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AULETES,/. in antiquity, denotes a flute-flayer. CHie 
©f the Ptoiemies, kings of Egypt, father of Cleopatra, 
bore the furname or denomination of Auletes. 
AUI.E 1 'TA, a town of Italy, in the kingdom of Na¬ 
ples, and province of Principato Citra, four miles wefi- 
fouth-weft of Cangiano. 
AULD, adj. laid. Sax.] Old. A word now obfolete; 
but (fill ufed in the Scotch dialed!;: 
’Tis pride that pulls the country down; 
Then take thine auld cloak about thee. Shakefpeare. 
~ AULE'TIC, adj. [atAo?, Gr.] Belonging to pipes. 
AU'LIC,/. laulicus, Lat. of auk, a court.] An epithet 
given to certain officers of the German empire, who com- 
pofe a court which decides, without appeal, in all procef- 
fes entered in it. Thus we fay, aulic council, aulic chamber, 
aulic counfcllor. The aulic council is compofed of a pre- 
fident, w ho is a catholic ; of a vice-chancellor, prefented 
by the archbifhop of Mentz ; and of eighteen counfellors, 
nine of whom are Proteftants, and nine Catholics. They 
are divided into a bench of lawyers, and always follow the 
emperor’s court; for which reafon they are called jujlitium 
imperatons, the emperor’s juftice, and aulic council. The 
aulic court ceafes at the death of the emperor; whereas 
the imperial chamber of Spire is perpetual, reprefenting 
not only the deceafed emperor, but the whole Germanic 
body, which is reputed never to die. 
Aulic, in the Sorbonne and foreign univerfities, is an 
ad! which a young divine maintains upon being admitted a 
dodior in divinity. It begins by an harangue of the chan¬ 
cellor, addreffed to the young dodior, after which he re¬ 
ceives the cap, and prefides at the aulic, or deputation. 
AU'LICK, a town of Germany, in the circle of Upper 
Saxony, and biftiopric of Natimberg, fix miles N. of Zeitz. 
AU'LIS, anciently a town of Bceotia, over again!! Chal- 
cis of Euboea, on the Euripus, where that (Irait is narrow¬ 
ed ; and which were fometimes joined together by a mole 
or caufeway. Homer. A village of the Tanagraei, didant 
from Chalcis three miles. Strabo. A harbour famous for 
the rendezvous of a thoufand fhips under Agamemnon, 
previous to the Trojan expedition; now entirely dedroyed. 
Livy. 
AULLE'NE, a town in the ifland of Corfica, four miles 
north of Tallano. 
AULN,/. laulne, Fr.] A French meafure of length; 
an ell. 
AULNAY', a town of France, in the department of 
the Calvados, and chief place of a canton, in the didrid! 
of Vire, four leagues and a half fouth-wed of Caen. 
AUL'NEGER. See Alnager. 
AU'LON, anciently a town and dock or dation for diips 
in Illyricum, on the Adriatic; now Valona , or Volana, a 
port-town in the late duchy of Ferara on one of the mouths 
of the Po, on the gulf of Venice. 
Aulon, or Aulona, anciently a town of Elis, in Pe- 
loponnefus, on the confines of Meffenia. Here dood a 
temple of /Efculapius; hence the epithet Aulonius, given 
to that divinity. Pavfanias. 
AUTOS,/, a Grecian long meafure, fame as dadium. 
AULPS, or Aups, a town of France, in the department 
of the. Var, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrift of 
Barjols: eight leagues and a half w ed-north-wed of Fre- 
jus, and three and a half north-ead of Barjols. 
AULT, a town of France, in the department of the 
Somme, and chief place of a canton, in the didrid! of Ab¬ 
beville, five leaoues wed of Abbeville. 
AU'LUS GEL'LIUS. See Gei.lius. 
AU'MA, a town of Germany, in Upper Saxony, and 
circle of Neudadt, forty-four miles fouth-fouth-wed of 
Leipfic, and fix eali-fouth-ead of Neudadt. 
Auma Wenigen, a town of Germany, in Upper Sax¬ 
ony, two miles fouth-ead of Auma. 
To AUM AIL', v. a. [from maille, Fr. the medi of a net; 
whence a coat of aumail , a coat with net-work of iron.] 
To variegate ; to figure. Upton explains it, to enamel: 
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In golden bufkins of codly cordwaine. 
All hard with golden bends, which were entail’d 
With curious antics, and full fair aumail'd. Fairy Queen. 
AUMA'LE, a town of France, in the department of 
the Lower Seine, and chief place of a canton, in the dif¬ 
trift of Neufchatel: nine leagues fouth-ead of Dieppe, 
and eleven north-ead of Rouen. Lat. 49. 46. N. Ion. 19. 
24. E. Ferro. 
AUM'BRY. See Ambry. 
AUME,/. a Dutch meafure for Rhenifii wine, contain¬ 
ing forty Englidi gallons. 
AUMO'NE,/. laumofne, Fr. alms.] Tenure in aumone 
is where lands are given in alms to foine church, or reli¬ 
gious houfe, upon condition that a fervice or prayers fhall 
be offered at certain times for the repofe of the donor’s 
foul. Brit. 16 4. 
AUMO'NT, a town of France, in the department of 
the Lozerre, and chief place of a canton, in the didrift 
of St. Chely : five leagues north-wed of Mende. 
AUN, a town of Perfia, in the province of Segedarr, 
forty-two leagues fouth-fouth-ead of Zareng. 
AUNAY', a town of France, in the department of the 
Nyevre, and chief place of a canton, in the didrift of 
Chateauchinon: nine miles north of Moulins. 
Aunay, a town of France, in the department of the 
Lower Charente, and chief place of a canton, in the dif- 
trift of St. Jean d’Angely : eight miles north-ead of St. 
Jean d’Angely. 
AUN'CEL-WEIGHT,/. an ancient kind of balance 
now out of life, being prohibited by feveral datutes, on 
account of the many deceits praftifed by it. It confided 
of feales hanging on hooks, fadened at each end of a 
beam, which a man lifted up on his hand. In many parts 
of England, auncel-weight (ignifies meat fold by the hand, 
without feales. 
AUNE, a river of England, which runs into the fea 
near Plymouth. 
AUNEAU', a town of France, in the department of 
the Eure and Loire, and chief place of a canton, in the 
didrift of Chartres: four leagues ead of Chartres. 
AUNEUIL', a town of France, in the department of 
the Oife, and chief place ofut canton, in the didrift of 
Beauvais: five miles fouth-fo,| h-wed of Beauvais. 
AUN'GFRVYLE (Richard), commonly known by the 
name of Richard de Bury, was born in 1281 at St. Edmund’s 
Bury in Suffolk, and educated at the univeriity of Oxford : 
after which he entered into the order of Benediftine monks, 
and became tutor to Edward prince of Wales, afterwards 
Edward III. Upon the acceifion of his royal pupil to the 
throne, he was fird appointed cofferer, then treafurer, to 
the wardrobe ; archdeacon of Northampton ; prebendary 
of Lincoln, Sarum, and Litchfield; keeper of the privy 
feal; dean of Wells; and lad of all was promoted to the 
bifhopric of Durham. He likewife enjoyed the offices of 
lord high chancellor, and treafurer of England; and dif- 
charged two important embaflies at the court of France. 
Learned himfelf, and a patron of the learned, he main¬ 
tained a correfpondence with fiome of the great eft geniufes 
of the age, particularly with the celebrated Italian poet 
Petrarch. He was alfo of a humane and benevolent tem¬ 
per, and performed many fig.nal atis of charity. Every 
week he made eight quarters of wheat into bread, and 
gave it to the poor. Whenever lie travelled between Dur¬ 
ham and Newcaftle, he difiributed 8l. fieriing in alms; be¬ 
tween Durham and Stockton, 5I. between Durham and 
Aukland, five marks; and between Durham and Mid- 
dleham, 5I. He founded a library at Oxford, for the ufe 
of the (Indents, which he furnifhed with the belt collec¬ 
tion of books then in England; and appointed five keep¬ 
ers, to whom he granted yearly falaries. At the diffolu- 
tion of religious houfes in the reign of Henry VIII. Dur- 
hatn-college, where he fixed the library, being diffolved, 
fome of the books were removed to the public library, 
and fome to Baliol college. Bifhop Aungervyle died at 
his manor of Aukland, April 24, 1345, and was buried in 
