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lunate; middle ones fquare; upper fati-fhapfid. Ga¬ 
thered by Anblet at the bottoms of little hills in the fo- 
refts of Guiana. This is a very handfome fern, two or 
three feet high, with a longiih (talk, and about fix pair 
of nearly-oppofite, tapering, widely-fpreading, branches, 
each compofed of innumerable crowded light-green leaf¬ 
lets, more or lefs rounded in their tipper or fore part, 
which is bordered with abroad brown line of fructification. 
33. Lindftea ftribta: frond doubly pinnate; branches 
ereff, contvafted ; leaflets trapeziform. Native of Ja¬ 
maica, Porto Rico, and Panama. No figure of this fpe- 
cies has yet appeared ; but vve may expect a figure and 
delcription in profeltor Swartz’s larger work on his newly- 
difcovered plants of the Weil Indies. 
14. Lindiieamedia: fronddoubly pinnate; deltoid;leaflets 
obovato-rhomboid, coriaceous; the lower ones lobed ; the 
reft entire ; with a folitary uninterrupted line of fructifi¬ 
cation at the fore edge; the barren ones ferrated at the 
top ; ftalk fquare. Gathered by Mr. Brown in the tro¬ 
pical part of New Holland. 
15. Lindftea trichomanoides : frond doubly pinnate; 
leaflets membranous, linear-club-fhaped, abrupt. Ga¬ 
thered at Du Iky bay, New Zealand, by Mr. A. Menzies. 
A delicate fpecies, a fpan high, with (lender creeping 
downy roots, and fmooth brown (talks. The leaflets vary 
in fize and breadth, but are nearly wedge-ihaped, decur¬ 
rent and confluent, of a light-green colour, and fome- 
what membranous texture, fo as much to refemble a 
Trichomanes or Hymenophyllum ; their fummit abrupt, 
crenate or jagged. 
16. Lindftea tenera : frond triply pinnate, triangular; 
leaflets obovate, fomewhat rhomboid, cut. Native of the 
Ealt Indies ; fent to fir Jofeph Banks by the Moravian 
millionaries from theifland of Nicobar. 
17. Lindftea mic'rophylla : frond lanceolate, triply pin¬ 
nate; leaflets wedge-ihaped, dilated and crenate at the 
top. Gathered near Port Jackfon, New South Wales, by 
Dr. White. This elegant fpecies is a foot and a half, or 
sndre, in height; the whole frond of a narrow lanceolate 
figure, with (lender, lax, pinnate, branches, and fmall, 
light-green, dotted, leaflets, which are wedge-ihaped, ta¬ 
pering at the bafe, always crenate at the fummit, as is 
alfo the involucrum. Every leaflet is fuddenly dilated op- 
pofite to each end of the fructifying line. 
LIND'SAY (Sir David), a celebrated Scots poet, was 
defcended of an ancient family, and born in the reign of 
king James IV. at his father’s feat, called the Mount, near 
Cupar in Fifefiiire. He was educated at the univerfity of 
St. Andrew’s; and, after making the tour of Europe, re¬ 
turned to Scotland in the year 1514. Soon after his ar¬ 
rival, he was appointed gentleman of the bedchamber to 
the king, and tutor to the young prince, afterwards Janies 
V. From the verfes prefixed to his Dream, we learn that 
he enjoyed feveral other honourable employments at court; 
but, in 1533, he was deprived of all his places, except 
that of Lion king at arms, which he held to the time of 
his death. His difgrace was moil probably owing to his 
inveCtives againit the clergy, which are frequent in all his 
writings. He died in the year 1553. His poetical talents, 
confidering the age in which he wrote, were not contemp¬ 
tible; but he treats the Romilh clergy with great feverity, 
and writes with fome humour; but, whatever merit might 
be formerly attributed to liifn, he takes fuch licentious 
liberties with words, itretching or carving them for mea- 
l’ure or rhitne, that the Scots have a proverb, when they 
hear an unufual exprefiion, that “there is nae fic a word 
in a’ Davie Lindfay.” He is faid to have firft introduced 
dramatic poetry into Scotland. One of his comedies 
was played in 1515- He was contemporary with John 
Heywood, the firft Englifli dramatic poet. His poems 
are printed in one fmall volume; and fragments of his 
plays, in manulcript, are in Mr. William Carmichael’s 
Collection. 
There was another of this family, named David like- 
vviie, who was born about the year 1517; he was a xea- 
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lous promoter of the reformation, and died in 1 *9*. He 
wrote the hiftory of Scotland from 1437 to 1542.. 
LIND'SAY (John), a learned nonjuring divine, who 
was educated at St. Mary-Hall, Oxford. He had a con¬ 
gregation in London, among whom he regularly officiated ; 
arid was employed by Mr. Bowyer as a corrector of the 
prefs. He tranflated Mafon’s Vindication of the Church 
of England ; and wrote A Ihort Hiftory of the Royal Suc- 
ceflion; and Remarks on Whifton’s Scripture Politics. He 
died in 1768, aged 82. 
LIND'SEY, the third and largeft divifion of the county 
of Lincolnihire in England. It had its name from Lin¬ 
coln, the capital of the county, which ftands in it, and 
by the Romans called Lindmn , though the Normans called 
it Nichol. It gives title of earl to the family of Bertie. 
See Lincolnshire. 
LIND'SEY (Theophilus), was born at Middlewich, in 
Cheihire, June 20th, 1723, old ftyle. His father, Mr. Ro¬ 
bert Lindfey, was an opulent proprietor of the falt-works 
in that neighbourhood; his mother’s name was Spencer, 
a younger branch of the Spencer family in the county of 
Buckingham. Theophilus was the fecond of three chil¬ 
dren, and fo named after his godfather, Theophilus earl 
of Huntingdon. From his early attachment to books^ 
and the habitual ferioufnefs of his mind, he was intended 
by his mother for the church. At the age of eighteen he 
was admitted cf St. John’s college, Cambridge. As foon 
as he had finifhed his itudies, taken his firft degree, and 
had been admitted to deacon’s orders, he was nominated 
by fir George Wheeler to a chapel in Spital-fquare, Lon¬ 
don. Soon after this, be was* by the recommendation of 
the earl of Huntingdon, appointed domeftic chaplain to 
Algernon duke of Somerfet; but an early death deprived 
Mr. Lindfey of his illuftrious patron. In 1754, he ac¬ 
companied the prefent duke of Northumberland to the 
continent; and on his return he fupplied, for fome time* 
the temporary vacancy of a good living in the north of 
England, called Kirkby-Wifk; here he became acquainted 
with archdeacon Blackburne, and in 1760 married his 
daughter-in-law. From Kirkby Mr. Lindfey went to 
Piddletown in Dorfetfliire, having been prefented to the 
living of that place by the earl of Huntingdon; this-, 
through the intereft of the fame patron, he exchanged, in 
1764, for the vicarage of Catterick in Yorkihire. Here he 
reiided nearly ten years, highly refpefted and beloved by 
the people committed to his charge. 
At what time Mr. Lindfey began to difapprove of tbd 
doctrines of the church of which he was a me-iber, we 
are not told; butfiji the year 1771 we find him very zea- 
loufiy co-operating with archdeacon Blackburne, Dr. 
John Jebb, Mr. Wyvill, and others, in their exertions to 
obtain relief in the matter of Jubfcription as it is called. 
The object of thefe gentlemen was no lefs than this 5 
“That the clergy might be permitted to hold their prefer¬ 
ments in the eltablilhed church, without fubfcribing to 
the articles of that church, but merely on the condition 
of teftifying, generally, their belief in the holy fcriptures.” 
A petition to this effect was drawn up by Mr. Black¬ 
burne; and Mr. Lindfey, in a letter to Dr. Jebb, complains 
of the little fuccefs he had met with in obtaining iigna- 
tures to it; and of his unabating zeal to proceed by writ¬ 
ing, and perfonal application: “I have offered (fays he), 
and, if health be permitted, will carry the petition to 
Kendal in Weftmoreland ; to Newcastle in Northumber¬ 
land ; to York and Wakefield ; all places at a very great 
diftance from me, and in which labours I am alone, with¬ 
out any ailiftance whatever.” The refult of Mr. Lindfey’s 
long journey was the addition of a few names only to the 
petition ; it.was, however, in the endfigned by about two 
hundred perfons, and prefented to the houfe of commons 
on the 6th of February, 1772; but, after a long, very ani¬ 
mated, and intereiting, debate, rejected by a large majo¬ 
rity. After this event, fo unfavourable to his hopes, 
Mr. Lindfey began to confider what conrfe he fhould 
take to fatisfy his confidence 5 and in a ihort time expli- 
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