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who died while he was young.- As an aCtor, Ins (up?, 
riority lay wholly in tragedy ; in which, dignity rather than 
complacency, rage rather than tendernefs, feenied to mark 
his deportment and expreflion. His character as a man 
was adorned with many amiable qualities, among which, 
a goodnefs of heart, the balls of every virtue, was remark¬ 
ably confpieuous; and fo particularly was he diltinguifhed 
and carefled, and his company fought by the great, that, 
as Cherwood relates of him, not one nobleman in the king, 
dom had fo many lets of liorfes at his fervice. 
BOOTH (Henry), earl of Warrington and baron De- 
lamer of Dunham Mafl'ey, was a very diltinguifhed per- 
fon, born in 1561. He was knight of the {hire forChefter 
during the reign of Charles 11 . and was very active in 
promoting the bill for excluding the duke of York from 
the throne. He was extremely vigorous in his oppofition 
to the arbitrary meafures then prevailing, w hich made him 
highly obnoxious to the court. In 168+ he was committed 
to the Tower of London. Being fet at liberty, lie w as 
again committed foon after the acceflion of James II. He 
was alfo committed a third time, in July 1685 ; and, when 
official application from the peers was made, to know the 
reafon, the king anfwered, That he ftood committed for 
high treafon, teftified upon oath ; and that orders were 
given to proceed againft him according to law. He was 
brought to trial in January 1685-6 ; but, in fpite of all 
efforts by Jefferies and the court, he was unanimouily ac¬ 
quitted. After this, he lived for fome time at his feat at 
Dunham Maffey ; but, matters being ripe for the revolu¬ 
tion, he exerted himfelf for bringing about that great 
event, by railing forces and every other means. Soon af¬ 
ter the revolution, he was made a privy counfellor; chan¬ 
cellor and under treafurer of the exchequer ; lord lieute¬ 
nant and cuftos rottilorum of the county of Chelter ; which 
laft offices, with, that of privy counlellor, he held for life; 
the others, for only about a year. Mr. Walpole fays, that 
he was difmilfed by king William to gratify the tories ; 
and it appears to have been fo ; for, though lie was re¬ 
moved from the adminiftration, it was thought neceffary 
to confer upon him fome mark of royal favour. Accord, 
jngly, he was created earl of Warrington, April 17, 1690, 
with a penfion of 2000I. per annum. He died Jan. 2, 1694, 
not quite forty-two-. His works were published in 1694, 
in one vol. 8vo. 
BOOTH (George), earl of Warrington, fon of the 
above-mentioned nobleman, died in 1758. He publilhed 
“ Confiderations upon the Inftitiuion of Marriage ; where¬ 
in is confidered, how far Divorces may or ought to be 
allowed.” Lond. 1739. It is an argument for divorce on 
difagreement of temper. In the introduction his lord Hyp 
oblerves, that in the office of the church before matri¬ 
mony we are enjoined to confider it as a myffical union 
between Chrift and his church, and as fuch forbidden to 
enter upon it unadvifedly or lightly ; with an exprefs in¬ 
terdict of the aefign of fatisfying man’s carnal appetites. 
But that the moment the marriage is completed, the fame 
authority declares that nothing can diffolve it, but a defi¬ 
ciency of carnal ability. 
BOOTH,/. [W, Dutch; bwth, WelfE] A houfe 
built of boards, or boughs, or canvas, to be ufed for a 
fhort time.—Much mifchief will be done at Bartholomew 
fair bv the fall of a booth. Swift. 
BOO'TIA,/ in botany. See S a p on a ri a Officina us. 
BOOT'ING-CORN, a rent of corn anciently fo called, 
becaufe it .was paid by the tenants, by way of bote , to the 
lord, as a recompence for his making them leafes, 
BOO'TLESS, adj. Ufelefs; unprofitable; unavailing; 
without advantage ; without -fuccefs_God did not fufler 
him, being defirous of the light of wifdom, with bootlefs 
cxpeiice of travel, to wander in darknefs. Hooker. 
BOO'TY, /. | \buyt, Dut. butin, Fr.] Things gotten by 
robbery; plunder; pillage; (pods gained from the enemy. 
Among the Greeks, the booty was divided equally in the 
army, the general only claiming a larger ffiare. By the 
piilitary discipline of the Romans, fpoils taken from the 
BOR 
enemy belonged to the republic, particular perfons having 
no right to them. T he generals who piqued themfelves 
on their probity carried it wholly to the public treafury. 
Sometimes indeed they divided it among the foldiers, to 
animate tirem, and ferve in lieu of a reward. But this 
diftribution depended on the generals, who were to con¬ 
duct themfelves herein with great equity and moderation. 
The con lids Romulus and Vatnrius were condemned for 
having fold the booty taken from the Equi. Among the 
Jews, the booty was equally divided between the army and 
the people, though under the kings a different kind of dif- 
tribution obtained. Among the Mahometans, two thirds 
of the fpoils are allowed to the army ; the other third to 
God, to Mahomet and his relations, and to the orphans, 
the poor, and the pilgrims. Among 11s, the booty was 
formerly divided among the foldiers. If the general be 
in the field, every body takes what he can lay hold on; 
if the general be abfent, the booty is diftributed among 
the troops, two parts being allowed to the cavalry, and 
one to the infantry. A captain is allowed ten Ihares; a 
lieutenant fix; and a cornet four. 
To play Booty. To play diflioneftly, with an intent t(i 
lofe. The French life, je Jhis bone, when they mean to 
fay, / will not go. —We tinderftand what we ought to do ; 
but when we deliberate, we play booty againft ourfelves : 
our conlciences direct us one way, our corruptions hurry 
us another. L'EJlrange. 
BOOUROU', an ifland near the eaft coaft of Otaheite. 
BOOZ, [tya Heb. i. e. in ftrength.] King David’s 
grandfather. 
BOPAL'TOL, a city of Hindooftan, and capital of a 
province of the fame name, lying on the north fide of the 
Nerbuddah river. The city (lands on the fide of a hill, 
defeending to a lake ten miles in circumference; the houfes 
moftly good, and built with ftone. 
BOPEEP',/. The a£t of looking out, and drawing back 
as if frighted, or with the purpofe to fright fome other.— 
There the devil plays at bopeep, puts out his horns to do 
mifchief, then (brinks them back for fafety. Drydcn. 
BOP'PART, or Boppard, a very ancient town of 
Germany, in the circle of the Lower Rhine, and Lower 
Electorate, once imperial, built on the margin of the Rhine, 
furrounded with walls. On a mountain above the town is 
a BenediCline nunnery, founded in the eleventh century, 
for noble families only : eight miles fouth of Coblentz, 
and forty.eight north-eaft of Treves. 
BOPSIN'GEN, an imperial town of Germany, in the 
circle of Swabia, and county of Oettingen, on the Eger ; 
five miles weft of Nordlingen, and twenty-eight north- 
north-eaft of Ulm. 
BOQUET', a river of North America, in the ftate of 
New York, on the borders of Canada. It paffes through 
the town of Wilfborough, in Clinton county, and is navi¬ 
gable for boats about two miles, when it becomes inter¬ 
rupted by falls, on which are mills. At this place are the 
remains of an intrenchment thrown up by the Englifli un¬ 
der general Burgoyne, in his unfuccefsful expedition to 
Albany. 
BOQUI'NEN, a town of Spain, in Arragon: eighteen 
miles north-w eft of Saragoffa. 
BOQUI'NIANS, a feCt of heretics, fo called from Bo- 
quinus their founder, who taught that Chrift did not die 
for all mankind, but only for the faithful, and confequent- 
ly was only a particular Saviour. 
BOR AB AS'SOU, a town of the ifland of Celebes, where 
are manufactures of cotton and lilk fluffs. 
BO'RABLE, adj. That may be bored. 
BORA'CHIO, / \borracho, Span.] A fort of leathern 
veffels made of hog-fkins, wherein wines are brought from 
the tops of the mountains in Spain ; whence the Spa¬ 
niards figuratively call a drunkard borachio. Thefe are the 
bottles which in feripture are faid will burft with new 
wine, when put into them old. A drunkard, or drunken 
fellow.—How you (link of wine ! you are an abfolute 
rachio. Congreve, 
BO'RAGB 
