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Commentary on the Book of Puffendorr concerning the 
D nties of a Man and a Citizen. He died in 1731, aged 
forty-eight. Betides the articles above-mentioned, lie was 
the author of Mifcellanca Tigurind, in 3 vols. 8vo. and a 
number of Sermons in the German language. 
KU'LET, [from hulttle, „Fr. a fli^pherd’s crook.] A 
furriame. 
HUL'FENBERG, a town of Germany, on the Lower 
Rhine, and territory of Eichsfc-ld : eight miles fouth of 
Duderltadt. 
HU'LIN ROCKS, or The Maids, rocks in the north 
channel of the Irith Sea, fix miles from the coaft of An¬ 
trim. Lat. 54. 57. N. Ion. 5. 37. W. Greenwich. 
HULK, f [hulcke, Dut. hulc, Sax.] The body of a (hip. 
—There’s a whole merchant’s venture of Bourdeaux Huff 
in him: you have not feen a hulk better Huffed in the 
hold. Shakefpeare. —Any thing bulky and unwieldy. This 
fenfe is lull retained in the north : 
And Harry Monmouth’s brawn, the hulk fir John, 
Is prifoner to your fon. Shakefpeare. 
To HULK, v..n. To exenterate ; as, to hulk a hare. 
Ainfworth. 
HUL'KY, adj. Big ; bulky ; clumfy. 
HULL, /. [. hu/gan , Goth, to cover.] The hulk or inte¬ 
gument of any thing; the outer covering: as, the hull of 
a nut covers the fhell. [Hulc, Scottifli.] The body of a 
ill ip ; the hulk. Hull and hulk are new confounded ; but 
hulk feems originally to have meant not merely the body 
or hull, but a whole Ihip of burden, heavy and bulky : 
Deep in their hulls cur deadly bullets light, 
And through the yielding planks a paflage find. Drydcn. 
To HULL, v.v. To float; to drive to and fro upon the 
water without fails or rudder.—He lock’d, and law the 
ark hull on the flood. Milton. 
HULL, or Kingston-ufon-Hull, [ heulcn , Teut. to 
howl, from the noife the river makes when it meets with 
the fea.] A large commercial town and fea-port in the 
county of York, diitant ninety-feven miles'eaft from Man- 
chefter, forty from York, and 173 north from London. 
It 'is of a triangular form, the longeft fide of which is ir¬ 
regular, and compofed of the rivers Hull and Humber, 
from which the town is called Hull. It is moll admirably 
calculated for a place of ftrength, and was juftly efteemed 
o ,e of the keys 'of the kingdom, being defended on the 
north-eaft by the Hull, and on the fouth by the Humber; 
the progreflion and confluence of the two rivers (weeping 
round to the extremities of the (horfelt (ides of the trian¬ 
gle, which were formerly defended by a ftrong wall, town- 
ditch, raVnpart, half-moons, and fecond ditch. In 1296, 
Edward I. on his return from his famous Scotch expedi¬ 
tion (in which he had a< 51 ed as the arbitrator between 
Bruce and Baliol), was fo (truck with its fituation, that 
lie built the town, and granted a charter replete with 
many privileges,■making it a free borough under the ju- 
rildicfion of a warden, who had the power of gaol-deli¬ 
very, with judgment of life and death, fairs, markets,- See. 
In the latter end of the reign of Edward II. the govern¬ 
ment was changed to that of a grand bailiff, as a more 
.honourable jurifdiftion. In the reign of Edward III. 
llourilhed William de la Pole, head of the family of the 
.earls and dukes of Suffolk, fo famous in our hiftory, when 
the government was again changed to a mayor and four 
bailiffs: de la Pole was knighted, and made the firfc mayor 
of Hull, in 1332. In 1399, when Henry IV. landed at 
Ravenfpurn (now loft by the encroachment of the fea), he 
was denied entrance into the town. In 1440 (Henry VI.) 
■the town was erected into a county, comprifing nine vil¬ 
lages in the environs; the government was again changed, 
from a mayor and bailiffs, to a mayor and twelve aider- 
men, with a fheriff and two chamberlains, as it continues 
at this day; fo that it is now called The town iftid county 
of the town of Hull'. Soon after this, the town was di¬ 
vided into wards. In 1448, Henry VI. viiited Hull 5 and, 
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in 1460, the mayor, Richard Hanfon, was flain at the bat¬ 
tle of Wakefield, fighting for the houfe of Lancafter. In 
1463, the town was vifited and garrifoned by Edward IV. 
[being encumbered with heavy debts by the civil wars, 
infomuch that they were conftrained to fell the dead off 
the market-crofs. In 1472 the plague fiwept off numbers 
of the inhabitants; the place‘was abandoned, and grafs 
grew in the ftreetrs. In 1536, Hull was taken by the re¬ 
bel A-(ke; alfo by another party of rebels in 1537; and 
again by fir Robert Conftable, in whole pofleffion it re¬ 
mained a month, when it was retaken, and he was hanged 
at one of the gates of the town. In 1637, it was again 
afflicted by the plague, and the inhabitants were in the' 
greateft dangerof being ftarved todeath. In 1639, CharlesI. 
made bis firit vifit to Hull, and met with a loyal recep¬ 
tion ; and the next year his governor was received, but 
refigned to the mayor foon after. In 1642, the attention 
of the king and parliament was engaged-on the acquifition 
of Hull. It was efteemed of great consequence, and it 
was the opinion of many, that if Charles had fe.cured it 
(as he had the Tower ot London and garrifon cf Portf- 
mouth), being then in poffeffion of the keys of the king¬ 
dom and the principal magazines, he would never have 
been fubdued; but, Hotham being foon after received 
from the parliament, he abandoned all hopes of it; and, 
on Sr. George’s day the fame year, fiSrFered that di(grace¬ 
ful exchifion at BeVerley-gate. After a variety of letters, 
memorials, and meflages, between the king- and parlia¬ 
ment, it was-blockaded by the former, the fluices were 
pulled up, the country flooded to annoy the royal army, 
by which immenfe damage was done to the inhabitants 
and the fuburbs, and various attempts to gain the place 
by negociation were made by the royalilts. On Saturday 
September 2, 1643, the royal army, under the command 
of William Cavendiffi duke of Newcaftle (then marquis), 
fat down before Hull and invefted it, and the fiege was 
carried on with various fuccefs till the 12th of Oftober 
following (five weeks and four days), when it was railed, 
after being defended with great bravery by lord Fairfax. 
In 1643 the Common Prayer was burnt in the market¬ 
place, loon after which the plague again appeared. 
In the w'ar, ended by the peace of Utrecht, the fleets 
from Hull to London were frequently one hundred fail ; 
fometimes, including the other creeks in the Humber, one 
hundred and fixty fail at a time; and to Holland their 
trade was fo confiderable, that the Dutch always employed 
two men-of-war to convoy the merchant-fnips to and from 
Hull, and thole were as many as they fent to London. In 
a word, moft of the trade of Leeds, Wakefield, Hudderf- 
field, and Halifax, is negociated here. All the lead-trade 
of Derbyfhire and Nottinghamfhire, from Bawtry wharf; 
the butter of the Eaft and North Ridings brought down 
the Oufe from York; the cheefe down the Trent from 
Stafford, Warwick, and Cheibjre; and the corn from ail 
the counties adjacent, are (hipped off from this port. By 
the Oufe it trades to York, Boroug’nbridge, and Rippon. 
By the Trent, Idle, Witham, Don, and Derwent, a great 
trade is carried on to Bawtry, Gainfborougb, Newark, 
Nottingham, Derby, and Lichfield. By the new inland 
navigation it has communication with the rivers Merfey, 
Dee, Ribble, Severn, Thames; Avon, &c. -which naviga¬ 
tion, including its windings, extends above five hundred 
miles in the counties of Lancafter, Weitmoreland, Lei¬ 
cester, Oxford, Worcefter, &c. .The firft trade that en¬ 
riched the town of Hull was in Iceland filh, dried and 
hardened, the fame that is called fock-ffh, becaufe it was 
carried on by a joint ftock. This town was "famous for 
its good government; and thence arofe this laying, called 
the beggars and vagrants’ litany, From Hell, Hull, and 
Hallifax, good Lord deliver us. Hull, for the levere 
chaltifement they met with there; Hallifax, for a law in- 
ftanfly beheading with an engine thofe who were taken 
in the fact of ltealing cloth, without any further legal 
proceedings, being probably more terrible to them than 
Hell itfelf. 
The 
