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vrinons works, of which the principal were, i. Injlimk 
PhilofophiiS fecutidum Principia Ren. Defcetrtes, 410, z. Curio- 
Jus Natures Aixamrum Perfcrtftator, 1673, 8vo. 3. Notes 
upon Tlie Phyfics of Roiiault, which have been fre- 
quently printed. 4. Hijioria Sacra a Mundo condito ad Con- 
Jantimm Magnum, 8vo. which is his beft,performance. 
GRAND (Joachim le), a political and hiflorica! wri¬ 
ter, born in 1653, at Thorigny in Normandy. He en¬ 
tered into the congregation of the Oratory, which he 
quitted in 1676, and went to Paris, where he engaged in 
tlie education of tWo young men of rank, and at the 
fame time applied to hiftorical Undies under the direc¬ 
tion of father Le Cointe. He firft'a|)peared as a writer 
in i68-8, when he pnblifhed A Hiftory of the Divorce of 
Henry VIII. and Catharine of Arragon, 3 vols. izmo. 
In this he attempts to juftify the jeliiit Sanders, and to 
refute the two firll books of Burnet’s Hiltory of the Re¬ 
formation. He alfo, in 1691, addreffed three letters in 
a izmo. volume to bilhop Burnet, on his critique of 
Botluet’s Hillory of the Variations of Protedant Churches. 
He was taken from his literary purl'uits by the appoint¬ 
ment of fecretary to the abbe d’Eftrees, in his embalfy 
to Portugal, in 1692, which continued till 1697. Some 
Vanflations of Voyages and Travels from the Porty- 
guefe were part of the fruits of this employ. In 1*702 
he accompanied the fame miniller to Spain, where he 
remained as fecretary till 1704. The marquis de Torci, 
minifter of date, took him into his fervice in 1705, and 
employed his pen in feveral memorials concerning the 
fucceflion to the Spanifh monarchy, and other political 
topics, in which he acquitted himfelf with great ability. 
His lali printed work was a treatife On the Succellion to 
the Crown of France, 1718, izmo. which is reckoned a 
curious and ufeful performance. He died at the age of 
eighty, in 1733, He was poliefled of two priories, and 
had been for a time cenfor-royal of books, 
GRAND (Louis le), a learned French ecclefiadic, 
born at Luzigni, in the diocefe of Autun, where he died 
in 1780. He was educated in the feminary of St. Sul- 
pice, at Paris, and admitted to the degree of dodtor by 
the faculty of the Sorbonne. The whole of his time 
which was not taken up in the difeharge of his clerical 
fundtions he devoted to clofe ftudy. He publilhed, i. 
PrceleEHones Tkeologicre de Deo^ in 2 vols. 121110, 2. De In- 
carnatione Verbi Divini, in 2 vols. lamo. 3. A treatife De 
Ecclefia Ckrijli, 8vo. His writings are efteemed for their 
perlpicuity, and the excellence of tlieir arrangement. 
GRAND, a town of France, in the department of the 
Voff-es, and chief place of a canton, in the dillridl of 
.Neufehateau : three leagues wed of Neufehateau. 
GRAND ANSE, orjEREMiK, a town in the wedern 
part of the ifland of St. Domingo. The town is well built, 
but the road is fo bad, that vellels, to efcape the wind, 
are compelled to take Ihelter behind cape Donna Maria. 
GRAND ASSPZE, in law, a writ in a real adfion 
to determine the right of property in lands. 
GRAND BAY, a bay on the fouth coad of Nev/- 
foundland, a little to tlie fouth of Cape Ray. 
GRAND CA'PE, in law, a writ on plea of land, 
where the tenant makes default in appearance at the 
day given, for the king to take the land into his hands, 
&c. Reg. Jud. I. 
GRAND CHAMP, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Morbihan, and chief place of a canton, in 
the didrift of Vannes : two leagues and a quarter north, 
norih-wed of Vannes, and two and a half north-ead of 
Auray. 
GRAND DISTRESS', inlaw, a writ fo called, be- 
caufe the extent thereof is very great, being to all the 
o-oods and chattels of the party didrained within the 
county : it lies in two cafes, either when the tenant or 
defendant is attached, and appears not, but makes de¬ 
fault; or where the tenant hath once appeared, and 
after makes default, then this writ is h.;d by the com- 
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mon law, in lieu of a petit cape, by dat. Wed. i, c. 44. 
52/fen. in. C. 9. 
GRAND FO'RO, a town of Africa, on the Slave 
Coad, 
GRAND GUS'TO, among painters, a term ufed to 
exprefs, that in a pithire there is fomething very great 
and extraordinary, to furprife, pleafe, and indruft. 
GRAND I'SLAND, an illand at the mouth oi Lake 
Ontario, within the Britidi tft'ritories, having Roebuck 
and Fored iilands on the I'outh-wed, and the Thoufand 
Ifles on the north-ead. It is twei«y miles in length, 
and its greated breadth four miles. 
GRAND I'SLAND, an ifland in Lake Superior, 
fituated on the north fide of the lake. 
GRAND I'SLAND, an ifland in Niagara river, about 
fix miles long and three broad. Tlie Ibuth end is four 
miles north of Fort Erie; and its northern extremity 
three miles fouth of Fort Slndier, and fourteen Ibuth of 
Niagara fort. 
GRAND I'SLES, tw'o large iflands in Lake Cham¬ 
plain ; each about ten mfles long, and each forms a- 
towmlhip belonging to Vermont, in the American States. 
GRAND JU'RORjyi One of a grand jury.'—You 
are grand jurors, are ye ? Shakefpeare. 
GRAND JU'RY, in law, the jury that find bi'lls 
of indibfment before judices of peace, and of gaol-deii.. 
very, or oyer and terminer, &c. See the article Jury. 
GRAND LAKE, a lake in tlie province of New Brunf- 
wick, near the river St. John’s, thirty miles in length, 
ten in breadth, and in fome places forty fathoms deep. 
GRAND MA'NAN, an illand lituated about fix miles 
fouth by fouth-ead of Campo-Bello ifland, in the At¬ 
lantic Ocean, oppolite to Palfamaquoddy Bay, on the 
eadern border of the American States. 
GRAND MAS'TER, f . The chief of the Teutonic 
order of knighthood.—The fird grand majler of the order 
was Henry Wall pot. Chejerfield. 
GRAND MAS''I'ERSHIP,y’. Dignity of grand inaf- 
ter.—He then quitted h'xs, grand majhrjhip. Chefierfield. 
GRAND RI'VER, a river of North America, wJiich 
runs a north-wed courfe into Lake Erie, twenty miles 
below the Forks, and eighty miles louih-wed of' 
Prefqtie I fie. 
'GRAND SER'JEANTY, an ancient tenure by mi¬ 
litary fervice. See the article Tenure. 
GRAND SIGNOR',/. [Ital. great lord.] A title 
given to the emperor of the Turks. 
GRAND SO'NE, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Doubs ; one leaglie and a quarter cad of 
Bcfatifon, and two and a half north of Oruaas. 
GRAN'DAM, / Grandmother; the father’s or mo. 
ther’s mother: 
Thy tigrefs heart belies tjiy angel face : 
Too well thou Ihew’d thy pedigree from done; 
Hhy grandame'^ was the fird by Pyrrha thrown. Dryden, 
An old withered woman : 
Cry’d, one and all, the fuppliant fhould have right, 
And to the grandame hag adjudg’d the kaiglit. Dryden, 
GR AND'CHILD, / The fon or daughter of a fon 
or daughter ; one in the fecoad degree of delbent.—Au- 
gudus Ctefar, out of indignation againd liis daughters- 
and Agrippa his would fay that they were 
not his feed, but nnpolthumes broken from him. Bacon.. 
He ’leaping v/ith his«gods and reliques fled. 
And low’rds the Ihore his \\n\<i grandchild led. Denham. 
GRANDCOU'R, a town of Swiireriand, in the can¬ 
ton of Berne ; ten miles wed of Friburg. 
GRANDCOU'RT, a town of Fr. iice, in the depart-- 
ment of tlie Lower Seine, and chief place of a canton, 
in the didri6t of Neiifchatel: dve league&cad of Dieppe, 
and four nortli of Neufchatel. 
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