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filhed before William the Conqueror, which is judged the 
more probable, from the feveral Roman coins found here, 
and from the plain appearance of the Roman military 
way, called Watling-ftreet, from hence to Penkridge. 
Yoxhall, four miles north from Lichfield, and weft from 
Burton, had a market on Saturdays, and a fair on St. 
Swiihin’s day. The market and fair have been long dif- 
continued ; but once a-year here is a wake upon a Sun¬ 
day. Harwood's Hijl. and Antiq. of Lichfield, r8o6. 
LICH'FIELD, a village in Hamplhire, with a Roman 
military way running by it, between Pamber and the fo- 
reft of Chute. 
LICH'STALL, a town of Swifferland, In the canton of 
Bale : feven miles fouth-eaft of Bale. 
LICH'TEMBERG, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Lower Rhine: nineteen miles weft-fouth- 
weft of Weiflemburg, and twenty-two north-north-weft 
of Stralburg. 
LICH'TENAU, a town of Auftria : twelve miles weft 
.Of Crems. 
LICH'TENAU, a town of Auftria r fix miles fouth- 
eaft of Aigen. 
LICH'TENAU, a town of Weftphalia, in the bifliopric 
of Paderborn : nine miles fouth-eaft of Paderborn. Lat. 
51. 32. N. Ion. 8. 58. E. 
LICH'TENAU, a town of Heffe Caffel: thirteen miles 
fouth-eaft of Caffel, and twenty-four eaft of Naumburg. 
Lat. 51.12. N. Ion. 9. 24.. E. 
LICH'TENAU, a town of Germany, in the principa¬ 
lity of Hanau Lichtenberg : eleven miles north-nortii- 
eaft of Willftadr, and twelve nortn-eaft of Strafburg. 
LICH'TENAU, a town of Germany, in the territory 
df Nuremberg, with a fortrefs on the Retzat, iaftdated in 
the margravate of Anfpach: twenty-two miles fouth-weft 
of Nuremberg, and fix eaft of Anfpach, Lat. 49.17. N. 
Ion. 10. 12. E. 
LICH'TENAU, an ifiand near the weft coaft of Eaft 
Greenland- Lat. 60. 30. N. Ion. 45. 15. W. 
LICH'TENAU, a town of Prulfia, in the province of 
Ermeland : twelve miles north-weft of Heillberg. 
LICH'TENBERG, a town of Prufiian Pomerelia : fifty 
tniles fouth-weft of Dantzic. 
LICH'TENBERG, a town of Germany, in the county 
ofHenneberg : eight mile3 fouth-eaft of Meinungen. 
LICH'TENBERG, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of Mont Tonnerre, which gave the title of lord of 
Hanau-Lichtenberg to the houfe of Heffe-Darmftadt, to 
which it belonged. It is twenty-five miles north of Deux 
Fonts, and nine weft-fouth-weft of Lautereck. 
LICH'TENBERG, a town of Silefia, in the principality 
of Neiffe : three miles north-north-weft of Grotkau. 
LICH'TENBERG, a town of Germany, in the prin¬ 
cipality of Cujmbach, on the Selnitz. In the neighbour¬ 
hood are quarries of marble, and mines of copper and iron. 
It is twenty-two miles north of Bayreuth, and twenty- 
fix eaft of Coburg,. Lat. 50. 22. N. Ion. 11. 48. E. 
LICH'TENBERG, a town of Saxony, in the circle of 
Erzgebirg : five miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Freyberg. 
LICH'TENBURG, a town of Saxony 6 fix miles fouth- 
weft of Annaburg. 
LICH'TENECK, a town of th$ duchy of Carnioia » 
£en miles eaft-fouth-eaft of Stein, 
LICH'TENFELS, a town of Auftria, on therlverKamp: 
feven miles eaft of Zwetl. 
LICH'TENFELS, a town of Bavaria, late belonging to 
the bifliopric of Bamberg, fituated on the Maine : twenty 
miles no'rth-north-eaft of Bamberg, and twelve weft-north- 
weft of Culmbach. Lat. 50.10. N. Ion. 11. 8.E. 
LICH'TENFELT, a town of Pruffia, in the province 
qf Pomerelia: twelve miles eaft-fouth-eaft of Marienburg, 
LICH'TENHAGEN, a town of Pruffia, in the circle of 
Natangen: eight miles fouth-fouth-weft of Kdnigffierg. 
LICHTENHAN'NA, a town of Saxony, in the circle 
of Erzgebirg : four miles fouth-weft of Zwickau. 
LICH'TENHAYN, a town of Saxony, in the marera- 
Vo'i. XII. No, 857. 
t i e 6n 
Vate of Meiffen : nine miles eaft-north-eaft of Konigftein, 
and four eaft of Pima. 
LICII'TENSTEIG, a town of Swifferland, and capital 
of the county of Tockenburg, on the Thur : the refidence 
of a bailiff'. It has places of worfliip for Roman catholics 
and Proteftants. It is twenty-feven miles eaft of Zurich, 
and twenty-one fouth of Conftance, Lat, 41. 17. N. Ion. 
9.6. E. 
LICHTENSTEIN, a caftle and village of Auftria: two 
miles north-weft of Modling. 
LTCH'TENSTEIN, a principality of Germany, confid¬ 
ing of the ancient imperial county, and lojrdfhip of Vadutz 
and Schellenberg, lying on the ead fide of the lake of 
Conftance, on the Rhine, betwixt the lordfhips of Plu- 
denz and Feldkirch. In the fifteenth century, thefe ter¬ 
ritories defeended from the barons of Schellenberg to the 
barons of Brandi's; and from them, in 1507, by marriage, 
to the counts of Sulz; but, in the year 1614, Cafpar IIo- 
henhembs purchafed them for 200,000 florins 5 and in 1699 
a fecond purebafe was made of them by prince John 
Adam of Lichtenftein. The contingency in the imperial 
matricula was formerly eighteen florins; and to the im¬ 
perial chamber at Wetzlar this principality paid eighteen 
rix-dollars fixty kruitzers. 
LICH'TENSTEIN, a town of Saxony, and principal 
place of a lordfhip belonging to the counts ofSchonburg: 
five miles north-eaft of Zwickau, and thirty-fix fouth of 
Leipfic. Lat. 50.44. N. Ion. 12. 31. E. 
LICK'TENTANEN, a town of Germany, in the prin¬ 
cipality of Culmbach : feven miles north-weft of Bayreuth, 
LICH'TENVORD, a town of Holland, in the county 
of Zulphen : fix miles fouth-fouth-weft of Groll. 
LICH'TEN WALD, a town of the duchy of Stiria t 
twelve miles fouth-eaft of Gilley. 
LICH'TENWALDE, a town of Saxony, in the circle 
of Erzgebirg: three miles fouth-fouth-weft of Franken- 
berg. 
LICH'TEN WALT, a town of Pruffia, in the province 
of Ermeland twenty-three miles north-weft of Heiifberg. 
LICH'*TENWART, a town of Auftria: five mires 
uorth-north-eaft of Zilterfdorf. 
LICH'VIN, a town of Ruffia, in the government of 
Kaluga, on the Oka: twenty-eight miles fouth of Ka¬ 
luga. Lat. 54. N. Ion. 35.44. E. 
LICH'WE, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of Koni- 
gingratz : fix miles weft of Geyerfberg. 
LICIN'IO (Giovanni Antonio). See Pordenone. 
LICIN'IUS CAIUS, a Roman tribune, of a plebeian 
family, rofe to that rank by his own afpiring temper; lie 
was the firft plebeian who was raifed to the dignity of maf¬ 
ter of horfe to the dictator. He was furnalned Stolo, or 
ufelefs fpront, on account of the law which he caufed to be 
enafted during his tribunefhip, that no perfon fliould hold 
more than five hundred acres of hind ; it being alleged 
that, when more was held by one proprietor, he would 
not have leifure to pull up the ufelefs fliocts (Jloloncs) 
which grew from the roots of trees. He afterwards car¬ 
ried a law which permitted the plebeians to (hare the con- 
fular dignity with the patricians, and was hiinfelf one of 
the firft plebeian confuls, in the year 364 B.C. 
LIQIN'IUS TEG'ULA, a comic Latin poet, flouriffied 
about 200 years before the Chadian era. His fragments 
have been publifhed by H. Stephens, and in the Corpus 
Pcetarum by Maittaire.—There was an orator and poet 
of this name, who lived at the lame time with Cicero, and 
who has been compared with Catullus. His orations are 
highly commended by Quintilian : he is fuppofed to have 
written annals quoted by Diqnyfius of Haiicarr.affus. 
LICIN'IUS VAtERIA'NUS, a Roman emperoVj a na¬ 
tive of Dacia, of an obfeure origin, and accultomed from 
his infancy to the toils and hard(hips of rural life, became 
a Roman foldier, and rofe through all the gradations of 
the fervice. He was railed to the rank of Auguftus in 
the year 307. When the civil war broke out between 
Gonilantine and Maxentius, the former fecured the friend- 
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