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exhibitions, as it was formerly not unufual for the ill'uf- 
trious perfonages-who vifited this ifland to have here 
their firft interview with the Englifh monarch. In par¬ 
ticular, Maurice emperor of Coriftantinople, who in 
1411 came over to require aid againft the Turks, was 
fiplendidly received upon this fpot by Henry IV. and 
here, in 1416, king Henry V.-is reported to have met the 
emperor Sigifmund, and to have conduced him with 
magnificence to London. 
In 1780, a curious cavern was difcovered, on the left 
fide of the afcent to Blackheath, in the road to Dover. 
It confifts of feven large rooms, from twelve to thirty- 
fix feet wide each way, which have a communication 
with each other by arched avenues. Some of the 
apartments have large conical domes upwards of thirty- 
fix feet high, fupported by a column of chalk forty- 
three yards in circumference. The bottom of the ca¬ 
vern is at leaft fifty feet from the furface of the earth 
at the entrance ; at the extremities, one hundred and 
fixty feet; and it is defcended by a regular flight of 
fteps. The fides and roof are rocks of chalk ; the 
bottom is a fine dry fand ; and, upwards of one hundred 
and feventy feet under ground, is a well of remarkably 
fine water, twenty-feven feet deep. 
Morden College, on the eaft fide of Blackheath, for 
the fupport of decayed merchants, was ereCted by fir 
John Morden, bart. a Turkey merchant, feveral years 
before his death, which happened in 1708. It conlifts 
of a large brick-building, with two fmall wings. The 
principal entrance is decorated with Doric columns, fef- 
toons, and a pediment on the top, over which riles a 
turret, with a dial ; and from the dome rife a ball and 
vane. To this entrance there is an afcent by a flight 
of circular fteps ; and, haying palled through this part 
of the building, we enter an inner fquare, furrounded 
with piazzas. The chapel is neatly wainfcotted, and 
has a coftly altar-piece. This ftruCture fir John en¬ 
dowed, after his lady’s deceafe, with his whole eftate, 
to the value then of about 1300I. per annum. He placed 
in this hofpital twelve decayed Turkey merchants in 
his life-time; but lady Morden, finding that the fliare 
allotted her by fir John’s will was infufficiynt for her 
fupport, was obliged to reduce the number to four. 
Upon her death, the whole eftate coming to the college, 
the number was increaled, and there are at this time 
thirty-five poor gentlemen ; and, the number not being 
limited, it is to be increased as the eftate will afford; 
for the building will conveniently hold forty. The 
treafurer has forty pounds a-year; and the chaplain, 
who reads prayers twice a-day, and preaches twice 
every Sunday, had at firft a falary of thirty pounds per 
annum, which lady Morden doubled at her death. She 
was, in other refpeCts, a benefaCtrefs of the college, 
and, as Are put up her hufband’s ftatue in a niche over 
the gate, the truftees put up her’s in another niche ad¬ 
joining to t’hat of her hufband. The penfioners have 
each twenty pounds a-year, and they have a common 
table in the hall to eat and drink together at meals; 
and each has two convenient rooms, with a cellar. No 
perfon can be admitted as a penfioner under fixty years 
of age. 
Near this college is Shooter’s Hill, from the fummit 
of which is a fine view of London, and into Effex, 
Surrey, and part of Suflex. The Thames alfo here ex¬ 
hibits a mod magnificent appearance. Here the ancient 
London archers performed their exercifes upon grand 
occafions; whence its name of Shooter’s Hill. To this 
place king Henry VIII. and his queen Catharine, came, 
in very great fplendour, one May-day, from Greenwich, 
and were received by two hundred archers, clad in 
green, with a captain, perfonating Robin Hood, who 
Ihewed the king the fkill of his archers in (hooting. 
Weftcomb Park, in the parifli of Greenwich, was the 
manor of Mr. Lambard, who endowed the hofpital 
above-mentioned; and came, after a fuccelfion of dif- 
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ferent proprietors, into the pofleflion of the late earl of 
Pembroke. This nobleman, whofe fine tafte and con- 
fummate (kill in architecture have been fo juftly cele¬ 
brated, pulled down the old houfe, and rebuilt it in its 
prefent fituation, about feventy years* ago. Of lord 
Pembroke it was purchafed by Charles ihird duke of 
Bolton, who, having never lived with his firft confort, 
refided here, upwards of twenty years, with Mifs Lavi- 
nia Fenton (the celebrated Polly Peachum), whom he 
married in 1751 ; and who refided here, as duchefs- 
dowager of Bolton, from 1754 till her death in 1760, 
In confequence of the national obfervatory being 
ereCted in Greenwich-park, this place is now made the 
meridian of longitude by mod Englifh navigators*. 
GREEN'WICH, a townfhip of the American States, 
in Hampfliire county, Maffachufetts, incorporated in 
1754, containing 1045 inhabitants : twenty miles eafterly 
of Northampton, and feventy-five wefterly of Bofton. 
GREEN'WICH, a townfhip of the American States, 
the fecond in rank in Gloucefter county. New Jerfey, 
fituated on the eaft bank of Delaware river, oppofite to 
Fort Mifflin: three miles north.by-eaft of Woodbury, 
and fix fouth-eaft of Philadelphia. 
GREEN'WICH, a townftiip of the American States, 
in Suflex county, New Jerfey, on the eaft fide of Dela¬ 
ware river, in a mountainous country: about five miles 
north-eafterly of Eafton, in Pennfylvania, and thirty-one 
fouth-weft of Newton, the (hire town. 
GREEN'WICH, a town of the American States, in 
Cumberland county, New Jerfey, on the north-weft 
bank of Cohanzy creek, about three miles from its 
mouth in Delaware bay: it is fifteen miles fouth-eafterly 
of Salem, and fixty-fix fouth-by-weft of Philadelphia. 
GREEN'WICH, a maritime townftiip of the Ame¬ 
rican States, in Fairfield county, Connecticut, and the 
fouth-wefternmoft of the date, lies about fifty miles 
weft: of New Haven, and forty eaft of New York city. 
Its fea coaft on Long Iftand Sound, and that of the 
townfhip of Stamford on the eaftward, has a number of 
ides and rocks bordering the inlets of the fea and 
mouths of the creeks. Byram river pafies through 
this town, the largeft of the fmall dreams which water 
it, and only noticeable as forming part of the line be¬ 
tween Connecticut and New York. This track was 
purchafed of the native Indians in 1640, and fettled un¬ 
der the government of the New Netherlands, (now New 
York,) and was incorporated by Peter Stuyvefant in 
1665, who was then governor of the New Netherlands. 
This town falling within the bounds of Connecticut, 
was afterwards granted to eight perfons by that colony. 
GREEN'WICH, in Rhode Ifland; fee East Green, 
wich, vol. vi. p. 218. 
GREEN'WOOD, f. A wood confidered as it appears 
in the lpring or fu miner. 
GREEN'WOOD, adj. [from the f. ] Belonging to a 
greenwood.—Among wild herbs under the greenwood. 
Iliade. Fairfax. 
It happen’d on a fummer’s holiday, 
That to the greenwood lhade he took his way. Dryden. 
GREEN'WOOD, a townftiip of the American States, 
in Cumberland county, Pennfylvania. Alfo, a townftiip 
in Mifflin county in the fame ftate. 
GREEN'WOOD, a vaft foreft of ftately pines, in 
Litchfield county, Connecticut, which cover the face 
of a great part of that county. Thefe are clothed in 
green bearded mofs, which being pendant from the 
boughs, fcreens many of the trees from the eye, and 
gives to the whole a gloomy, wild, and romantic, ap¬ 
pearance. 
GREES, a river of Ireland, which runs into the 
Barrow, fix miles fouth of Athy, in the county of Kil¬ 
dare. 
To GREET, v.a. Igrator, Lat. gperan, Sax.] To 
addrefs at a meeting : 
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