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port. Madox. Hiji. Exh. 530. Thefe legal ports were un¬ 
doubtedly at firfl affigned by the crown ; fince to each 
of them a court of portmote is incident, the jurifdic- 
tionof which mud flow from the royal authority. 4 Inf. 
148. The great ports of the fea are alfo referred to, as 
eflablifhed by flat. 4 Hen. IV. c. 20, which prohibits the 
landing elfewhere under pain of confifcation : and the 
flat. 1 Eliz. c. ix, recites that the franchife of lading 
and difcharging had been frequently granted by tile 
crown. 
But though the king” had a power of granting the 
franchife of harbours and ports, yet he had not the power 
of refumption, or of narrowing and confining their li¬ 
mits when once eflablilhed ; but any perfon had a right 
to lade or difcharge his merchandize in any part of "the 
haven : whereby the revenue of thecufloms was much, 
impaired and diminifhed, by fraudulent landings in ob- 
fcure and private corners. This produced the flats. 
1 Eliz. c. 11. 13 and 14 Car. II. c. 11; which enabled 
the crown by commillion to afcertain the limits of all 
ports, and to affign proper wharfs and quays in each 
port, / for the exclufive landing and lading of merchan¬ 
dize. 1 Comm. 246. c. 7. And by the flat. 19 Geo. II. 
c. 22, if any mafler of a fhip fhall call out of anyfhip, 
riding in any harbour, &c. any ballaft, &c. but only on 
land, where the tide never flows or runs', he may be 
fined by the juftices, not more than five pounds nor lefs 
than fifty fliillings. As foon as any fhip fhall be funk, 
flranded, or run on fhore, in any harbour, &c. or be 
brought or drove in, or be There in a ruinous condition, 
and there be buffered to remain, and the owner fhall be¬ 
gin to tarry away the rigging; on fummons of the 
owner, or commander, a juflice may feize the fhip, See. 
.and by fale thereof raife money to clear the harbour. 
Many other arils of parliament have been made for re¬ 
pairing and improving particular harbours in this king¬ 
dom ; viz. flats. 23 Hen. VII. c. 7. 27 Hen. VIII. c. 23 ; 
relating to the portsof Plymouth,Portfmouth,Falmouth, 
&c. in Devonfhire and Cornwall ; whereby it is enarited 
none fhall labour in the tin works near the rivers of 
thofe harbours, but fhall prevent the fall of flones and 
gravel therein. Star. 27 Eliz. c. 1, was for repairing 
Orford haven in Suffolk; arid flats. 13 and 14'Car. II. 
4 Geo. I. c. 13. See, for the reparation of Dover har¬ 
bour. Stat, 20 Geo. II. c. 14, was made for opening 
Southvvold haven in Suffolk. Stat. 20 Geo. II. c. 18, 
was made for improying Sunderland harbour in Durham. 
Stat. 27 Geo. II. c. 8, for improving and inlarging the 
harbour of Leith.—For the conflrurilion of Harbours, 
See. fee the article Architecture, vol. Si. p. 127. 
To HAR'BOUR, v.n. To receive entertainment; to 
fojourn ; to take fhelter.—-This night let’s harbour here 
in York. Shakefpeare. 
Let me be grateful; but let far from me 
Be fawning cringe, and falfe diffembling look, 
And fervile flattery, that harbours oft 
In courts and gilded roofs. Philips. 
To HAR'BOUR, v. a. To entertain; to permit to re¬ 
side.—My lady bids me tell you, that though fhe har¬ 
bours you as her uncle, fhe’s nothing allied to your dif- 
orders. Shakefpeare. 
Let no,t your gentle breaft harbour one thought 
Of outrage from t|ie king. Rome. 
To fhelter; to fecure.— Harbour yourfelf this night in 
this caflle : this country is very dangerous for murther- 
irig thieves to trull a fleeping life among them. Sidney. 
H AR'BOURAGE, f. [herbergage , Fr. from harbour. ] 
Shelter,; entertainment : 
Let in us, your king, whofe labour’d fpirits, 
Forewearied.in this arition of fwjft fpeed, 
Crave harbourage within your city wall. Shakefpeare. 
HAR'BOURER, f. One that entertains’another. 
HAR'BOURING, f. The act of entertaining or fhel- 
tering. 
HAR'BOURLESS, adj. Wanting harbour; being 
without lodging; without fhelter. 
HAR'BURG. See Haarburg. 
HAR'BURG, a town and caflle of Germany, in the 
territory of E.ichsfeld ; now forming part of the depart¬ 
ment of the Harz, in the new kingdom of Weflphalia : 
nine miles fouth-eafbof Duderfladt. 
HAR'COURT, a town of France, in the department 
of the Eure, and chief place of a canton, in the difiridt 
of Bernay : three leagues north-eafl of Bernay, and five 
north-weft of Evre.ux. 
HARCODRT LE BOIS HALBO'NT, a town of 
France, in the department of the Calvadosj and chief 
place of a canton, in the diltridi of Falaife : three leagues 
and three quarters north-weft of Falaife and.four fouth 
of Caen.' - 
HARD, adj. [heapb, Sax. hard, Dut.] Firm; refill¬ 
ing penetration or reparation; not foft; not eafy to be 
pierced or broken: 
Repofe you there, while I to the hard houfe, 
More hard than is the flone whereof ’tis rais’d ; 
Which even but now, demanding after you, 
Denied me to come in. Shakefpeare. 
Difficult; not eafy to the intellect.—The hard caufes 
they brought unto Mofes; but very fmall matters they 
judged themfejpes. Exodus. 
’Tis hard to fay if Clymene were mov’d 
More by his pray’r, whom fhe fo dearly lov’d. 
Or more with fury fir’d. Dryden. 
Difficult of accomplifhment; full of difficulties.—Is any 
thing too hard for the Lord > Genefis. 
The love and pious duty \vhiclv>you pay 
Have pafs’d the perils of fo hard a way. Dryden. 
Painful ; diftrefsful ; laboriousadtion or fullering.—Ra¬ 
chael travailed, and fhe had hard labour. Genefis. 
When Sebaflian weeps, his tears 
Come harder than his blood. Dryden. 
Cruel; opprefiive; rigorous; as, a hard heart.—A 
lofs of one third of their eflates by taxes will be a very 
hard cafe upon a great number of people. Locke. 
Whom fcarce my fheep, and fcarce my painful plough, 
The needful aids of human life allow ; 
So wretched is thy fon, fo hard a mother thou., Dryden. 
Sour; rough; fevere.—Rough ungovernable paffions 
hurry men on to fay or do'very hard or offenfive things. 
Atterbury.—\J nfavourable unkind : 
As thou lov’fl me, do him not that wrong, 
To bear a hard opinion of his truth. Shakefpeare. 
Infenfible ; inflexible: 
If I by chance fucceed 
In what I write, and that’s a chance indeed, 
Know I am not fo flupid or fo hard. 
Not to feel praife, or fame’s deferv’d reward. Dryden. 
Unhappy; vexatious.—It is a very hard quality upon 
our climate, that fo'excellent a fruit, which profpers 
among all our neighbours, will not grow here. Temple. — 1 
Vehement; keen; fevere: as, a hard winter; hard wea¬ 
ther.—Unreafonable ; unjufl.—It is a little hard, that in 
an affair of the lafl coniequence to the very being of the 
clergy, this whole reverend body fhould be the folq per- 
fons not confulted. Swift. —Forced ; not eafily granted. 
—If we allow the'firfl couple, at the end of one hundred 
years, to have left ten pair of breeders, which is no hard 
fuppofition; there would arife from thefe, in fifteen 
hundred years, a greater number than the earth was ca-, 
pable of. Burnet. —Powerful ; forcible.—A difputant, 
when he finds that his adverfary is too hard for him, 
with flynefs turns the difeourfe. Watts. —Auflere ; rough, 
as liquids.—In making of vinegar, fet veffels of wine 
over-againfl the noon fun, which calleth out the mpre 
oily fpirits, and leaves the fpirit more four and hard. 
Bacon. —Harfh ; fliff; conflfained.—Others, fcrupuloufly 
tied to the practice of the ancients, make their figures 
