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It is feven miles north-eaft of Bruges, and Tom* foUtli-eafl 
of Sluys. . Lat. 51. 16. N. Ion. 3.15. E. 
MID'DLEBURG, a fmall ifland near the weft coaft of 
New Guinea. Lat. 0.18. S. Ion. 132. 32. E. 
MID'DLEBURG, a fmall ifland in the Gulf of Manar, 
near the weft coaft of Ceylon : eighteen miles north of 
Manar. 
MID'DLEBURG, a poll-town of North America, in 
"Kentucky : 603 miles fouth-fouth-weft of Walhington. 
MID'DLEBURG, a town of Virginia; forty-feven 
miles of Walliington. 
MID'DLEBURG, a town of the ftate of Vermont: 
thirty-three miles north-weft of Rutland, and tliirty- 
feven fouth-eaft of Burlington. 
MID'DLEBURG. See Eaoowe, vol. vi. 
MID'DLEBURG (New), a town of Dutch Guiana, at 
the extremity of the colony. 
■ MID'DLEBURG KE'Y, a fmall ifland in the Weft 
Indies, near the north-eaft co ill of St. Martin’s. 
MID'DLEBURY, a poll-town of America, in Vermont, 
capital of Addilon county. Here are a brewery on a large 
fcale, three grill-mills, four faw-mills, a forge, a gun and 
cord manufactory, gaol, court-houfe, college, about 400 
dw r elling-houfes, and 1263 inhabitants. It lies on the 
call fide of Otter-creek; 51 x miles north-eall of Walh¬ 
ington. 
MIDDLEBUSH', a town of the ftate of New Jerfey : 
three miles well of New Brunfwick. * 
MID'DLEBY, a town of Scotland, in the county of 
Dumfries : fourteen miles eaft of Dumfries. 
MID'DLEFAHRT, a town of Denmark, ftuated on 
the weft coaft of the ifland of Funen, on the Little Belt, 
which is here hardly one mile wide, and is called Middle- 
fahrt Sound. From hence is a ferry to Snogboy in Jut¬ 
land. It is twenty-four miles well of Odenfee. Lat. 55. 
32. N. Ion. 9. 39. E. 
MID'DLEFIELD, a town of the ftate of Ohio : fifteen 
miles north of Warren. 
MID'DLEFIELD, a town of Maflacliufetts : thirty 
miles north-w’eft of Springfield, and 130 weft of Bollon. 
MID'DLEHAM, a town in the north riding of the 
county of York, with a weekly’market on Monday, and 
a fair Nov. 6, 7. Here is an ancient caftle built in 1190, 
by Robert Fitz-Ranulph, a defcendant of the earl of 
Bretagne. It afterwards belonged to the Nevils ; and 
Edward IV. was confined in it, after being made prifoner 
by furprile in his camp by Nevil earl of Warwick, fur- 
aiamed the king-maker. The eftates of this earl being 
forfeited, they were, by an aft of parliament, nth of Ed¬ 
ward IV. fettled upon Richard duke of York, afterwards 
"king Richard III. and Edward, the only fon of Richard, 
"was - born in this caftle : his premature death is, accord¬ 
ing to the fuperftition of fome writers, confidered as a 
judgment on Richard, for the imputed murder of Ed¬ 
ward V. and his brother. From that time to the prefent, 
this caftle is fcarcely, if at all, mentioned in liiftory. It 
was inhabited, fo late as the year 1609, by fir Henry Find¬ 
ley. In 1663, it appears to have been in the polfelfion of 
lord Loftus, who probably held it by leale from the crown, 
where the property feems to be. The entrance into this 
caftle was by a very ftrong arched gateway on the north 
fide. The remnants of a moat now appear on the fouth 
and eaft fides ; but the ditch is daily filling up with weeds 
and rubbilh. The caftle is a right-angled parallelogram, 
210 feet by 175, with a tower at each angle, and a round 
one at the fouth-weft. 
The parifti-church is a handfome ftrufture. In the year 
1476, Richard duke of Gloucefter, obtained a licenfe 
from his brother, Edward IV. to make it a collegiate 
deanery with provifion for a dean, fix chaplains, four 
clerks, and fix chorifters ; but the eftablifliment was never 
completed. The minifter of the pariflx has yet thejitle of 
Dean of Middleham, and enjoys feveral privileges; but 
there probably never were any clerks, chorifters, or chap¬ 
lains, though the prefentatioa from the crown, for the 
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inftalment of the dean, is direfted to the'chaplains. It 
has, however, a regiftrar and furrogate. As the endow- 
ment of lands to this deanery was fruftrated by the death 
of the king, it has no other than the parochial revenue. 
Middleham is fituated on the fouthern bank of the river 
Ure, ten miles from Richmond, forty-four, from York, 
twenty-fix from Boroughbridge, and 229 north of London, 
Lat. 54.16. N. Ion. 1.3S.W. 
Gervafe-abbey, near Middleham, was built in 1145.—< 
Prefton-Scar, near Middleham, is remarkable for its ex- 
tenfive profpefts, having feven churches and the cataraft 
of Ayfgarth in view, together with Middleham and Bol¬ 
ton.—Coverham, commonly called Corlxam, is alio near 
Middleham ; here was an abbey, built in 1280.—The river 
Cover falls into the Yowre below Middleham. Gent. Ma«\ 
061 . 1814. Wilkes's Britijh Directory, vol. v. 
MIDDLEHOOK', a town of the American States, in? 
Jerley : eight miles weft of New Brunfwick. 
MID'DLEMOST, adj. Being in the middle.—Theout- 
ward ftars, with their fyftems of planets, rauft necefiarily 
have defcended toward the middlemojl fyftem of the uni- 
verfe, whither all would be moll Ib'ongly attracted from 
all parts of a finite fpace. Bentley's Sermons. 
MID'DLESEX, an inland county of England, bound¬ 
ed on the north by Hertfordlhire, on the fouth by the 
river Thames, which divides it from Surrey, on the welt 
by the river Colne, which feparates it from Buckingham- 
fiiire, and on the eaft by the river Lea, which divides it 
from Efiex. Its lhape is extremely irregular, but, on the 
wdiole, approaches to that of the quadrangle. The greateft 
extent of the Ihire, from eaft to weft, meafures about 20 
miles ; and its greatelt breadth, from north to fouth, about 
17 miles. The fuperficial area of the whole county is efti- 
mated in the parliamentary i-eturns at 295 fquare miles, 
or 188,800 acres. Some other writers, however, ftate its 
contents at 218,000 acres. According to the parliamen¬ 
tary returns of 1811, it contained 950,042 inhabitants, 
viz. 433,036 males, and 517,006 females. With this im- 
menfe population, Middlefex fends but eight members to 
parliament; two for the county, four for London, and 
two for Weftminfter; while Cornwall, with 223,900 in¬ 
habitants, fends forty-four members, or one for 5000 per- 
fons. Middlefex, then, is the worft reprefented county 
in England, - and it lias only one reprelentative for about 
120,000 perlons. 
This county, before the Roman invafion, formed part 
of the temtories of the Trinobantes, or Trinovantes, 2 
tribe of Britons who are fuppofed to have derived their 
name from the peculiar nature of the country they occu¬ 
pied ; being a broad valley on the banks of a wide-fpread- 
ing river. This tribe poflelfed two confiderable cities, 
or fortified places ; of which the eminence between the 
Thames and Moorfields, nearly the centre of modem 
London, was the fcite of one; the other, and moll im¬ 
portant at that early period, was Camalodunum, now 
Colchefter in Eflex. Being torn by internal diffenfions, 
the Trinobantes were the firft who found tlxemfelves com¬ 
pelled to fubmit to the Roman arms. After the complete 
lubjugation of the ifland, their territories, and cor.fe- 
quently Middlefex, were included in the divifion called 
Flavia Cafarienfis ; and Londinurn or Augulla, now Lon¬ 
don, became a principal Roman ftation, though, from, 
fome caufe unknown, it never was dignified with the 
name of a colony. 
The Romans feem to have had only two ftations in 
this county: Londinurn or Augufta, now London; and 
Sullonicte, or Brockley-hills, near Elftree, on the borders 
of Hertfoi'dlbire. Roman remains, however, have been 
difcovered at many other places. The Roman reads ap¬ 
pear to have concentrated in London, and to have 
branched off from that city in different directions, as 
from a common centre. The Watling-ftreet, running 
from Dover, is prefumed to have entered Southwark at 
the point now called Dowgate, and, keeping along the 
prefeat WatJing-ftreet, to have quitted the city at Alderf- 
gate. 
