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LANDIVISIAU 7 , a town of France, in the department 
of the Finifterre : feven miles north-eaft of Landerneau, 
and ten welt-fouth-weft of Morlaix. 
LANDIV'Y, a town of France, in the department of 
the Mayenne: eleven miles north of Ernee, and eighteen 
north-weft of Mayenne. 
LAND'LADY, f. A woman who has tenants holding 
from her. The miftrefs of an inn.—If a foldier drinks 
his pint, and offers payment in Wood’s halfpence, the 
landlady may be under fome difficulty. Swift. 
LAND'LESS, adj. Without property; without fortune. 
—A landlcfs knight hath made a landed fquire. Shakefpeare. 
Young Fortinbras 
Hath in the fkirts of Norway, here and there. 
Shark'd up a lift of landlefs refolutes. Shakefpeare's Hamlet. 
LAND'LORD, f. One who owns lands or houfes, and 
has tenants under him.—In London, if a tenant commit 
felony, &c. whereby his goods and chattels become for¬ 
feit ; the landlord ffiall be paid his rent for two years, be¬ 
fore all other debts except to the king, out of the goods 
found in the houfe. Jacob's Law Dill. —The mafter of an 
inn.—Upon our arrival at the inn, my companion fetched 
out the jolly landlord , who knew him by his whittle. Ad- 
difon. 
Landlord and Tenant. For the law chiefly re¬ 
lating to them, fee the articles Distress, Ejectment, 
Lease, See. 
LAN'DO (Pope), was a Sabine by birth, and fucceeded 
to the pontifical throne on the death of Anaftafius III. 
in the year 915. He was molt probably indebted for his 
elevation to the noted Theodora j who, with her daugh¬ 
ters Morazia and Theodora, all of them no lefs famous 
for their beauty, wit, and addrefs, than infamous for 
the fcandalous lives which they led, fupported by Adel- 
bert -marquis of Tufcany, and his party, governed Rome 
with abfolute fway, and difpofed of the holy fee to whom 
they pleafed. That Lando was an inftrument devoted to 
the will of Theodora, may he concluded from his unwor¬ 
thy conduct in ordaining her favourite John, afterwards 
pope John X. archbifhop of Ravenna ; as we have feen in 
the life of that pontiff, vol. xi. p. 211. Lando died after 
he had held the papal fee not much longer than fix months. 
LANDONNEAU', a river of France, which runs into 
the fea near Brett. 
•LANDRE'CY, a town of France, in the department of 
the North, fituated on the Satnbre. In the year 1543, 
this town was befieged by the emperor Charles V. without 
fuccefs; the year following it was ceded to the emperor, 
by the peace of Creffy. In the year 1637, it was taken 
by the French, and retaken foon after by the Spaniards, 
Who held it till the year 1655, when it was attacked by 
the marfhals Turenne and Ferte, who became matters of 
it, ten days after the trenches were opened, in fight of the 
Spanifh army, under the prince of Conde, of 35,000 men. 
The French, who remained in poffeffion by the peace of 
the Pyrenees, enlarged the fortifications, and made it one 
of the ttrongeft places in the country. It has two gates, 
one towards the eaft, called the Gate of France, and the 
other towards the wett, called the Gate of Quefnoy. Prince 
Eugene invelted this place on the 17th of July, 3712, giv¬ 
ing the conduft of the enterprife to the prince of Anhalt 
Deffau ; but, the French carrying the polls of Denain, 
Marchiennes, and St. Amand, the fiege was raifed on the 
31 It of the fame month. See the article France, vol. vii. 
p. 736. In the year 1794, the town was befieged by the 
allies under the hereditary prince of Orange. The whole 
of the fiege, after opening of the trenches, Lifted fcarcely 
ten days; yet the bombardment was fo fevere, that not 
more than three houfes were left Handing ; aoo of the in¬ 
habitants, and 1200 of the garrifon, loft their lives. The 
remainder of the garrifon, which furrendered prifoners of 
war, confided of 4400 men. The furrender took place 
on the 30th of April : but, on the 15th of Auguft follow¬ 
ing, the garrifon, which confided of 20,000 men, furren- 
LAN 
dered at diferetion to the French general Scherer. See the 
articles France and England. Landrecy is 3^ polls 
fouth-eaft of Valenciennes, 23^ north-north-eaft of Paris. 
Lat. 50. 7. N. Ion. 3.45. E. 
LANDRIS'SE, a town of France, in the department of 
the Doubs : fifteen miles north-eaft of Ornans, and fix 
fouth-eaft of Baume les Dames. 
LANDRIA'NO, a town of Italy: eleven miles fouth- 
fouth-eaft of Milan. 
LANDRO'AL, a town of Portugal, in Alentejo: thir¬ 
teen miles north of Mourao, and twelve weft of Xeru- 
menha. Lat. 38. 35. N. Ion. 7. 12. E. 
LANDRO'VA, a final! river of Spain, which runs into 
the Atlantic nine miles north-eaft of Vivero in Galicia. 
LAND'SBERG, a town of Pruffia, in the province of 
Natangen : twenty-fix miles fouth of Koniglberg. Lat. 
54. 14. N. Ion. 20. 30. E. 
LAND'SBERG, a town of the duchy of Stiria : twenty- 
four miles fouth-weft of Gratz, and ninety-four fouth- 
fouth-weft of Vienna. 
LAND'SBERG, a town of Germany, in the county of 
Hoya, on the Wefer: fix miles fouth-fouth-weft of Nien- 
burg. 
LAND'SBERG, a town and ruined cattle of France, in 
the department of Mont Tonnerre; one mile eaft of Ober 
Mofchel. 
LAND'SBERG, or Gorzow, a town of Silefia, in Op- 
peln, on the borders of Poland : thirty-feven miles eaft of 
Brieg, and thirty north-eaft of Oppeln. Lat. 51.3. N. 
Ion. 18. 29. E. 
LAND'SBERG, a town of Bavaria, on the Lech : eigh¬ 
teen miles fouth of Augfburg, and thirty-two weft of Mu¬ 
nich. Lat. 48.0. N. Ion. 10. 51. E. 
LAND'SBERG, a town of Saxony, anciently a mar- 
gravate: fourteen miles north-weft of Leipzig. Lat. 51. 
34. N. Ion. 12. 11. E. 
LAND'SBERG, a town of Brandenburg, in the New 
Mark, on the Warta. It contains three churches, a royal 
magazine, and feveral manufactories of fluff and cloth, 
with a confiderable trade in wool: twenty miles eaft-north- 
eaft of Cuftrin, and fixty-four eaft of Berlin. Lat. 52.48. E. 
Ion. 15. 20. E. 
LAND'SBERG (Alt), a town of Bradenburg, in the 
Middle Mark : twenty-one miles fouth-eaft of Oranien- 
burg, fourteen miles eaft-north-eaft of Berlin. Lat. 52. 
35. N. Ion. 13. 48. E. 
LAN'DSCAPE, f. \landfchape, Dut.] A region; the 
profpeft of a country.—We are like men entertained with, 
the view of a fpacious landfcape, where the eye paffes over 
one pleafing profpeCt into another. Addifon. 
Straight mine eye hath caught new pleafures, 
Whilft the landfcape round it meafures, 
Ruffet lawns and fallows grey, 
Where the nibbling flocks do ltray. Milton. 
A picture, reprefenting an extent of fpace, with the va¬ 
rious objects in it.—As good a poet as you are, you can¬ 
not make finer landfcapes than thofe about the king’s houfe. 
Addifon. 
Oft in her glafs the mufing fhepherd fpies 
The wat’ry landfcape of the pendant woods. 
And abfent trees, that tremble in the floods. Pope. 
LANDSCRO'N, a fortrefs of Poland, in the palatinate 
of Cracow, which fell into the poffeffion of the confede¬ 
rates during the late troubles, from whence they made 
excurfions; and, by a detachment of troops from this for¬ 
trefs, the city of Cracow was taken from the Ruffians. 
In 1771, a battle was fought here between the Polifn con¬ 
federates under Dumourier and the Ruffians commanded 
by Suwarrow, in which the latter were victorious : twenty 
miles fouth of Cracow. Lat. 49. 50. N. Ion. 19.40. E. 
LANDSCRO'N, a town of Bohemia, in Chrudim: 
twelve miles eaft of Lentmifchl, and twenty-feven eaft of 
Chrudim. Lat. 49:50.^ Ion. 16.21. E. 
LANDSCRON, 
