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Horning, in all its articles, employs a great number of the 
inhabitants. Here is a free grammar-fchool, which was 
erected in the reign of queen Elizabeth. Formerly there 
were two markets weekly, and four fairs yearly. The 
markets on Wednefday and Saturday. The rairg, firft, on 
the feaft of St. Agatha, February 5 ; fecond, on the feaft 
of St. George, April 23 ; third, on the feaft of St. Ann, 
July 26 ; fourth on St. Andrew’s day, November 30. 
The market on Saturday, and the three laft fairs, together 
with the tolls, are confirmed to the bailiff and burgeffes of 
Bewdley by the charter of James I. but the market on 
Wednefday, and the fair on the feaft of St. Agatha, are 
difufed. The town deems to have been firfl incorporated 
by Edward IV. whofe charter grants them great privileges 
by land and tea. Tliefe immunities wetre twice confirmed 
by Henry VIII. The prefent corporation had its begin¬ 
ning by the charter of James I. it confifts of a bailiff, 
twelve aldermen, and burgeffes. It now returns only one 
member to parliament. 
Not far from Bewdley is Blackftone-hiH, where is an 
hermitage very curioufly hewn out of a rock, with a cha¬ 
pel and fevera! apartments. This beautiful rock is upon 
the margin of the water, adorned with oaks, &c. It is 
part of the extenfive pofiefTions of W. A. Roberts, Efq.— 
Within three miles of Bewdley is the pari fit of Rock, 
where the famous Auguftine’s oak flood, fo called, from a 
•conference held- under it by Auguftine, and the Britifh 
bifhops, about the celebration of Eafter, preaching the 
gofpel, and adminiflering baptifm, after the rites of the 
.church of Rome, which the Britifh bifhops refufed. This 
fact is memorable, as it fliews, that all our Chriftianity did 
•not come originally from St. Auguftine and the papalifls. 
To BEWAIL', v. a. To bemoan; to lament; to ex- 
prefs borrow for.—I cannot but bewail, as in their firft 
principles, the miferies and calamities of our children. 
Addifon. 
To Bewail, v . n. To exprefs-grief: 
Thy ambition, 
Thou fcarlet fin, robb’d this bewailing land 
Of noble Buckingham, my father-in-law. Shakefpeare. 
To BEWARE', v. n. [from be and ware, or wary, that 
is, cautious. Gcwaiian, Sax. warcr, Dan.] To regard 
with caution ; to be fufpicious of danger from: generally 
the particle of goes before the tiling which excites caution : 
Warn’d by the fylph, oh, pious maid, beware! 
This to difcfbfe is all thy guardian can ; 
Beware of all, but moft beware of man. Pope. 
It is obfervsble, that it is only ufed in fitch forms of fpeech 
as admit the word be: thus we fay, he may beware, let him 
beware, he will beware : but not, he did beware, or he has 
been ware. 
To BEVVEE'P, v. a. To weep over or upon ; to bedew 
with tears : 
Old fond eyes, 
Beweep this caufe again ; I’ll pluck ye out, 
And call you, with the waters that you lofe, 
To temper clay. Shakefpeare. 
BEWA'RED, an old Saxon word, fignifying expended ; 
for, before the Britons and Saxons had introduced the gene¬ 
ral ufe of money, they traded chiefly by exchange of wares. 
To BEWET', v. a. To wet ; to moiften ; to bedew ; 
to water : 
His napkin, with his true tears all bewet, 
Can do no fervice on her forrowful cheeks. Shakefpeare. 
To BEWI'LDER, v. a. To lofe in pathlefs places ; to 
confound for want of a plain road ; to perplex ; to en¬ 
tangle ; to puzzle: 
We parted thus ; I homeward fiji’d my way, 
Bewilder'd in tile wood till dawnV.f day. Dryden. 
To BEWI'TCH, v. a. To injure by witchcraft, or faf- 
cination, or charms : 
BEY 
Look how I am bewitch'd ; behold, mine arm 
Is like a blaftea hap ling wither’d up. Shakfpeart. 
To charm ; to pleafe to fitch a degree, as to take away 
the power of refifiance : 
The charms of poetry our fouls bewitch -. 
The curfe of writing is an endlefs itch. Dryden. 
BEWI'TCHERY, J'. Fafcination; charm; refiftlefs 
prevalence. There is a certain bewitchery, or fafcination, 
in words, which makes them operate with a force beyond 
what we can give an account of. South. 
BEWITCH'MENT, f Fafcination ; power of charm, 
mg.—I will counterfeit the bewitchment of fome popular 
man, and give it bountifully to the defirers. Shakefpeare. 
BE'WITS,y. in falconry, pieces of leather, to which a 
hawkYbells are fafiened, and buttoned to his legs. 
To BEWRAY', v. a. \_zurcgan, bewregan, Sax.] To be¬ 
tray ; to difeover perfidioufly. To fhew ; to make vifible : 
this word is now little in ufe.—She faw a pretty blufh in 
Philodea’s cheeks bewray a modeft difeontentment. Sidney. 
—Men do fometimes bewray that by deeds, which to con- 
fefs they are hardly drawn. Hooker. 
BEWRAY'ER,yi Betrayer; difeoverer; divulger.— 
When a friend is turned into an enemy, and a bewrayer of 
fecrets, the world is juft enough to accufe the perftdiouf- 
nefs of the friend. Addifon. 
BEX, a town of Swifierland, in the canton of Berne : 
four miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Aigle. 
BEY, among the Turks, fignifies a governor of a coun¬ 
try or town. The Turks write it beg A, or bek, but pro¬ 
nounce it bey. This word is particularly applied to a lord 
of a banner, whom, in the fame language, they call fangiac 
beg or bey. Every province in Turkey is divided into 
feven fangiacs, or banners, each of which qualifies a bey ; 
and tliefe are all commanded by the governor of the pro¬ 
vince, whom they call begler-beg, that is, lord of all the 
beghs or beys of the province : tliefe boys are much the 
fame as bannerets were formerly in England. 
Bey of Tunis, the prince or king thereof; anfwering 
to what at Algiers is called the dcy. 
BEY'AR, a river of India, in the country of Lahore, 
which runs into the Setledgeat Firofepour. 
BEY'ENBERG, or Bienberg, a town of Germany, 
in the circle of Weftphalia, and* duchy of Berg, on the 
Wipper : three miles north of Lennep. 
BEY'ERLAND, an ifland belonging to Holland, fitu- 
ated in the Meufe, with a town of the fame name : four 
leagues weft of Dort. 
BEY'ERN, a town of German 1 ', in the circle of Swa¬ 
bia, and county of Fuftenberg, fit rated on the Danube : 
four leagues from Dutlingen. 
BEYH AR.T'ING, a town of G - r: any, in the circle of 
Bavaria : 'twenty-four miles eaft-fou'Ji-eaft of Munich. 
BEY'MONT, or Beymont, a town of Germany, in 
the bilhopric of Liege : eight miles fouth of Liege. 
BEYO'ND, prep, \_hegcond, begeondan, Sax.] Before; 
at a diftance not yet reached: 
What’s fame ? a fancy’d life in other’s breath, 
A thing beyond 11s, even before our deatli: 
Juft what you hear, you have. Pope. 
On the farther fide of.—Neither is it beyond the fea, that 
thou ftiouldft fay, Who (hall go over the lea for us, and 
bring it unto 11s r Deut.xxx. 13.—Farther onward than : 
He that fees a dark and ftiady grove, 
Stays not, but looks beyond it on the (ky. Herbert. 
Paft; out of the reach of.—The juft, wife, and good, God, 
neither does nor can require of man any thing that is im- 
poflible, or naturally beyond his power to do. South. — 
Above ; proceeding to a greater degree than.—Timotheus 
was a man both in power, riches, parentage, goodnefs, and 
love of his people, beyond any of the great men of my 
country. Sidney. —Above in excellence.—His fatires are 
incomparably beyond Juvenal’s, if to laugh and rally is to 
be 
