L U C 
Italy, now hangs upon the decifions of the grand Con- 
grefs juft expected to open at Vienna, (Dec. 12, 1814..) 
LUC'CA, a city of Italy, and capital of the republic, 
anciently a Roman colony, the refidence of the govern¬ 
ment, moft delightfully fituated in a plain, terminating in 
eminences, and diverfified with villages, feats, fummer- 
houfes, vineyards, meadows, and corn-fields. Every thing, 
either for utility or pleafure, is here in great plenty, The 
city is regularly fortified with eleven baftions. Its cir¬ 
cuit is three Italian miles. The lioufes are handfome, 
the ftreets broad and well paved, but moft of them irre¬ 
gular. The inhabitants are fomewbat above 40,000 ; and 
among them great numbers of artifans and manufafturers, 
who carry on a confiderable trade, particularly in filk 
goods. The (fate palace is a large building ; and includes 
the arfenal, which has arms for 20,000 men. The biihop 
held immediately of the pope, and was entitled to the pal¬ 
lium or crucifix, as an archbilhop. The cathedral is a 
Gothic Jruilding. In 1799, the French entered this city, 
and impofed on it a contribution of 2,000,000 livres. 
The following extract is from the MSS. of Dr. John 
Bargrave, fon of Dr. B. dean of Canterbury, a great tra¬ 
veller. “ I have been often at Lucca, a (trong neate lit¬ 
tle city. The city is very ancient, C. Sempronius retir¬ 
ing hither when Hannibal hadrowted him at Trebbia and 
■Piacenza ; this being not only a colony, but a municipal 
•citty of the Romans, Julius Caefar wintering here, toge¬ 
ther with whonte Pompey and Crallus made the firft tri¬ 
al mv irat in this citty. The Volto Santo, that is, Our Sa¬ 
viour’s face on a linnen cloath, ftandeth with.magnificence 
in the cathedrall. In the church St. Fridianis is the tomb 
of one of our Englilh kings, being one of .the Richards, 
as the epitaph rudely fpeaketh thus: 
'Hie rex Richardus requiefeit feeptifer almus, 
Rex J'uit Anglorum, &c. 
When I went one time to Lucca, this epitaph was fo co- 
nered with the ornaments of rhe altar, that I cold not 
finde it, neither cold they tell vs of any fuch king buried 
there whoe (hewed vs the church ; but I, being confident 
it (hold be theare, caufed fome of the oliltacles to be re- 
moued, and fo found out the epitaph which I had for¬ 
merly reade j and I defired them to take care that that 
king’s memory might not be forgotten amongft them. 
Dr. John Bargraue, canon of Xt ch. Cauterb.” 
Laffels, in 1S70, lays, “ In the church of St. Frediano, 
belonging to the canons regulars, in a chappel on the left 
hand, is the tombe of St. Richard, king of England, who 
dyed here in his pilgrimage to Rome.” . Travels, Part I. 
p. 27.—Miffon, who was in Italy about 1688, deferibes, in 
the middle of the church of St. Fredian, a flat tomb, in- 
feribed, Hie iacet corpus SanSli Ricardi, regis Angliie ; whom 
be cannot make out} Richard I. being, as he obferves, 
^buried at Font Evraud, Richard II. at Weftminlter, and 
.Richard III. at Leicester; and there was no king of that 
name under the Heptarchy. Nouv. Voy. d'ltalie.— Mr. 
Wright, who faw this tomb about 1719-20, fays, p. 389, 
that this Richard, “ a king of England unknown to our 
Chronicles, was father to St. Valburga, to St. Villebald, and 
St. Vinebald,as fome rnonkifli verfes there fet forth, which 
he forbears troubling the reader with,” 
Mr. Breval fays (vol. i. p. 140.) “The fuppofed Eng¬ 
lish king, who lies buried in one of thele churches, and 
has puzzled moft of our travellers, is no other than the 
fon of a Kentifh Saxon monarch, whom the calamities of 
his houfe forced into a monadic ftate, the dernier refort, in 
that fuperftitious age, of unfortunate princes. The ig¬ 
norance of the Lucquefe themfelves in this point has kept 
travellers in the dark with regard to this pretended king 
of England, who was no other than the fon of Lothaire, 
■king of Kent, joined in the government of that branch of 
the Heptarchy with his father. Both of them being dif- 
poffeffed by their coufin Edric, Richard fled over the leas 
to Mentz, where there was an Englifh bifliop, by whole 
intereft he is faid to have obtained the crows of Suabia, 
LUC 13 $ 
He retired from the World at laft, and came and ended 
his days at Lucca, where they fliow his ftone coffin under 
the great altar at the Canonici regoiari. This happened in 
the 8th century.” Lothaire ulurpud the crown of Kent 
from his nephew Edric, 673, and affociated with him this 
his (on Richard ; but, after holding it twelve years, be¬ 
ing defeated by his nephew aflifted by Adelwalch king 
of Suflex, he died of his wounds 685, and his fon fled 
into Germany, where he married a daughter of Boniface 
archbilhop of Mentz, became king of Suabia, and died 
and was buried at Lucca. His mother was daughter of 
Siger, king of EtTex, and filter to Ofta. Hafied xxxiv. v. 
Gent. Mag. Jan. 1799.—Lucca is thirty-four miles weft of 
Florence, and nineteen north-north-eaft of Leghorn. Lat. 
43. 54. N. Ion. 10. 34. E. 
LUC'CA, a river of Afia, which rifes in Perfia, and 
runs into the Indus about eighteen miles above the con¬ 
flux with the Chunaub. 
LUC'CA, or Luckau', a town of Lower Lufatia, in a 
circle to which it gives name, on the river Prefte. It con¬ 
tains four churches, a Latin fchool, and an hofpital. It 
was furrounded with walls in the twelfth century. It is 
fifty miles ibtnh-eaft of Frankfort on the Oder, and forty- 
nine north of Drefden. Lat. 51. 51. N. Ion. 13.40. E. 
LUC'CADIVE I'SLANDS, See Laccadive, vol. xii, 
p. 27. 
LUCCE'IUS, a celebrated hiftorian, alked by Cicero to 
write a hiftory of his confulfliip. He favoured the caufe 
of Pompey, but was afterwards pardoned by Julius Ctelar. 
LUC'CI, a town of Naples, in Calabria Citra: three 
miles fouth of Bifignano. 
LUC'COS, a river of Morocco, anciently called Lixos, 
which runs into the Atlantic at Laracha. 
LUCE,/, [perhaps from lupus, Lat. j A pike full grown. 
—They give the dozen white luces in their coat. Shakefp . 
LUCE, a river of Scotland, which runs into the fea, in 
a large bay, about two miles fouth of Glenluce. 
LUCE, or Glen'luce, a town of Scotland, in the 
county ot Wigton, which owes its rife to an abbey of Cif- 
tertians, founded in 1190, called Vallis Lucis. It is fitu¬ 
ated at the northern extremity of a large bay to which it 
gives name. It is fixteen miles eaft ot Portpatrick, and 
eighteen weft of Wigton. Lat. 54. 58. N. Ion. 4. 17. W. 
LUCE, or Glenluce Bay, a large bay on the fouth 
coaft of Scotland extending from the Mull of Galloway 
to Burrow Head. It is named from the above town of 
Glenluce. Lat. 54. 50. N. Ion. 4. 50, W. 
LUCE (St.) a clulter of lrnall illands in the Indian Sea, 
near the eaft coaft of Madagafcar. Lat. 24. 30. S. Ion. 
47. 40. E. 
Eau de LUCE, a kind of volatile liquid foap, of a ftrong 
penetrating fmell. The following inftruttions will ferve 
for making it: Take four ounces of rectified fpirit of 
wine, and in it dillolve ten or twelve grains of white foap, 
filtrate this folution, then diffolve it in a dram of refi¬ 
lled oil of amber, and filtrate again : mix as much of this 
folution with the Itrongeft volatile fpirit of fal ammoniac, 
in a cryftal-glafs bottle, as, when fufficiently (haken, (hall 
produce a beautiful milky-liquor. If upon its furface be 
formed a cream, fome more of the oily fpirit of wine 
ought to be added. 
LUCE'A (Eaft and Weft), two rivers of Jamaica, which 
empty themlelves into Lucea Harbour. 
LUCE'A HAR'BOUR, a bay or harbour on the north 
fide of the lfland of Jamaica : fourteen miles weft of Mon¬ 
tego Bay. Lat. 1 3 . 28. N. Ion. 78. 9. W. 
LUCEL'LE, or Lut'zel, a town of France, in the de¬ 
partment of the Upper Rhine : two miles weft of Lauffen. 
LUCE'NA, a town of Spain, in the province of Cor¬ 
dova j here are ten convents: twenty-nine miles fouth- 
fouth-eaft of Cordova, and forty north-weft of Grenada. 
Lat. 37. 32. N. Ion. 4.29. W. 
LUCE'NA, a town of Spain, in the province of Va¬ 
lencia : eighteen miles north-eait of Segorbe. 
.LUCE'NA (Joam de), a Portuguefe Jefuir, and one of 
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