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a gill may be enough. Swift. —A kind of meafure among 
the tinners.—They meafure their block-tin by the gill, 
which containeth a pint. Carew. —In the northern coun¬ 
ties it is half a pint of liquid meafure.—[From Gillian, 
the old Englidi way of wr-iting Julian, or Juliana. '\ The 
appellation of a woman in ludicrous language.—Each 
Jack with his Gill. Ben Joufon. —The name of ground- 
ivy.' See Gi.echoma. Malt liquor medicated with 
ground-ivy. A place hemmed Sn with two lleep brows 
or banks, a rivulet' running' between them. Ray. —You 
may continue along this gill, and palling by one end of 
the village and its church for half a mile, it leads to 
an opening between two hills covered with fir-woods. 
Gray's Letters. 
GILL'-nOUSE,y', A hoiife where ardent fpirit is fold 
by the gill : 
Thee fliall each alehoufe, thee each gill-houfe, mourn, 
And anfw’ring ginfliops Ibtirer fighs return. Pope. 
GIL'LEM’s BAY, a bay on the fouth coaft of the 
ifiand of St, Chriftopher : half a league well of Balfe- 
tcrre. 
GIL'LES (Peter), born at Albi, in 1490, diftinguiflied 
himfelf as a fcholar and a traveller. After acquiring 
the knowledge of the learned langtiages and the philo- 
fophy of the times, he vifited the coafts of Provence, 
and thence travelled into Italy, making obfervations in 
natural hifiory and antiquities. After his return, h.e 
paired fome time with George d’Armagnac bifliop of 
Rhodes, afterwards cardinal, who engaged him to com- 
pofe his book Dc Vi ct Natura Animalium j dedicated to 
Francis I. in 1533; and fome time after, that prince 
font him to travel in the Levant. He neglected, how¬ 
ever, to furniHi him with proper fupplies, fo that, after 
undergoing many hardlliips, he was obliged to enlift in 
the troops of fultan Solyman II. for a fubfiftence. 
From Conllantinople he returned in the train of the 
French ambaffador in 1550, and went to Rome to his 
patron the cardinal d’Armagnac, where he died in 1555. 
Beiides the work already mentioned, he publilhed fome 
tranflations from the Greek ; and alfo two geographical 
pieces, De Bofphoro Thrado, Lib. III. and, DeTopographia 
Conjiantiiiopokos, Lib. IV. 'which are efteemed as learned 
and accurate performances. 
GIL'LES (Peter), a Swifs proteftant divine, who 
flouriflied in the feventeenth century. He w'as minilfer 
of the reformed church at La Tour, in the valley of 
Lucerne, and author of fome controverlial pieces in de- 
ferxe of the protefiants againft the catholics; and alfo 
of, An Ecclefialtical Hiftory of the Churches of the 
Vaudois, publilhed at Geneva in 1644, in 410. 
GILLESKA'AL, a town of Norway, in the diocefe 
of Drontheim : two hundred and forty miles north of 
Drontheim. 
GIL'LET, y. [the diminutive of 3 A woman, in 
droll Ityle. ■ . 
GIL'LIFLOWER, J. fee Dianthus; STOCK, 
fee Cheiranthus; QUEEN’s, or DAME’s VIO¬ 
LET, fee Hespep.is. 
GIL'LINGHAM, a fmall ancient town in Dorfetfliire, 
fituated on the Stour, near the foreft of its own name ; 
■where, anno 1016, Edmund Ironfide vanquilhed the 
Danes. It has a fair on Trinity Monday, and Septem¬ 
ber I. It is one of tlie largeft parilhes in the county, 
being forty-one miles in circuit, containing fixty-four 
thoufand acres, trending chiefly on the borders of Wilts 
and Somerfet, four miles north-weft of Shaftlbury. It 
has a manufacture of linen, but the chief produce is 
grazing and the dairies. Near it are the traces of an 
ancient relidence of Norman or Saxon kings, 320 feet 
long, and 240 broad, furrounded by a rampart of earth. 
Henry I. relided here, and king John repaired it at the 
expence of the county. Edward I. fpent his Chriftmas 
herein 1270; but the whole of the nmterials are re- 
VoL, VJII. No. jad. 
GIL 3(Jg 
moved, and the foundation of the hoiife only can be 
traced, which was in the form of the letter L, in length 
one hundred and eighty feet, by eighty broad, and the 
foot of the letter torty-eight by forty. The area of 
the houfe contained j68,000 fquare feet. It ftood half 
a mile from the church, on the road to Shaftlbury, 
encompaHed by a moat, now dry, in fome places nine 
feet aeep and twenty broad. The rampart appears to 
have been thirty feet tliick. Here is a free-fchool well 
endowed, a workhoufe, and two ftone bridges. In 1694 
it received damage to the amount of near 4,000!. by a 
fire. The church is a large ancient fabric. 
GIL'LINGHAM, in Kent, diftant one mile from 
Brompton, three from Chatham, and on the fame fide 
of the Medway. Part of Chatham dock is fituated in 
this parin'!; and here is a caftle well furniflied with guns 
that command the river. At this place fix liundred 
Norman gentlemen, wlio came over in the retinue of 
the two princes Alfred and Edward, were barbaroully 
murdered by earl Godwin. The archbifliop of Can¬ 
terbury had here an elegant palace, the ancient hall of 
which is now converted into a barn. Near it are tlic 
remains ol the chapel, See. and a great pari of the wlioie 
of its original outer walls may be. traced. 
GILLO'RI, an illand of the American States, on the 
coaft of Weft Florida, divided from Dauphin Ifland by 
a narrow channel, through which a boat may pafs with 
fome difficulty.; and between Gi-llori and the main land, 
on the weft fide oi Mobile Bay, there is a chain of fmall 
iflands, through v/hich is a paffage of four feet, called 
Paffe au Heron. 
GILL'SAY, a fmall ifland of Scotland, between 
Lewis and North Vift. 
GIL'LY LOU'GH, a lake of Ireland, in the county 
of Sligo : two miles weft of Sligo. 
GIL'LY-sur-LOI'RE, a town of France, in the de¬ 
partment of the Saone and Loire, and chief place of a 
canton, in the diftridt of Bourbon Lancy, fituated on the 
Loire : one league and a half fouth of Bourbon Laiicy. 
GIL'MANTOWN, a townfhip of the A'merican 
States, in Stralford county, New Hampfliire, fouth- 
wefteriy of lake Winnipifeogee, and fifty-two miles 
north-weft of Poi'tfmoLith. It was incorporated in 1727, 
and contained 775 inhabitants in 1775 ; and in 1790, 2613. 
GI'LOH, a city of Paleftine, belonging to the tribe 
of Judah, fituat.ed in the mountains of that province. 
It was the birth-place of Ahithophel, Abfaloin’s wife 
counfelior. . _ 7 g/ 7 t. XV. 51. zSam.xv. 12. 
GIL'OLO, one of the Molucca ifl.'tnds, in the Eaftern 
Indian Ocean; about feventy leagues long, and two 
hundred and fifty in circumference, I'ubjeft to the Dutch. 
It is laid the air is very hot and unwholefome, that the 
country is very fertile in rice and I’ago. The natives 
are reprefented to be W'ell made, but favage and cruel, 
living without laws or fixed habitations. It neitiier 
bears cloves or nutmegs. The equinoctial line runs 
through the fouthern part of it. Lon. 128. E. Green¬ 
wich. 
GIL'ONITE,yi An inhabitant of Giloh. 
GIL'PIN (Bernard), an excellent Englifli divine, 
diftinguifhed by the title of Apojtle of the North, defeended 
from a refpeftable family in vVeftmoreland, and born at 
Kentmire in that county, in 1J17. At fixteen years of 
age he was lent to the univerlity of Oxford,, and entered 
a fcholar on the foundation at Queen’s college. In 
1539 he took his degree of bachelor of arts ; and in 
1541 that of mafter of arts; and about the lame time 
was eleiited fellow of his college, and admitted into 
holy orders. Mr. Gilpin’s attachment to an academic 
life, determined him to prolong his flay at Oxford till 
he reached the thirty-fifth year of liis age.. In the mean 
tiote he had commenced bachelor in divinity iji the year 
1549. In 1552 his friends obtained for him the vicarage 
of Norton^ in the diocefe of Durham, which with much 
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