numerous, and 
a anew fyftem of fea-language different from that ufed 
Monf. de Baras, an ancient officer on beard the king of 
France’s galleys, engaged | himfelf in writing anew didtionary 
of the dink of the galle 
AL Condens to the, is a penalty impofed i 
ean ad oe itive ae whereby they are adjudged te: 
ferve the king, or ftate, laves on board the galleys, ether 
- for ever or for a limite 
Co genie ap to the sity forever imports coueteaden 
of lands, c.3 for, in a that which confifcated 
the perfon coieca the goo 
‘A man condemned to the ee ileye for perpetuity is dead . 
ina Gar an He cannot difpofe of any of his’ effects ; 
cannot inherit; and, if he be married, his mar riage is. 
null; nor can his widow have any of her dower out of his 
cclefiattical cee cannot © fentence to the galleys : 7 
r ju urifdiétio 
‘oods, 
Soha @ 
he 
than ten. ac y Til ry another ae 579) en- 
©" joins the ‘captains not to detain their galley-flaves after their 
time is expired.. But. neither of thefe laws are now ob~ 
ferved 
a groove to admit a a ga 
which the yet aap meade the letters out of ‘his s compof- 
ing-ftick, as often a8 it is filled. 
“The i lle, when filled, contains the matter of one page $ 
and when ° fhee meh compofed as ean pages as are required 
alf fheet, or = lik Eg pofe them, 
forms ready for the pre are 
Gat ezy-halfpenie, a kind of coin, mich, with fy fins and 
deine: were: forbidden by the ftatute Hen. V. ca 
is faid they were brought i into this kingdom by the Genoefe. 
miercbauns Bae ading hither in-galleys, lived commorily in 
a lane near"T'ewer-ftreet, and were called Galley-men ; land- 
ng 
