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brated for tiie finenefs of their wool, and the fmallncfs 
of titeir fleece; and lienee the county became fo celc- 
brious for its manufadtiires of fiiperdne broad cloth. 
It is not improbable that the fine-woollcd flieep of Sjvain 
iiiight originally have been procured from Cotfwold, 
lent over by Riciiard I. or Edward I. This breed of 
flieep has been changed for others of a larger kind, 
which produce a larger fleece of coarfer wool. Tl.e 
vale about the city of Gloucefler contains excellent 
meadow and pafture land. Towards Tevvkeflmry the 
foil is a fandy loam, rich and deep, chiefly employed in 
grazing and dairying. Mines of coal abound in Kingf- 
wood and the neighbourhood of Briftol, and mines of 
iron in the foreft of Deane. 
The rivers of Gloucelterfliire are the Severn, Wye, 
Coin, Chern, Stroud, eminent for dying fcarlet. Ills, 
Avon, Ihonie, Swiliate, Caron, Windfufli, Evendole, 
Leven, Lache, Ilbourne, Chilt, Badgworth, Evelm, 
Berkeley, and Trim. In the river Severn Band the ifles 
of Condicote, and the Alney. Tlie mofl: noted places 
are Kiagroad and the Pill, St. Vincent’s Rocks, Cotf¬ 
wold Hills, four hundred and fifty yards above the Se¬ 
vern, Deane and Kingfwood forelts, Mycklewood chace, 
and Crol's wood. Its product is coal and iron, cattle, 
flieep, excellent wool, corn, timber, falmon, and other 
river filh. Its manufadlures, befides its excellent cheefe, 
are fiockings, milliard balls, men’s hats, leather, pins, 
paper, iron ware, tinned plates, brafs. Heel, &c. But 
the chief trade of this county is its broad-cloth manu¬ 
factory, w'liicli gives employment to many thoufands of 
people, and is a fburceof national vvealth of the highefl: 
importance.—The chief iron-works in the county are 
at Plaxley, Lidney, Lidbrook, and Redbrook, all of 
which are contiguous to the foreflof Deane. A capital 
Reel and iron wire-work is carried on at Froombridge, 
eight miles from Glouceller, on the Briftol road ; and 
at Framilode, in the fame neighbourhood, is a tin-plate 
manufaclory. Great quantities of cider are made in 
the villages on the banks of the Severn, a kind of 
which, called Styre cider, is almoft peculiar to the 
weftern banks of that river. 
Befides the city of Glouceller, the principal towns 
are Cirencefter, I'ewkefoury, Berkeley, Camden, Dur- 
liey, Newnham, Marfnfield, Deane, Painfwick, Tetbury, 
Cheltenham, Hampton or Miaching-Hampton, Fairford, 
Sudbury, Wotton-Underedge, Lechlade, Wickware, 
V/inchcomb, Stroud, Colford, Newent, Stow on the 
Wold, Morton, Northleach, Thornbury, and Stanley. 
There are mineral waters of well-known celebrity at 
Cheltenham; at Glouceller ; at Barrow and Moreden 
near Bedington ; at Alh-ciiurch near Tewkefbury ; at 
Dumbleton near Winchcomb ; at Eafington near Dur- 
ftey ; befides thofe of Briftol Wells near Clifton. A 
fine ipring alfo riles out of a rock in the foreft of Deane, 
v/hich runs through a confiderable part of it; and after 
fup.plying I'everal mills, and three iron forges, empties 
itfclf into the river-Severn at Weftbury. This fpring, 
near its fource, having palTed through a fmall grove, 
falls into a fquare bafon, made to receive it, about five 
feet deep, and large enough for a perfon to bathe in, 
with fteps on one fide. The bafon is called St. An¬ 
thony’s well ; and the water, which is extremely cold, 
is much celebrated in all the adjacent country, as a ccr- 
T.iin remedy for cutaneous diforders of every kind. 
Ralph Bigland, el'q. lata garter principal king of arms, 
m hh riiltory of GlouCellerft’.ire lately publiliied, fays 
that “ this mineral fpring lias been known to cure a cu¬ 
taneous leprofy, even by a few times bathing.” Eiglit 
members are returned to the Britifti parliament, viz. 
ior tile county, Glouceller, Cirencefter, and Tewkef- 
bury, two each. 
GLOVE, /. [glope, Sax. klqffue, Dan, to divide.] 
Cover of the hand.—Stat. 6 Geo. ill. c. 19, reftrains 
the importation and fale of foreign gloves and mitts ; 
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and one feblion of tlie ftat. 25 Geo. III. c. 55. alfo re¬ 
ftrains the importation of foreign leatiier not completely 
made into gloves, but cut into lliapes, or tiaiiks. By 
this latter aCb a ftamp duty was impofed on gloves fold, 
which is now repealed. 
To GLOVE', V. a. To cover as with a glove : 
A fcaly gauntlet now, with joints of fteel, 
Mult glove tiiis liand. Shakefpeare. 
GLO'VE-SILVER, f. Money cuftomarily given to 
fervaiits to buy them gloves, as an encouragement for 
their labours.— Glove-money has been alfo applied to ex¬ 
traordinary rewards given fo ollicers of courts, &;c. It 
is now given on the circuits, by the barrifters, and by 
jullices of the peace, when called over in court, to the- 
judges’ crier. 
GLOV'ER, f. One whofe trade is to make or fell 
gloves.—Does he not wear a great round beard, like a 
glover's paring knife ? Shakefpeare. 
GLOV'ERS’ COMPANY, one of the cliartered com¬ 
panies of the city of London. They were incorporated 
a mailer, four wardens, and afliftants not exceeding 
twenty-four ; and tlie livery arc one hundred and twenty. 
Their arms party per fefs fable and argent, a pale coun- 
terchanged on every piece of the firft, a ram I'pringaiit 
of the fecond. Their hall is in Beech-lane. 
GLOV'ER (Richard), an Englifti poet, the fon of a 
Hamburgh merchant in London, born in 1712. He re¬ 
ceived a clallical education at Clieam ; and though it 
was followed by no academical ftudies, his mind became 
permanently imbued witli a tafte for the learning of an¬ 
tiquity. He had alfo imbibed an attachment toTcience, 
as appeared from a copy of verfes “To the Memory of 
Sir Ifaac Newton,” written when he was only fixteen, 
wJiich had merit enough to be prefixed to the View of 
Sir Ifaac Newton’s Philofophy, publiliied by Dr. Pern-. 
bertoii in 1728. Thefe attachments, however, did not 
prevent him from engaging in commercial purfuits, and 
he became eminent in the mercantile walk to which his 
father introduced him. Yet he was at the fame time 
known to his intimates as a votary of elegant literature; 
and Green, in his poem of the Spleen, written before 
1737, alludes to Glover as a youth deftined to fliiiie in 
the higher departments of poetry. In 1737 he married 
a lady with a hniidfome fortune ; and in the fame year 
he publiliied his epic poem of Leonidas. This was a 
period particularly favourable to rhol'e writings wl;jch 
were formed upon iiigii notions of liberty. While the 
crown and minillry were obliged from peculiar circum- 
ftances to favour popular principles of government, the 
oppofition, compofed of an union of parties, headed by 
Frederic prince of V/ales, made ule of the fame prin¬ 
ciples to promote a jealoufy of exifting power. They 
likewife endeavoured to combat the pacific policy of 
Walpole, by exciting a martial fpirit in the people, and 
inculcating the loftiell ideas of the national rights. 
Glover had already formed connexions with tliis party ; 
and his poem, founded upon the p-atriotic ftruggles of 
free Greece againll Afiatic defpotil'm, was admirably 
calculated to I'erve a generous caufe. It therefore re¬ 
ceived the higlieft commendations from Lyttieton and 
other writers on that fide, and was foon pulhed through 
feveral editions. Leonidas is certainly no mean per¬ 
formance. It abounds in noble fentiments, and is coii- 
fiderably varied by incident and defeription. 
Fiis poem of London, or the Progrels of Commerce, 
publilhed in 1739, is fcarcely equal to what the lubjeft 
might afford, being cramped by the temporary purpofe 
of roufing a fpirit of hoftility agaiiift the Spaniards. 
This end, together with that of throwing reproach on 
the minillry, was more effedlually anfwered by his bal¬ 
lad of Hofier’s Ghoft, publilhed the fame year, which 
became very popular, and is Hill confpicuous among 
the national fongs. ■ As Glover polfelled talents not 
