88 LAI 
, Gr. common people.] Belonging to the laity, or peo¬ 
ple, as diftinft from the clergy.—In all ages the clerical will 
flatter as well as the laical. Camden. 
LAI'CA, a town of Abyllinia : too miles fouth of 
Mine. 
LAICAL'ITY, f. The ftate or quality of a layman. 
Scclt. 
LAID, participle preterit of To lay .—Money laid up for 
the relief of widows and fatherlefs children, z Macc. 
LAI'DA, a town of Bengal: fourteen miles fouth of 
Curruckdeah. 
LAIDAL'LA, a town of Ilindooftan, in Golconda: 
ten miles north of Warangole. 
LAI'GLE. See Aigle, vol. i. 
LAIGNE', a town of Franee, in the department of the 
Mayenne : four miles welt of Chateau Gontier, and thir¬ 
teen fouth of Laval. 
LAIGNES, a town of France, in the department of the 
Coted’Or: nine miles weft-fouth-weft of Chatillon fur 
Seine, and twenty-one north of Semur en Auxois. 
LAILAKA'RI, a final 1 ifland on the eaft fide of the' 
gulf of Bothnia. Lat. 65. 14.. N. Ion. 15. 9. E. 
LALLLY, a town of France, in the department of the 
Loiret: twelve miles eaft of Beaugency, and twelve fouth- 
weft of Orleans. 
LAIN, participle preterit of To lie .—Mary feeth two 
angels in white, fitting, the one at the head, and the other 
at the feet, where the body of Jefus had lain. John .—The 
parcels had lain by, before they were opened, between four 
and five years. Boyle. 
LAINE, f. In mafonry, a courfe of brick or ftone laid 
in a wall. 
LAI'NECK, a town of Germany, in the principality 
of Bayreuth : eight miles eaft-north-eaft of Bayreuth. 
L AI'NEZ, oi-Laynez (James), a Spaniffi Jefuit, and 
the firft general of the order after the death of the found¬ 
er, was born in the year 1512. He was educated at the 
univerfity of Alcala, where he was admitted to the de¬ 
gree of doftor; and afterwards he removed to Paris, to 
ftudy divinity. Here he affbeiated with Loyola, and was 
one of the feven who bound themfelves by a vow, at Mont- 
Martre, to ereft the new community. According to 
fome waiters, he had the principal hand in drawing up 
the conftitutions for their government. Upon the death 
of Loyola in 1556, he fucceeded him as fuperior of the 
fociety ; but was not formally deified general till two 
years afterwards. He now directed his view's to extend 
the power belonging to his office, and by his policy and 
xddrefs raifed it to an enormous pitch. His firft meafure 
was to obtain a decree, that the office of general fliould 
not be temporary, but permanent in the perfon who ffiould 
be elected to it; in which he fucceeded, notwithftanding 
that pope Paul IV. w'as not unaware of the dangerous 
confequences that might fpring from fuch an eftabliffi- 
jnent. His next ftep was to fecure to the general the right 
of entering into all kinds of engagements, without fub- 
mitting them to the deliberation of the community; to 
give authority and authenticity to the commentaries and 
declaration relating to the conftitutions ; to make new 
conftitutions, and to change and interpret the old ones ; 
and alfo to eftabliffi prifons for refractory and difobedient 
.members. Tothefe no lefs than monarchical prerogatives 
he procured the fubmiffion of the order, at the firft con¬ 
gregation which was held alter the death of Loyola ; and 
may therefore be conlidered as the real founder of that 
fyftem of worldly policy, by which the Jefuits afterwards 
.acquired fuch aftonifiiing influence in every part of the 
globe. He affifted at the council of Trent, in the cha- 
, rafter of divine to the papal fee, under the pontificates of 
Paul III. Julius TIL and Pius IV. and diftinguiffied him- 
jfelf by his knowledge of bufinefs, by his genius, and, 
above all, by his zeal for the pretenfions of the papacy. 
In the twenty-third feffion, held in 1563, he maintained 
£hc bold pofitions, “ that the hierarchy was concentred 
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in. the perfon of the pope ; that the bilhops -poffeffed nei¬ 
ther jurifdiftion nor power, which they did not hold un¬ 
der him ; that Jefus Chrift had delegated his authority to 
St. Peter, from whom the other apoltles had received their 
commiffions; that the tribunal of the pope on earth is 
equally extenfive and paramount with that of Jefus Chrift 
in heaven,” &c. In the year 1561, he went to France, in 
the fuite of cardinal de Ferrara, the legate of pope Pius 
IV. and attended the conference at Poiffi, where he dis¬ 
puted with Beza and Peter Martyr. In the commence¬ 
ment of a difeourfe which he pronounced on this occafion, 
he addreffed himfelf to queen Catharine de Medicis, and 
took the freedom of telling her, that a woman had no bu¬ 
finefs to appoint conferences for religious difeuffions, and 
that the had ufurped the right of the pope. After his re¬ 
turn to Rome, he refufed a cardinal’s hat, which pope 
Paul IV. offered him; and died in 1565, about the age 
of fifty-three. He was the author of fome theological and 
moral treatifes. Moreri. 
LAI'NO, a town of Naples, in Calabria Citra: nine¬ 
teen miles weft-north-weft of Caffano. 
LAI'NO, or Lao, a river of Naples, which runs into 
the Mediterranean two miles fouth-eaft from Scalea. 
LA'INSTON, aparifli in Hampfhire, about three miles 
from Winchefter. Here is Lainlton-houfe, formerly the 
feat of the Bathurft family. It is a noble houfe, but it 
is the only one in the pariffi, though there is a regular pa- 
rifti-church near the houfe, fubjeft to the vifitation of the 
biffiop, &c. in which is a vault, the burying-place of the 
family of the Bathurfts. The pariffi-officers of courfe 
niuft be chofen out of the fervants in this faid houfe ; and 
they are not over-burdened with poor. A regular regifter 
or entry of marriages, chriftenings, and burials, is kept 
in this church ; which brings to our mind the circurn- 
ftance of Mifs Chudleigh (afterwards called duchefs of 
Kingfton) being married here to captain Hervey, after¬ 
wards earl of Briftol. When this lady became thorough¬ 
ly tired of her liufband, a ftratagem occurred to her by 
which ftte might at once deprive captain Harvey of the 
power to claim her as his wife. The clergyman who mar¬ 
ried them was dead ; the regifter-book was in carelefs 
hands. A handfome compliment was paid for the infpec- 
tion ; arid, w hile the perfon in wliofe cuftody it was lis¬ 
tened to an amufing (lory, (lie tore out the regifter. Thus 
imagining the bufinefs accomplifhed, file for a time bade 
defiance to her liufband. But, in the natural courfe of 
events, captain Hervey fucceeded to the earldom of Brif¬ 
tol. With rank there was fortune ; and both were moft 
inviting objects to the mind of this lady. When a fuc- 
ceffion to the family honours and revenue became highly 
probable, a fliort period before it took place this lady 
went again to the houfe of Mr. Merril, in whofe chapel 
file was married, to procure, if poffible, the re-infertioti 
of her marriage with captain Hervey in the book, which, 
to dellroy the written evidence of that marriage, file had 
formerly mutilated. With this view ffie dealt out pro- 
mifes with a liberal hand. The officiating clerk, who, 
like Scrub in the play, was a perfon of various avocations, 
was to be promoted to the extent of his wiflies. The 
book w'as managed by the lady to her content, and file re¬ 
turned to London, fecret.ly exulting in the excellence and 
fuccefs of her machination. She did, it is true, fucceed 5 
but it was in laying the groundwork of that very evidence 
which operated afterwards, to her convidlion, when tried 
for bigamy after the death of the duke of Kingfton. 
LAJOU'N, a town of Perfia, in the province of Ma- 
zanderan, near the coaft of the Cafpian Sea: twenty-one 
miles eaft of Reffid. 
LAIR, A [/at, in French, fignifies a wild fow, orafow 
reft: the derivation is eafy in either fenfe: or from leger, 
Dut.] The couch of a boar, or wild beaft : 
Out of the ground uprofe, 
As from his lair, the wild beaft, where he wons 
In foreft wild, in thicket, brake, or den, Milton. 
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