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with the fame prerogatives as the baron himfelf. Some 
again find the origin of bannerets in France, others in 
Brittany, others in England. Thefe laft attribute the in- 
flitution of bannerets to Conan, lieutenant of Maximus, 
who commanded the Roman legions in England under the 
empire of Gratian in 383. This general, fay they, re¬ 
volting, divided England into forty cantons, and in thefe 
cantons difiributed forty knights; to whom he gave a 
power of affembling, on occalion, under their feveral ban¬ 
ners, as many of the _ effective men as were found in their 
refpedive difiricts : whence they are called bannerets. 
However this be, it appears from Froiffart, See. that an¬ 
ciently fuch of the military men as were rich enough to 
raife and fubfift a company of armed men, and had a right 
to do fo, were called bannerets. Not, however, that thefe 
qualifications rendered them knights, but only bannerets ; 
the appellation of knight being only added thereto, becaufe 
they were iimple knights before. 
Bannerets were fecond to none but knights of the garter. 
They were reputed the next degree below the nobility ; 
and were allowed to bear arms with fupporters, which 
none ell'e may under the degree of a baron. In France, it 
is fa id, the dignity was hereditary ; but in England it died 
with the perfon that gained it. The order dwindled on 
the inftitution of baronets by king James I. and at length 
became extinff. But it was again revived by his prefent 
majefty George III. in the perlon of captain Trollope and 
another, after the victory obtained over the Dutch on the 
11th of October 1797. 
The form of the banneret’s creation was this. On a day 
of battle, the candidate prefented his flag to the king or 
general; who, cutting off the train or fkirt thereof, and 
making it a fquare, returned.it again, the proper banner of 
bannerets ; who are hence fometimes called knights of the 
fquare fag. There feem to have been bannerets created 
either in a different manner, or by others than the fove- 
reign ; fince king James, in the patent of baronets, gives 
them precedence to all knights bannerets, except fuch as 
are created by the king himfelf in the field ; which im¬ 
plies, either that there are fome of this order created out 
of the field, or by inferior perfons. 
Banneret was alfo the name of an officer or magiflrate 
of Rome towards the clofe of the 14th century. The 
people of that city, and throughout the territory of the 
church, during the difputes of the anti-popes, had form¬ 
ed a kind of republican government; where the whole 
power was lodged in the hands of a magiflrate called fena- 
tor, and twelve heads of quarters called bannerets , by rea- 
fon of the banners which each raifed iii his diftridt. 
BAN'NEROL, more properly Banderol, f [from 
banderole, Fr.J A little flag or dreamer.—King Ofwald 
had a bannerol of gold and purple fet over his tomb. Camden. 
B ANN IAN', f. A man’s undrefs, or morning gown, 
fuch as is worn by the Banians in the Eaft Indies. 
BAN'NIMUS, f The form of an expullion of any 
member from the univerfity of Oxford, by affixing the 
•fentence in fome public places, as a denunciation or pro¬ 
mulgation of it. And the word banning is taken for an 
exclamation againfl, or cuffing of, another. 
BAN'NITUS, f. An outlaw, or banifhed man. So, 
bannitus fortis was a flout defperado, called in our ancient 
•fragrant acts a valiant beggar, the fame as is fiigmatifed by 
our prefent vagrant act with the appellation of incorrigible 
rogue. 
B AN'NOCK, f A kind of oaten or peafe-meal cake 
mixed with water, and baked upon an iron plate over the 
fire; ufed in the northern counties, and in Scotland. 
BANNOCKBURN', a village of Scotland, in the coun¬ 
tv of Stirling, where a battle was fought between the 
Englifh and Scots, on the 23th of June 1314, in which 
the Englifh were defeated with great lofs: here too James 
til. king of Scotland, in the year 1487, was defeated by 
his fubjects, wounded, and foon after murdered by a priefl 
.taking his confeifion : two miles fouth of Stirling. For 
particulars.of this famous battle, fee Scotland. 
SAN 
BAN'NOW, a feaoort town of Ireland, In the county 
of Wexford, near the fomh-eaft coaft of lre’and, eleven 
miles eafl-fouth-eaft of Waterford. Lat. 52. 12. N, Ion. 
6,30. W, Greenwich. 
BANNUM, or Banleuga, f The utmofi bounds of 
a manor, or town ; fo ufed 47 Hen. III. Rot. 44; See. Ban - 
leuga de Arundel is taken for all that is comprehended with¬ 
in the limits or lands adjoining, audio belonging to the 
caftle or town. Seld. Rif. of Tythes, p. 73. 
BANONCOURT', a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Meufe, and chief place of a canton, in the 
diflrift of St. Mihid, one league and a half north of St. 
Mihiel. 
BANOY', f. The name given, by the people of the 
Philippine iflands, to a kind of hawk, fomewhat larger 
than our fparrow-hawk, and of a yellovvifli colour on the 
back and wings, and white under the belly. It is the 
mofl common of all the kinds of hawk in that part of the 
world, and is a very voracious bird. 
BANQUET,y. [ banquet , Fr. bancketto, Ital. vanquclo t 
Span.] A feaft ; an entertainment of meat and drink. 
At that tailed fruit, 
The fun, as from Thyeflean banquet , turn’d 
His courfe intended. Milton. 
Banquet , f in the menage, that finall part of the 
branch of a bridle that is under the eye ; which being 
rounded like a fmall rod, gathers and joins the extremities 
of the bit to the branch, in fuch a manner that the ban¬ 
quet is not feen, but covered by the cope, or that part of 
the bit that is next the branch. 
Banquet, or Banqjjette, in fortification, a little 
foot-bank, or elevation of earth, forming a path which 
runs along the infide of a parapet, upon which the muf- 
keteers get up, in order to difeover the counterfcarp, or 
to fire on the enemy in the moat or in the covert-way. 
To Banquet, v. a. To treat any one with feafts.—* 
They were banquetted by the way, and the nearer they ap¬ 
proached, the more encreafed the nobility. Sir J. Hayward. 
To Banquet, v.n. To feaft; to fare daintily.—So long 
as his innocence is his repaft, he feafts and banquets upon 
bread and water.. South. 
I purpos’d to unbend the evening hours. 
And banquet- private in the women’s bow’rs. Prior. 
BANQUETER,y. A feafter; one that lives delici 
oufly. He that makes feafts. 
BANQUET-HOUSE, or BANQUETiNG-ROOM,y A 
houfe or room where banquets are kept.—You cannot have 
a perfect palace, except you have two fides; a fide for the 
banquet, and a fide for the houfehold ; the one for feafts 
and triumphs, and the other for dwelling. Bacon. 
The ancient Romans flipped in the atrium, or veftibule, 
of their lioufes; but in after-times, magnificent faloons, 
or banqueting-rooms, were built, for the more commodious 
and fplendid entertainment of their guefts. Lucullus had 
feveral of thefe, each diftinguiflied by the name of fome 
god ; and there was a particular rate of expence appro¬ 
priated to each. Plutarch relates with what magnificence 
he entertained Cicero and Pompey, who went with defign 
to furprife him, by telling only a flave who waited, that 
the cloth fliould be laid in the Apollo. The emperor 
Claudius, among others, had a fplendid banqueting-room 
named Mercury. But every thing of this kind was out¬ 
done by the lufire of that celebrated banqueting-houfe of 
Nero, called domus aurea ; which, by the circular motion 
of its partitions and ceilings, imitated the revolution of 
the heavens, and reprefented the different feafons of the 
year, which changed at every fervice, and fliowered down 
flowers, effences, and perfumes, on the guefts. 
BAN'STICKLE,y. in ichthyology. See Gastero- 
STEUS, 
BANSWA'LEH, a diftrifl of Hindoftan, fituated on 
the fouth-weft part of Malwa, 
BANSWA'RA, a town of Hindoftan, in the county of 
Tellifigana, twenty miles from Indelovoy. 
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