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and urns are often dug up here; and there are feveral 
barrows, fuppofed to have been railed over men that were 
flain in battle. A great many eftimuble charities fubfift 
in this town ; but it is moft noted for its church, a,-id the 
admirable painting in its windows. -John Tame, a mer¬ 
chant of London, purchafed this manor of Henry VJ 1 . 
and, having taken a prize (hip bound for Rome, wherein 
he found a great quantity of curious painted glafs, he 
brought both the glafs and the workmen into England. 
He then built this church, which is conlidered as a fine 
ipecimen of Gothic architecture, in length 125 feet, and' 
fifty-five in breadth ; with a nave and two aides, a good 
vertry, and a noble tower, adorned with pinnacles; and 
the windows of the church, twenty-eight in number, he 
caufed to be glazed with this invaluable prize, which re¬ 
mains entire to this day, the admiration of all that fee it. 
Mrs. Farmer, a daughter of lord Lemfier, gave 200I. to 
be laid out in mending and wiring the windows: this has 
preferved them from accidents ; and, in the great rebel¬ 
lion, the impropriator, Mr. Oldwortb, took down the 
glafs, and (ecured it in fome fecret place, thereby pre¬ 
serving it (roan fanatic rage. The painting is faid to have 
been the defign of the famous Albert Durer ; and the co¬ 
louring in the drapery, and fome of the figures, are fo well 
performed, that Vandyke affirmed the bed pencil could 
rot exceed it. The (objects are fcriptural, interlarded 
with a great variety of ridiculous reprefentations, which 
had, we fuppofc; their weight and value in the luperdi¬ 
tions times when thpfe windows were painted. Near the 
church is a handfome-biult free-ichool, endowed, for 
iixty boys. 
FAIRHA'VEN, in Bridol county, Maflacluifetts, lies 
on the north-wed fide of Buzzard’s bay, and on the ead- 
ern fide of Accufiinet river, oppofite to Bedford, in the 
American States. 
FAIRHA'VEN, a confiderable town/hip of the Ame¬ 
rican States, in Rutland county, Vermont, north-wed of 
Ponltney: fifiy-one miles north of Bennington. 
FAIRHE'AD, a cape of Ireland, on the north coad 
of the county of Antrim. Lat. 55. 44. N. Ion. 6. 2. W. 
Greenwich. 
FAIR'ING,y. A prefent given at a fair.—Like chil¬ 
dren that edeem every trifle, and prefer a fairing before 
their fathers. Ben Jonfon. 
Now he goes on, and lings of fairs and (hows ; 
For dill new fairs before his eyesarofe : 
jHow pedlars (hills with glitt’ring toys are laid, 
The various fairings of the country maid. Gay. 
FAIRLE'E, a townfliip of the American States, in 
Orange county, Vermont, on the wed bank of ConneCti- 
cut river, fixteen miles north of Durtmouth-coilege. The 
townfliip is hilly, but of a good foil, and has feveral glades 
of excellent land. 
FAIR'LEY, a tovfn of Scotland, in the county of Air: 
eleven miles north-wed of Irvine. 
FAIR'LEY ROAD, a narrow Arait of Scotland, in 
the Frith of Clyde, between the iflands of Cuinora and 
the county of Air. 
F'AIR'LY, adv. Beautifully: as, a city fairly fituated. 
Commodioully ; conveniently ; fuitably to any purpofe 
or defign : 
Waiting ’till willing winds their fails fupply’d, 
Within a trading town they long abide, 
Full fairly fituuie on a haven’s fide. Dryden. 
Honedly ; judly; without (hift; without fraud; not 
foully.—There is due from the judge to the advocate 
fome commendation and gracing where caufes are fairly 
pleaded. Bacon. — Ingenuoufiy; plainly; openly: 
The dage how loofely does Adrea tread, 
Who fairly -puts all characters to bed. Pope. 
Candidly; without finidrous interpretation: 
As I interpret fairly your defign, 
So look not with feverer eyes on mine. Dryden . 
F A I 
Without violence to right r.eafon.—-This nutricious juice 
being a fubtile liquor, fcarce obtainable by a human 
body, the ferum of the blood is fairly fubdituted in its 
place. Arbuthnot. —Without blots: 
Here is th’ indictment of the good lord Hadings, 
Which in a let hand fairly is engrofs’d. Shakefptare. 
Completely ; without any deficience.—Let them fay it is 
grofsly done ; fo it be fairly done, no matter . Skakefpeare. 
FAIR'NESS, J. Beauty; elegance of form.—That 
which made her faimefs much the fairer, was, that it was 
but a fair ambaflador of a mod fair mind, full cf wit, and 
a wit which delighted more to judge itfelf than to (how 
itfelf. Sidney. — Honefty ; candour; ingenuity.—There 
may be fome what of vvifdom, but little of goodnefs or 
fairnefs , in this conduCt. Atterbury. 
FAIR'SPOKEN, adj. Bland and civil in language and 
addrefs.—Arius, a pried in the church of Alexandria, was 
a fnbtlewitted and a marvellous fairfpolun man. Hooker. 
FAI'RY, f. [pejilkS, Sax. fee, Fr. Ab era., terra, fit 
& feea. Macedonian diale&o ; unde eyegoi etftegoi, & Ro¬ 
manis inleri, qui Scoto-Saxonibus dicuntur ferics nodratiq ; 
vulgo corrupti&sj/kfner, y.ona.p^onei five dii manes. 
Baxter's Glvjfary .] A kind of fabled beings, fuppofed to 
appear in a diminutive human form, and to dance in the 
meadows, and reward cleanlinefs in houfes; an elf; a fay. 
—Fays, fairies , genii, elves, and demons, hear. Pope. —. 
By the idea any one has of. fairies, or centaurs, he.cannot 
know that tilings, anlwering thofe ideas, exid. Locke. —■ 
Enchantrefs: JVarburton. 
To this great fairy I’ll commend thy adds, 
Make her thanks’blefs thee. Shakefpeare. 
FAI'RY, adj. Given by fairies.—.Such borrow’d wealth, 
like fairy money, though it were gold in the hand from 
which lie received it, will be but leaves and dud when it 
comes to ufe. Locke. —Belonging to fairies : 
This is the fairy land : oh, fpight of fpights, 
We talk with goblins, owls, and elvidi fprights. Shakefp. 
FAI'RY RING, or Circle, a phenomenon very fre¬ 
quent on the turf of padures or downs, vulgarly fuppofed 
to be traced by the noCturnal dances of fairies. Meflrs. 
Jefibp and Walker, in the Philofophical Tranfactions, 
aferibe them to lightning ; but Cavallo, in his Treatife on 
Electricity, does not think that lightning is at all concerned 
in the formation of them : “They feem, (fays he,) to be 
rather beds of mufhrooms than the etteCts of lightning.”—■ 
Mr. Townley, jn his Journal of the Hie of Man, pirblidied 
in 1791, endeavours to account for this hitherto inexpli¬ 
cable phenomenon, as follows:—“ I had often admired, 
with a kind of wonder, thofe green rings, fo obfervable 
upon many dry commons and downs in various parts of 
England, called by the common people fairy-rings ; and 
one day determined, if polfible, to find out the reafon 
why they were generally feen in that circular for:.), and 
why, too, the grafs growing upon them (hould be fo di(- 
tinguifiiable from that of the furrounding turf, by a richer, 
or deeper, tinge of green. I cut up feveral fods, as deep 
as the fine mould reached, by which means I found feve¬ 
ral brown grubs, fome moving and fome in a date of 
quietude ; but the greated number of them were in mo¬ 
tion, with their heads in the felt-fame direction, as if 
they were puifuing each other. 1 found the foil under 
the rings to be far better pulverized than that under the 
furrounding turf where there were no infeCts vilible; and 
the date of the foil will eafily account for the deeper tinge 
of green, in the grafs growing upon them : but why thofe 
infeits (hould fo invariably work and move in a circular 
form, is above my cotnprehenfion.”—It is probable that 
the pulverized date of the mould above defnibed, ren¬ 
ders thefe circles fo favourable to the growth of cham¬ 
pignons, which in the autumnal feafon are almod con- 
(tantly found to vegetate upon them. 
FA 1 'SANS (iile de), Isle of Pheasants, or Isle o-f 
Conference, a final! lilandin thenverBidalfoa, celebrated 
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