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tioned in 3 Edw. IV. c. 4, as are others likewife by an¬ 
cient ftatutes: but thefe chapels were given to the king, 
■with the chantries, &c. by 1 Edw. VI, c. 14. 
FREE-M A'SON,/. See Mason. 
FREE-TOWN, a town ercded by th.e Englifli fettlers 
on the peninlnla of Sierra Leone in Africa. 
FREE-TOWN, a thriving townfliip of tlie American 
States, in Brifto! county,.MaHachufletts, incorpoiated in 
1683, contains 2201 inhabitants, and lies fitty miles 
foiitherly of Bofton. 
FREE-WAR'REN, / See Warren. 
FREEBO'RD, f, in law, ground claimed in feme 
places more or lefs beyond or without the fence; it is 
fa id to contain two foot and a hal f. Mon. Ang.Tom. 2. p. 14T. 
FREEBOOT'ER, /. A robber} a plunderer} a pil¬ 
lager, Seethe article Bucaneer, vol. iii. p. 472-476. 
—Peikiii was not followed by any Englilh ot n uue : his 
forces confided moHly of bafe people and freebnoUrs, fitter 
to fpoil a coaft than to recover a kingdom. Bacon. 
FREE'BOOTKR’s POINT, a cape at the weftern ex¬ 
tremity of the ifland of An.igada, in the Wed Indies. 
FREEBOOT'ING,/. Robbery; plunder; the a£t of 
pillaging.—Under it lie may cleanly convey any fit pil¬ 
lage that cometh handlbniely in his way ; and when he 
goeth abroad in the niglu on freebooting, it is liis bed and 
lured friend. Spenjer. 
FRPtE BORN, Not a (lave; inheriting liberty.— 
I (hall (peak my thoughts like a freeborn (ubjeiif, Inch 
things perhaps as no Dutch commentator could, and I 
am fure no Frenchman durd. Dryden. 
O bafenefs, to fupport a tyrant’s throne, 
And criifh your brethren of the world. Dryden.- 
FREE'COST, /. Without expence; freefromcharges. 
FREED'MAN, yi A (lave manumitted: 
T\\o. freedman jodles, and will be preferr’d ; 
Fird come, fird ferv’d, he cries. Dryden.. 
FREE'DOM, f. Liberty ; exemption from feVvltude;. 
independence: 
O freedom! fird delight of human kind ! 
Not that which bondmen from their maders find, 
The privilege of doles ; nor yet t’ Infcribc 
Their names in this or t’other Roman tribe : 
That fdife enfranchifement witli eal'e is found ; 
Slaves are made citizens by turning round. Diydeni 
Privileges; franchifes ; immunities; 
By our holy fabbath liave I fworn 
To have the due and forfeit of bond : . 
If you deny it, let the danger light 
Upon your charter, and your city’s freedom.- Shakefpeare. 
Power of enjoying franchifes.—This prince fird gave 
freedom to fervants, fo as to become citizens of equal pri¬ 
vileges with the red, which very much increafed the 
power of the people. Swift. —Exemption from fate, ne- 
ceflity, or pre-determination.—In every fin, by how much 
the more free will is in its choice, by fo much is the a£k 
the more finful ; and where there is nothing to impor¬ 
tune, urge, or provoke the will to any adf, tliere is fo 
much an liigher and perfefter degree oi freedom about 
that a^t. South. 
I elfe mud change 
Their nature, and revoke the high decree 
Unchangeable, eternal, which ordain’d 
Their freedom-, they themfelves ordain’d their fall. Milton. 
Unredraint.—I will that all the feads and fabbaths (hall 
be all days of immunity and freedom for the Jews in my 
realm, i Mac. x. 34.—The (late of being without any.par¬ 
ticular evil or inconvenience.—The freedom of their (fate 
lays them under a greater necediry of always chulingand 
doing the bed things. Law .—Eafe dr facility in doing or 
(hojving any thing. [In colloquial language.] .Any 
mark of aifumed familiarity. In thisfeufe the word has 
a plural. 
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“Freedom’s thejeweLall men wifh fo hold ; 
I'or none love fetters, tho’ fhey’re made of gold.” 
The Latins fay, Dko tibi verum., iibertas optima rerum. 
Nunquam ferviU fub niclii vivito fili. 
We, who live in this miicb-favoured land of liberty, 
hardly know or are feniible of our happy date. Yet 
tliofe who have travelled, and feea in what ifavery and 
fervile fubjeilion the lower orders and middling rank of 
people live, under tlie defpotic government of foreign 
princes, and the pride and inidlence of their miniders and 
officers, daily admonilh us of the fuperior advantages of 
the Britilh coi)ditr,tion,and of the bleffings derived from it, 
FRE'ED-STOOL, f. a feat in our monaderies, made 
of done, whereon, when feated, it proved a fandluary for 
thole who had fled there for ]>rote6tion. The fird granted 
was by Atlieldan to John de Beverley, in which minder 
it now remains; another is in the priory church of Hexham- 
FREEFOOT'ED, adj. Not redrained in the march: ■ 
We will fetters put upon this fear. 
Which now goes too freefooted. Shakefpeare, • 
FREEHEART'ED, adj. Liberal; unredrained; 
Love mild freehearted be, and voluntary; 
And not inchanted, or by fate condrain’d. ■ Davies, 
FREE'HOLD,y. in la-w, confids of land or tenement 
which a man iiolds in fee-fimple, fee-tail, or for term of 
life. Brabl. lib. 2. c. 9. It isdeferibed to be of two forts: 
freehold in deed, and freehold in law ; the fird being the real 
pofTedion of lands, &c. in fee, or for life; the other, the 
right a perfon hath to fuch lands or tenements, before his 
entry or feifure. .Freehold is alfo extended to offices, 
w hich a man holds either in fee, or during life ; and, in 
the regider of writs it is faid, that he w ho liolds land 
upen-an execution of a datute-merchant until lie is fatis- 
fied the debt, holds as freehold to him and his affigns, 
and the fame of a tenant by elegit; but fuch tenants are 
not in fa6l freeholders, only as freeliolders for their time, 
till they have received the profits of the land to the value 
of their debt. Reg. Judic. 6S. A leafe for ninety-nine 
years, &c. determinable upon a life or lives, is not a leafe 
for life to make a freehold, but a leafe for years, or chat¬ 
tel determinable upon life or lives; and an edate for one 
thou (and years is not a freehold, or of fo high a nature 
as a.n edate for life. Co, Lit. 6 . He that hath an edate for 
the term of his owrr life, or the life of anotlier, hath a 
freehold, and no other of a lefs edate; though they of a 
greater edate have a freehold, as tenant in fee, See. Lit. 57. 
When a marr pleads liberum tenementum generally, it' 
(hall be intended that he hath an edate in fee; and not a 
bare edate for life. Cro. EHz. 87. An edate of freehold 
cannot by the common law commence ; but it 
mud take place prefently in polfedion, reverfion, or re= 
maiiider. 5 Rep. 94. 
A man made-a deed of gift to his fon and his heirs, of 
lands after his death, and no livery was made; now if 
there had been livery, it had been void, becaule a free- 
liold cannot commence futuro-, and it has been held, 
that it (hall not enure as a covenant to dand feifed, by 
reafonof the word ; by which was intended a tranf- 
mutation of the e(iate, and not to pafs it by way of ufe. 
March-, Rep. 50. Whatfoever is part of, or fixed to, the 
freehold goes to the heir; and glafs windows, wainfeot, 
Sec. affixed to the houfe are parcel of the houfe, and can- 
not be removed by tenants. e^Rep. 63. But it hath been 
adjudged, that if things neceffary for trade,■&c. are af¬ 
fixed to the freehold by the lelTee, he may take them 
down and remove them, fo as he do it before the end of 
the term, and he do not thereby injure the freehold, 
] Salk. 368. 
Any thing fixed to the freehold may not be taken in 
diftrefs for rent or in execution, &c, . It is not felony at 
common l.iw, only trefpafs, to (leal or take any thing an¬ 
nexed to the freehold ; fuch as lead on a church, or houfe, 
corn or grafs growing on the ground, apples on a tree, &c. 
Though 
