FAR 
fmall iflands and rocks, feveateen in number, in the Ger¬ 
man Sea, near the Englifh coaft, oppofite Bamborough- 
caftle, in Northumberland; they have all names, and pro¬ 
duce kelp, feathers, and eggs of fea fowls, and fome feals; 
fome of them bear a little grafs, and feed a few cows. 
The principal, which is called Farn, is about a mile in 
compafs, and lias a fort and light-houfe. Lat. 55. 29. N. 
Ion. 1.44. W. Greenwich. 
FAR'NABY (Thomas), an eminent fchoolmafter and 
critic, ton of a carpenter in London, where he was born 
about 1575. He was admitted a fervitor of Merton-col- 
lege, Oxford, in 1590; but he abruptly quitted that uni- 
verfity, and went to Spain, where for fome time he ftudied 
jn a college of the Jefuits. The feverity ot this inftitu- 
tion, however, difgufted him, and he found means to re¬ 
turn, and entered on-board the fleet of Drake and Haw¬ 
kins, in their expedition of 1595. He is faid afterwards 
to have ferved as a loldier in the Low-countries; but the 
refillt of this unfettled courfe of life was, that he landed 
in Cornwall in fuch indigent circumftances, that he was 
obliged to teacli children the horn-book fora fubfiftence. 
He gradually rofe to a higher flat ion, and for fome time 
taught a grammar-fchool at Martock, in Somerfetfhire. 
Thence he removed to London, and opened a femiriary 
near Cripplegate. Here he rofe to fuch reputation, that 
he is laid at one time to have had more than three hun¬ 
dred fcholars, many of them of rynk and fortune. He 
obtained the degree of mafler of ai ts at Cambridge, in 
1616, in which he was afterwards incorporated at Oxford. 
At the commencement of the civil wars, he manifefted 
difaffediion to the caufe of the parliament ; and upon a 
fufpicion of being concerned in an infurreftion in favour 
of the king about Tunbridge, in 1643, he was imprifoned 
in Newgate, and a motion was made for his banifliment to 
America. This, however, was rejedted, and he was re¬ 
moved to a milder confinement at Ely-houfe. He died in 
1647, at the age of feventy-two. He publifhed editions, 
■with explanatory notes, of Juvenal and Perfius; Seneca’s 
Tragedies; Martial’s feledl Epigrams; and Lucan’s Phar- 
falia: alfo, notes to Virgil, Ovid, and Terence. He like- 
wife publifhed an Index Rketoricus'CS Pdeticys ; Florilegium 
Epigrr.inmatum Greccorum ; and Syjtema Grammaticum ; which 
laic was compofed by order of king Charles, who meant 
to fubflitute a new Latin grammar to that hitherto taught 
by authority. 
FAR'NESSjjf Diftance ; remotenefs.—Their nearnefs 
on all quarters to the enemy, and their farnefs from timely 
fuccour by their friends, have forced the commanders 
to call forth the uttermoft number of able hands to fight. 
Carezv. 
FARN'HAM, a large and populous town in the county 
of Surrey, fittiated on the river Wey, ten miles from 
Guildford, nine from Alton, fifteen from Bafingftoke, and 
forty-one from London. It was given by the Weft Saxon 
king Ethel-bald to the fee of Winehefter, whofe bifhops 
have generally refitted in the caftle here, ever fir.ee the 
reign of king Stephen, whofe brother, then bithop, built 
it: it is a magnificent ftru&ure, with deep moats, ft rung 
walls, and towers at proper durances, a fine park, in a 
fine fituation, and affords a moil noble profpedt. The 
town, which has many handfome houtes, and well-paved 
ftreets, is governed by twelve burgeffes, of whom two are 
bailiff's, (chofen annually,) who a£t under the bifhop of 
Winehefter, have the profit of the fairs and markets, and 
the afiize of bread and beer, and hold a court every three 
weeks, which has a power of trying and determining all ac¬ 
tions under forty fhillings. Here is a good market on Thurf- 
■days. Fairs, Holy Tlntrfday, June 24, and November 2. 
Here i-s-a-vaft grow-th-of hops, of which there is at leaft a 
thoufand acres of plantations around tire town. Here is 
alfo a great market for Welch hofe. The church was for¬ 
merly only a chapel of eafe to Waverly-abbey. The tow n 
lent members to parliament in the reign of Edward II. 
but never finee.- The magiflrates have their privileges 
from the bifhop of Winehefter, to whom they pay an ac- 
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knowledgment of twelve-pence a-year. Here are a free- 
fchool and a charity-fchool. 
About two miles eaft of Farnhamis More-park, origi¬ 
nally the feat of fir William Temple, whole heart, by his 
delire, was buried in the garden in a China bafon. The 
houfe is at prefent uninhabited. At the farther end of 
the park is Ludlam ? s-cave, formed in a rock, through 
which runs a continual ftream of very fine water, which, 
after falling down a number of marble fteps, empties it- 
felf into the river in the meadow below. The cave, ac¬ 
cording to hiftory, was formerly the place of fludy for 
dean Swift, when on his viftts to fir William Temple at 
More-park. The grotto is large, but diminifhes and 
winds away, as the fpring fieems to have diredted it. The 
bottom of it is paved with a kind of Molaic tile, and the 
wider part is feparated from the narrower behind by a little 
parapet, through which ilfues the flow of water, which 
trills through marble troughs, one below another, till it 
is conveyed out of the grotto. About a quarter of a mile 
from the cave is Waverley-abbey, where are (till the re¬ 
mains of an old venerable Roman chapel, which, it is 
faid, was originally the mother-church of Karnharn, but 
is now extra-parochial. Waverley-abbey was a monaftery 
for Ciftercian monks, built by William Giifard, bifitop of 
Winehefter. The navigable canal extends from Baling- 
•ftoke through the feveral parifhes of Odiham, Crondall, 
Alderlhot, and Alh, croffes the London turnpike-road, 
about four miles from Farnham, and joins the river 
Thames between Guildford and Chertfey. 
FARNRO'DA, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Upper Saxony, and principality of Eiienach : three miles 
eali-louth-eaft of Eifenach. 
FA'RO, J. a fafhionable, though ruinous, game of 
chance, played with the cards. It is faid to have been 
the invention of a noble Venetian, who gave it the name 
of bajjitta ; and for the evils refulting from it, he was ba- 
niihed his country. The game was introduced into France 
by fignor Juftiniani, ambatiador from Venice in 1674, where 
it was called bajfctte. Some of the princes of the blood, 
many of the noblclfe, and feveral per Cons of the greateft 
fortune, being ruined by it, fevere laws were enaffed 
againft its ule, by Louis XIV. To elude this edict, it 
was difguifed under the name of pour & centre , “ for and 
againft;” which occasioning new and more fevere prohi¬ 
bitions, it was again changed to the name of le 'pkaraon , 
in order to evade thofe arrets of parliament. From Franc.e 
this game foon found its way to England, where it was at 
fiiIt called baJJ'et, but among the polite circles, where it 
alone appears to be c fieri tiled, it is invariably known by 
tiie name of fain .—The perfons and terms employed in 
the game, are as follow : 
Banker , the perfon who eredts the faro-banque ; which 
is a table, furniftied with a confiderable fum of money for 
punters to play at.— Tatleur, the dealer ; which is either 
t lie banker, ora perfon named by him.— Croupier , or croup, 
an aliiftant to the dealer, fitting oppolite him, to watch 
that no mi (lakes happen, that the punters do not let cocks 
or parolis ftand, which ihould retire; to pay and receive 
flakes, make the cards, See. — Ponte, French, in Englifh 
punter-, from pun to, Italian, for a point: this is the name 
of every player at faro, called fo from punting or flaking 
his money on the number of points a card contains, with¬ 
out reference to the fuit.—- Livret, a fuit of thirteen cards, 
with the addition of four cards reprefentative of the others: 
viz. a card with a large blue crofs on each fide, to denote 
ace, deux, and trois, which is often called the fmall or 
little figure; a card, yellow on both Tides, to denote 4, 
5, 6, and called the yellow figure; a card with a large 
black carreau or diamond on both (ides, for 7, 8, 9, 10, 
termed the black figure ; and a red card for knave, queen, 
king, called the red or great figure.— Coup, pronounced coo. 
The two cards dealt, one on the right hand for the banker, 
and the other on the left for the punters, conftitute a coup, 
bo-th of wliich«muft be dealt before any event can be de¬ 
termined : there are therefore twenty-lix coups in a deal. 
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