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GUE' DE LONGROY, a town of France, in the de¬ 
partment of the Eure and Loire : three leagues and a 
half north-eaft of Chatres, and four wed of Dourdan. 
GUE' DE VELUIRE, a town of France, in the de¬ 
partment of the Vendee, and chief, place of a canton, in 
the d!drift of Fontenay-le-Compte : eight miles fouth.' 
fouth-weft of Fontenay-le-Cbmpre. 
GUE'BERFWEIR, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Upper Rhine : one league nortlvnorth-weft 
of Ruffach, and one and three quarters fouth-fouth-weft 
of Colmar. 
GUE'BRES. See Gabres, vol. viii. p. 151. 
GUEB'WILLER, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Upper Rhine : eight leagues and a quarter 
north-north-well of Bale, and three and three quarters 
fouth-fouth-well of Colmar. 
GUE9AN', a river of Spain, which' runs into the 
Xucar a little below Cueiipa. 
GUED'ALL, a river of North Wales, in the county 
of Montgomery, which runs into the Done two miles 
above Machynleth. 
GUEDRIER' DE ST. AUBIN' (Henry Michael), 
librarian of the Sorbonne, born at Gourriai-en-Bray in 
16,95. He purfued his Rudies at the univerfity of Paris, 
and was received a member of the Sorbonne in 1723. 
He was appointed profelfor in that faculty in 1730; 
chofen librarian in 1736 ; and was fome time afterwards 
nominated abbot of the monaftery of St. Vulmer, in the 
diocefe of Bayonne. He was intimately coirverfant in 
the Greek, Hebrew, Englilh, and Italian, languages, as' 
well as the different branches of knowledge requifite 
for a di^ne moraffft. For fourteen years he was fre¬ 
quently confulted, and held in high efteem as arefolver 
of difficult cafes of confcience. He died in 1742, at 
forty-feven years of age. He was the author of a work 
entitled The Sacred Hiftory of the Two Covenants, pub- 
lilhed in 1741, 7 vols. iamo. exhibiting the harmony of 
the Old and New Teftaments, interfperfed with learned 
dHfertations, judicious criticifms, and ufeful refleftions, 
drawn up in an-elegant fimplicity of ftyle. 
GUE'GON, a town of France, in the department of 
the Morbihan, and chief place of a canton, in the dil- 
trift of Joffelin : half a league fouth-weft of Joffelin. 
GUEL'DERLAND (Duchyof), a country of Europe, 
bounded on the north by Overyffei and the Zuyder 
Sea, on the eaft by the biffiopri.c of Munfter and the 
duchy of Cleves, on the fouth by the duchy of Juliers 
and Brabant, and on the weft by the ftraits of Utrecht 
and Holland. It was erefted into a county by the em¬ 
peror Henry IV. and in the twelfth century one of the 
counts added Zutphen to his dominions. Henry of- 
Naffau added the country of Veluwe. Otto III. includ¬ 
ed Nimeguen and its territory. In 1339, Guelderland 
was erefted into a duchy, by Louis of Bavaria, and 
paffed to different families, to that of Juliers, Egmont, 
and at length to the dukes of Burgundy. In 1579, 
what now forms the prefent ftate of Guelderland, that 
is, the quarters of Nimmegen, Zutphen, and Arnhem, 
acceded to the union of Utrecht. Each of thefe quar¬ 
ters had its particular ftates, compofed of the nobility 
and the towns, and thele two dalles had equally aright 
to make propofitions' relative to government. To the 
affembly of the ftates general of the United Provinces, 
Guelderland fends nineteen deputies. The chief tribu¬ 
nal, with the chambers of accounts belonging to the 
province, are kept at Arnhem. Some part of Gueldei^- 
land, including the towns of Gueldres, Wachtendonk, 
Stralen, &c. and fome villages, was ceded to Pruflia, 
by the treaty of Utrecht, with the refervation of the 
religious rights of the inhabitants. The towns of Ru- 
remond, with the territory round it, remained to Spain, 
and from thence came to the houfe of Auftria. 
GUEL'DER-ROSE, f. A fpecies of Viburnum, a 
flowering ffirtib. 
GUEL'DRES, a town ©f Guelderland, ceded, with 
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a confiderable diftrift, to Pruflia. It is advantageoully 
lituated arnidft marlhes, on the river Niers, whofe waters 
fill the ditches, and was formerly fo ftrongly fortified 
as hardly to be taken except by famine. It had a caf- 
tle, built by Wichard du Pont, the firft lord of the 
place, in which the fovereigns of the country firft took 
up their abode. I11 1587, colonel Patton, a Scotch¬ 
man in the fervice of the Dutch, in the abfence of co¬ 
lonel Schenck, fold the city for 36,000 florins to the 
lord of Hautepenne, for the king of Spain, though-pro¬ 
vided with all forts of ftores. The Dutch befieged it 
three times, viz. in 1637, in 1639, and in 1640, but all 
to no purpofe. The marquis of Brandenburg (king-of. 
Pruflia) took it the 21ft of December, 1702, after a 
blockade of eighteen months, and a bombardment for 
fourteen days, with thirty pieces of cannon, arid thirty- 
four mortars ; and by virtue of an article in the peace 
of Utrecht, concluded the nth of April, 1713, between 
the kings of France and Pruflia, it was agreed, that 
Gueldres, with the country of Keflel, and the bailiwick, 
of Krieckenbeeck, ffiould remain to Pruflia, in exchange 
lor the principality of Orange, which was annexed to 
France. This prince eftabliffied a court of judicature, 
confifting of feven counfellors, or magiftrates, to judge 
the caufes of all the country under his dominion. The 
fortifications have been razed. In 1794, it was taken 
by the French republicans. Seventy-two miles fouth- 
eaft of Amfterdam, and twenty-two north-north-eaft of 
Ruremond. Lat. 51. 35. N. Ion. 24. 22. E. Ferro. 
GUEL'GEM, a town of Flanders: four miles weft 
of Courtray. 
GUELPHS, a celebrated faftion in Italy, and Ger¬ 
many, antagonifts of the Gibelins. See Gib e Lius. 
The Guelphs and Gibelins filled Italy with blood and 
carnage for many years. The Guelphs flood for the 
pope, againft the emperor. Their rife is referred by 
fome to the time of Conrad, in the twelfth century ; 
by others, to that of Frederic I. and by others, to that, 
of his Cucceffor Frederic II. in the thirteenth century.— 
See the article Germany, vol. viii. p. 481. 
GUEMAR', a town of France, in the department of 
the Upper Rhine : two leagues and a quarter north of 
Colmar, and one and a half fouth of Schlettftart. 
GUEMENE', a town of France, in the department 
of the Morbihan, and chief place of a canton, in the 
diftrift of Pontivy : three leagues weft of Pontivy. 
GUEMENE', a town of France in the department of 
the Lower Loire, and chief place of canton, in the dif¬ 
trift of Blain : three leagues north of Blain. 
GUE'NE (La), a town of France, in the department 
of the Correze : half a league fouth-eaft of Tulle, and 
.three quarters north-weft of Argental. 
GUER', a town of France, in the department of the 
Morbihan, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrift ol 
Ploermel: three leagues eaft-fouth-eaft of Ploermel, 
and nine and a quarter eaft-north-eaft of Vannes. 
GUERAN'DE, a town of France, and principal place 
of a diftrift, in the department of the Lower Loire: 
twelve leagues weft of Nantes, and four and a half 
fouth of Roche Bernard. Lat. 47.20.N. Ion. 15. 13. 
E. Ferro. 
GUER'ARD, a town of- France, in the department 
of the Seine and Marne : two leagues weft of Coulom- 
miers, and eight eaft of Paris. 
GUER'ARD (Robert), a learned French benedic- 
tine monk, born at Rouen in 1641. He was employed 
as an afliftant to father Delfau, in preparing for the 
prefs the grand edition of the Works of St. Auguftin; 
but while he was engaged in that undertaking, was fuf- 
pefted of having aided that father in the compofition 
of the obnoxious publication entitled VAbbe Commenda - 
taire, which -was unjuftly aferibed to him. In confe- 
quence of this fufpicion father Guerard was baniflied to 
Ambournay, near Bourg, in the country of Breffe. He 
employed himfelf during his exile in feajehing for an- 
