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carriage ; nor any cart .drawn by one horfe or two oxen; 
nor any carriage of nine-inch fellies, carrying one block 
of done and piece of timber, &c. (hall be fubjeft to the 
tolls of this aft for breadth of wheels, &c. No toll 
' ffiall be taken for carriages working on the repair of 
highways or turnpike-roads. No toll ffiall be taken for 
any horfes of foldiers or officers on their march or on 
duty, nor for any baggage-waggons; nor ffiall fuch 
carriages be weighed at any engine. The mail-coaches 
are alfo exempted from toll by flat. 25 Geo. III. c. 57. 
Perfons taking fraudulent advantage of any exemptions, 
ffiall forfeit from 40s. to 5I. 13 Geo. III. c.84. 
No furveyor ffiall gather or dig for (tones, without the 
confent of the owners of the land, or licenle from a 
juftice, where the owner ffiall have been fummoned and 
refufe to appear. If the overfeer of any turnpike-road 
ffiall fuffer any nuifance, (fuch as heaps of Hones, rub- 
biffi, &c.) to remain for four days, within ten feet on 
either fide the middle of fuch road, he (hall forfeit 40s. 
Stat. 13 Geo. III. c. 84. And as to nuifances by en¬ 
croachments of other perfons within thirty feet of the 
road, See. a penalty of 40s. is impofed, in the fame man. 
ner'as by the highway aft. 
Subfcribers, who (hall fign any writing to advance 
money for the road, ffiall be bound by their fubfeription ; 
and, on twenty-one days default, the treafurer may fue 
for'the fame. Stat. 13 Geo. III. c. 84. Mortgagees of 
tolls, having poffeflion of them, ffiall account, on oath, 
for all the moneys which ffiall fo come to their hands, 
after fourteen days notice from five truflees, or forfeit iol. 
Penalty for a mortgagee holding over after his money is 
paid is double the money received, and treble cods. If 
a difeharged gate-keeper refufes to deliver up the toll- 
houfe, &c. within four days after notice of a new 
appointment, any juftice may order him to be removed, 
and put the new toll-keeper in poffeffion. Gate-keepers 
and toll-gatherers on notice from five truflees, ffiall 
account for money received by them, on penalty of 5I. 
No perfon refiding in a toll-houfe, ffiall be removeable- 
as a pauper, unlefs chargeable; nor dial 1 he thereby 
gain a fettle,ment, or be affeffed to any public or paro¬ 
chial levy. Gate-keepers permitting horfes or carriages, 
not allowed by the aft, to pafs the gates, ffiall forfeit 40s. 
All officers, their executors and adminiflrators, ffiall, 
within ten days after notice by five truflees, deliver up 
all books, &c. on penalty of sol. 
By flat. 1 Geo. II. flat. a. c. 19, to deflroy any public 
turnpike gate, or the rails or fences thereto belonging, 
fubjefts the offender to hard labour for three months, 
and to be publicly whipped. By dat. 5 Geo. II. c. 33, 
on conviftion at the afiizes, the offender may be tranf- 
ported for (even years ; and on a fecond offence, or on 
demoliffimg any turnpike houfe, he ffiall be guilty of 
felony, and tranfported for feven years. In both thefe 
cafes the profecution mud be within fix' months; and, it 
the convift return from tranfportation before the expi¬ 
ration of the term, he fliall fuffer death. By dat. 8 Geo. 
II. c. 20, perfons guilty of the above offences, or de- 
droying any chain, &c. placed to prevent perfons from 
palfing without paying toll, or refeuing any offender, 
ffiall fuffer death without benefit pf clergy. Thefe two 
lad-mentioned afts are made perpetual by fiat. 27 Geo. 
II. c. 16. By flat. 13 Geo. II. c. 84, if any perfon (hall 
commit any of the offences aforefaid, or fliall dedroy any 
crane or machine for weighing carriages, &c. lie (hall be 
tranfportedifor feven years, or committed to prifon not 
exceeding three years, at the diferetion ot the court. And 
by the lad-mentioned aft it is provided, that, unlefs 
the offender be convifted within twelve months, the 
hundred (hall make fatisfaftion for the damages. 
HIGHWAYMAN,/. A robber that plunders on the 
public roads.—’Tis like the friendfhip of pickpockets 
and highwaymen , that obferve drift jultice among them- 
felves, Bentley.— For the apprehending and taking of 
highwaymen, a reward of 40I. is given by the datute of 
4 and 5 Will, and Mary, to be paid within a month 
after conviftion by the dieriff of the county; to which 
the datute 8 Geo. II. cap. 16. fuperadds iol. to be paid 
by the hundred indemnified by fuch taking. 
HIGUE'RA, a town of Spain, in the province of 
Edremadura: twelve miles north of Xeres de los Ca¬ 
balleros. 
HIGU'EY, or Alta Gracia, a city in the fouth- 
ead part of St. Domingo, or Hifpaniola, the eadernmod 
of all the fettlements in the ifiand, celebrated formerly 
for its fertility, and the quantity of fugar it produced. 
It was once the feat of Cayacoa, the mod powerful 
cacique of the idand. 
Hl’JAR, orlxAR, a town of Spain, in tire province 
of Aragon; twenty-five miles from Saragofla. 
HILA'RIA,/! in antiquity, feads celebrated annually 
by the Romans, on the 8th of the calends of April, or 
the 25th of March, in honour of Cybele, the mother of 
the gods. This fedival was folemnized with great pomp 
and rejoicing. Every perfon dreffed himfelfas he pleafed, 
and took the marks or badges of whatever dignity or 
quality he had a fancy for. The datue of the goddefs 
was carried in- proceffion through the dreets of the city, 
accompanied by multitudes in the mod fplendid attire. 
The day before the fedival was fpent in tears and mourn¬ 
ing. Cybele reprefented the earth, which at this time 
of the year begins to feel the kindly warmth of the 
fpring ; fo that this fudden tranfition from forrow to joy 
was an emblem of the viciditude of the feafons, which 
fucceeded one another. The Romans took this feaft 
originally from the Greeks, who called it oivaStno-^, q.d. 
afeenfus ; the eve of that day was fpent in tears and lamen¬ 
tations, and thence denominated it y.wraQa.crn;, defeenfus. 
Afterwards, the Greeks took the name ixana. from the 
Romans; as appears from Photius, in his extraft of tire 
life of the philofoper Ifidore. 
HILA'RION, a faint in the Roman calendar, who fird 
introduced monks in Paledine; born at Thebate, a town 
near Gaza, in 291. His parents, who were pagans, having 
fent him to pur.fue his dudies at Alexandria, he there 
became a convert to the Chridian religion, which in- 
fpired him with an ardent defire of communicating the 
fame faith to his parents and countrymen. But finding 
his parents dead, he didributed all his property among 
the poor, and withdrew into a defert, where he palled 
his time in foiitude and devotion, and acquired a high 
charafter for piety and fanftity, by the auderities to 
which he fubmitted. The number of his dilciples foon 
became numerous, whom he didributed into different 
monafleries throughout Paledine and Syria, over which 
he exercifed a fuperintendence, vifiting each of them' 
once every year. Afterwards he vifited the iflands of 
Sicily and Cyprus, in the latter of which he died in 371, 
when he had completed the eightieth year of his age. 
HILAR'ITY,/! [hilaritas, Lat.] Merriment; gaiety.— 
Averroes redrained his hilarity , and made no more there¬ 
of than Seneca commendeth, and was allowable in Cato; 
that is, a fober incalefcence for wine. Brown. 
HILA'RIUS, a man’s name. An ancient father of the 
Chridian church, who flourifhed in the fourth century. 
He was born, as St. Jerome informs us, at Poiftiers, of 
a gpod family; who gave him a liberal education in the 
pagan religion, and which he did not forfake till he was 
arrived at maturity. He was advanced to the biffiopric 
of Poiftiers in the year 355, according to Baronius; and 
became a mod; zealous champion for the orthodox faith, 
particularly againd the Arians, who were at that time 
gaining, ground in France. He affembledifeveral coun¬ 
cils there, in which the determinations of the fynods of 
Rimini and Seleucia were condemned. He wrote a trep- 
tife concerning fynods; and a famous work in twelve 
books on the Trinity, which is much admired by the 
orthodox believers. He died in the latter end of the 
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