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rieties, and will increafe of themfelves in the fame ways. 
Baum-leaved archangel rarely produces good feeds in Eng¬ 
land, nor do the roots propagate very fait. The beft time 
to part and remove thefe roots is October, but they mult 
r.ot be tranfplanted oftener than every third year, if they are 
required to flower ftrongly. It is hardy, and thrives beft 
in a foft loamy foil. According to Mr. Curtis, it grows 
readily ; but, flowering about the end of April, it is then 
apt to be injured, if cold winds prevail, unlefs it be placed 
in a (heltered part of the garden. The fourth fort may 
be propagated by feeds; but, as the roots fpread greatly, 
when it is once obtained it will fpread fall enough. See 
Galeopsis, Melittis, Prasium, Scrophularia, Scu¬ 
tellaria, and Stachys. 
LAM'JUNGH, a country of Alia, dependent on Thi¬ 
bet, north of Gorkah. 
LAM'LASH, a town or village of Scotland, on the eaft 
doalt of the ifland of Arran, fituated in a bay to which 
it gives name, and which, Mr. Pennant fays, forms the 
fafeft harbour in the univerfe, with depth of water for the 
largeft (hips. In the year 1558, the Englilh fleet, under 
the earl of Suffex, after ravaging the coaft of Kintyre, at 
that time in pofleffion of James M'Connel, landed in this 
bay, and burned and deftroyed all the neighbouring coun¬ 
try. Lat. 55. 35. N. Ion. 5. 59. W. 
LAM'LASH, or Holy Island, an ifland fituated be¬ 
fore the bay of Lamlaffi, about two miles long, and half a 
mile wide : the whole is a vaft mountain, in great part 
covered with heath, but has fufficient pafture and arable 
land to feed a few milch-cows, flieep, and goats, and to 
raife a little corn, and a few potatoes. Lat. 55. 34.. N. 
Ion. 4. 58. W. 
LAM'LEM. See Melli. 
LAM'LEY, a village in Northumberland, near Feather- 
ftonhaugh, on the South Tyne, confifting of a fmall cha¬ 
pel, with a few fcattered cottages; here was a nunnery 
defpoiled by the Scots, of which no traces are vifible. 
LAM'LEY, a village in Nottinghamlhire, near Sher¬ 
wood-foreft. 
LAM'MAS, f. [faid to be derived from a cuftom, by 
which the tenants of the archbifhop of York were obliged, 
at the time of mafs, on the firft of Auguft, to bring a live 
iamb to the altar. In Scotland they are faid to wean lambs 
on this day. It may elfe be corrupted from latter-math. 
Others derive it from a Saxon word fignifying “loaf- 
mafs,” becaufe on that day our forefathers made an offer¬ 
ing of bread made with new wheat.] The firft of Auguft. 
—In 1576 was that famous lammas- day, which buried the 
reputation of Don John of Auftria. Bacon .—It is cele¬ 
brated by the Romiffi church in memory of St. Peter’s 
imprifonment. Hutton. 
LAMMERMU'IR, a mountainous diftriift of Scotland, 
which forms the north part of the county of Berwick, 
againft Haddingtonfnire: about fixteen miles long, and fix 
broad. 
LAM'MERSHAGEN, a town of the duchy of Hol- 
ftein : fix miles fouth-weft of Lutkenborg. 
LAM'NICK, a lake of Silefia, in the principality of 
Oels : four miles eaft of Trachenberg. 
LAM'NICK, a town of the duchy of Stiria : ten miles 
north of Cilley. 
LA'MO, a feaport of Africa, fituated on a fmall ifland, 
formed by a river, on the coaft of Zanguebar, dependent 
on the Portuguefe. Lat. 1. 55. S. Ion.41. 27. E. 
LAMOIGNO'N (William de), marquis of Bafville, de- 
fcended from an ancient and honourable family of Niver- 
nois, was born in 1617. He was admitted a counfellor in 
the parliament of Paris in 1635, and was made a mailer 
of reqttefts in 1644. The capacity and integrity which 
he dilplayed in thefe ports caufed him, in 1638, to be 
railed to the office of firft prefident of the parliament. 
Cardinal Mazarin faid to him, upon his nomination, “If 
the king had known a worthier and fitter man, he would 
not have appointed youwords which have more than 
once been applied on fimilar occaficns. The cardi- 
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nal paid him a more fubftantial compliment by refuting 
a large fum offered by another for the place, with the ob- 
lervation, “ Whatever occafion his majefty may have for 
the money, it would be better to expend it for a good 
prefident, than to receive it.” Lamoignon juftified every 
idea that had been formed of him, by his conduft in this 
important office, of which he fulfilled all the duties with 
equal zeal and prudence, fupporting the dignity and pri¬ 
vileges of the body over which he prefided, difcouraging 
the chicane of the bar, railing his voice for the people, 
and devoting his health and life to the public fervice. On 
the profecution of the fuperintendant Fouquet, he was 
placed at the head of the chamber of juftice appointed to 
try him ; and, being founded as to his opinion of the caufe 
by Colbert, the molt rancorous enemy of the culprit, he 
replied, “A judge gives his opinion but once, and that 
on the bench.” Finding at laft that he could not give a 
judgment in the cafe wffiich would fatisfy himfelf and the 
court, he quietly withdrew from the commiffion, faying, 
“ It is not I who quit the chamber, but the chamber that 
quits me.” All his harangues, refponfes, and decrees, 
were diftinguilhed by their clearnels and folidity. In his 
manners he was fimple, in his conduct auftere; but to the 
wddow', the orphan, and the friendlefs, the mildeft of men. 
He relaxed from the toils of his office in the pleafures of 
literature, and affembled round him fuch men as Boileau, 
Racine, and Bourdaloue. He died in 1677, at the age of 
fixty. His Arretes, on various important points of French 
law’, were firft publiffied at Paris, in 1702, 4to. and were 
reprinted in 1781. Moreri. 
LAMOIGNO'N (Chriftian-Francis de), eldeft fon of 
the preceding, was born at Paris in 1644. Favoured by 
nature with a folid and brilliant underftanding, a digni¬ 
fied prefence, a fine voice, and a natural eloquence, he 
obtained from his father’s care every advantage of educa¬ 
tion which could contribute to form his heart and culti¬ 
vate his mind. He was placed in the Jefuits’ college, un¬ 
der the particular tuition of the celebrated Rapin, whofe 
favourite difciple he was. After finiffiing his ftudies, he 
vifited England and Holland, in both which countries he 
was much admired for his difpofition and attainments. 
He was brought early to praftife as a pleader, and in 1666 
was admitted a counfellor of parliament. He afterwards 
was made a mailer of requefts, and in 1674 was appointed 
to the office of advocate-general. This he occupied dur¬ 
ing twenty-five years with the higheft reputation, equally 
diftinguilhed by the weight and compafs of his eloquence, 
and by his zeal for juftice and the public good. In 1690 
the king nominated him to the poll of a prefident-a-mor- 
tier; but the love of employment kept him eight years 
longer at the bar; and he did not avail himfelf of the royal 
favour, till his Hate of health, and the reprefentations of 
his family, urged him to an honourable repofe. He then 
indulged his love of letters, and in 1704 was admitted 
into the Academy of Infcriptions ; of which, the year af¬ 
ter, he was appointed prefident. In this ftation he dif- 
played as much facility in difcuffing a literary queftion as 
he had formerly done a point of jurifprudence. He died 
of a lingering difeafe, in 1709. Many of his harangues 
on public occafions were copied from his mouth, and dif- 
perfed; but the only work of his pen which came to the 
prefs was a “ Letter on the Death of Father Bourdaloue,”' 
inferted in the third volume of the Careme of that great 
preacher. 
LAMOIGNO'N de MALESHER'BES (Chriftian-Wil- 
liam), grandfon of the preceding, and fon of William de 
Lamoignon, chancellor of France, was born at Paris in. 
1721. He received his early education at the Jefuits’ col¬ 
lege, and afterwards applied with great fuccefs to the 
ftudy of the law, to which he joined that of hiftory and 
political economy. At the age of twentj’-four, he was 
appointed a counfellor in the parliament of Paris; and in 
December 1750 he fucceeded his father as prefident of the 
court of aids, an important jurifdi< 5 lion, the office of which 
was to regulate the public taxes, At this period of the 
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