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gant. The font, which Is very ancient, is afcended by 
three done fteps, the upper one bearing an inscription, 
but fo much corroded as to be alrnoft unintelligible. It 
is Surrounded by three rows of faints, each row contain¬ 
ing twelve figures ; and is otherwife finely adorned with 
carved work. Mr. Whifton, the friend of fir Ifaac Newton, 
and Some time profeffor of mathematics in the unjverfity 
of Cambridge, from which he was expelled for his Arian 
f irinciples, was long vicar of this church. This town had 
ikewife formerly three chapels of eafe, but only one of 
them now continues to be ufed. There are meeting- 
lioufes here for methodifts and prefbyterians. A theatre 
was erefled in 1790. 
Loweftoff, from its extenfive fifhery, is a good nur- 
fery fdr feamen ; and has given birth to feferal eminent na¬ 
val officers. A great fea-fight took place off this town on 
the 3d of June, 1665, between the Britifh fleet under the 
duke of York, and the Dutch fleet commanded by 
admirals Opdam and Van Tromp ; in whicfi the latter 
were defeated, with the lofs of eighteen (hips taken and 
fourteen funk. In this aflion, admiral firThomas Allen, 
a native of this town, particularly diftinguifhed himfelf. 
An opinion prevails, that the bold and decifive manoeuvre 
of breaking the enemy’s line has been lately introduced 
into our naval taftics; but, in Gillingwater’s Account of 
the above famous engagement, he fays, “ The fight began 
at three o’clock in the morning, and for forne time viftory 
was doubtful; but, about noon, the earl of Sandwich, 
with the blue fquadron, forced himfelf into the centre of 
the Dutch fleet, divided it into two parts, and began that 
confufiop which ended in total defeat.” 
In the year 1744., a battery of fix pieces of cannon, 18- 
pounders, was erefted at the fouth end of the town, for 
prote&ing (hips in the fouth roads, and guarding the 
paflage of the Stanford. In the year 1756, a battery was 
eretded on the beach at the north end of the town, and 
two pieces of cannon brought thither from the fouth bat¬ 
tery. In the year 1782, a new fort was erefted at the 
fouth end of the town, furnifhed with thirteen pieces of 
cannon ; and another fort was erefted at the north end 
of the town, befides a battery near the Nefs. The mar¬ 
ket-day is Wednefilay.5 fairs, May 12 and Oftober 10. 
The inhabitants are exempt from ferving on juries either 
at aflifes or quarter-feflions, by writ 15 Eliz. 1573. 
Near Lowefioff flood formerly the village of Newton ; 
but it has been entirely fwallowed up by the fea. 
Gunton, to the north of Lowefiolf, is a fmall parifh, 
containing only five houfes, one of which is the hall or 
manfion-houfe, the feat of Gerard Montague, efq. The 
church is a fmall plain building, with a round tower, re¬ 
built by Charles Boyce in 1700, and dedicated to St. Pe¬ 
ter ; there is a very old architrave for the north door. 
"'The whole parifh was purchafed by the late fir Charles 
Saunders in 1762. 
Blundefton is three miles north-weft from Loweftoff,where 
is a very pleafant houl'e, the refidence of the Rev. Norton 
Nichols, with a beautiful pleafure-ground and fine piece 
of water; and likewife a neat modern-built houfe, the 
refidence of Nathaniel Rix, efq.—Benacre-hall, the feat 
of fir Thomas Gooch, bart. about feven miles diftant, be- 
tween South wold and Loweftoff.—Burgh Caftle, about fe¬ 
ven miles from Loweftoff, and near Clopton, is the an¬ 
cient Garionorum of the Romans, and worthy the atten¬ 
tion of the antiquary. 
Herringfiee.t-hall is about fix miles from Loweftoff. The 
fcke of. this houfe, together with a confiderable eftate, 
comprehending aim off the whole parifh of Herringfleet, 
about half a century ago paffed from the Bacon family 
to Hill Muffendon, efq. who bequeathed it to his elder 
brother Carteret, who had taken the name of Leath.es; 
from him it defcended to John Leathes, efq. his fon. 
There was a priory pf black canons founded here by Ro- 
oer Fitz-Ofbert, of Somerly, (the laft of that family,) to 
the honour of St, Mary and St. Olave the king and mar¬ 
tyr, in the Beginning of the reign of Henry III. Herein 
Vol. XIII. No, 938, 
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were, about the time of the diffolution, five or fix religious, 
who were endowed with 49I. 11s. 7d. per annum. The 
fcite of this houfe, with great part of the lands, were 
granted to Henry Jerningham, efq. patron, 26th Jar.. 38 
Henry VIII. The remains of the priory were chiefly taken 
down in 1784, but fome parts of it are (till left. Somerly- 
hall was the refidence of Roger Fitz-Ofbert, who founded 
the priory at Herringfleet. In the reign of queen Eliza¬ 
beth, the eftate, which confuted of the greateft part of the 
ifland of Lothingland, was in the poffeffion of fir Henry 
Jerningham. From the Jerningham family it went to the 
Wentworths. Sir Thomas Wentworth held the manor 
about the year 1627, and afterwards fold it to admiral 
fir Thomas Allen about 1669. The admiral’s fon, dying 
a bachelor, gave the eftate, &c. to Mr. Richard Anguiflf, 
upon condition of his taking the name of Allen, who then 
became fir Richard Allen ; and from this gentleman it 
defcended to the prefent fir Thomas Allen. In this pa¬ 
rifh is an exceeding good parfonage-houfe, rebuilt, at a 
confiderable expenfe, by the Rev."Mr. Love, the rector. 
Corton is a pleafant village about two miles to the north 
of Loweftoff: it Hands on a high cliff that commands an 
extenfive fea-profpe< 5 t. The property of the parifh be¬ 
longs chiefly to John Ives, efq. The’ church has been 
very large, but it is now delapidated, and the chancel con¬ 
verted into a place of»public worfliip, and fome years ana 
rendered very neat by the exertions of the Rev. Francis 
Bownefs, the vicar.—Six miles to the north of Loweftoff 
is Hobland-hall, a good modern-built houfe, late the refi¬ 
dence and property of the Rev. D. H. Urquhart, an act¬ 
ing magiftrate for the county of Suffolk ; but now belong¬ 
ing to the family of the Ives’s. Giilingwater's Hijlorical Ac¬ 
count, 1790. Britijh Directory, vol. iii. 
LO'WICK, a village in Northamptonfhire, two miles 
and a half from Thrapfton, has a liandfome church, with 
curious ltained glafs windows. Here is a charity-fehooi 
for poor boys and girls.—Lord Sackville has a feat, Dray¬ 
ton, half a mile to the weft ward of Lowick : the fituatioa 
of Drayton is low, but the houfe has a good free-ftone 
front; and fome judicious alterations have been made by 
the prefent lord. 
LOWICK CHAP'EL, a village in Lancafhire, north of 
Ulverftone.—A village in Northumberland, between Wol- 
ler and Berwick. 
LO'WICZ, a town of the duchy of Warfaw, on the 
Bfura, in which Hands a palace belonging to the archbi- 
fliop of Gnefna. This town lies in a morals; and, befides 
a cathedral, has three other churches, and fome convents. 
Among the inhabitants are great numbers of artificers; 
and the fairs held in this town are famous for the variety 
of goods which are expofed to fale. It is twenty-eml/t 
miles north of Rawa, and fifty fouth-weft of Warfaw. 
Lat. 51. 50. N. Ion. 20. E. 
LOWIN. See Lowen, p. 706. 
LO'WING, f. A bellowing; the noiie of black cat¬ 
tle. 
LO'WITZ (George Moritz), profeffor at Gottingen, 
and member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences at Pe- 
terfburgh, was born in 1722, at Furth, near Nuremberg. 
He was put apprentice to the trade of a goldfmith ; and by 
his exp.ertr.efs in the bufinefs he was enabled afterwards 
to conftruift and improve mathematical inftruments, with 
the ufe of which he was well acquainted. He now turned 
his attention to fcience, and made a very uncommon pro- 
grefs in mathematics and natural philofophy. In 1748, 
he diftinguifhed himfelf by conffruciing two charts of the 
folar eclipfe which was to take place in the following 
July. He afterwards obferved the eclipfe with great ac¬ 
curacy, by a new method of his own invention. Next 
year he publifhed a chart reprefenting the folar eclipfe 
announced for the 8th of January, 1750, as it would ap¬ 
pear to the inhabitants of Peterfburgh, Rome, Berlin, Nu¬ 
remberg, Lifbon, See. _ During tbefe years fie had beets 
employed^n the education of young perfons; and in ijn 
he was appointed profeffor of mathematics and natural 
s N philofophy 
