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3762 he received deacon's orders, and in 1763 prieft's or¬ 
ders, from Dr. Green, bifhop of Lincoln. He was elefted 
by the univerfity to the redory of Ovington in Norfolk 
in 1764. In conjunction with two friends, the Rev. Ro¬ 
bert Thorpe and the Rev. George Woollafton, he pub- 
1 iflied, in 1765, a work entitled Excerpta qucedam e Newtoni 
Principiis Plrilofoplria Naturalis, cum Notts variorum, 4to. the 
value of which is teftified by its general ufe at Cambridge 
in the courfe of academical education. 
It would be tedious and uninterefting to trace the fteps of 
Mr. Jebb in his clerical removals ; but his return to Cam¬ 
bridge in the end of 1766 was an important era in his life. 
He refumed his office of private tutor, read occafional lec¬ 
tures, aded repeatedly as moderator, and warmly interefted 
himfelf in the concern? of the univerfity. He began in 
November, 1768, a courfe of ledures on the Greek Tef- 
tament; in which, as well as in other theological difcuffions, 
lie exprefled opinions which decidedly ranked him among 
thole who were defirous of carrying the reformation of 
religion further than it had been left at the time of the 
fettlement of the church. He aifo, by his condud on 
occafions in which the univerfity adedas a political body, 
■with equal decifion took the popular or oppofition fide ; 
and his determination on thefe two leading points formed 
the grand principle of his public life till its final clofe. He 
became, in Ihort, one of the moft zealous, intrepid, and 
indefatigable, fupporters of civil and religious liberty, and 
of public reform, in the kingdom. In 1769 he was pre¬ 
dented by William Adair, efq. to the vicarage of Flixton, 
near Bungay, and to the united redories of Homersfield 
and St. Crols, two contiguous parilhes ; and was alfo no¬ 
minated chaplain to his wife’s relation, the earl of Har- 
borough. From this time he divided his refidence for 
fome years between Bungay and Cambridge. His theolo¬ 
gical ledures having excited much obloquy againft him, 
he printed a “Short Account” of them in 1770, which he 
re-edited with large additions in 1772. When adefign was 
formed by fome of the clergy of applying to -parliament 
for relief in the matter of ecclefiaftical l'ubfcription, Mr. 
Jebb was early acquainted with it, and engaged in it with 
all the ardour of his charader. He affifted in drawing up 
various papers on the bufinefs ; and a feries of letters on 
the fubjed, which he printed in the Whitehall Evening 
Poll, under the fignature of Paulinus, were publiihed to¬ 
gether in a pamphlet in 1772. 
The diredion which Mr. Jebb’s theological opinions 
had taken was fo adverfe to the fyftem of the church to 
which he belonged, that it was manifelf one of his zeal and 
integrity could not permanently continue to officiate as 
one of its minifters. In proportion as compliances with 
its forms became more burthenfoine to him, he withdrew 
from its fundions ; and he finally refigned all his livings 
in September 1775. His motives for this facrifice were 
made public in a “ Short Statement of Reafons, See.” He 
remained at Cambridge fome time longer, ftill occupying 
himfelf with his favourite fchemes for the reformation of 
difcipline ; but finding a determined oppofition, together 
with perfonal hoftilities, which cut off his profpeds of 
fupport from private tuition, he finally left the place in 
September 1776. 
. He was now, at the age of forty, to look out for fome 
new way of life ; and by the advice of his relation fir Rich¬ 
ard Jebb, a phyfician of eminence, he determined upon 
the medical profeffion. His general learning and habits 
of ftudy rendered the acquilition of a new fcience no for¬ 
midable tafk. Taking up his abode in the metropolis, he 
affiduoufly. attended the ledures of medical teachers and 
the pradice of the hofpitals ; and in 1777 he received a 
diploma of M. D. from St. Andrew’s, and was admitted a 
licentiate of the London College. He did not commence 
pradice till February 1778, when he had completed two 
years of profeffional ftudies ; and he ftill lought improve¬ 
ment from ledures and hofpital cafes. In November 1778, 
he was eleded a fellow of the Royal Society: His cha¬ 
rader of a party-man was injurious to him profeifionally, 
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as appeared in the failure of his attempts to obtain the place- 
of an hofpital-phyfician; yet he had many warm friends 
who were zealous to ferve him, and his pradice increafed 
as long as his health permitted him to follow it regularly. 
A publication in 1782, relating “Seled Cafes of the Dif- 
order commonly termed the Paralylis of the Lower Ex¬ 
tremities; to w’hich is added, a Cafe of Catalepfy;” tefti¬ 
fied the accuracy with which he contemplated difeafes, 
and his fitnefs for thofe inveftigations which lead to the 
moft effedual methods of cure. The pradice of Mr. Pott 
in applying cauftics to the tumour of the fpine in the pa- 
ralyiis above-mentioned, is that which Dr. jebb’s cafes tend 
to fupport. His own health, however, injured by fatigues 
and anxieties, began to give way foon after he became 
entrufted with the care of that of others. His mind feems - 
to have worn out his body, and he fell into a ftate of de¬ 
bility, from which nothing could raife him ; funk under 
his indifpofition, and expired on March 2, 1786, in the 
fifty-firft year of his age. His works were publiihed col- 
ledively, in 3 vols. large 8vo. 1787. They confift of hie 
Plan of Theological Ledures, and a Harmony of the Gof- 
pels; of letters on the fubjed of fubfeription ; of fermons 
and theological trads; of papers relative to the ftate of 
public education at Cambridge; of medical cafes; and of 
political and mifcellaneous papers. 
JE'BUN, a tribe of Gentoos, defeended from a woman 
of the Bice and a man of the Dewol caft. 
JE'BUS, [Heb. a contemner.] The ancient name of 
Jerulalem. 
JEBUS.ZEH, one of the feven ancient people of Canaan, 
defeendants of Jebufi, Canaan’s fon ; fo warlike and brave, 
as to have ftood their ground, efpecially in Jebus, after¬ 
wards called JeruJalem, down to the time of David. Judges u 
21. 1 Sam. v. 6. 
JEB'USI, [Hebrew.] The name of a place. 
JEB USITE,/ [from Jebus. ] An inhabitant of Jebus, 
a native of Jebus. 
JECAMI'AH, [Hebrew’.] The name of a man. 
JECOLI'AH, [Hebrew.] The name of a man. 
JECONI'AH, [Heb. the faithfulnefs of God.] A man’s 
name. 
JECTIGA'TION, f. [frpm jatto, Lat. to tofs.] With 
phyficians, the trembling of the pulfe which in fome dis¬ 
orders indicates a convullion of the brain. Scott. Not muck 
ufed. 
JETUR,^ [Latin.] In anatomy, the liver. 
JED, a river of Scotland, which runs into the Tiviot 
two miles north of Jedburgh. 
JEDAI'A, or Jedai'ah, [Hebrew.] The name of a 
man. 
JED'BURGH, a town of Scotland, in the county of 
Roxburgh, on the river Jed, containing near 2000 inhabit¬ 
ants, and about 800 in the environs belonging to the .pa- 
riffr: tw'enty-five miles fouth-weft of Berwick, and thirty- 
four fouth-eaft of Edinburgh. Lat. 55. 30. N. 
JED'DO, the capital town or city of the iflands of Ja¬ 
pan, where the emperor refides. It is open on all fides, 
having neither walls nor ramparts ; and the houfes are 
built with earth, .ahd boarded on the outfide to prevent 
the rain from deftroying the walls. In every ftreet there 
is an iron gate, which is ffiut up in the night; and a kind 
of cuftom-houfe or magazine, to put merchandifes in. It 
is a large place, being nine miles in length and fix in 
breadth, and contains 1,000,000 of inhabitants. A fire 
happened in 1658, which, in the fpace of forty-eight 
hours, burnt down 100,000 houfes, and in which a valt 
number of inhabitants perifhed. The emperor’s palace 
and all the reft were reduced to afhes; but they are all 
rebuilt. The royal palace is in the middle of the town; 
and is defended with walls, ditches, towers, and baftions. 
Where the emperor refides there are three towers fiine 
ftories high, each covered with plates of gold; and the 
hall of audience is faid to be fupported by pillars of maf- 
fy gold. Near the palace are ieveral others, where the 
relations of the emperor live. The emprefs has a palace 
