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teeth, and European wares; notwithftandirig which they 
are kept very clean. The houfes are large and handlome, 
with clay walls, and covered with reed-draw, or leaves. 
'J'he tov\ n is plcafantly lima ted on the river Formola. 1 lie 
king’s court is (ituatcd in a large plain, The inhabitants 
are all natives, foreigners not being permitted to live in 
the city. The rich men continually attend the court, not 
troubling themfelves with trade, agriculture, or any thing 
cife, but leave all to their numerous wives, who go to the 
circumjacent villages, and trade in all lorts of merchan- 
diles, or otherwife ferve for daily wages, and are obliged 
to bring the greatell part of their gains to their hufbands. 
'I he male (laves here are foreigners ; lor the inhabitants 
cannot be fold for Oaves, only they bear the name of the 
king’s Oaves. Lat. 7. N. Ion. 20 30. E. Eer.ro. 
BE'N 1 -S AM'T I, a town of Egypt : two miles fouth of 
Abu Girge. 
BE'NI-SHE'KIR, a town of Egypt: Ox miles north - 
weO of Manfalout. 
BE'NISH-DAYS, among the Egyptians, a term for 
three days of the week, which are.days of lefs ceremony 
in religion than the other four, and have their name from 
the beni/h, a garment of common ule, not of ceremony. 
In Cairo, on Sundays, Tqefdays, and Thurfdays, they go 
to the balhaw’s divan; and tl'.eie are the general days of 
bnlinefs. Fridays they flay at home, and go to their 
mcfques at noon ; but, though this is their day of devotion, 
they never abftain from bulinefs. The three other days 
of the week are the benifh-days, in which they throw off 
all bufmefs aud ceremony, and go to their funnner-houfes 
in the country. 
BE'NISON,yi \_benir, to blefs benifon, Fr.J Bledsng ; 
benedidion : not now ufed unlefs ludicroufly : 
Unmuffle, ye fair ftars, and thou, fair moon, 
That wont’ff to love the traveller’s benifon. Milton. 
BENISUEF'/a town of Egypt, in the Nile, the capi¬ 
tal of a diftrift, and refidence of a bey : it is large, with 
manufactures of fluff made of woo’llen and linen mixed ; 
the houfes are built with bricks baked in the fun : .fifty 
miles fouth of Cairo. Lat. 29.14. N. Ion. 48. 44. £. Ferro. 
BENLAW'ERS, a mountain of .Scotland, in the county 
of Perth, 3588 feet above the level of the fea : eleven 
miles fouth of George Town. 
BEN-LEV A'GH, a mountain of Ireland, in the county 
of Galway, four miles fouth-weft of Rofs. 
BEN-LO'MOND, a mountain cf Scotland, in the coun¬ 
ty of Stirling^240 feet above the level of the lea : twen- 
ty-lix miles welt of Stirling. 
BENNAVEN'TA, or Bennavenna, anciently a town 
of Britain, on the Aufona Major, or the Antona of Ta¬ 
citus : luppoied to be Northampton on the Ncn ; but 
Camden (ays it is Wed on, a village fix miles to the welt 
of Northampton. 
BEN'NECUM, a town of Guelderland : two miles 
north of Wagcingen. 
BEN'NECKSTEIN, a tovin of Germany, in the circle 
of Upper Saxony, and county of Kletter.berg : twenty- 
two miles fonth-fouth-welt of flaiberlladt. 
BEN'NET (Henry), earl of Arlington, defcended from 
an ancient family in Middlefex. In the beginning of the 
civil war, lie was appointed under-fecretary to lord Digby, 
fecretary of (fate ; but afterwards entered as a volunteer 
for the royal cattle, and did great fervice at Andover in 
Ilamplhire, where he received feveral, wounds. When 
the wars were ended, he left not the king when fitccefs 
did, but attended his filtered in foreign parts. He was 
made fecretary to the duke of York ; received the honour 
of knighthood from Charles II. at Bruges, in 1058 : and 
was lent envoy to the court of Spain. Upon his return to 
England, lie was made keeper of the privy purfe, and 
principal fecretary of (fate. In 1670 he was one of the 
council diltinguilhed by the title of cabal, and one of thofe 
who advifed (hutting up the exchequer. In 1672 he was 
made earl of Arlington and vifcount Thetford, and foon 
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after knight of the garter. In 1673, he was appointed one 
of the three plenipotentiaries from the court of Great 
Britain to Cologne, to mediate a peace between the em¬ 
peror and the king of France. The hottfe of commons, 
in 1673, dretv up articles ot impeachment againd hint. 
Yet in 1674 he was made chamberlain of his majelly’s 
hottlehold, with this public realon, that it was in recom- 
pence of his long and faithful fer-vices. He held his lord 
chamberlain’s place to the day of his death, in 1685. His 
much-elleemed Letters to Sir William Temple were pub- 
lilhed after his death. 
Bennet (Chriftopher), an eminent phyfician in the 16th 
century, was the foil of John Bennet, of Rayntoh, in So- 
merfetfhire. He was educated at Lincoln college, Ox¬ 
ford and wrote a treatife on confumptions, intitled, The- 
atri Tabidorum Vefiibttlum, &c. alio Exercitationes. Diog- 
nddiefe, cum Hifforiis demonftrativis, quibus Alimentorurn 
et Sanguinis vitia deteguntur in pleribilque tViorbis, <lvc. 
Bennet (Dr. Thomas), an eminent divine, born at 
Salifbury the 7th of May 1673, and educated at St. John’s 
college, Cambridge. In 1700, he was made reftor of St. 
James’s, in Colcheffer ; afterwards lefturer of St. Olave’s, 
Southwark, and morning-preacher at St. Lawrence, Jewry; 
and at lalt was prefented to the vicarage of St. Giles’s, 
Cripplegate, worth 500 a-year. He wrote, 1. An An- 
fwer to the Diffenter’s Plea for Separation. 2. A Confu¬ 
tation of Popery. 3; Difcourfe of Schifm. 4. An An- 
fwer to a book intitled Thomas againff Bennet. 5. A Con¬ 
futation of Quakerifm. 6. A brief Hiflory of the joint 
Ufe .of pre-conceived Forms of Prayer. 7. AnAnfwerto 
Dr. Clarke’s Scripture-doftrine of the Trinity. 8. A Pa- 
raphrale, with Annotations, on the Book of Common 
Prayer. 7. An Hebrew Grammar; and other pieces. He 
died Oftober 9th, 1728, in the 36th year of his age. 
Bennet, Herb. See Geum. 
BENNE VAN A'GH, mountains of Ireland, in the coun¬ 
ty of Londonderry, eight miles well of Coleraine. 
BEN'NINGTON, a town of the United States of Ame¬ 
rica, and capital of Vermont, in the county called alio 
Bennington, fituated near the Green Mountain, on the 
borders of the date of New York : eighteen miles from 
the conflux of the Mohock and Hudfon’s river, 118 well- 
north-weft of Bofton, and 135 north of New York. A fa¬ 
mous battle was fought near this town, during the Ame¬ 
rican war in 1777 between brigadier-general Starke, at 
the head of eight hundred militia, and a detachment of 
general Burgoyne’s army, commanded by colonel Baum : 
in this aft ion, and the one fucceeding it, in tire fame place, 
and on the fame day, between a reinforcement of the Bri- 
tifh, under colonel Bregmen, and general Starke, who was 
reinforced by colonel Warner, with a continental regiment, 
were taken four brafs field-pieces, and other military (fores, 
and (even hundred prifoners. The overthrow of thefe 
detachments was the firft link in the grand chain of caufes 
which finally proVed the ruin of Burgoyne’s army. 1 his 
is one of the oldell towns in the ftate, being firlt fettled 
about the year 1764. 
BENN 1 SCH', a town of Silelia, in the principality of 
Jagerndorf. 
BENOI'T (Renatus), a famous doftor of the Sorbonne, 
and curate of Euffathius at Paris in the 16th century. He 
was a lecret favourer of the Protelfant religion ; and, that 
his countrymen might be able to read the Bible in their 
own tongue, he pubiiHied at Paris tire French rmjnfiation, 
which has been made by the reformed miniflersat Geneva. 
He died in 1608. 
BENON', a town of France, in the department of the 
Lower Charente, and chief place of a canton, in the dif- 
trift cf Rochfort : five leagues and a Half north-nonh-eaft 
of Rochfort, and four and a half ealf of Rochelle. 
Benon, a town of Arabia: 130 miles S. E. El Catif. 
BENRAD', a town in Germany, in the circle of Weft- 
phalia, and duchy of Berg : feven miles fouth-fouth-eaft 
of Duffeldorp. 
BENS'BERG, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Weftphalia, 
