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of chancery, and public proclamations made thereof by 
the ffieriffs, &c. i Hale's Hijl. P. C. 171, 4. TI16 Lord 
Keeper of the Great Seal, by ftatute 5 Eliz. c. 18, hath 
the fame place, authority, pre-eminence, jurifdiclion, and 
execution of laws, as the Lord Chancellor of England 
hath ; and he is conftituted by the delivery of the great 
feal, and by taking his oath. 4 Injl. 87. 
Keeper of the Privy Seal, Cujlos privati Jigilli, that 
officer through whofe hands all charters, pardons, &c. 
pafs, figned by the king, before they come to the great 
feal ; and fome things which do not pafs that feal at all. 
He is alfo of the privy council; but was anciently called 
only Clerk of the Privy Seal; after 1 which he was named 
Guardian del Privy Seal; and laftly, Lord Privy Seal; 
and made one of the great officers of the kingdom. The 
lord privy feal is to put the feal to no grant without good 
warrant; nor with warrant, if it be againlt law', or incon¬ 
venient, but that he firft acquaint the king therewith. 
4 Inft' 55- As to the fees of the clerks under the lord 
privy feal, for warrants, &c. fee If at. 27 Hen. VIII. c. n. 
Keeper of the Touch, mentioned in the ancient 
ftatute 12 Hen. VI. c. 14, feems to be that officer in the 
king’s mint, at this day called the Mafter of the Allay. 
See Mint. 
KEE'PER, a mountain of Ireland, in the county of 
Tipperary: feven miles fouth-weft of Nenagh. 
KEE'PERSHIP, f. Office of a keeper.—The gaol of the 
fhire is kept at Launcefton : this keeperjhip is annexed to 
the conftablefhip of the caftle. Careiu. 
KEE'PING, f. Guard : 
Therefore henceforth be at your keeping well. 
And ever ready for your foeman fell. Spenfer. 
The life, or ftate, of a woman who cohabits with a man 
without being married to him. 
Keeping, in painting, denotes the reprefentation of ob¬ 
jects in the fame manner that they appear to the eye at 
different diftances from it; for which the painter ffiould 
have recourfe to the rules of perfpedfive. There are two 
inftances in which the famous Raphael Urbin has tranf- 
grefted thefe rules: In one of his cartoons, reprefenting the 
miraculous draught of fifties, the men in each of the two 
boats appear of full fize, the features of their faces being 
ftrongly marked ; and the boats are reprefented fo final], 
and the men fo big, that any one of them appears fuffi- 
cient to fink either of the boats by his own bare weight : 
and the fowls on the fliore are alfo drawn fo big, as to feern 
very near the eye of the obferver, who could not poffibly, 
in that cafe, diftinguifn the features of the men in the dif- 
tant boats ; or, fuppoling the obferver to be in either of 
the boats, he could not fee the eyes or beaks of the fowls 
<on the fhore. The other inftance occurs in his hiftorical 
pi if u re of our Saviour’s transfiguration on the mount; 
where he is reprefented, with thofe who were then with 
him, almoft as large as the reft of his difciples at the foot 
of the mount, with the father and mother of the boy whom 
they brought to be cured ; and the mother, though on her 
knees, is more than half as tall as the mount is high. So 
that the mount appears only of the fize of a little hay-rick, 
with a few people on its top, and a greater number at its 
bottom on the ground ; in which cafe, a fpedfator at a lit¬ 
tle diftance could as well diftinguifh the features of thofe 
at the top as thofe on the ground. But upon any large 
eminence, deferving the name of a mount, that would be 
quite impoffible. See Perspective. 
KEE'RA, a town of Hiudooftan, in Boggilcund: twelve 
miles eaft of Kewah. 
KEE’RETPOUR, a town of Hindooftan, in the circar 
of Sumbul: ten miles fouth-fouth-weft of Nidjibabad. 
KEER'POY, a town of Hindooftan, in Bengal: thirty- 
three miles fouth-fouth-weft of Burdwan. Lat. 22. 45. N. 
Ion. 87. 35. E. 
KEER/YSKf-R, a town of Hindooftan, in the Carna¬ 
tic : twenty-two mile's fouth-fouth-weft of Bomrauzepol- 
lam,. 
K E F 
KEE'SELL, or Kypell (Matthew), a German en¬ 
graver of fome eminence, was born at Augfburg in 1621, 
and died there in the year 1682. He fuccefsfully mingled 
the work of the graver with that of the point; and his beft 
prints, which are named in the following lift, poffefs a 
large fhare of merit. The portraits of Chriftopher Ben- 
den, in 4to. Carolus Sulzer, Adolphus Zobelius, Andreas 
Winkler, Johannes Michael Dilherrus, Leonardus Weif- 
fius, all in folio. A fet of forty-two after Ludovico Bur- 
nacini, entitled II Pomo d'Oro, and confiftiog of fcenic de¬ 
corations, &c. dated 1668, are folio etchings; the only 
hiftorical work from his hand, with which we are ac¬ 
quainted, is The Virgin and Child. 
KEE'SELL (Melchior), the brother of Matthew, was 
born at Augfburg in the year 1622, and died in the fame 
city in 1683. Here he acquired the rudiments of his art, 
but perfected his ftudies under Merian of Frankfort, from 
whence, after refiding fome few years, he returned to 
Augfburg, and began to engrave the Iconographia of 
Wilhelm Baur, a folio work, which confifts of a hundred 
and forty-eight prints of various fizes, confifting partly of 
the Life and Miracles of Jefus Chrift, and partly of views 
of the Seaports and Gardens of Italy; which work was 
publifhed at Augfburg in 1682. Strutt fays, of this artift, 
that “ there is fomething very agreeable in his manner of 
engraving, efpecially when he confined himfelf to fubjefts 
where the figures are fmall, for, as he drew but incorrectly, 
his figures appear defeftive, as they increafe in fize.” Baur 
was fond of ornamenting the back-grounds of his compo- 
fitions.with fuperb buildings, which Keefell has executed 
with much fpirit; his rocks alfo, and mountainous dif¬ 
tances, have great merit; but his trees want freedom, 
lightnefs, and charafterifti'c determination of their foliage ; 
his chiarofcuro is alfo fpotty and fatiguing to the eye, if 
this be not rather the fault of Baur. Melchior engraved 
other plates befide thofe for the Iconographia of Baur, of 
which the principal are, The Hiftory of Ulyffes, from 
Theodore van Talden; fome antique ftatues, executed 
entirely with the graver ; and the portraits of Sebaftianus 
Kirchmajerus,. public profeffor at Ratifbon, after Benj. 
Block, in 4to. Johannes Hozius ; Maximilianus Curz, 
dated 1658 ; and Antonius Schottius, dated 1680, all of 
the folio fize. 
KEE'SERA, a town of Hindooftan, in the circar of 
Condapilly : fixteen miles north-weft of Condapilly. 
KEE'TEN (Groet), a village of New Holland, taken by 
the Engliffi in September 1799 : f> x miles fouth of Helder, 
KEE'TEN (Klein), a village of North Holland, near 
the German Sea, oppofite which the Engliffi forces under 
fir James Pulteney landed on the 26th of Auguft, 1796; 
it was fir Ralph Abercrombie’s head-quarters before he 
began to march: four miles fouth of Helder. 
KEEVE, f. Beer before it is put into the cafk; a cooler. 
KEE'VER, f. A cooler; a veffel to cool wort in before 
it is fermented. 
KEF'ERMACK, a town of Auftria: four miles fouth- 
fouth-eaft of Freuftadt. 
KEFF, Keefts, or Urbs, a town of Africa, in the 
kingdom of Tunis, and the third for riches and ftrength 
in the country; on the borders of Algiers, anciently call¬ 
ed Sicca, or Sicca Veneria. In the civil wars about the be¬ 
ginning of the eighteenth century, the greateft part of the 
citadel was blown up ; but it was afterwards rebuilt with 
greater ftrength and beauty. In levelling an adjacent 
mount to find materials for this building, they dug out an 
entire ftatue of Venus, which was no iooner found than 
broken to pieces by the Moors. This ftatue may not a 
little authorife and illuftrate the epithet of Veneria that was 
applied to Sicca. There was an equeftrian ftatue du<fout 
at the fame time, dedicated to Marcus Antonius Rufus, 
which fuffered the fame fate. The fituation of Keff, as 
the name itfelf imports, is upon the declivity of a hill* 
with a plentiful fource of water near the centre of jt: fe- 
venty miles wefc-fouth-weft of Tunis, and fixty-three 
fouth-eaft of Bona. Lat. 36, 15. N, Ion. 9. 3. £. 
KEFTING, 
