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LUBATCH'OW, a town of Auftrian Poland, in Ga¬ 
licia : fixteen miles north of Lemberg, and feventy-five 
foiith-fouth-eaft of Lublin. 
LUB'BARD, /. A lazy fturdy fellow ; 
Yet their wine and their viftua's thofe curmudgeon lubbards 
Lock up from my fight, in cellars and cupboards. Swift. 
LUB'BERT (Sibrand), a learned Dutch Calvinift di¬ 
vine, was born at Langoworde in Friefland, about the 
year 1556. After ftudying polite learning in the college 
of Bremen, he removed to the univerfity of Wittemberg, 
where he didinguilhed himfelf by his application and pro¬ 
ficiency, particularly in his acquaintance with the He¬ 
brew language. Afterwards he went to Geneva, and di¬ 
ligently attended the lectures of Beza, Cafaubon, and 
Francis Portus. From Geneva he went to Newftadt, to 
which place prince Cafimir had removed the profefTors of 
the reformed religion. When he was prepared for enter¬ 
ing on the minifterial profeffion, he was invited to under¬ 
take the paftoral care by the reformed church at Brufiels, 
and by that of Embden. He accepted of the offer of the 
latter, and difcharged the duties of his poll with great 
fidelity and zeal. In the year 1584, he accepted of an 
invitation to remove into Friefland, where he was ap¬ 
pointed preacher to the governor and to the deputies of 
the fiates of that province, and alfo profeffor of divinity 
in the new univerfity of Franeker. On this occafion he 
went to Heidelberg, where he was admitted tp the degree 
of doctor of divinity ; and then returned to his profef- 
forfhip, which he occupied with reputation for nearly 
forty years, during w’hich period he was often employed 
in very important affairs. He was one of the deputies to 
the fynod of Dort, and one of the wjfeft and mod learned 
men of the anti-remonftrant party in that affemhly. In 
the univerfity, he was a ltrift obferver of the ffatutes j 
and frequently refilled the reftorfliip, on account of the 
remilfnefs in difcipline which had been fuffered to take 
place, and which he was fearful he fhould not be able to 
controul. A year before his death, however, he was pre¬ 
vailed upon by intreaties and folicitations to accept of 
that dignity, there being a probability that the authority 
of the lovereign would fupport his meafures for promot¬ 
ing reformation and order. He died at Franeker in 1625, 
about the age of fixty-nine. He was the author of fevc- 
ral learned and efteemed treatifes againft Bellarmin, and 
liis fecond, Gretzer, in the controverfies relating to the 
fcriptures, the pope, the church, and the councils. He 
alfo publiftied a work againlt Socinus, entitled De C/iriJio 
Salvatore ; and he exerted his pen again it Arminius, Vor- 
Jtius, Grotius, and the other alfertors of the caufe of the 
remonftrants. The lalt work which he publifhed, was 
A Commentary on the Catechifm of Heidelberg. Even 
Scaliger himfelf, who fcarcely gave any perfon a good 
word, acknowledged that he was a learned man. Bayle. 
LUB'BECKE, or Luthicke, a town of Weftphalia, 
in the county of Minden, confiding of about 258 dwell¬ 
ing- houles j and which, ever lince the year 1270, when it 
obtained the privileges of a city, has been environed with 
ramparts, ditches, and walls. This place enjoys confider- 
able immunities, and in particular the territorial jurildic- 
tion over a coniiderable dill rift. Its mngiftracy is pof- 
fetfed of the civil and criminal jurifdiftion in the firlt in- 
ltance. The chief trade is in yarn and linen, breeding 
cattle, and brewing beer. The town was wholly deftroyed 
by fire in the years 1368 and 1519, as alfo aim oft one half 
of it in 1705 ; and in 173+ it likewife fuftained great .da¬ 
mage by tiie fame dreadful calamity. It is fourteen miles 
welt of Minden. 
LUB'BEN, or Lu'bio, a town of Lower Lufatia, in a 
circle to which it gives name, on the Spree : thirty.lix 
miles fouth of Berlin, and fifty-four north of Drefden. 
Lat. 51.57- N. Ion. 13. 45-E. 
LUB'BER, /. [from tubbed, laid by Junius to fignify in 
Danilh fat.'] A fturdy drone ; an idle, fat, bulky, loiel; a 
booby.— Thefe chafe the lmaller Ihoals of filh from the 
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main fea into the havens, leaping up and down, puffing 
like a fat lubber out of breath. Carew. 
Venetians do me more uncouthly ride 
Than did your lubber ftate mankind beftride. Drydert, 
LUB'BERLY", adj. Lazy and bulky.—I came to Eaton 
to marry Mrs. Anne Page ; and file’s a great lubberly boy, 
Shakefpeare. 
LUB'BERLY, adv. Awkwardly; clumfily.— Merry 
Andrew on the low rope copies lubberly the lame tricks 
which his malter is fo dexteroufly performing on the high. 
Dry den. 
LUB'CZ, a town of Ruffian Lithuania t twenty-five 
miles north of Novogrodek. 
LU'BEC, a city of Germany, fituated within the limits 
of Holltein, on the river Trave, which is a navigable ri¬ 
ver, and above the city receives the Steckenitz, another 
navigable ftream, by means of which it communicates 
with the Elbe; and below is the Wackenitz, which is 
likewife navigable, and iifues from the Lake of Ratze- 
burg. After joining the Sewartau in its progrels, this 
river falls into the Baltic. By means of fhele feveral 
ftreams, long and flat-bottomed veflels pals from the Bal¬ 
tic along the Trave, the Steckenitz, and the Elbe, into 
the German Ocean. The town Hands on the two fules 
of a long hill, of a moderate height, the eaftern part ex¬ 
tending itfelf. down the declivity towards the Wacke¬ 
nitz, as the weftern does towards the Trave. Exclulive 
of walls and towers, it is farther furrounded with ltrong 
ramparts, and to thele has the addition of wide moats. 
The itreets are for the mod part deep, and the houles all 
of ftone, and old faftiioned. Ever lince the year 1530, 
Lutheranilin has been the eltablilhed religion of the place. 
Belides the cathedral of an ancient fee, it has alfo four 
parochial churches. This city was the head of the Hanle- 
towns ; and in the town-houie is a large hall, called Hanje- 
Jaal, where their deputies uled to meet. See Hanseatic 
League, vol. ix. On the fpot where the city now Hands, 
was formerly a town named Bucu ; on the demolition of 
which, about the year 1144, Adolphus II. count of Hol¬ 
ltein and Schauenburg, laid the firlt foundations of the 
celebrated city of Lubec. Its fpeedy increafe, and the 
refort thither of all the merchants from Bardewick, cre¬ 
ated fuch umbrage to Henry the Lion duke of Saxony, 
that he gave orders that nothing fhould be fold at this 
place but provilions. In 1156, Lubec being burnt down, 
duke Henry, after along negociation, prevailed on count 
Adolphus to give him the town ; which having rebuilt, 
he erefted it into a free port; and, in 1158, conferred on 
it the ftadtrecht, or municipal right, winch took its rile 
irom Seed, and was then become very famous. This 
right was confirmed to ir, in 1188, by the emperor Fre¬ 
deric I. and, in 1226, by Frederic II. and afterwards by 
the fucceeding emperors. In 1276, the whole city was 
deftroyed by fire, five houfes only excepted. In the ma- 
tricula of the empire, its contingent was 480 florins; and 
to the chamber of Wetzlar it paid 557 rix-dollars, and 88 
kruitzers. Its fee was firlt erefted by the emperor Otho I. 
at Oldenburg, a city of Ilolftein, in the year 951, lor the 
converfion ot tjie Wends, who inhabited this country, 
and removed to Lubec in the year 1164. The reforma¬ 
tion of the diocefe was begun under hilltop Henry of Bo- 
cholt, and, being forwarded by his fuccelfor, Detley, of 
Reventlau, who was promoted to the lee in 1535, as alio 
by the fucceeding proteftant bilhop, it was accoinpliflied 
in 1561. The bilhop of Lubec, though a prince of the 
empire, yet in the college of princes fat neither on the 
fpiritual nor temporal bench, but on a particular one 
placed crolfwife, and laid there purely for him and the 
biftiop of Ofnabruck, when a Lutheran. He had alfo a 
vote among the princes of the circle of Lower Saxony. 
The cathedral Hands in the imperial city of Lubec, where 
however, it is invefted with no manner of authority. The 
chapter confilts of thirty perlons, who, four Roman ca¬ 
tholics excepted, are all Lutherans. 
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