GOD 
GODI'VA, the naine of a woman. 
GOD'LESS, adj. Without fenfe of duty to God: 
atheiftical; wicked; irreligious; impious.—Of thefe two 
forts of men, both godlefs, the one has utterly no know¬ 
ledge of God, and the other Rudies how to perfuade 
themfelves that there is no fuch thing to be known. 
Hooker. 
For faults not his, for guilt and crimes 
Oigodkfs men, and of rebellious times. 
Him his ungrateful country fent. 
Their bell Camilliis, into banifiiment. Dryden. 
GOD'LIKE, adj. Divine; refembling a divdnity ; fu-' 
premely excellent.—That prince fliall be fo wife and 
godlike, as, by eftabliflied laws of liberty, to fecure pro- 
teclion and encouragement to the lionefc induftry of 
mankind. Locke. 
Thus Adam his illuRrious giiell befouglit. 
And thi'.s the godlike angel anfwer’d mild. Milton. 
GOD'LING, f. A little divinity ; a diminutive god : 
The puny godlings of inferior race, 
Wliofe humble llatues are content v/ith brafs. Dryden. 
GOD'LINESS, f. Piety to God. Genei'al obferva- 
tion of all the duties preferibed by religion.—Virtue and 
godlinefs of life are required at the hands of tiie miniller 
ot God. Hooker. 
GOD'LY, adj. Pious towards God.—Grant that we 
may hereafter live a godly, righteous, and fober, life. 
Common Prayer. —Good; righteous; religious. — Help, 
Lord, for the godly man ceafeth, for the faithful fail 
among the children of men. Pj\ xii. i. 
GOD'LY, adv. Pioully ; righteouliy. By an.ilogy it 
fhould be gcdlily, but the repetition of the fyllable is 
too harfh.—^The apoftle St. Paul teacheth, that every 
one that will godly in Chrilt Jel'us mult fuH'er perfe- 
cution. Hooker. 
GOD'LYHEAD, y. Goodnefs; righteoufnefs. Aii 
old word: 
For this, and many more fuch outrage, 
I crave yowx godly head to afl'wage 
The rancoro'us rigour of his might. Spenfer. 
GOD'MAN, the Son of God ; the mediator. 
GOD'MANCHESTER, [from Gorman, or Guthern, a 
Dane, who firll of all the Danilh princes embraced 
Chrillianity, and erefled there a palace.] A fmall neat 
tow'n in the vicinity of Huntingdon, in Huntingdonfliirc, 
the inhabitants of tvhich are for the molt part farmers, 
and vie with each other in good hulbandry ; fparing 
neither expence nor labour to promote every ufeful im¬ 
provement. When James I. was palling through this 
town on his way to the nietropoiis, the farmers met him, 
about a mile from the place, with ieventy ploughs drawn 
by as many teams of horfes; which novel fight was fo 
agreeable to the king, that he granted them a charter, 
to be governed by two bailifl's and twelve alfillants. At 
the fame time the focial monarch condefeended to par¬ 
take of a cold collation, which they had prepared for 
him under a large white-thorn; which, time having de¬ 
cayed, the farmers, to commemorate the grateful event, 
replaced it, and it Itill goes by the name of king’s bujh. 
Many ancient coins having from time to time been dug 
up near Gcdmancheller, proves it to have been a Ro¬ 
man town. Its ancient name was Duraliponte ■, but, being 
ceded to a Danilh general called Gorman, he gave it the 
name of Gorman-cejfcr, which word became in time cor¬ 
rupted to Godmancliefier. I'he river Oufe feparates it 
Irom Huntingdon, over which there is a noble free-ftone 
bridge. The church is a venerable Gothic edifice, large, 
commodious, and in perfeft order. Here is a free Eng- 
lilh fchool endowed; alfo feveral alms-houfes, where 
the aged, of reduced circumftances, experience, during 
the years of decrepitude, a quiet and comfortable afy- 
lum. A fair for cattle is held annually on Tuelday and 
Wednclday in Ealler week. 
GOD 
GOD'MOTHER, y. A woman wdio has undertaken 
fponlion in baptifni. A term of fpiritual relation. 
GODOL'PHIN, \_godolcan, i.e. a white eagle, in the 
dialett of Cornwall.] The name of a noble Englifii fa¬ 
mily, which bears a white eagle in its coat of arms. 
GODOL'PHIN (John), an eminent Englifli civilian, 
born in the ifland of Scilly in 1617, and educated at 
Oxford. In 1642-3, he was created dodlor of civil law ; 
in 1653, he was appointed one of the judges of the ad¬ 
miralty; and at the reftoration, he was made one of his 
majefly’s advocates. He was efieemed as great a mafter 
of divinity as of law, and publifiied, i. The Holy Lim¬ 
beck. 2. The Holy Arbour. 3. A View of the Ad¬ 
miral’s Jurifdidtion. 4. The Orphan’s Legacy. 5. Pee- 
pertoriuni Canonkum, &c. He died in 1678. 
GO'DRA, a town of Kindooflan, and capital of a 
circar of the fame name, in the country of Guzerat: 
fifty-five miles eaft of Amedabad. Lat.22.50.N. Ion. 
73.40. E. Greenwich. 
GOD'RIC., [of Dob, Sax. God, or good, and pre, 
rich, q. d. rich in God, or goodnefs.] A proper name. 
GOD'SCAL, [ofDob, Sax. God, or good, and j^cal.k, 
afervant.] A proper name. 
GOD'SiiIP,y The rank or charabter of a god ; deity;, 
divinity : 
Difeourfing largely on this theme. 
O’er hills and dales ihew god/hips came. Prior. 
GOD'SON, y. One for whom one has been fponfor at 
the font : 
What, did my father’s ^0^0/! feck your life? 
He whom ray father named ? your Edgar.? Skakefpecre. 
GOD'WARD, adj. To Godtuard IS toward God. bo we 
read, Hac Aretkufa terms, for hadlenus Arethufa. —And fuc.h 
trull have we tiirougli Chrifi; to Godward. 2 Cor. 
GOD'WIN, [of Dob, Sa.x. God, or good, and pin, a 
conqueror, q. d. a conqueror in God.] A proper name. 
GOD'WIN (Eiarl), a potent Saxon baron," fon of 
Woifnoth, governor of Sulfex, and father of Harold, 
■who fucceetled to the crown of England. He was carl 
of Kent, and lord of great pofiefiions in that county, as 
well as in Sulfex. For his hiltory, fee the article Exg- 
LA.'fD, vol.vi.p. 555-366. 
GOD'WIN (Thomas), a worthy Englifh prelate, born 
at Oakingham in Berkfiiire, in 1517. His early educa¬ 
tion he received at the free-fehool in his native town; 
■where the proofs which he afforded of excellent natural 
abilities, aitrabted. the notice of Dr. Ricliard Layton, 
archdeacon of Bucks, who received him into his houfc, 
and took care of his further inftrubtion in claOical lite¬ 
rature. In 1538, Dr. Layton lent him to Magdalen, 
college, Oxford, where that gentleman granted him an 
exhibition as long as he lived; and upon the death of 
that patron, Mr. Godwin’s merits procured him other 
friends, by whole alliltance he w’as enabled to purfue 
his academic Ihidies. He took his degree of bachelor 
of arts in 1543; and in the following year was elected 
a fellow of his college, by vHiich event he no longer de¬ 
pended on his friends for pecuniary afliftance. In 1547, 
he proceeded to the degree of mailer of arts. His litua- 
tion in college, however, was rendered uneafy, in con- 
I'cquence of tiie zealous aitacliment to the principles of 
the reformation which he iiad imbibed in the family of 
Dr. Layton, and which expofed him to the ill offices of 
fome of the fellows. This circumllance made him em¬ 
brace the opportunity of a vacancy in the mnllerlliip of 
the free-fchool of Brackley in Northamptonfiiire, which 
vras in the gift of his college, to accept that appoint¬ 
ment, and to relign his fellowlhip. To this lituation he 
retired in 1549, and continued there as long as king Ed¬ 
ward lived, devoting what time he could Ipare from his 
attention to the fchool, to the ffudy of divinity and 
phyfic. After the acceliion of queen Mary, he met with 
perfecution from Bonner bilhop of London, on account 
of his religious fentiments; and, being obliged to relign 
