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property of the famous Dr. Cafe, his fucceffor, who ufed 
frequently to expofe them to his friends, in great derifion ; 
particularly, a dark chamber and pictures, by means of 
which Mr. Lilly ufed to impol'e on people, pretending to 
fliow them perfons who were ablent. The following lift 
of his works is copied from Hutton’s Mathematical Dic¬ 
tionary : i. Merlinus Anglicus, junior. z. Supernatural 
Sight. 3. The White King’s Prophecy. 4. England’s 
Prophetical Merlin : all printed in 1644. 5. The Starry 
Meffenger, 1645. 6. Collection of Prophecies, 1646. 7. 
A Comment on the White King’s Prophecy, 1646. 8. 
The Nativities of Archbiftiop Laud and Thomas earl of 
Strafford, 1646. 9. Chriftian Aitrology, 1647 : upon this 
piece he read his lectures in 1648, mentioned above. 10. 
The third book of Nativities, 1647. 11. The World’s 
Cataftrophe, 1647. 12. The Prophecies of Ambrofe Mer¬ 
lin, with a Key, 1647. 13 Trithemius, or the Govern¬ 
ment of the World by Preliding Angels, 1647. 14. A 
treatife of the Three Suns feen in the winter of 1647, 
printed in 1648. 15. Monarchy or no Monarchy, 1651. 
16. Obfervations on the Life and Death of Charles, late 
King of England, 1651 ; and again in 1651, with the title 
of Mr. William Lilly’s True Hiftory of King James and 
King Charles the iff, &c. 17. Annus Tenebrofus-, or, the 
Black Year. This drew' him into the difpute with Gata- 
ker, which we have mentioned before. 
LILLY HOO', a village or hamlet on a hill, about five 
miles from Hitchin in Hertfordlhire, where there is a racc- 
courfe. 
LIL'LYPUT, a town of the ftate of North Carolina, 
on Cape-Fear river: three miles north of Brunfwick. 
LILO'AN, a town on the eaft coaft of the ifland of 
Sibu. Lat. 10.40. N. Ion. 123.45. E. 
LIL'SFELD, a town of the duchy of Wurzburg: five 
miles eaft-north-eaft of Volckach. 
LILUN'DO, a river of Africa, which rifes in Congo, 
and runs into the Atlantic in lat. 6. 35. S. 
LIL'Y, /. See Lilium, p. 704.—There are thirty-two 
fpecies of this plant, including white lilies, orange lilies, 
red lilies, and martagons of various forts. Miller. 
Take but the humbled lily of the field ; 
And, if our pride will to our reafon yield. 
It muft by fure comparifon be (hown. 
That on the regal feat great David’s fon, 
Array’d in all his robes, and types of pow’r. 
Shines with lefs glory than that fimple flow’r. Prior . 
LIL'Y (African blue). See Agapanthus, vol. i. p. 191. 
LIL'Y (African fcarlet). See Amaryllis, vol. i. p. 390. 
LIL'Y (Alphodel). See Crinum and Hemerocallis, 
vol. ix. p. 387. 
LIL'Y (Atamufco and Belladonna). See Amaryllis. 
LIL'Y (St. Bruno’s and Day). See Hemerocallis, 
rol. ix. 
LIL'Y (Ceylon, Guernfey, Jacobaea, and Japan). See 
Amaryllis, vol. i. 
LIL'Y (May). See Convallaria, vol. v. p. 146. 
LIL'Y (Mexican). See Amaryllis. 
LIL'Y (Perfian). See Fritillaria, vol. viii. p. 69. 
LIL'Y (Superb). See Gloriosa, vol. viii. p. 620. 
LIL'Y (Water). See Nymphaea. 
LIL'Y (Water, fmaller). See Menyanthes. 
LIL'Y-DAF'FODIL, /. A foreign flower. See Ama¬ 
ryllis and Pancratium. 
LIL'Y-HY'ACINTH, f. It hath a lily flower, compofed 
of fix leaves, fliaped like the flower of hyacinth: the 
roots are fcaly, and fhaped like thofe of the lily. There 
are three fpecies of this plant ; one with a blue flower, 
another white, and a third red. Miller .•—See Scilla. 
LIL'Y-LI'VERED, adj. White-livered ; cowardly.— 
A bale, lily-livered, action-taking, knave. S/eakefpeare's 
King Lear. 
LIL'Y-THORN. See Catesbtea, vol. iii. p. 903. 
LILY or the VAL'LEY, or May LiLY,_/i See Con¬ 
vallaria, vol. v. p. 146 .-—The flower conflfts of one 
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leaf, is fnaped like a bell, and divided at the top into fix 
fegments ; the ovary becomes a foft globular fruit, con¬ 
taining feveral round feeds. It is very common in ftiady 
woods. Miller. 
LIL'Y-WORK,yi Ornaments refembling lilies. 
LILYB^'UM, now Boco, a promontory of Sicily, with 
a town of the fame name near the iEgates, now Marfalla. 
The town was ftrong, and very confiderable ; and it main¬ 
tained long fieges againft the Carthaginians, Romans, See. 
particularly one of ten years againft Rome in the firft 
Punic war. It had a port large and capacious, which the 
Romans, in the wars with Carthage, endeavoured in vain 
to ttop and fill up with ftones, on account of its conve¬ 
nience and vicinity to the coaft of Africa. Nothing now 
remains of this once-powerful city but the ruins of tem¬ 
ples and aqueduCls. 
LIL'YE, or Lily (William), one of the earlieft Eng- 
lilh grammarians, was born about the year 1466, at Odi- 
ham, in Hampfhire. He ftudied in Magdalen-college, 
Oxford; and, upon quitting the univerfity, undertook a 
religious pilgrimage to Jerufalem. On his return he 
purfued his ftudies fora time at Rhodes, which ifland, af¬ 
ter the capture of Conftantinople, was the refidence of fe¬ 
veral learned men under the protection of the knights, its 
poffeffors. For his farther improvement in the Latin and 
Greek languages, he vifited Rome, and attended the lec¬ 
tures of Sulpitius and Sabinus. With this ftock of lite¬ 
rature, drawn from the pureft fources of the age, he re¬ 
turned to his own country, and fet up a fthool in Lon¬ 
don for grammar (or the languages), rhetoric, and poetry, 
which he was the firft Englilhman who taught upon 
claftical principles. Such was his reputation, that, when 
dean Collet founded St. Paul’s fchool, in 1510, he ap¬ 
pointed Lily the firft mafter. This ftation he occupied 
during twelve years, to the great advantage of literature,, 
reckoning among his fcholars fome who proved eminent 
proficients in learning, and patrons of it. He died of the 
plague in February 1523, and was buried in the north 
yard of St. Paul’s. He had the character of an excellent 
grammarian, and a fuccefsful teacher of the learned lan¬ 
guages. His principal work is Brevijftma InJlitutio,feu Ratio 
Grammatices cognofcendre ; Lond. 1513; reprinted times 
without number, and commonly called Lilye’s Grammar. 
The Englifli rudiments were written by Dr. Collet, dean 
of St. Paul’s; and the preface to the firft edition, by car¬ 
dinal Wolfey. The Englilh fyntax was written by Lilye; 
alfo the rules for the genders of nouns, beginning with 
Propria qure maribus ; and thofe for the preterperfeCf tenfes 
and fupines, beginning with As in prefenti. The Latin 
fyntax was chiefly the work of Erafmus. See Ward’s 
Preface to his edition of Lilye’s Grammar, 1732, 
LIL'YE (George), eldeft fon of the preceding, was 
born in London, and educated at Magdalen-college, Ox¬ 
ford, after which he was made canon of St. Paul’s and 
prebendary of Canterbury. He was the firft perfon who 
publilhed an exaCt map of Britain. He died in 1559, and 
left behind feveral works of merit; as, 1. Anglorutn 
Regum Chronices Epitome. 2. Regum Anglise Genea- 
logia. 3. Catalogus five Series Pontificum et Caefarum 
Romanorum, Sec. He left likewife a manulcript life of 
bilhop Fifher, which is depofited in the library of the 
Royal Society. 
LIM-CHE'OU, a town of China, of the third rank, in 
Pe-tche-li: twelve miles north-weft of Tching-tin. 
LI'MA, an audience of Peru, erected in the year 1542, 
containing one archbifhopric, viz. Lima, and four bi- 
flioprics, viz. Truxillo, Guamanga, Cufco, and Arequipa. 
The archbifhopric of Lima contains fifteen jurifdictions. 
The diocefe of Truxillo contains feven ; Guamanga, nine 5 
Cufco, fourteen; and Arequipa, fix. 
LI'MA, a city of South America, and capital of the au¬ 
dience, in the viceroyalty of Peru. This city is alfo called 
Civdad de los Reyes, or City of Kings, being founded on 
the feaft of the Epiphany in the year 1535, by Francis 
Pizarro. It is fituated in the fpacious and delightful 
valley 
