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luited to promote the reformation from popery more than 
any other publication of that period. 
Bilhop Jewel difcharged the duties of his epifcopal 
function with exemplary diligence and attention. In 
his firft vifitation he began, and in his laft he perfefted, 
fiich a reformation, not only in the cathedral and paro¬ 
chial churches, but in all the courts of his jurifdiftion, as 
procured him the veneration and efteem of all good men. 
Of the manner in which his clergy difcharged their du¬ 
ties, and or their moral conduct, he was a vigilant in- 
fpeftor; and by watching narrowly the proceedings of 
his chancellor and archdeacons, his ftewards and receivers, 
he guarded, againft thofe afts of oppreffion, injuftice, and 
extortion, for winch epifcopal courts have been too often 
juftiy cenfured. To prevent thefe, and other abufes, he 
often fat in his confiftory court;.and he alfo frequently 
fat as affiltant on the bench of civil jultice, being himfelf 
in the commiffion of the peace. He was alfo a frequent 
and zealous preacher, often travelling about his diocel'e, 
and occupying the pulpit wherever he came. Ilis private 
life was pious, ufeful, and laborioufiy ftudious. He ge¬ 
nerally rofe about four o’clock in the morning ; and, af¬ 
ter prayers, with his family at five, and in the cathedral 
about fix, retired to his ftudies during the remainder of 
. the morning. After dinner he gave audience to all per- 
lbns who had any requefts to make to him, or attended 
to the caufes which either devolved upon him in his judi¬ 
cial capacity, or were referred, to him as an arbitrator. 
About nine o’clock at night, he examined his domeltics 
refpefting the manner in which they had fpent the day, 
' and then went to prayers with them; after which he re¬ 
turned to the labours of his ftudy, till near midnight, 
when he went to bed, where the gentlemen of his bed¬ 
chamber generally read to him till he fell aileep. Such a 
laborious courfe of life, without any recreation or inter- 
miflion, excepting what his neceflary refrefliment at meals, 
and a very few hours of reit, afforded him, contributed to 
injure his health, and bring on a decline. When his 
friends could not but obferve'a fenfible alteration in his 
appearance, they endeavoured, but without effect, to pre¬ 
vail upon him to relax from his mediant application, and 
to defilt, at leaft for a time, from undertaking pulpit-fer- 
vices. In reply to their friendly remonftrances he only 
anfwered, that “ a bilhop (hould die preaching.” Thefe 
words were almoft literally fulfilled in his own cafe; for 
a little time before his death, having promifed to preach 
at fome place in Wiltfhire, on his way thither he was met 
by a gentleman, who, perceiving from his looks that he 
was very ill, ftrongly urged him to return home, telling 
him that the people had better lofe one fermon, than be 
altogether deprived of fuch a pallor. The bilhop, how¬ 
ever, could not be prevailed upon to return, but proceed¬ 
ed to the place appointed, and there preached his laft 
fermon, which he was' not able to finiffi without great 
difficulty. From that time he grew rapidly worfe, and 
died within a few days, in September 1571, at Monkton- 
Farley, in Wiltfhire, when he was in the fiftieth year of 
his age. Befides the articles already numerated, bilhop 
Jewel wrote, 1. Sermons. 2. A View of a feditious Bull 
fent into England from Pius V. anno 1569. 3. A Trea- 
tife of the Holy Scriptures, and A Treatife of the Sacra¬ 
ments. 4. Expofition of the two Epiftles of the Apoltle 
Paul to the Theffalonians, printed in 1594, Svo. 5. Cer¬ 
tain Sermons preached before the Queen’s Majefty at St. 
Paul’s Crofs, and elfewhere, printed in 1583, 8vo. All 
his Englilh works, wffiich are ftill defervedly held in 
efteem, were printed together at London, in 1609, folio; 
and many of his Letters are in the collection of records 
at the end of the third volume of Burnet’s Hiftory of the 
Reformation. 
JE W'EL-BLOCKS,yi in the fea-language, a name given 
to two fmail blocks which are fufpended at the extremity 
of the main and fore top-fail yards, by means of an eye- 
bolt driven from without into the middle of the yard- 
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arm, parallel to its axis. The ufe of thefe blocks is, to 
retain the upper part of the top-rnaft ftudditig-fails ..be¬ 
yond the Ikirts of the top-fails, lb that each of thofe fails 
may have its full force of action, which would be dimt- 
nidled by the encroachment of the other over its lurface. 
The haliards, by which thofe ftudding-fails are Infilled, 
are accordingly paffed through the jewel-blocks; whence, 
communicating- with a block on the top-maft head, they 
lead downwards to the top or decks, where they may be 
conveniently hoifted. 
JEW'EL-HOUSE, or Office, f. The place where the 
regal ornaments are repolited.—The king has made him 
mailer of the jewel-houfe. Shakefpcare. 
JEW'ELLER, f. [from jewel.'] One who traffics in 
precious Hones.—Thefe grains were as like little dice as if 
they had been made by a jeweller. Boyle. —The price of 
the market to a jeweller in his trade is one thing; but the 
intrinfic worth of a thing to a man of fenfe is another. 
L'Ejlrange. —I will turn jeweller ; I {hall then deal in dia¬ 
monds, and all l’orts of rich ltones. Addifon. 
JEW'ELRY, f. The place or office where jew-els are 
kept ; the art or trade of a jeweller. 
JEVV'ESS, a Hebrew woman, a woman profeffing Ju- 
daifm. 
JEW'ISH, adj. Belonging to the Jews, pertaining to> 
the Hebrews. 
JEW'RY, the country of the Jews, a place where Jews 
are permitted to refide. 
JEZANPAH, [Hebrew.] The name of a man. 
JEZ'EBEL, [Heb, a dunghill.] The name of a woman, 
JE'ZER, [Hebrew.] A man’s name, 
JEZ'ERITE, f. [from Jezer.] A defeendent of Jezer, 
JEZ'IDES,yi Among the Mahometans ; a term of fimi- 
lar import with heretics among Chriftians. 
The Jezides are a numerous left inhabiting Turkey 
and Perfia, fo called from their head Jezid, an Arabian 
priilce, who Hew the Ions of Ali, Mahomet’s father-in- 
law ; fdr which reafon he is reckoned a parricide, and his 
followers heretics. There are about 20,000 Jezides in 
Turkey and Perfia; who are of two forts, black and white. 
The white are clad like Turks ; and diftinguiffied only by 
their Ihirtfc, which- are not Hit at the neck like,thofe of 
others, but have only a round hole to thruft their heads 
through : this is in memory of a golden ring, or circle of 
light, which defeended from heaven upon the neck of their 
cheq, the head of their religion, after his undergoing a 
fall of forty days. The black Jezides, though married, 
are the, monks or religious of the order. 
JEZI'EL, [Hebrew.] The name of a man. 
JEZIER'NICA, a town of Lithuania, in the palatin.ate- 
of Novogrodeck : forty miles fouth-yveft of Novogrodeck., 
JEZIOROC'ZE, a town of Lithuania, in the palatinate 
of Wiina : thirty-two miles weft-north-weft of Brallaw. 
JEZLI'AH, [Hebrew.] The name of a man. 
JEZO'RA, a town of Lithuania, in the palatinate of 
Troki: twelve miles north-eaft of Grodno. 
JE'ZOW. See Biekow. 
JEZ'RAEL, or Jezreel, a town in the north of Sa¬ 
maria, towards mount Carmel, where ftood a palace of 
the kings of Ifrael. (1 Kings xxi. 18.)—On the borders of 
Galilee; (Joffiua xixi) faid to be one of the towns of If- 
fachaiv—'I'he valley of Jezreel (Judges vi. 17.) was fitu- 
ated to the north of the town, running from weft to eaft 
for ten miles, between two mountains ; the one to thg 
north, commonly called Mention, near mount Tabor; the 
•other Gilboa ; in breadth two miles. 
JEZRAHFAH, [Heb. the brightnefs of the Lord.] A 
man’s name. 
JEZ'REELITE, f. [from Jezreel .] An inhabitant of 
Jezreel. 
JEZ'REELITESS, f. A woman of Jezreel, 
IF, conjunction ; [gip, Sax.] Sup pole it be fo, or it were 
fo, that. An hypothetical particle.—This feeing of all 
things, becaufe, we can defire to fee all things, Malbranche 
makes 
