BOS 
BOS (Lambert), profefTor of Greek in the univerfity 
of Franeker, born at Workum in the Low Countries 1670, 
devoted himfelf wholly to ftudy. However, he married 
at the age of forty-two, and had two daughters. Marriage 
did not diminifti his ardour for learning; and we have fe- 
veral works by him efteemed for their profound erudition. 
1. Greek Verfion of the Septuagint, Franeker, 1709, 2 
vols. 4to. with variantes and prolegomena. 2. Obierva- 
tiones in Novum Teftamentum, 1707, 8vo. 3. Obferva- 
tiones in quofdam Audtores Graecos, 1715,'8vo. 4. An 
edition of the Greek grammar of Vellerus, with additions. 
3. The Antiquities of Greece. A French trandation of 
this, with the Commentaries of Leifner, by la Grange, 
appeared at Paris 1769, i2mo. This learned man died at 
Franeker, January 6, 1717, at the age of forty (even. 
BOS,/ An ancient (ilver coin of Greece, equivalent to 
two drachms. It was fo called as having on it the impref- 
Fion of an ox. It was alfo fometimes (truck in gold. From 
this arofe the phrafe Bos in lingua, applied to thofe who 
had taken bribes to hold their tongue, 
BO'SA,/. An Egyptian word for a rnafs made of the 
meal of darnel, hemp-feed, and water. It is inebriating. 
BO'SA, a feaport town of the ifland of Sardinia, the fee 
of a bilhop, fuffragan of Saffari. It is (ituated on the 
weftern part of the ifland, and defended by a caflle, on a 
river to which it gives name : eighteen miles fouth-fouth- 
weft of Alghier, and thirty-fix fouth-fouth-weft of Salfari. 
Lat. 40. 18. N. Ion. 26. 20. E, Ferro. 
BOSARADDAH'EB A, or Jesardecheb, a town of 
Afia, in the province of Sableftan: twenty-one leagues fouth 
of Candahar. 
BOSC (Peter du), a famous proteflant minifter, born 
at Bayeux February 21, 1623. He was prefented to the 
church of Caen by a conference in 1643, when he was only 
twenty-three years of age. His merit created him ene¬ 
mies among the Catholics, who once got him banifhed ; 
but he was loon recalled, and obtained the liberty of re¬ 
turning to his church in 1664. After the revocation of 
the ediift of Nantz he retired into Holland, and was minif- 
ter of the church of Rotterdam to his death, which hap¬ 
pened January 2, 1C92. His works are fpecimens of Clirif- 
tian oratory in French, and conlifl of four volumes of fer- 
mons on mifcellaneous texts, three more on the three firft: 
chapters of the epidle to the Ephefians, and a collection 
of feveral pieces publifhed in 2 vols. 8vo. after his death. 
BOS'CAGE,/ [ bofcage, Fr.] Wood, or woodlands. 
The reprefentation of woods.—Cheerful paintings in feud¬ 
ing and banqueting rooms ; graver dories in galleries ; 
landfkips and bofcage, and fuch wild works, in open ter¬ 
races, or fummer-houfes. Wotton. 
BOS'CAGE, f. [ bofcagium , Lat.] The acorns, mad, 
and other food, which wood and trees yield to cattle; from 
the Italian bofco, fLva : but Manwood obferves, that, to 
be quit de bofcd'gio, is to be difcharged of paying any duty 
of wind-fall wood in the foreft. See Spelman. 
BOS'CAN (John), a Spanilh poet of the fixteenth cen¬ 
tury, born at Barcelona. He was the friend of Garcilaffo 
de Viga, another Spanifh poet. Tliefe two were the fird 
who made any great improvement in the poetry of their 
nation, and their pieces were printed together. Bofcan, 
who died about the year 1542, excelled chiefly in fonnets. 
BOSC A'RI A, f. Wood-houfes, from bofcus ; or ox- 
houfes, from bos. 
BOS'CASTLE, [for Dotereaux-cafle, of the Norman 
name botereau, a garter, that family bearing a garter in its 
coat of arms.] A (mall town in Cornwall, fituate on the 
fea-fhore, about eighteen miles north of Launcedon. It 
Hands on the Britidi channel, near king Arthur’s caftle ; 
230 miles from London. It has two fairs annually, viz. 
• Augud 5, and November 22. Market-day on Thurfday. 
Coals and. other merchandize are imported from Bridol 
and Wales; and (late, the produce of Dinneybole quarry, 
is exported hence to all parts of the world. This quarry 
employs a great number of men, from the neighbourhoods 
of Bofeadle and Boflinney. 
BOS 227 
BOSC AW'EN (Edward), a brave Britidi admiral,fecond 
fon of Hugh vifcount Falmouth, born Augud 19, 1711. 
Having early entered in the navy, was in 1740 captain of 
the Shoreham ; and behaved with great intrepidity as a vo¬ 
lunteer under admiral Vernon, at the taking of Porto Bello. 
At the liege of Carthagena, in 1740-1, he had the com¬ 
mand of a party of feamen, who refolutely attacked and 
took a battery of fifteen twenty-four pounders, though ex- 
pofed to the fire of another fort of five guns. Lord Au¬ 
brey Beauclerk being killed at the attack of Boca Chica, 
captain Bofcawen fucceeded him in the command of the 
Prince Frederic of 70 guns. In May 1742, he returned 
to England, and married Frances daughter of William 
Glanville, Efq. In 1744 he was made captain of the Dread¬ 
nought of 60 guns ; and icon after lie took the Medea, a 
French man of war commanded by M. Hoquart, the firft 
king’s (hip taken in that war. May 3, 1747, he fignalized 
himfelf under the admirals Anfon and Warren, in an en¬ 
gagement with the French (feet off Cape Finetferre, arid 
was wounded in the fhoulder with a muflcet-ball. Here 
M. Hoquart, who then commanded the Diamond of fifty- 
fix guns, again became his prifoner ; and all the French 
(hips of war, which were ten in number, were taken. O11 
the 15th of July he was made rear-admiral of the blue, 
and commander in chief of the land and fea forces em¬ 
ployed on an expedition to the Eaft Indies; and, on tiie 
4th of November, failed from St. Helen’s, with (ix (hips 
of the line, five frigates, and 2000 foldiers. On the 29th 
of July 1748, he arrived at St. David’s, and foon after 
laid fiege to Pondicherry ; but the men growing fickly, 
and the monfoons being expended, the fiege was railed. 
Soon after he had news of the peace, and Madras was de¬ 
livered up to him by the French. In April 1730, he ar¬ 
rived at St. Helen’s in the Exeter, and found that in his 
abfence he had been appointed rear-admiral of the white. 
He was next year made one of the lords commiflioners of 
the admiralty, and cliofen an elder brother of the Trinity- 
houfe. In February 1755, he was appointed vice-admiral 
of the blue. On the 19th of April, failing in order to in¬ 
tercept a French fquadron bound to North America, lie 
fell in with the Alcide and Lais, of (ixty-four guns each, 
which were both taken : on this occalion M. Hoquart be¬ 
came his prifoner a third time, and lie returned to Spithead 
with his prizes and 1500 prifoners. I11 1756, he was ap¬ 
pointed vice-admiral of the white ; and in 1758, admiral 
of tiie blue, and commander in chief of the expedition to 
Cape Breton ; when, in conjunction with general Amherff, 
the important fortrefs of Louifburg and the whole i(land 
of Cape Breton were taken, for which he afterwards re¬ 
ceived the thanks of the houfe of commons. This excel¬ 
lent officer was fo anxious for the honour of tiie fea-fer- 
vice, and for that of himfelf, that, when lord Anfon, then 
firft lord of the admiralty, refufed.to confirm the promo¬ 
tion of two naval officers to the rank of poft-captains, in 
confequence of their having diftinguifiied tliemfelves at the 
fiege of Louifbourg, he threatened to give up his feat at 
the board of admiralty. Lord Anfon, however, not to be 
deprived of the advice and experience of this great feainan, 
thought fit to retract his oppofition. 
In fome French memoirs, admiral Bofcawen is repre- 
fented, as having, at the (iege of Loui(bourg, wholly gi¬ 
ven himfelf up to the direction of a particular captain in 
that arduous and enterprifing bufinefs. This is by no means 
true: whoever knew admiral Bofcawen thoroughly; who¬ 
ever was acquainted with his knowledge in his profefiion, 
with his powers of refource upon every occalion, with his 
intrepidity of mind, his manlinefs and independence of 
conduct and of character; can never in the lead degree 
give credit to fuch an aftertion. The admiral, however, 
upon other occallons and in other circumftances, referred 
to the opinions of thofe with whom he was profelfedly 
connected. He was once lent with a command to inter¬ 
cept a St. Domingo fleet of merchantmen, and was wait¬ 
ing near the track which it was fuppofed they would take. 
One of his feamen came to him to tell him that the fleet 
was 
