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fition muft liave originated in fraud or ignorance; how. 
ever, Inch were its eft'eiSls, that tlie nation tlioiighc of no. 
thing but a new Peru or Mexico, and a fecond voyage 
was determined upon the next fpriug. For this purpole, 
the queen lent Fiobiflier a (hip of the royal navy of t,vvo 
hundred tons, to which he added two (riiall barks. Nnm- 
bers of volunteers folicited to accompany him, feveral of 
thern genilemen of family; and by his reltriftion to the 
number of one hundred and forty, many were difap. 
pointed, flis commifiion for this voyage diredfed him 
''■only to fcarcli for one, and to remit d'ljcoverv to another timef" 
whence the charafler of that fpirit of ad venture which 
cliftinguilhed this period may be eflimated. He (ailed in 
tj«77> and proceeding to his former (Irait, explored 
its coalls and bays, and landed on feveral idands, where 
the crews furnidied themfelves with a quantity of tlie 
luppofed golden ore. ’ He returned to England in Sep¬ 
tember with his (hips and cargo, which lad, upon theex- 
amination of commidioners, w as judged to promife great 
riches. And fo completely was the delu(ion kept up, 
that another expedition was refolved upon for the next 
year, accompanied by miners, refiners, and foldiers to 
guard the treafure. The adventurers offered to pafs a 
winter in that rigorous climate, and materials were taken 
out (or the condruiSlion of a wooden fort, and other ne. 
celTary buildings. Frobidier f.ii'ed upon his third voyage 
in May, 157!? ; and fo much was tlie public expedfation 
raifed, that befides three diips particularly devoted to 
difeovery, twelve more were fitted out for the purpofe of 
being laden with the riches of the country. In this 
voyage they traced more of the coads and idands of 
Greenland, and difeovered a new drait; but meeting 
with dorms, which retarded them and dedroyed part of 
their fort, they agreed to return without leaving any per- 
fons to winter. They brought hack fome more ladings 
of the precious mineral, but it is probable that its true 
nature was now detefted, fince we hear of no renewal of 
thefe fingular expeditions. The original map of Fro- 
bi(her’s voyages, according to Pennant, is a remarkable 
(ketch of erroneous fuppofition. He makes his draits 
reach to the icy fea, oppofite to what he calls Catliaya, 
jud to the north of what is made to refemble the new. 
difeovered draits of Bering. Indeed, thefe voyages feem 
to be among thofe that were the lead conducive to the 
improvement of geography; but no attempts of this 
kind are entirely ufelsfs, dnee they at lead render future 
ones lefs erroneous. 
Frobidier, after this time, appears only as a gallant na. 
val commander. In 1585 lie accompanied fir Francis 
Drake to the Wed Indies as captain of the Aid. He had 
a (liare of the glorious defence of the country againd the 
Spanidi armada, in 158S, coiiimaiiding the Triumph, one 
of the three larged (hips in the Englidi fleet. For his 
fervices on this important occafion he received the ho¬ 
nour of knighthood. He commanded fqiiadrons againd 
the Spaniards in 1590 and 1592, and took two rich prizes. 
In 1594 he was fent with four (hips of war to the adid- 
ance of Henry IV. of France againd the Spaniard.s and 
Leaguers, w'lien, in an attack upon a fort near Bred, he 
received a (hot, of which he died after he had brought 
his fqiiadron home. Sir Martin Frobifher is faid to have 
partaken of the native rouglinefs which long charadlerifed 
his profedion ; but is allowed to have been a brave and 
able commander. 
FRO'B ISHER’sSTR AITS, orFoRBisHER’s Straits, 
a narrow fea on the wed of Davis’s Strait, to the foiith 
of Cape Walfingliam of Frobifher. Lat. 61. 50. to 
63. 20. N. Ion. 65. to 70. W. Greenwich. 
FROCK,/, [/roc,Fr.] A drefs : a coat r 
That monder, cudom, is angel yet in. this, 
That to the ufe of aftions fair and good. 
He likewife gives a frock or livery, 
That aptly is put on. Shakefpeare. 
A kind of clofe coat for men.—I drip my body of my 
fhepherd’s/roc^. Dryden ,—A kind of gown for children. 
VOL. YIII. No. 485, 
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FROD'LINGHAM, a fmall town in the county of 
York, in the Ead Riding, (ituated on a branch of the 
Hull, with a weekly market on 1 hurfdays. It is twelve 
miles north of Beverly, and 194 north from London. 
FROD'MORTEL, f. An old law term : an immunity 
or free pardon for iiuiideror mandaughter. 
FROD'SH AM, a genteel and pleafant town inChefiiire, 
didant from London 1S2 miles, Cheder ten, and War¬ 
rington ten. It is fuppoled to derive its name from a 
ford over the river Weaver, at the ead end of the town, 
before the erection of the bridge, wiiich coiifids of four 
arches, liandfbniely built ot hewn done. By means of 
tlie late inland navigation, it li.is communication with the 
rivers Dee, Ribble, Oufe, Trent, Darwent, Severn, Hum¬ 
ber, Thames, Avon, &c. which navigation, including its 
windings, extends above five hundred miles. The town 
is a mile in length from ead to wed ; the dreet is fpacious 
and well-paved ; another dreet, interfefting at right an¬ 
gles about the middle of the town, leads to the parilh- 
churcli, which is (ituated on a lofty hill called Froddiam- 
hill, the highed in tlie county. The church is a large 
handfome building, dedicated to St. Lawrence; it is a 
vicarage, in the gift of Chridchurch college, Oxford. 
The parifli is in circumference about thirty-one miles, 
bordering upon the great fored of Delamere, confiding 
ot ten fmall villages, befides Froddiam. The manor be¬ 
longs to the riglit hon. George James earl of Cliolmon- 
deley. At the wed end of the town (tood a cadle called 
Maurice Cadle, anciently the feat of the Savages earls 
River.^J, but was burnt down in 1652. Here is a free 
grammar-fehool, with a good fchool-houfe, endowed with 
land?, &c. to the value of fixty pioiinds per annum. 
The principal trade of the place is a falt-refinery, erefted 
in 1772, where is manufactured from fix to feven thou- 
fand tons of fait annually. A graving dock and yard 
have lately been made for building and repairing veflTels. 
A cotton manutadtory has alfo been newly edablifhed. 
Above the town is Beacon-hill, on w hich was formerly 
placed a beacon, as a fignal in c.afe of an invafion. This 
hill is cut out in walks gradually and gently afeending 
to the Aimmit, and carried round the face of it, from- 
whence there is a delicious coup d'ceil of a fine large ex¬ 
tended plain, with the jiindtion of two large rivers ; the 
Merfey, navigable to Manchefter, and the Weaver, in 
Winsford, near .Middlewich : both thefe rivers empty 
themfelves into the Irifii iea below Liverpool. This hill 
cotnmands an extenfive profpedf of the counties of Staf¬ 
ford, Salop, Derby, Lancafter, York, Denbigh, Flint, 
Carnarvon, and Merioneth. It is a great thoroughfare 
from the counties north to Wales and Ireland. At the 
weft end of the town is an excellent cold bath, which 
difeharges 1700 gallons of water in a minute. The town 
is well (upplied with many excellent fprings of good wa¬ 
ter; One in particular, called Pearl of Wiggan, which, 
diftils from th.e face of a rock in drops from every vein, 
refembling the pureft gems. The town aird pari(h con¬ 
tain about four thoufand inhabitants. It has a good 
market on Thurfdays; and two fairs for cattle, &c. on 
the 15th of May, and 21(1 of Auguft. 
FRGE'LICH (Erafmus), a learned Jefiiit, born at 
Gratz in Styria, in 1700. He entered the fociety in 1716,. 
and became profeflTor of mathematics and the belles-let¬ 
tres at Vienna. He there alfo purfued the medallic fei- 
ence, to which he was much attached. He died in 173S. 
Flis works are, i. Quatuor Tentamina in Re Nummaria, 410. 
1737 ^ 1750. 2. Annales Rerum et Regum SyriiefoWo, 1751. 
3. De Figura Telluris, 4to. 1757 : and various differtations- 
on particular medals. 
FRCELICHTA, f. in botany, a genus of the clafs 
tfiandria, order monogynia. The generic characters are— 
Calyx fuperior, four-toothed; corolla tubular; berry 
one-feeded, juicelefs; feed arillate. 
Froelithia paniculata, a (ingle fpecies. It is a flirub 
with fquare branches. Leaves oppofite, elliptic.lanceo¬ 
late, pointed, glaboiis, entire; panicle terminal. Inha¬ 
bits Trinidad. 
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