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' t ’d the excellent chara&erof Mrs. Butler, the lady before- 
mentioned. Tins eulogium produced the following lines, 
in the name of the dcceafed lady, from Mr. Pope, which 
are not inferted in any edition of his works: 
Stript to the naked foul, efcap’d from clay', 
From doubts unfetter'd, and diffolv’d in day; 
Unwarm’d by vanity, unreach’d by ft rife, 
And all my hopes and fears thrown off with life ; 
Why am 1 charm’d by friendship's fond efi'ays, 
\nd though unbody’d confcious of thy praile ? 
.Has pride°a portion in the parted foul ? 
Does paifion dill the firmeft mind controul ! 
t.'an Gratitude outpant the filent breath ? 
Or a "friend's forrow pierce the gloom of death f 
\j 0 _"tis a fpirit’s nobler talk of blifs, 
That feels the wortli it left in proofs like this ; 
That not its own applaufe, but thine, approves, 
Whofe practice praifes, and vvhofe virtue loves; 
W.ho liv’d to crown departed friends with fame, 
Then dying late lhalt all thou gav’ft reclaim. 
It is to be prefumed that Dr. Bolton’s connexion with 
Sir Jofeph Jekvl introduced him to the patronage of lord 
•Hardwick, by "whofe means, in 1735, he was promoted 
Vo the deanery of Carlifle. in 1738 he was was appointed 
vicar of St. Mary’s, Reading; and both thefe preferments, 
the only ones lie ever received, he held until the time of 
his death. He publifhed the following valuable tracts, 
r. A Letter to a Lady on Card-playing on the Lord’s Day, 
Svo. 1748 ; letting forth in a lively and forcible manner, 
the many evils attending the practice of gaming on Sun¬ 
days, and of an immoderate attachment to that fatal pur- 
fu.it at anytime. 2. The Employment of Time, three 
inlays, Svo. dedicated to lord Hardwicke. 3. The Deity’s 
Delay in punishing the Guilty, confidered 011 the Principles 
of Reafon, Svo. 4. An Anfwer to the Q^teftion, Where 
are your Arguments againft Lewdnefs, if you can make no 
ufe of the lLble ? 3. A Letter to an Officer of the Army- 
on travelling on Sundays, Svo. 6. The Ghoft of Ernefl, 
Great Grandfather of her Royal Highnefs the Princefs 
Dowao-er of Wales, with fome Account of his Life, Svo. 
7. Leners and Trails on the Choice of Company, and 
other fubjefts, Svo. 1761. Dr. Bolton was all his life of 
a valetudinarian habit, though he had preferved himfelf 
by temperance to a eonfiderable age. He died in London, 
where he came for Dr. Addington’s advice, on the 26th 
of November, 1763, and was buried in the porch of the 
parifh-church of St. Mary, Reading. 
BOL'TON (Robert), born in 1571, wasadivineof pu- 
j-itan principles, very eminent for his piety, and one of the 
greateft fcholars of his time. The Greek language was 
lo familiar to him, that he could fpeak it with almofl as 
much facility as his mother-tongue. 111x603, when 
James 1 . vilited the univerfity of Oxford he was appoint¬ 
ed by the vice-chancellor to read in natural philofophy, 
and difpute before him in the public fchools. He was 
generally efteemed a rnofl perfuafive preacher, and as ju¬ 
dicious a cafuift. His practical writings are numerous. His 
book on Happinefs, which has gone through many edi¬ 
tions, was the molt celebrated of his works. When he 
Jay at the point of death, one.of his friends, taking him by 
the hand, alked him if he was not in great pain; “Truly, 
faid he, the greateft pain that I feel is your cold hand 
and prefently expired, on the 17th of December, 1631, 
aged (ixty. 
BOL'TON or Boulton (Edmund), an ingenious Eng- 
liffi antiquarian, who lived.in the beginning of the 17th 
century. His mod conliderable work is that intitled Nero 
Cct/ar, or Monarchic depraved, dedicated to the duke of 
Buckingham, lord-admiral, printed at London 1624, folio, 
and adorned with feveral curious and valuable medals. It 
is divided into fifty-five chapters, in fome of which are 
introduced curious remarks and obfervations. In the 24th 
and 25th chapters he gives an account of the revolt in Bri¬ 
tain, againft the Romans, under the conduit of Boadicea, 
BOM 
which he introduces with a recapitulation of the affairs in 
Britain from the firft entrance of the Romans into this 
ifiand under Julius Ceefar, till the revolt in the reign of 
Neto. In chapter 36th he treats of the Eaft-India trade 
in Nero’s time, which was then carried on by the river 
Nile, and from thence by caravans over land to the Red 
Sea, and thence to the Indian ocean; the ready coin car¬ 
ried yearly from Rome upon this account amounting, ac¬ 
cording to Pliny’s computation, to above 300,060k fter- 
ling; and the ufual returns in December and January 
yielding in clear gain an hundred for one. Befides this he 
wrote, 1. An Englifti tranflation of Lucius Florus’s Roman 
Hiftory. 2. Hypercritica, or a Rule of Judgment for read¬ 
ing or writing our Hiftories. 3. The Elements of Ar¬ 
mories, See- and fome other works. 
BOL'TON, or Bolton-le-moor, a eonfiderable town 
in Lancaffiire, diftant from London 193 miles, and eleven 
from Manchester. It has a large market on Mondays, and 
two fairs annually, on the 31ft of July, and 14th of Oct. 
for horfes, hardware-goods, &c. and on the forenoon of 
the day precedingeach is a fair for horned cattle. A fmall 
rivulet runs eaftward through the town, and, turning to¬ 
wards the fouth, divides the two townfhips of Great and 
Little Bolton ; but thefe are always confidered as one town. 
Bolton-le-Moor lias been the centre of the fuftian and 
cotton manufactures of the county of Lancafter for confi- 
derably more than a century paft. They are called Avgs- 
hurgfi and Milan fujlians. Its trade has been doubledin 
the courfe of the laft feven years; and it is fuppofed, from-, 
an aCtual computation, that the annual return cannot be 
lefs than 1,051,4601. All the branches of the cotton-ma- 
nufaCtory are carried on here, and mod of the improve¬ 
ments made in that article originate-from this place. Ma¬ 
chines for carding and fpinning.cotton were firft ufed here, 
and now much facilitate the general manufacture of that: 
article. Here the earl of Derby was beheaded, on the 
15th of OCtober, 1651, for proclaiming Charles II. The 
town is greatly benefited by the inland navigation ; and is 
alfo noted for its medicinal waters. Between Bolton and 
W igan, particularly on the eftate of Sir Roger Bradftiiigh, 
Bart, is found great plenty of what they call cand or candle' 
coal, which is luperior to what is found in any other part 
of the globe. By putting a lighted candle to them, they 
are prefently in a flame, and yet hold fire as long as any 
coals whatever, and burn more or lefs as they are placet!' 
in the grate flat or edgeways. They are fmooth and (leek, 
when the pieces part from one another, and will polifh 
like alabafter. A lady may take them up in a cambric 
handkerchief, and they will not foil it, though they are 
as black as the deepeft jet. They make many curious arti¬ 
cles of them, as fnuff-boxes, nutmeg-boxes, candlefticks, 
falts, &c. We are told, that the queen was prefented 
witli a toilet-table, con’ipofed of hexagonal pieces of this 
coal, each piece fet in, and the whole bordered with filver, 
which made a very elegant appearance. 
BOLTO'NIA,yi [fo named in honour of Mr. James 
Bolton, of Halifax, author of the Hiftory of Britifti Ferns, 
and of FungulTes growing about Halifax.] In botany, a 
genus of the clafs fyngenefia, order polygamia fuperflua, 
natural order compofitae oppofitifolia?. The generic cha¬ 
racters are—Calyx : common, flattiffi ; imbricate, with 
fomevvhat equal, linear, ffiarp, feales. Corolla : com¬ 
pound, radiate; corollets hermaphrodite, tubular, nu¬ 
merous, in the hemifpheric difle ; females, feveral in the 
ray ; proper of the hermaphrodite funnel-form, five-cleft; 
female linear, entire. Stamina : filaments five, capillary, 
very ftiort; anthera cylindric, tubular. Piftillum : in the 
hermaphrodites; germ oblong; ftylefiliform, ftigmastwo; 
in the females; germ oblong; ftyle filiform, length nearly 
of the hermaphrodite ; ftigmas two, revolute. Pericar-’ 
pium : none; calyx unchanged. Seeds; in the herma¬ 
phrodites folitary, comprefled, crowned, with a five-tooth¬ 
ed margin; in the females extremely fimilar. Receptacu- 
lum : naked, hemifpheric.— Effcntial Character. Calyx, 
common, fub-imbricate, with linear feales; corolla, ra¬ 
diate ; 
