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founder has a monument in the chape!, with* this infcrip- 
tion, Fid Cains. 
1 here was another John Cains, who lived fomewhat 
earlier, and was poet-laureat to Edward IV. This Cains 
travelled all'o into Italy, and diftinguilhed himfelf by fome 
literary labours ; particularly by a hiflory of the liege of 
the ille of Rhodes, which he dedicated to that king. 
There was hkewife Thomas Cains, a Lincolnlhire man, 
who, as Wood tells us, “ was an eminent Latinifl, Gre¬ 
cian, poet, orator, excellent for all kinds of worth, and 
at length antiquitatum Oxonienfium plane helliio.” He 
was brought up at Oxford,'and elected fellow of All 
Souls college in 1525. He was made regiftrar of the uni- 
verfity, which place he quitted about 1530, upon his be¬ 
coming domeflic chaplain to John Longland, bifliop of 
Lincoln. In 1339 he was made a prebendary of Sarum, 
and mailer of Univerfify-college in Oxford in 1361 : all 
which preferments, together with the reflory of Treding- 
ton in Worcelicrlhire, to which he was prefented in 1563, 
he held to the day of his death ; and this happened in his 
lodge, at Univerlity-college, in May 1572. He wrote, 
“ Alfertio Antiquitatis Oxonienfis Academiae,” which he 
fmifhed in feven days, and prefented it in manufeript to 
queen Elizabeth at Oxford, upon her being entertained 
by the univerlity, in Sept. 1566. A copy of this work 
coming to the hands of John Cains, the phyfician above- 
mentioned, he wrote an anfwer to it in his book, intitled, 
“ De Antiq.uitate Cantabrigienfis Academiae,” and ptib- 
li/hed them together in 1368, under the name of Londi- 
nenlis, and in 1574 under the name of John Caius. Thomas 
Cains wrote a reply, as Wood tells 11s, foon after the find 
edition of his Alfertio was publiflied, intitled, “ Examen 
judicii Cantabrigienfis cujuldam, qui fe Londinenfem eli¬ 
cit, nuper de origine utriufque Academiae lati but this 
was never printed. Thomas Caius tranllated into Englifh, 
at the requeft of queen Catherine Parr, Erafmus’s para- 
phrafe on St. Mark ; alfo from Englifh into Latin, the 
■fermons of Longland bilhop of Lincoln; from Greek into 
Latin, Aridotle’s book De Mirabilibus Mundi, Euripides’s 
tragedies, Ifocrates’s Nicocles,' &c. See. 
CAIX, a town of France, in the department of the 
Somme : twelve miles ealt of Amiens. 
CAKE, f. \_cuch, Tent.] A kind of delicate bread.— 
You mud be feeing chridenings ! do you look for ale and 
cakes here ? Shahefpcare. — Any thing of a form rather flat 
than high; by which it is fometimes didinguifhed from a 
loaf.—There is a cake that groweth upon the fide of a dead 
tree, that hath gotten no name, but it is large, and of a 
chefnut colour, and hard and pithy. Bacon .—Concreted 
matter; coagulated matter: 
Then when the fleecy Ikies new clothe the wood. 
And cakes of ruffling ice come rolling down the flood. Drjd. 
There are many different compofitions under the name 
of cakes ; as feed-cakes, made of flour, butter, cream, fu- 
gar, coriander and caraway feeds, mace, and other fpices 
and perfumes, baked in the oven ; plum^cakes, made with 
fewer fpices, and the addition of currants ; fan-cakes , made 
of a mixture of flour, eggs, &c. fried; cheefc-cakes, made 
of cream, eggs, and flour, with or without .clieefe-curd, 
butter, almonds, &c. oat-cakes, made of fine oaten flour, 
mixed withyeafi, and fometimes without, rolled thin, and 
laid on an iron or (lone to bake over a flow fire ; Jugar- 
cakcs, made of fine fugar, beaten and fearced with the fi¬ 
ned flour, adding butter, rafe-water, and fpices; rofe- 
cakes, placcnltc rofacece, leaves of rofes dried and prelfed in¬ 
to a mafs, fold in the (hops for epithems. The Hebrews 
had alfo feveral forts of cakes, which they offered in the 
temple. They were made of the meal either of wheat or 
barley ; they were kneaded fometimes with oil and fome¬ 
times with honey. Sometimes they only rubbed them 
over with oil when they were baked, or fried them with 
oil in a frying-pan upon the fire. In the ceremony of 
Aaron’s confecration, they facrificed a calf and two rams, 
and offered unleavened bread, and cakes unleavened, tem- 
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pered with oil, and wafers unleavened, anointed with oil • 
the whole made of fine wheaten flour. Exod: xxix. 1, 
To CAKE, v. n. To harden, as dough in the oven.— 
This burning matter, as it funk very leifurel.y, had time 
to cake together, and form the bottom, which covers the 
mouth of that dreadful vault which lies underneath. AddiJ. 
CA'KKT, a town and capital of a country of Alia, in 
the northern part of Perlia, near mount Caucasus, whole 
principal commerce is in filk. I,at. 43. 32. N. Ion. 63. 50, 
E. Ferro. 
CA’KILE,y. in botany. See Bunias. 
CA'LA, a town of Spain, in the country of Seville, 
on the borders of Eftramadura: fourteen miles fojith of 
Lcrena. x 
CA.'LA. See El Ca llah. 
CALA'BA, f. in botany. See Calophyllum. 
CALABARi, or Calbari, a country of Africa, in 
Upper Guinea, with a town and river of the fame name,, 
in the kingdom of Benin, where the Dutch carry on a con- 
fiderable trade. Lat. 16.0. N. Ion. 10. o. E. Greenwich. 
CALABASH', f. A light kind of velfel formed of the 
Iheil of a gourd, emptied and dried, ferving to pack di¬ 
vers commodities, as pitch, rofin, &c. The word is Spa- 
niHi, calabacca, which fignifies the fame. The Indians 
alfo, both of the North and South Seas, put the pearls 
they have filhed in calabaflies, and the negroes on the coafl 
of Africa do the fame by their gold dull. The fmaller 
calabaflies are alfo frequently uled by thefe people as a 
meafure, by which they fell thefe commodities to the Eu¬ 
ropeans. The fame vefiels ferve for holding liquors; 
and do the office of cups, as well as-bottles, for foldiers, 
pilgrims, Sec. 
CALABASH'. See Cucurbita, and Crescentia, 
CALA'BER (Qnjntus), an ancient poet of Smyrna, 
author of the Paralipomena of Homer, a fort of fupple- 
ment to the Iliad. This Greek poem, compofed with 
elegance, the bell edition whereof i's that of Paw, Leyden, 
1734, 8vo, was found by the cardinal B.eHarion, in-a mo- 
naftery of the domain of Otranto, in Calabria. 
CA'LABITE, or Ca lavite, a frnall illand among the 
Philippines, a little to the fouth of Mindoro. 
CALA'BRIA CI'TRA, a prsvince of Italy, in the 
kingdom of Naples, bounded on the north by the Bafili- 
cata, on the eaft by the Gulf of Tarento, on the fouth 
by Calabria Ultra, and on the well by the Mediterranean, 
and a frnall part of the Principato Citra. It abounds in 
excellent fruit, corn, wine, oil, hemp, cotton, flax, faf- 
fron, honey, fait, wool, filk, and manna. There are fome 
mines of gold and ftlver, but poor ; thofe of lead and iron 
are more productive. In feveral places are found fulphur, 
alabalter, and cry Hal. Hogs and flieep are numerous. 
The coafts are defended by towers. The principal towns 
are Cofenza, Paola, Bifignano, Caffano, Scalea, Cariati, 
and Roflano ; the principal rivers are the Sacciero, Sanio, 
Cochile, Gralti, Nero, and Fruinto ; all of which empty 
themfelves into the fea. 
CALA'BRIA ULTRA, a province of Naples, bound¬ 
ed on the north by Calabria Citra, on the eaft, fouth, and 
well, by the Mediterranean Sea. The productions are 
nearly the fame as thofe of Calabria Citra. The principal 
towns are Cattanzaro, Crotona, St. Severina, St. Eufe- 
mia, Girace, Squillace, Nicallro, and Reggio : the prin¬ 
cipal rivers are the Amalto, Maturo, and the Metramo. 
Thefe two provinces of Calabria were almofir entirely 
defolated by the earthquakes of 1783. The reiterated 
fhocks extended from Cape Spartivento to Amantea above 
the gulf of St. Eufemia, and alfo affeCted that part of 
Sicily which lies oppofite to the fouthern extremity of 
Italy. Not one (lone was left upon another fouth of the 
narrow iflhmus of Squillace; and what is more difaflrous, 
near 40,000 perfons loft their lives. Some were dug out 
alive after remaining a great length of time buried among 
the rubbifli. Stupendous alterations were occafioned in 
the face of the country ; rivers, choaked up by the falling 
in of the hills, were converted into lakes 5 whole acres of 
ground, 
