DUN 
D U N 
121 
DUNLA'VIN, a town of Ireland, in the county of 
Wicklow : ten miles north-eaft of Athy, and twenty wed 
of Wicklow, 
DUNLE'ER, a town of Ireland, in the county of 
Louth ; an ancient borough : feven miles north of Drog¬ 
heda. 
DUNMAN'AWAY, a town of Ireland, in the county 
of Cork: twenty-three miles fouth-wed of Cork. 
DUNMAN'NUS BAY, a bay of the Atlantic, on the 
fouth-wed coad of Ireland, in the county of Cork, about 
fourteen miles in length, and from one to three broad, 
fouth of Bantry Bay, affording a fafe harbour. Lat. 51. 
30. N. at its mouth. Ion. 9. 40. W. Greenwich, 
DUNMO'RE BAY, a bay of the Atlantic, on the 
wed coad of Ireland, in the county of Clare. Lat. 52.44. 
N. Ion. 9. 35. W. Greenwich. 
DUNMO'RE HEAD, a cape on the wed coad of Ire¬ 
land, in the county of Kerry. Lat. 52. 6. N. Ion. 10. 10. 
W. Greenwich. 
DUN'MOW, a pleafant healthy town in the county of 
Effex, didant from London thirty-feven miles. It has a 
market on Saturdays for corn and other articles, and two 
annual fairs, on the 6th of May and'8th of November. It 
is a borough, chartered by Philip and Mary, and Eliza¬ 
beth, governed by a bailiff and twelve burgeffes ; but 
fends no members to parliament. The church is a fpa- 
cious Gothic building, and exhibits a chade fpecimen of 
that dyle of architecture. In the town is a manufacture 
ef baize. Dunmow is very ancient, fuppofed to be the 
old Ctefaromagus, and in the road from hence- to Col- 
cRefter, are the remains of an old Roman can fey. Here 
vvas formerly a priory, founded in 1104, by lady Juga, 
who built a church alfo. The collegiate church was a 
large dately fabric, the roof fudained with rows of co¬ 
lumns, whole capitals are ornamented with oak-leaves, 
elegantly carved, l'ome of which dill remain. The part 
which now makes the parifli-clnirch, was the ead end of 
the choir, with the north .aide. Under an arch in the 
fouth wall, is an ancient tomb, faid to contain the body 
of the foundrefs, lady Juga. Near the fame fpot is a mo¬ 
nument of Walter Fitzwaker, a powerful baron in the 
reign of Henry III. who died in 119S. The much-cele¬ 
brated cudom indituted at Dunmow by him, relative to 
giving away a flitch off bacon to any pair who married 
without repenting, in any part of England, is now dif- 
continued j but, for the fatisfaction of the curious, we 
(hall here preferve the fubdance of the oath which ufed 
So be taken on thofe occafions : 
You fhall fwear by the cudom of your confeflion. 
That you never made any nuptial tranfgrefiion, 
Since-you were married man and wife, 
By houfehold brawls or a contentious drife; 
Or otherwife, in bed or at board, 
Offended each other in deed or in word ; 
Or, fince the parilh-clerk faid amen, 
Wifh’d yourfelves unmarried again; 
Or, in a twelvemonth and a day, 
Repented not in thought any way; 
But continued true and in defire, 
As when you join’d hands in holy chpir. 
If to thefe conditions, without all fear, 
Of your own accord, you will freely fwear, 
A gammon of bacon you fhall receive, 
And bear it hence with love and good leave. 
The flitch was exprefsly the reward of this uncommon 
connubial agreement; though 'gammon is put in the for¬ 
mula, perhaps as more Ratable to the doggrel verles. 
The fl-itch was for many years, at different times, claimed 
and received ; but being eventually found to produce 
falfe Rvearing, id ten efs, and diforder, it was judged pru¬ 
dent to abolilh the ctiftom. 
in the vicinity of Dunmow is Felffead charity-fchool, 
for eighty children of the county of Effex, and an alms- 
houfe for poor people, with handfome weekly allow- 
Vofc.VJ.- No. 336. 
ances of malt, meat, and money, fewel, paflure for fix 
cows, &c. Every year fuch poor of this parifli as received 
not collection, have fix barrels of white herrings, befides 
fome cades of red. The fchool has produced feveral 
eminent {cholars, and is in a flourilliing Rate. 
DUN'NER, f [from dun.] One employed in foliciting 
petty debts.—They are ever talking of newfilks, and 
ferve the owners in getting them cu ftomefs, as their com¬ 
mon dunners do in making them pay. Spcttalor. 
DUN'NET, a town of Scotland, in the county of Caith- 
nefs, fituated on the ea(t fide of a bay, to which it gives 
name. In 1791, the number of inhabitants was about 
1400. Dunnet-bay affords excellent flounders and had¬ 
docks; and is fometjmes frequented by flioals of herrings 
in July and Augud. But their continuance in the bay, 
or even their coming to it, has hitherto been reckoned lo 
uncertain, that no extenfiv’e fifhery has been attempted : 
five miles eaft of Thurfo. Lat. 58. 32. N. Ion. o. i.W. 
Edinburgh. 
DUN'NET HEAD, a cape on the north coad of Scot¬ 
land, and county of Caithnefs. It confifts of feveral hills, 
with fome bold rocks towards the fea, from one hundred 
to four hundred feet high : three miles and a half north 
of Dunnet. 
DUNNO'SE, a cape or-promontory on the fouth-eaft 
coalt of the I lie of Wight, in the Englilh Channel: about 
leventeen leagues welt from Beachy-head. Lat. 50. 33. N. 
Ion. 1. 14. W. Greenwich. 
DUNNOT'TAR, a village of Scotland, in the county 
of Kincardine, where are the remains of a cattle, fituated 
on a rock near the lea, fuppofed to have been built during 
the conteft between Baliol and Bruce ; before the rite ot 
artillery, fujSpofed to have been impregnable. In 1661, 
the regalia of Scotland were depollted here, to preferve 
them from the Englilh army; and a garrifon, with fuit- 
able ammunition, obtained for their defence by earl Ma- 
rifchal, proprietor of the cattle ; the command of the gar¬ 
rifon was intruded to Mr. Ogilvie, of Barras, as the earl 
had joined the king’s forces in England. The fiege was 
turned into a blockade, and, though frequently fummon.ed, 
the governor held out for feveral months; till prelfed by 
famine and the mutiny of the garrifon, he found means to 
convey the regalia to a place of fecurity, and then capi¬ 
tulated on honourable terms. In 1685, this cadle was 
employed as a prifon for a body of pretbyterians, and a 
number of them confined during the warmed feafon of 
the year in ’one vault, which is dill to be feen, called the 
ni/iigs’ vault. A grave-done in the church-yard of Dun- 
nottar is placed over a number of them who died under 
the confinementabout a mile fouth-wed from Stone¬ 
haven. 
DUNROSSNESS', a town of Scotland, fituated in the 
fouthern part of the Eland of Shetland: twenty-eight 
miles fouth of Lerwick. 
DUNS (John), commonly called Duns Scotus, a celebrated 
fcholadic divine, who flourilhed towards the clofe of the 
thirteenth and the beginning of the fourteenth century, 
fuppofed to have been born at Dundance, near Alnwick, 
in Northumberland. When young, he was admitted into 
an inditution belonging to the Francifcan friars at New- 
cadle ; whence he was fent by them to Merton-college, 
Oxford. In that feminary, of which he was afterwards 
made a fellow, he applied himfelf with uncommon dili¬ 
gence to his dudies, and acquired a high reputation for 
his proficiency in fcholadic theology,-civil and canon law, 
logic, metaphyfics, and the diderent branches of mathe¬ 
matical learning. About the year 1301 he was appointed 
to the divinity chair in the univerfity of Oxford; and, by 
the fame of his great learning and talents, attracted pro¬ 
digious crowds of fcholars from all parts to attend his 
lectures. About the year 1304, he was fent by his fupe- 
riors to Paris, where he wag admitted to the higheft ho¬ 
nours in the univerfity of that city, and appointed pro- 
felfor and regent in the theological fchool. In that litti- 
ation he didinguithed himfelf io much by his great acutc- 
I i nefs 
