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moflly arable, and in a high Hate of cultivation and fer¬ 
tility. The manufactures carried on in this place are— 
dowlas, tick, white baize, linl'ey, flockings, and fhoes. 
For feveral years after this borough was reltored to its 
privileges, the twp prefiding capital bailiffs when prefent, 
or one of them when the other was abfent, enjoyed the 
•foie right of making the return to the flieriff’s precept, 
that is, of returning the members they thought legally 
chofen. But, iince the reftoration, thefe nine ancient 
S jarcels of borough-lands having been all engrofled and 
become the property of two neighbouring gentlemen, 
thefe two, or fome of their friends, by agreement among 
themfelves, were generally chofen, and returned without 
oppofition ; and, as it often happened that neither of the 
capital prefiding bailiffs were prefent, the return was often 
made by their fubflitutes, or Jub-bailiff's; and this hap¬ 
pened fo frequently, that it paffed into a cuftom ; and it 
was at length determined by the houfe, that “ the fub- 
bailiffs (and not the head-bailiffs) are the returning offi¬ 
cers, or that one of them may make the return if there 
are not two.” The true conflitution of this infignificant 
borough has, however, puzzled about a dozen committees 
of the houfe of commons to underfland and explain it. 
The laft decilion was on the 12th of December, 1796. 
“ That the right of election of members to ferve in par¬ 
liament for the borough of Milborne-Port, in the county 
of Somerfet, is only in the capital bailiffs and their de¬ 
puties, the number of bailiffs being nine, and their de¬ 
puties being two; in the commonalty-flewards, their 
number being two ; and in the inhabitants thereof,'pay¬ 
ing fcot and lot.” Thus nine patches of borough-land, 
the property of two men, give a right of voting for 
members of parliament to any nine perfons to whom 
the proprietors choofe to convey them for that pur- 
pofe. Two of thefe nine burgage or feudal tenures 
prefide yearly by rotation as returning officers ; the per- 
i'ons to whom they are conveyed are called the nine bai¬ 
liffs, as conflituted by the conveyance of the tenures. 
The two bailiffs, whole turn it happens to be to prefide, 
appoint the two fubflitutes (at the court-ieet, held an¬ 
nually in the month of OCfober) who are called fub- 
bailiffs. The fub-bailiffs are generally two of the fer- 
vants of the proprietors, and not unfrequently have the 
honour of returning their mailers to parliament. In ad¬ 
dition to thefe nine feudal or parchment voters, are all 
the houfeholders paying fcot and lot, amounting to about 
feventy more. The nine patches of burgage-tenure land, 
and mod of the feventy fcot-and-lot houfes, are the pro¬ 
perty of the marquis of Anglefea and fir William Coles 
Medlycott, bart. who refide in the borough ; but the mar¬ 
quis of Anglefea has farmed fir William’s moiety of the 
borough upon leafe, and nominates both the members. 
The members fo nominated are'—General Edward Paget, 
his lordfhip’s brother ; and R. M. Calberd, el'q. Oldfield's 
lleprefentative Hijiory. 
The following villages are in the neighbourhood of 
Milborne-Port. — Henltridge, about three miles ealt; 
Obourn, one mile welt; Bowden, one mile north-eaft- 
by-eaft; Stowel, one mile and a half nortli-eaff-by-north; 
Charltern, about two miles and a half north ; Pointington, 
one mile and a half north-north-welt; Goathill, one mile 
fouth-by-wefl; Caundle-Pus, one mile fouthH'outh-eafl, 
extending itfelf to fouth-by-eafl and fouth, and ‘alfo to 
fouth-by-wefl. 
Not far from hence, but nearer to Wincanton, is Ca- 
malet, a noted place, fituated on the highelt ground in 
this country, on the edge of Dorfetfnire : its vulgar name 
is Cadbury-caflle, from the village of North Cadbury, 
wherein it Hands. Hereabouts rile the rivers of Somer- 
fetfhire, which run into the Severn-fea weflward ; and 
that in Dorfet, which goes eaflward, through Sturminiter, 
into the Southern Ocean. It is miioble fortification of the 
Romans. The profpeCt is woody, -and very plealant. 
Roman coins, in great plenty, have been found here, and 
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in all the country round. The entrance is guarded by 
fix or feven ditches. On the north fide, in the fourth 
ditch, is a never-failing fpring, called King Arthur's Well • 
over it they have dug up fquare Hones, door-jambs with 
lunges, and fay there are l'ubterraneous vaults there¬ 
abouts. Wilkes's Briti/h Directory. 
MIL'BOURN (Duke), an Englifh divine, was the fon 
.of Mr. Luke Milbourn, a nonconformiH miniHer who 
was ejedied from the living of Wroxhall, in Warwick 
flnre, in 1662, and died at Newington in 1607 His fon 
received a good education, became mafter of arts and 
obtained the redtory of St. Ethelburg in London’ ‘lie 
pubhfhed Sermons and Theological Traits, 2 vols 8vo a 
Poetical Verfion of the Pfalms ; and feveral Poems, for 
which Pope gives him a place in the Dunciad. He died 
in 1720. 
MIL'BROOK, a village in Hampfhire : two miles from 
Southampton. 
MIL'BROOK, a town of Cornwall, on the wed fide of 
Plymouth Haven. It has a good fifhing-trade, and has 
formerly furniflied our fleet with many able hands. 
•At a flioi t diHance from iVIilbrook, on the coaH of 
Whitfand Bay, amidH a pile of rocks which obfeure every 
feature of beauty or fublimity, and to which a rou°h- 
hewn flight of Heps leads from a Hoping plain, Hands 
Sharrow’s Grot, which is a cavern fufficiently large to 
contain feveral perfons. The roof and fides are covered 
with rhimes, not very remarkable for poetic genius ; a 
table occupies the centre, and round it is a Hone feat 
The cavern is elevated more than a hundred feet above 
the level of the fea ; and immediately in front of the rock 
which is a fchiftus of flute, forms a platform, farrounded 
by a natural parapet, which enables the fpeftator to view 
without apprehenfion the magnificent expanfe, which 
comprehends a line of ocean from Eddyflone to the Dead 
Man s Point. The land-profpe< 5 I is formed by the plain, 
which, being entirely barren of wood, and excludino- from 
the light every human habitation, completes the Tavave 
grandeur of the feene. Gent. Mag. Nov. 1815. 0 
MIL'CAH, [Heb. a queen.] The name of a woman. 
MIL'CE, a town of Poland, in Volhynia: thirty-four 
miles north-north-wefl of Lucko. 
MILCH, adj. [melee. Sax. milky.] Giving milk.*_- 
The befi mixtures of water in ponds for cattle, to make 
them more milch, fatten, or keep them from murrain, may 
be chalk and nitre. Bacon's Nat. Hi/t.— Not above fifty- 
one have been Harved, excepting infants at nurfe, caufed 
rather by careleffnefs and infirmity of the milch women 
G'vaunt's Bills of Mortality. 
Herne doth, at Hill of midnight, 
Walk round about an oak, with ragged horns; 
And then he blafls the tree, and takes the cattle, 
And makes milch kine yield biood. ShuheJ'peare. 
Soft; tender; merciful. ObJ'olcte: 
The inflant burfl of clamour that fhe made, 
Would have-made milch the burning eye of heaven 
And paffion in the gods. SkUheJpeare's Hamlet. 
MIL'COM, [Heb. their king.] An idol of the Am¬ 
monites. 
MIL'CO F 1 ON, a village in Northamptonfhire, on the 
river Neyne, near Addington. Here are the remains of 
a Roman intrenchment; and in the neighbouring fields 
Roman coins have been ploughed up, and an urn with 
afhes in it. 
MIL'COURT, a village in Hampfhire, north-eafl of 
Atton. 
MILD, adj. [Saxon.] Kind ; tender ; good ; indul¬ 
gent; merciful; companionate; clement; loft; not fe- 
vere; not cruel.—The execution of juftice is committed 
to his judges, which is the feverer part; but the milder 
part, which is mercy, is wholly left in the king. Bacon.— 
Adore him as a mild and merciful being:, of infinite love 
to his creatures. Rogers's Sermons. 
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