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for if. The tharafleridic of -privacy feerns to have emi¬ 
nently obtained there jn days of old. Its territory is dill 
nearly furrounded by the wild fored of Hainault, and that 
territory itlelf, which retains the title of a park , beauti¬ 
fully diyerfified with rolling hills and dales; and mud 
have been infinitely more beautiful, when covered with 
thofe woods of oak, that the ravage of the lad century 
deftroyed. Not that thefe particular ci.rcumftances are at 
all necelfary to account for the name of a lawn. Mr, 
Manning has (hewn me by many indances, there is no fuvh 
fingularity in the denomination as is commonly thought : 
for that the very fame meaning is conveyed by the termi¬ 
nation of hvry, affixed to feats in Hertfordihire, and elfe- 
where. Thus Caffio Irury means the chief detached feat in 
Caffio hundred, and Gotham bury the feat of Robert de 
Gorham abbot of St. Alban’s.” 
BOWER (Archibald), a native of Scotland, born on 
the 17th of January, 1686, at or near Dundee. In Sep¬ 
tember, 1702, at the age, of fixteen, he was fent to the 
Scots college of Douay, where he dudied till the end of 
his firft year of philofophy. From thence he was remo¬ 
ved to Rome, and in 1706 was admitted into the order of 
the Jefuits. After a noviciate of two years, he went to 
Fano, where he taught humanities; and in 1717 he was 
recalled to Rome, to dudy divinity in the Roman college. 
There he remained until 1721, when he was fent to the 
college of Arezzo, and was made reader of philofophy, 
and confultor to the rector of the college. He was then 
fent to Florence, where lie made his lad Vows; after which 
lie Was removed to Macerata, in 1726. Having thus been 
confirmed in the order of the Jefuits, and arrived at the 
age of almod forty years, it was reafonable to fuppole that 
Mr. Bovver would have paded through life with no other 
changes than fucli as are ufual with perfons of the fame 
order; but this uniformity of life was not deftined to be 
his lot. To whatever caufe it is to be afcribed, whether, 
according to his own account, to his difgud at the enor¬ 
mities committed by the inquifition, in which lie perform¬ 
ed the office of counfellor ; or, as his enemies affert, to his 
indulgence of the amorous paffions, particularly with a 
nun to whom he was ghoftly father; certain it is, that in 
1726 he was removed from Macerata to Perugia, and from 
tlience made his elcape into England, where lie arrived in 
June or v July, after various adventures, which we fhall 
communicate to the reader in his own words. “ Having 
determined to put into execution the dedgn of quitting the 
inquifition, and bidding for ever adieu to Italy, I propo- 
fed (fays lie) to beg leave of the inquifitor to vifit the 
Virgin of Loretto, only thirteen miles didant, and to pafs 
a week there ; but in the mean time to make the bed of 
my way to the country of the Grifons, out of the reach of 
the inquidtion. Having therefore, after many conflicts 
with myfelf, a(ked leave to vifit the neighbouring fanc- 
tuary, and obtained it, I fet out on horfeback the very 
next morning, leaving, as 1 propofed to keep the horfe, 
his full value witli the owner. 1 took the road to Loretto, 
but turned out of jt at a fmall didance from Recanati, 
after a mod violent druggie with myfelf, the attempt 
appearing to me quite delperate and impracticable; and 
the dreadful doom referved for me, diould I mifcarry, pre- 
fenting itfelf to my mind in the dronged light. But the 
reflection that 1 had it in my power to avoid being taken 
alive, and a perfuafion that a man in my dtuation might 
lawfully avoid it, when every other means failed him, at 
the expence of his life, revived my daggered refolution; 
and, all my fears ceafing at once, I deered my courfe, 
leaving Loretto behind me, to Calvi, in the dukedom of 
Urbino, and from thence through the Romagna into the 
Bolognefe, keeping the by-roads, and at a good didance 
from the cities and towns through which the high road 
paded. Thus I advanced, travelling in very bad roads, 
and often in places where there was no road at all, to avoid 
not only the cities and towns, but even the villages. In 
the mqan time 1 feldonr had any other fupport than fame 
coarfe providcns, that the poor (hepherds, the country¬ 
men, or wood-cleavers, I met in thofe unfrequented pla¬ 
ces, could fpare me. My horfe fared little better than 
myfelf; but in choodng my deeping-place I confulted his 
convenience as much as my own ; palling the night where 
1 found mod fhelter for myfelf, and mod grafs for my 
horfe. Thus I fpent feventeen days before I got out of 
the eccledadical date; -and I very narrowly efcaped being 
taken or murdered on the very borders of that date. It 
happened thus: 
“ I had paded two whole days without any kind of fub- 
fidence, meeting nobody in the by-roads that would fup- 
ply me with any; finding myfelf about noon of the third 
day extremely weak, and ready to faint, 1 came into the 
high road that leads from Bologna to Florence, at a few 
miles didance from the former city, and alighted at a pod- 
houfe that dood quite by itfelf. Having adced the woman 
of the houfe whether (he had any victuals ready, and being 
told that (he had, I went to open the door of the only 
room in the houfe, and favv, to my great furprife, a pla¬ 
card paded on it with a mod minute defcription of my 
whole perfon, and the promife of a reward of 800 crowns 
(about 200I. Englifli money) for delivering me up alive 
to the inquidtion, being a fugitive from the-holy tribunal, 
and of 600 crowns for my head. By the fame placard all 
perfons were forbidden, on pain of the greater excommu¬ 
nication, to receive, harbour, or entertain, me, to conceal 
or to fcreen me, or to be any way aiding and aflidingto me 
in making my efcape. Xhis greatly alarmed me, as the 
reader may well imagine; but 1 was dill more affrighted 
when entering the room I faw two fellows drinking there, 
who, fixing their eyes upon me as foon as I came, conti¬ 
nued looking at me very dedfadly. I drove, by wiping 
my face, by blowing my nofe, by looking out at the win¬ 
dow, to prevent their having a full view of me. But one 
of them faying, ‘ The gentleman feenis afraid to be feen,’ 
I put up my handkerchief, and turning to the fellow, laid 
boldly, ‘ What do you mean, you rafcal ? look at me ; I 
am nof afraid to be feen.’ He faid nothing; but looking 
again dedfadly at me, and nodding his head, went out, 
and his companion immediately followed him. Jw'atched 
them, and feeing them with two or three more in clofe 
conference, and, no doubt, confulting whether they (hould 
apprehend me or nor, I walked that moment into the fta- 
ble, mounted my horfe unobferved by them, and, while 
they were deliberating in an orchard behind the houfe, 
rode off full fpeed, until I got into the Modenefe. 1 was 
furprifed to dnd that thofe fellows did not purfue me; nor 
can I any other way account for it bat by fuppodng, what 
is not improbable, that as they were ((rangers as well as 
myfelf, and had all the appearance of banditti or ruffians 
flying out of the dominions of the pope, the woman of the 
houfe did not care to truft them with her horfes. From 
the Modenefe I continued my journey through the Par- 
mefan, the Milanefe, and part of the Venetian territory, 
to Chiavenna, fubjeft, with its diflrift, to the Grifons, 
who abhor the very nanie of the inquifition, and are ever 
ready to receive and protect all who, flying from it, take 
refuge, as many Italians do, in their dominions. 
“ Having refled a few days at Chiavenna, I refumed 
my journey quite^ refrefhed, continuing it through the 
country of the Grifons,. and the two fmall cantons of Ury 
and Underwald, to the canton of Lucerne. There 1 mi (led 
my way, as I was quite unacquainted with the country, 
and, difcovering a city at a didance, was advancing to it, 
when a countryman I met informed me that the city be¬ 
fore me was Lucern. Upon that intelligence I turned out 
of the road as foon as the countryman was out of fight; 
and that night I paded with a good-natured (heplierd in 
his cottage, who fupplied me with (heep’s milk, and my 
horfe with plenty of grafs. I fet out early next morning, 
making the bed of my way wedward, as I knew that Bern 
was wed of Lucern. But after travelling the whole day, 
the country proving very mountainous, I was overtaken 
amongd them by night. As I was looking for a place 
where I might (helter myfelf againd the fnow and rain, 
