F E N 
FEN-ERA'l'TON, / ifeneratio, Lat.] Ufury; the 
gain of intereft ; the praddice of increafing money by 
lending.—The hare figured not only pufillanimity and 
timidity from its temper, but feneration and ufury from 
its fecundity-and fuperfostation. Broum. 
FENERA'TIOUS, ,adj. Belonging to ufury. Cole. 
FEN'ERI, the capital of the kingdom of Chiampa. 
FENES'TRA,yi [Lat. a window.] In anatomy, two 
holes in the barrel of the ear next the drum ; the one 
called ovalis, and the other rotunda. 
FENES'TRAL, adj. Belonging to a window. 
FENESTR AN'GE, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Meurte, and chief place of a canton, in the 
dirtrift of Dieuze, on the Sarte, formerly the capital of a 
lordIhip of-the fame name; which being veiled in the 
duchy of Lorraine, was ceded with it- to France : fix 
leagues and a half eaft of Chateau Salins, and eleven eaft- 
north-eaft of Nancy. 
FENESTREL'LE, a town or village of Savoy, in a 
valley, on the river Clufon ; where the French built a 
fortrefs when in the hands of that crown, but by the peace 
of Utrecht it was returned to Savoy a twelve miles north- 
north-weft of Pignerola, and ; eleven, eaft of Sezanne. 
FENEU', a town of France, in the department of the 
Mayne and Loire,-and chief-place.of a canton, in thedif- 
tridt of C.hateauneuf: two leagues north of Angers, and 
two and a half fouth-fouth-.weft of Chateauneuf. 
FENG-HOA, a town of Alia, in the kingdom of Co¬ 
rea : twenty-five miles weft-fouth-weft of Ping-hai. 
FEN 'KI, a town of Alia, in the kingdom of Corea: 
thirty-fix miles north-north-weft;of Long-kouang. 
FE'NIT, an ifland of Ireland, in the bay of Tralee, on 
the weftern coaft': feven miles weft from Tralee. 
F-E'NIX, a river of Ireland, in the county of Cork, 
which runs into the fea, in Bullicotton bay. 
FEN'NEL, f. in botany. See Anethum. 
FEN'NEL-FI.OWER.' See Nigella. 
FEN'NEL.GIANT. See Ferula. 
FEN'NEL. (Hog’s.) See Peucedanum. 
FEN'NY, adj. Marftiy ; boggy ; Moorilh : 
The hungry crocodile, and hilling fnake, 
lAirk in the troubl’d fiream and Jenny brake. Prior. 
Inhabiting the marfti : 
Fillet of a fenny fnake, 
In the cauldron boil and bake. Shakefpeare. 
FEN'NY-STRATFORD, a fmall town in Bucking- 
hamftiire, feated on the rifing bank of the river Lofield, 
over which is a large ftone bridge. The town conlifts of 
one principal ftreet, on the Weft-Chefter road, forty-five 
miles from London, and one crofs-ftreet, leading to Aylef. 
bury, which is fixteen miles diftant. On one fide of the 
town is Simpfon-place, belonging to fir Thomas Han- 
mer, bart. and on the other is Bletchley, a large village, 
where Hands the mother-church; it has a. ring of eight 
bells, is large and elegant, and the chancel beautifully 
ornamented with figures of the twelve apoftles. it has 
a market on-Mondays, and four fairs annually, viz. 
April 19 for cattle, July 18 for toys, and October 10 and 
November 28 for cattle. The chief manufacture of the 
town and neighbourhood is white bone lace. The foil 
is excellent for all forts of grain ; befides fome 'very rich 
grazing paftures. 
FE'NO, a lake of Ireland, in the county of Leitrim: 
fixteen miles north-eaft of Carrick. 
FEN'SUCKED, adj. Sucked out of marfhes: 
Infect her beauty, 
You fenfudd d fogs, drawn by the powerful fun. Shakefp, 
FEN'TE, a town of Egypt: fifteen miles north of 
Abu-Girge. 
FEN'TON (fir Geoffrey), privy counfellor and fecre- 
tary in Ireland during the reigns of queen Elizabeth and 
James I. well known for his tranflation of Guicciardin’s 
Hiftory of the Wars of Italy, dedicated to queen Eliza- 
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beth in 1579. He died at Dublin in 1608 , after having 
married his daughter to Mr. Boyle, afterward the great 
earl of Corke- 
FEN'TON (Eliftia), an ingenious poet of an ancient 
family near Newcaftle in Staffordlhire, where he was born 
in the latter part of the feventeenth century. Being the 
youngeft of twelve children, he was -deftined to a pro- 
feffion ; and, after a fchool-education, was entered of Je- 
fus-college, Cambridge. His confcientiotis fcruples re- 
fpedting the oaths, required in the reigns of king Wil¬ 
liam and queen Anne, precluded, all expectations of 
ecclefiaftical emolument; he therefore left the univerfity 
with no other profpeCts than Inch as he could derive 
from his literary talents. Fie was for fome time uftier at 
a fchool in Surrey, and afterwards mafter of the free- 
fchool at Sevenoaks in Kent; from whence he was taken, 
in 1710, by St. John, lord Bolingbroke. He had already 
made himfelf known as a poet, particularly on the popu¬ 
lar topics of the fuccelfes in queen Anne’s reign, and the 
glory of our great general Marlborough, which his-prin¬ 
ciples did not forbid him to celebrate; and he was as 
generally beloved for the amiablenefs of his manners, as 
refpeCted for his abilities. Hi$ induftry met-with an em¬ 
ployment which engaged rather his verfifying than his 
poetical powers. This was that of becoming an auxiliary 
to Pope in his tranflation of the Odyffey. It is known 
that he portioned out half of the talk to Bronte and Fen¬ 
ton ; the latter had the firft, fourth, nineteenth, and 
twentieth books, declining the eleventh,which he had 
before rendered into blank, verfe. lie performed his 
work very creditably, and received for it three hundred 
pounds. In 1723, his tragedy of Mariamne was brought 
upon the ftage, and received with great applaule. To a 
corrected edition of Milton’s Poems he prefixed a Life 
of that great author, written with elegance and fairnefs. 
In 1729, he publilhed a fplendid edition of Waller, with 
illuftrative notes. Soon after, in 1730,. his life came to 
an early clofe, at the feat of Mrs. Trumball, at Eaft- 
hampftead in Berkftiire. Corpulence and the gout, 
brought on by indolence and indulgence, were faid to be 
the cuiifes of his diffolution. The poetry of Fenton, 
though preferved in the body of Englifh poets, at pre- 
fent-attracts little notice. Yet his Ode to Lord Gower 
was pronounced by Pope to be exceeded by none in the 
Englifh language, except Dryden’s on St. Cecilia’s Day. 
His tragedy of Mariamne, founded on the ftory of Herod, 
as related by Jofephus, maintains a refpedtable rank 
among Englifh dramatic compofitions, particularly thofe 
of the poetical clafs, though it has difappeared from the 
ftage. 
FEN'UGREEK,/. in botany. See Trigo.nella. 
FEN'WICK,.a town of Scotland, in the county of Air: 
feven miles north-eaft of Irvine. 
FE'OD, or Feud, J'. See the.article Tenure. 
FE'ODAL, adj. \_fcodalis, vclfeudalis, Lat.] Of or be¬ 
longing to the feud or. fee. 1 2 Car. 11 . c. 24. See Tenure, 
FE'ODAL SYSTEM, the conftitution of fiefs, or feuds. 
See the articles Law, ;jnd Tenure. 
FEOD A'LITY. See Fealty. 
FE'ODARY, or Feu'dary,/. [ feudatar'm , Lat.] An 
officer of the court of wards, appointed by. the mafter of 
that court by virtue of the ftatute 32 Hen. VLII. c. 26. 
whofe bufinefs it was to be prelent with the efeheator in 
every county at- the finding of offices of lands, and to give 
in evidence for the king as well concerning the value as 
the tenure; and his office.was alfo to furve.y the lands of 
the ward, after the office found, and to rate it. He like- 
wife afiigned the king’s widows their dowers; and re¬ 
ceived all the rents of wards, lands within his circuit, . 
which he anfwered to the receiver of the court. This 
office was wholly taken away by the operation of ftatute 
12 Car. II. c. 24. aboliffiing tenures. 
FEO'DATARY, or Feu'datary, the tenant who 
held his eftate by feodal fervice ; and grantees, to whom . 
lands in feud or fee were granted by a fuperior lord, were 
fouietimes. 
