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gable, miniflcrs, ever recorded in the annals of this king* 
dom. As to his writings, he is reckoned.by Hollingfhed 
amongft tl\e lviflorians of the Englifii nation. Be wrote 
two poems in Latin, on the death of Margaret Novi!, lady 
of the bed-chamber to queen Catharine. They were 
printed among the Carolina SuffoTc. fratnim, 1552, 4to. 
A Latin poem in memory of Thomas Chaloner, knight. 
A preface to queen Catharine’s book, entitled, Lamenta¬ 
tion of a Sinner, 1548, 12ino. Precepts or Diiedfions for 
the Well-ordering and Carriage of a Man’s Life, 1637. 
Harl. Cat. vol. ii. p. 755. Meditations on the Death of 
his Lady. A Meditation on the State of England during 
the Reign of Queen Elizabeth. He wrote anl'wers to 
many libels againlt the queen and government, fome of 
which are faid to be extant in print, and more in manu- 
fcript. He drew up alf'o a great number of pedigrees, 
fome of which are preferved in the library at Lambeth, 
particularly the genealogies of tlie kings of England, from 
William the Conqueror to Edward IV. of queen Anne 
Boleyn, and of feveral princely lioufes in Germany. A 
collection of his (late papers was publifhed by Haynes, 
1740; and a continuation of them by Murdin, 1760. 
CE'CIL, a townfliip in the American United States, in 
Wafhington county, Pennfylvania. 
CECI'LIA (St.), the patronefsof mtific, has been I10- 
noured as a martyr ever (ince the fifth century. Her (lory, 
as delivered by the notaries of the Roman chinch, and 
from them tranfcribed into the Golden Legend and other 
books of the like kind, fays, that the was a Roman lady 
born of noble parents, about the year 225. That, not- 
withftanding (lie had been converted to Chrifiianity, her 
parents married her to a young pagan* nobleman named 
Valerianus, who, with his brother Tiburtius, (lie quickly 
found means to convert. Both the brothers were in con- 
fequence beheaded ; and Cecilia was offered her life, upon 
condition that flie would facrifice to the deities of the Ro¬ 
mans ; but (lie refit fed : upon which (he was thrown into 
a caldron of boiling water, and fcaldcd to death. Others 
fay, that (lie was (tided in a dry-bath, i. e. an inclofure, 
from whence the air was excluded, having a How fire un¬ 
derneath it ; which kind of death was fometimes inflidted 
by the Romans on women of quality who were criminals. 
Upon the fpot where her houfe (food, a church is faid to 
have been built by pope Urban I. who adminifiered bap- 
tifm to her hu (band and his brother: it is the church of 
St. Cecilia at Trafievere ; within it is a curious painting 
of the faint, and a (lately monument, with a ftatue of her 
with her face downwards. There is a tradition of St.Ce¬ 
cilia, that (lie excelled in mtific ; and that an angel was 
enamoured of her, drawn from the celeftial regions by the 
charms of her melody : this has been deemed authority 
fufiicient for making her the patronefs of malic and mu(i- 
cians. The legend of St. Cecilia has given frequent occa- 
fion to painters and fculptors to exercife their genius in 
reprefentations of her, playing on the organ, and fome¬ 
times on the harp. Raphael has painted her fingingwith 
a regal in her hands; and Domenichino and Mignard, 
finging and playing on the harp. 
CECIN'NA (A.), a Roman knight in the intereft of 
Pompev, who ufed to breed up young fvvallows, and fend 
them to carry news to his friends as meffengers. He was 
a particular friend of Cicero, with whom he correfponded. 
Some of his letters are (till extant in Cicero. 
CE'CITY,/. [ cadtas , Lat.] Blindr.efs; privation of 
fight.—They are not blind, nor yet diftindfly fee ; there 
is in them no cecity , yet more than a cecutiency ; they have 
fight enough to difcern the light, though not perhaps to 
diftinguifh obiedts or colours. Brecon, 
CECRO'PIA, the original name of Athens, in honour 
of Cecrops, its firft founder. The ancients often life this 
word for Attica, a>nd the Athenians are often called Ce- 
cropidte. 
CECRO'PIA,/. The Trumpet-tree ; in botany, a 
genus of the clafs dioecia, order diandria, natural order 
fcabridae. The generic characters are-—I, Male. Calyx: 
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fpathe ovate, burrting, caducous; aments very many, faf. 
ciculate, columnar, imbricate with feales; the fcales (re¬ 
ceptacles) copious, turbinate, compreHed-quadrangular, 
obtufe, with a double perforation. Corolla: none, unlefs 
the feales be called nedtaries. Stamina: filaments two, 
capillary, very (bort, front the perforations of the feales ; 
antherae oblong, quadrangular. II. Female. Calyx : 
fpathe; aments four, columnar, imbricate with germs. 
Corolla: none. Piffilluni : germs many, imbricate, cani- 
prefled-quadrangular, obtufe; ftyles (olitary, very (hort; 
ftigmas fomewhat headed, lacerated. Pericarpium: berry 
the form of the germ, one-celled, one-leeded. Seed ob¬ 
long, comprelfed .—EJJential Character. Male. Sputhe ca¬ 
ducous ; ament imbricate with turbinate feales, com- 
preffed-quadrangular; corolla none. Female as in tlie 
male; germs imbricate; ltyle one; Itigma lacerated; 
berry one feeded. 
There is only one fpecies, called cecropia peltata, trum¬ 
pet-tree, or fnake-wood. It rife's commonly to a confider- 
able height, being feldoin under thirty-five or forty feet 
in tlie moll perfect (fate. The trunk and branches are 
hollow every where, and (lopped from (pace to (pace with 
membranous feptas, anfwering to fo many light annular 
marks in the furface ; leaves few, alternate, large, at the 
ends of tlie branches ; they are peltate, divided into many 
lobes like thofe of carica papaya, downy-white under¬ 
neath, petioled ; lobes entire, (harp, rugged on the up¬ 
per furface, the nerves obliquely tranfverfe, and the veins 
very much fo. There are Hi pules between the leaves, as 
in the fig, opening on the tide oppolite to tlie leaf, obvo-. 
lute or imbricate 011 the edge, Coon falling off. The fruits 
rife four, five, or more, from the very top of a common 
peduncle, and (hoot into fo many oblong cylindrical ber¬ 
ries, compofed of a row of little acini, fomething like our 
rafpberry, which they refemble in flavour when ripe, and 
are agreeable to mod European palates on that account. 
The wood of this tree, when dry, is very apt to take fire 
by attrition. The native Indians have taken the hint, 
and always kindle their fires in the woods by rubbing a 
piece of it againft fome harder wood. The bark is (Iron g 
and fibrous, and is frequently ufed for all forts of cordage. 
The trunk is very light, and for that reafon much ufed 
for bark-logs and fifliing-floats. Tlie fnvaller brandies,, 
when cleared of the feptums, ferve for wind inftruments. 
Both trunk and branches yield a great quantity of fixed 
fait, which is much ufed among the French, todefpumate 
and granulate their fugars. The fruit is much fed upon 
by pigeons and other birds, and thus the tree is much 
fpread and propagated. Native of South America, and 
tlie Weft-India i(lands. Miller received fpecimens of this 
tree from Dr. Houlton, who found it growing naturally at 
Vera Cruz in New Spain ; it does not appear however 
that he ever cultivated it. In the catalogue of the royal 
botanic garden at Kevv, it is faid to have been introduced 
in 1778, by Thomas Clark, M.D. 
Propagation and Culture. It may be propagated by feeds, 
procured from the places of natural growth. They fhould 
be brought over in fand, for, if they are put up moift in 
papers, they will be apt to grow mouldy. They fliould 
be (own in ("mail pots, filled w ith light earth, and plunged 
into a moderate hot-bed of tanner’s-bark, obferving to 
water the pots duly, and to admit frefh air whenever the 
weather is favourable. When the plants come up and are 
fit to tranfplant, they fliould be carefully taken up, and 
each planted in a feparate (mail pot, filled with the like 
light earth, and plunged into tlie hot-bed again, being 
careful to water them to fettle the earth to their roots, 
and alfo to fereen them from the fun till they have taken 
new root : after which they fliould be conftantly kept 
plunged into the bark-bed in the (love, and treated in the 
lame manner as other plants from the lame country. 
CE'CROPS, a native of Sais, in Egypt, who led a co¬ 
lony to Attica about 1556 years before the Chriftian era, 
and reigned over part of the country which was called 
from him Cecropia. He foftened and poliflied the rude 
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