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Bcfides the above works, he wrote a treat’.fc on the ter- 
reftrkd paradife, on the plants and precious (tones 'men¬ 
tioned in feripture, and fome other pieces. lie left alfo a 
great number of fermons. As many ot his dilfertations as 
could be collected, were publillicd in the’ edition of his 
works printed in Holland, 1692. 
BOCHET'TA, a narrow pals in Italy, famous in the 
\Vttr of 1746 and 1747. it lies in a chain of mountains, 
over which the great road leads from Lombardy to Genoa ; 
and on the very peak of the high.elt mountain is the pafs, 
which will hardly admit three men to go abreuft. This 
pafs is properly called the Bochetta ; for the defence of 
which there are three forts. It is the key of the city of 
Genoa; and was taken in 1746 by the Imperialifts ; by 
which means they opened a way to that city. 
BO'CHIUS (John), born at Bruflels, 1555. He was a 
good Latin poet, and thence ftyled the Virgil of the Low 
Countries. He accompanied cardinal Radzivii to Rome, 
where he fhidied under Bellarmin. Bochins, after having 
vifited mod parts of Italy, went through Poland, Livonia, 
and Rullia. in goipg from Smolenfko to Mofcovv he dif¬ 
fered much from the cold, and his feet were frozen to fuch 
a degree, that fome thought he would be obliged to have 
them cut off: but lie recovered without the operation. 
L’pon his return to the Low Countries, the duke of Parma 
made him fecretary of Antwerp. He died Jan. 13, 1609. 
He has left the following works. 1. De Belgii Princi- 
patu. 2. Parcdia Heroica Pfalmoruni Cavidicorum. 3. 
(fbfervationes Phylicre, Ethicas, Politicte, et Hiftoricse, 
in Pfalmos. 4. Vita Davidis. 5. Oratjones. 6. Poemata, 
&c. His poetical pieces, confiding of epigrams, elegies, 
&c. were collected and printed at Cologne, in 1615. 
'BO'CHO, a town of Germany, in the circle of Upper 
Saxony, and principality of Q^uerfurt : three liiiles fouch- 
ead of Juterbock. 
BOCHOI.NIC'ZE, a town of Poland, in the palatinate 
of Sandomirz : twenty miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Radom. 
BOC'HOLT, a town of Germany, in the circle of Weft- 
phalia, andbifhopric of Munder ; there are iron mines in 
its neighbourhood : 36 miles wed-fouth-vved of Munder. 
BOC'HOULT, or Bochoute, a town of Flanders, 
fittiated on a canal cut from the Scheldt : four miles north- 
wed of Sas-de-Gent. 
BOCK'A, or Buck.au, a town of Germany, in the 
circle of Upper Saxony, and country of Erzzebing: three 
miles wed of Schwartzenberg. 
BOC'KELET, or BocKLRET,y. A kind of long¬ 
winged hawk. 
BOCK'ENBLTRG, a town of Germany, in the circle 
of Wedphalia, and bifhopric of Minden ; one mile from 
Minden. 
BOCKEN'HF.IM, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
the Upper Rhine, and county of Hanau Munzenberg : 
two miles vved-north-wed of Francfort on the Mayne. 
BOCK'ING, a fmall town in Elfex, parted by a final 1 
flream from Braintree. This was formerly a very rich 
and flourifhing town, occalioned by the great trade for 
baize, which were manufadtured in fuch quantities, as 
to fend weekly to London, four, five, or fix, waggons, 
laden with them ; but, this trade having decreafed, the 
place has been ever (ince on the decline. The parifh of 
Booking is a rural deanery, a peculiar of the archbifhop 
o f Canterbury, and the living is valued at upwards of 
^ool. per annum. 
BOCK'LAND,y. [Sax. quafi bookland.'] A pofleftion or 
inheritance held by evidence in writing. Bockland digni¬ 
fies deed-land or charter-land ; and it commonly carried 
with it the abfoiute property of the land ; wherefore it 
was preferved in writing, and pofteded by the thanes, or 
nobler fort, as, Pradium nobile, liberum & immune afervitiis 
vu/garibus & Jervilibus, and was the fame as allodium , de¬ 
scendible unto all the fons, according to the common 
.courfe of nations and of nature, and therefore called gavel¬ 
kind-, devifeable only by will, and thereupon termed 
t,£TTx tejlamenl&les. Spelm. of Feuds . This was oae of the 
BOD 
titles which the. Englifli Saxons had to their lands, and^ 
was always in writing : there was but one more, and that 
was folkland, i. e. terra popularis, which patted from one 
to another without any writing. See Squire on the An¬ 
glo-Saxon Government, and the article Tenure. 
BOCK'UM, or Bochum, or Bocheim, a town of 
Germany, in the circle of Wedphalia, and county of 
Marck : twenty-four miles north-ead of Dudeldorp, and 
thirty-fi.ve north, of Cologn. 
BOCK'WORTH, mountains of Ireland,• in the county 
of Mayo : lixteen miles north-wed of Cadiebar. 
BOC'NIA, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of Cra¬ 
cow, with large fait mines, difeovered in 1251, which 
employ two or three hundred men : twenty miles ead of 
Cracow. 
BOCQUILLOT' (Lazarus Andrew), born at Avalon, 
and attended, in 1670, Mointel, atnbadador to Conftan- 
tinople. On his return to France, he was admitted advo¬ 
cate at Dijon, and addifted himfelf with equal ardour to 
pleafure and to ftudy. He afterwards took orders, was 
made cure of Chafelux, and afterwards canon of Avalon. 
At this place he died, Sept. 22, 1728, a : t the age of eighty. 
Having lived fome time at Port-Royal, he acquired a fade 
at once for literature and piety. He wrote, 1. Several 
volumes of homilies and other works of devotion. 2. A 
Tra6t on the Liturgy, 8vo. printed at Paris, in 1701, cu¬ 
rious and intereding to the admirers of eccledaftical an¬ 
tiquities. 3. Hiftcry of the Chevalier Bayard, 121110. un¬ 
der the name of Lonval. 4. Letters, in 121110. and various 
didertations. 
BODAIS'KA, a town of Hungary : feven miles weft 
of Patak. 
To BODE, v. a. \_bodian, Sax. of botle, a medenger, 
Tent.] To portend ; to be the omen of. It is uled in a 
fenfe of either good or bad : 
If fiery red his glowing globe defeends, 
High winds and furious tempeftshe portends ; 
But, if his cheeks are fvvoln with livid blue, 
He bodes wet weather by his watry lute. Dryden. 
To BODE, v. n. To be an omen; to forefhew : 
Sir, give me leave to fay, whatever now 
The omen prove, it boded well to you. Dryden. 
BODECK'EN, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Wedphalia, and bifliopric of Paderburn: four miles north- 
nortli-eaft of Buren. 
BODE'GAS, a town of North America, in the pro¬ 
vince of Verap3z, on the north-ead coad of Dolce bay. 
Lat. 15. 40. N. Ion. 75. 35. W. Greenwich. 
BODE'GON, a town of Spain, in Andalufia: four 
leagues from Seville. 
BODE'MENT, J. Portent; omen; prognodic : 
This foolidt, dreaming, fuperditious, girl, 
Makes all thefe bodements, Shakefpeare. 
BO'DENBURG, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Lower Saxony, and bifhopric of Hildedteim ; eight miles 
north-ead of Alfeld. 
BO'DENETZ, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of 
Chrudim : ten miles north of Chrudim. 
BO'DENFELDE, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Lower Saxony, and principality of Calenberg, dtuated on 
the Wefer, in the quarter of Gottingen. 
BO'DENGRAVE, a town of Holland, which was 
burned by the French, in 1672, dtuated on the Rhine : 
ten miles eaft of Leyden. 
BO'DENH AUSEN, a town of Germany, in the circle 
of the Upper Rhine, and principality of Hede : eighteen 
miles north-north-eaft of Caflel. 
BO'DEN SEA, or Lake of Constance, a lake which 
forms one of the boundaries between Germany and Swif- 
lerland, fifteen leagues long, and fix where broaded; the 
form is nearly oval. It abounds in various kinds of fifh. 
The river Rhine padfes through it. It lies to the eaft of 
Conflance. 
' BO'DENTEICH, 
