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the kindnefs fhe had (hewn him when he was at Carthage, 
However, Lavinia, the wife of tineas, contrived her death; 
and, being informed of this by her fifter in a dream, the 
fled to the river Nirmicius, of which (lie became a nymph. 
ANNA'LE,yi in the church of Rome, a term applied 
to the maffes celebrated for the dead during a whole year. 
ANNA'LIS CLAVUS, f. the nail which the praetor, 
conful, or dictator, drove into the wall of Jupiter’s tem¬ 
ple annually upon the ides of September, to (hew the 
number of years. But this cuftonr was fuperfeded by 
reckoning years by confulfhips. The ceremony was fome- 
times performed to avert the plague, &c. 
AN'NALIST,yi A writer of annals. 
AN'NALS,yi [annates, Lat.] Hiftories digefted in the 
exact order of time; narratives in which every event is 
recorded under its proper year. It has no lingular: 
Could you with patience hear, or I relate, 
O nymph ! the tedious annals of our fate; 
Through fuch a train of woes if I (hould run. 
The day would fooner than the tale be done! Dryden. 
—We are allured, by many glorious examples in the annals 
of our religion, that every one, in the like circumftances 
of diftrefis, will not a< 5 t and argue thus; but thus will eve¬ 
ry one be tempted to aft. Rogers. 
Annals differ from perfect hi (lory in this, that annals 
are but a bare relation of what paffes every year, as a 
journal is of what paffes every day; whereas hiftory re¬ 
lates not only the tranfaCtions themfelves, but alio the 
caufes, motives, and fprings, of aCtions. Annals require 
nothing but brevity ; hiftory demands ornament. Cicero 
informs us of the origin of annals. To preferve the me¬ 
mory of events, the pontifex maximus , fays he, wrote what 
paffed each year, and expofed it on tables in his own houfe, 
where every one was at liberty to read : this they called 
annales inaximi-, and hence the writers who imitated this 
fimpie method of narrating faflrs were called annalijls. 
AN'NAN, the capital of Anr.andale, a divifion of Dum- 
friesfhire in Scotland; a fmall town, containing about 600 
inhabitants, and (ituated on a river of the fame name, in 
lon-3.o.W. lat. 54. 40. N. This place, which is a royal 
borough, has fome trade in wine, and exports annually 
between 20,000 and 30,000 Winchefter bufhels (10,000 and 
15,000 bolls) of corn. Veffels of about 250 tons, can come 
within half a mile of the town; and of (ixty, as high as 
the bridge ; which confifts of five arches defended by a 
gateway. A fabric for carding and (pinning of cotton has 
lately been ereCted, and the town begins to increafe. Here 
was formerly a caftle; which was built by the Bruces af¬ 
ter they became lords of Annandale. Upon the death of 
David II. the fon of king Robert, in 1371, this caftle 
(Lochmaben), and the lordlhip of Annandale, came to Tho¬ 
mas. Randolf earl of Murray, and went with his fifter 
Agnes to the Dunbars earls of March : after their forfei¬ 
ture it went to the Douglaffes, who alfo loft it by the fame 
fate ; and then having come to Alexander duke of Alba¬ 
ny, he, for rebelling againft his brother king James III. 
and plundering the fair of Lochmaben in 1484, was alfo 
forfeit. Since which time it continued in the hands of the 
king, and became the great key of the weft border. 
The ftewartry or diftridt of Annandale, of which Loc- 
maben caftle was the chief fortalice, is a fertile vale, 
twenty-four miles long, and about fourteen miles broad: 
from its vicinity to England, and the continual incurfions 
and predatory wars of the borderers, the greateft part of 
it was uncultivated and common : but, within the laft for¬ 
ty years, all thefe waftes and commons have been divided 
and brought into culture, and the country has affumed a 
new appearance; which may be aferibed not only to the 
divifion of the commons, but likewife to the improvement 
made in the ro-.ds, and particularly in the great weftern 
road from Edinburgh to London by Moffat, Gratncy, and 
Carlille. Annandale formed a part of the Roman pro¬ 
vince of Valentia; and, Severus’s wall ending here, it 
abounds with Roman ftations and antiquities. The camps 
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at Barrens in Middlebie, and on the hill of Burnfwork, 
are dill entire, and their form is preferved ; and the traces 
and remains of a military road are now vilible in different 
parts of the country. The ruins of the houfe or caftle of 
Auchincafs, in the neighbourhood of Moffat, once the 
feat of that potent baron, Thomas Randolph, earl of Mur¬ 
ray, lord of Annandale, and regent of Scotland, in the 
minority of David II. covers above an acre of ground, and 
even now conveys an idea of the plan and ftrength of the 
building. The ancient caftle of Comlongan, formerly be¬ 
longing to the Murrays, earls of Annandale, is ftill in a 
tolerable (late of prefervation. 
ANN A'NO, a ftrong fort of Italy, in the duchy of Mi¬ 
lan. It has been twice taken by the French; but was 
reftored to the duke of Savoy in 1706. It isfeated on the 
river Tanaro, in lat. 44,40. N. Ion. 8.30. E. 
ANNA'POLIS, the capital of Maryland, and the weal- 
thieft town of its fize in North America. It is fituated at 
the mouth of Severn river, and was originally known by 
that name, which was changed for its prefentone in 1694, 
when it was made a port-town, and the refidence of a 
collector and naval officer. It (lands on a healthy fpot, 
thirty miles Couth of Baltimore, in lat. 29. 25. N. and is a 
place of but -little note in the commercial world. The 
houfes are generally large and elegant, indicative of great 
wealth; the number of inhabitants does not exceed 2000. 
The defign of thofe who planned the city was to have the 
whole in the form of a circle, with the llreets like radii, 
beginning at the centre, where the ftate-houfe (lands, and 
thence diverging in every direction. The principal part 
of the buildings are arranged agreeably to this plan. 
Annapolis Royal,' a town of Nova Scotia, isfeated 
in the bay of Tandy; and, though a mean place, was for¬ 
merly the capital of the province. It has one of the fined 
harbours in America, capable of containing 1000 veffels 
at anchor in the utmoft fecurity. The place is alfo pro¬ 
tested by a fort and garrifon. At the bottom of the har¬ 
bour is a point of land, which divides two rivers ; and on 
each fide there are pleafant meadows, which in fpring and 
autumn are covered with all forts of frefti water fowl. 
There is a trade carried on by the Indians with furs, which 
they exchange for European goods. Lat. 45.10. N. Ion. 
64. 5. W. 
AN'NAS, [of njn Heb. gracious.] A high-prieft of the 
Jews. 
AN'NATS ,_/1 [annates, I.at.] Find fruits; becaufe the 
rate of firft fruits, paid to fpiritual livings, is after one 
year’s profit. Maffes faid in the Romifh church for the 
(pace of a year, or for any other time, either for the foul 
of a perfon deceafed, or for the benefit of a perfion living. 
It has no Angular. See First Fruits. 
ANNE, queen of Great Britain. This amiable and il- 
luftrious princefs was defeended from a race of kings, the 
mod ancient of any in Europe. She was fecond daughter 
of James duke of York, afterwards king James IT. by Mrs. 
Anne Hyde, elded daughter of Edward earl of Clarendon. 
The duke was privately married to this lady during his firft 
exile, in 1659". * p * (lie was, by an order of council, 
declared duchefs of York, and to have the precedency of 
the princefs of Orange and the queen of Bohemia. The 
duchefs died at the palace of St. James’s, March 15, 1671 ; 
(he had iffue by the duke four fons and four daughter's : 
Charles, born October 22, 1660; Mary, born April 30, 
1662; James, born July 12, 1663; Anne, born February 
6, 1664; Charles, born July 4, 1665; Edgar, born Sep¬ 
tember 14, 16C7 ; Henrietta, born January 13, 1669; and 
Catharine, born February 9, 1670; of whom Charles, 
James, Charles, and Henrietta, died in her life-time; and 
Edgar and Catharine did not furvive her a year ; but Mary 
and Anne lived to be queens of England. Princefs Mary 
was about nine years old, and princefs Anne about (even, 
at the death of their mother. On the death of king Wil¬ 
liam III. who died on Sunday, March 8, 1702, about eight 
in the morning, princefs Anne was, about three the fame 
afternoon, proclaimed queen of Great Britain, France, and 
Ireland,, 
