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Trinity, at Caen, in Normandy, by William the Conque¬ 
ror.” The abbefs of that monaftery purcha'fed for it the 
privilege of a weekly-market, which continues to be held 
onTuefday ; and here are fairs on Trinity Monday and 
the 29th of October. 
At a place called St. Mary’s Mill, in this parifh, the 
famous Roger Bacon is faid to have refided. 
At Chalford, part of which village is in this parilh, we 
meet with a remarkable petrifying fpring. 
To the weft of this town lies an extenfive common, 
called Amberfey, remarkable for being the fcite of a very 
lingular encampment. The great vallum of this work is 
irregular, and has fmaller trenches branching.from it. It 
extends nearly three miles in length, to a fpot called Woe¬ 
ful-Cane-Bottom, probably in memory of fome fignal de¬ 
feat -lultained here by that people, whom Mr. Folbrooke 
conjectures to have occupied this camp as a fummer-refi- 
dence, during their abode at Cirencefier in the year 879. 
At Rodmarfcn, a fmall village near the fofs-way which 
paffes through this diftrift, a teflellated pavement and 
other Roman remains were dilcovered about the middle 
of the feventeenth century. 
Horfley, a diluted market-town, two miles from Min- 
chin-Hampton, contains fome fragments of a priory, for¬ 
merly dependent on the monaftery of St. Martin at Tours, 
in Normandy. In a field adjoining to Gatcombe-park, 
the feat of Philip Sheppard, efq. is a large oval tumulus, 
now planted with firs, which had ereft ftones at each end 
of it. On its fummit is placed a huge fragment of rock, 
evidently a fepulchral monument, which has been long 
diftinguiftied by the appellation of Tingle-ftone. At 
fome diftance from this tumulus appear two large ftones, 
fet upright in the ground ; one has its top broken oft', but 
the other is perfedt, and rifes ten feet above the furface. 
Tradition affigns one or both of thefe memorials to Long, 
a Danilh chieftain, whence comes the name Long’s Hone, 
or pillar. 
Woodchefter, two miles from Mincliing Hampton, is 
a parifh fix miles in compafs. There is a teflellated pave¬ 
ment of painted bealts and flowers in its church-yard, 
which is feen two or three feet deep in digging the graves. 
It is ftill tolerably perfedl, though many coffins lying on 
it, and more below it, have hurt it. It is near 120 feet 
long, the outer circle 122 feet in diameter. This, fome 
think, was the door of the habitation of a Roman general, 
who had acaftle here. It is faid earl Godwin’s wife built 
a monaftery here, with thofe pretty ornaments that are 
ftill to be feen. Here was once a chapel dedicated to St. 
Blaife, in digging up which were found many modern as 
well as Roman coins, and other antiquities. In a vault 
alio many human bodies were dilcovered, whole fkulls 
were intire, and the teeth white and firm. There is a 
chari ty-fchool for girls, which one Mrs. Seyes gave 400I. 
to eredl and endow ; and at Seintly-Farm, in the neigh¬ 
bourhood, there is a free-fchool eredled by Mr. Nathaniel 
Cambridge, who gave the parilh 1200I. for this purpole. 
The broad-cloth manufadture is carried on in an extenfive 
manner in this parifh ; and here is alio a lilk manufactory. 
England's Gaz. Britijh Directory. Beauties of England 
and Wales, vol. v. 
MINCHIVAVLDA, a fmall ifland in the South Pacific 
Ocean, near the coaft of Chili. Lat. 44. 40. S. 
MIN'CING, f. The adt of cutting into fmall pieces : 
Pyrrhus fhe faw making malicious fport, 
In mincing with his fword her hulband’s limbs. Skakcjpearc. 
An aftedled motion in walking.—The daughters of Zion 
walk with ftretched-forth necks, mincing as they go.— 
Acting with caution, real or aftedled : 
Thefe gifts 
(Saving your mincing) the capacity 
Of your loft cheveril confcience would receive, 
If you might pleafe to ftretch it. Slurkejpeare. 
MIN'CINGLY, udv. In fmall parts; not fully.—Juftice 
requireth nothing mincingly, but all with prefled ar.d 
heaped, and even over-larged, meafure. Hooker. —Affedt- 
edly.-—CarafFa, in his thefes, more mincingly, terming their 
now pope, Paul the Fifth, vice-deus, vice-god. Sheldon's 
Mirror of Antichrijt. 
MIN'CIO, a river of Italy, which rifes in Lake Garda, 
pafies by Pefchiera, Monzambano, See. forms the lake 
which furrounds the city of Mantua^ and afterwards runs 
into the Po near Sachetta. The ancient name was, 
MIN'CIUS, a river of the Tranfpadana, running from, 
or rather tranfinitted through, the Lacus Benacus, from 
north to fouth, into the Padus; but originally rifing in 
the Rlietian Alps. On the banks of this river Virgil was 
born. 
MIN'CKENDORFF, a town of Aiiftria, on the river 
Triefmg : fix miles eaft-north-eaft of Baden. 
MIND, [gemynb, Sax. minde, Dan. from the Goth. 
ga-mman, to remember.] The intelligent power.—This 
word, being often riled for the foul giving life, is attri¬ 
buted abufively to madmen, when we fay that they are 
of a diftradted mind, inftead of a broken underftanding': 
which word, mind, we ufe all'o for opinion ; as, I am of 
this or that mind: and fometimes for men’s conditions or 
virtues; as, he is of an honeft mmd, or a man of a juft 
mind: fometimes for aftedtion; as, I do this for my mind's 
fake : fometimes for the knowledge of principles, which 
we have without difeourfe: oftentimes for fpirits, angels, 
arid intelligences. But, as it is rued in the proper fignifica- 
tion, including both the underftanding agent and paflible, 
it is deferibed to be a pure, Ample, fubftantial adt, not 
depending upon matter, but having relation to that which 
is intelligible, as to his firft objedt: or more at large thus ; 
a part or particle of the foul, whereby it doth underftand, 
not depending upon matter, nor needing any organ, free 
from pallion coming from without, and apt to be diflevered 
as eternal from that which is mortal. Ralegh. 
I am a very fooliih fond old man, 
I fear I am not in my perfedt mind. Shakrfp. K. Lear. 
I thought th’ eternal Maul 
Had made us mailers. Dry den. 
Intelledlual capacity: 
We fay that learning’s endlefs, and blame fate 
For not allowing life a longer date. 
He did the utmoft bounds of knowledge find; 
He found them not fo large as was his mind. Cowley . 
Liking; choice; inclination ; propenfion; affedlion.—Our 
queftion is, Whether all be fin which is done without di¬ 
rection by Scripture; and not whether the Ifraelites did 
at any time amifs, by following their own minds without 
alking counfel of God. Hooker. 
I will have nothing elfe but only this; 
And now methinks I have a mind to it. Shalufpeart. 
Quality; difpofition. Not ufual. 
Thefe trees, receiving grafts of other kind. 
Or thence tranfplanted, change their favage mind. Dryd.cn. 
Of vegetable woods are various kinds, 
And the fame Ipecies are of feveral minds. Drydm. 
Thoughts; fentiments: 
The ambiguous god, 
In thefe myfterious words, his mind exprefs’d ; 
Some truths reveal’d, in terms involv’d the reft. Dryden. 
Opinion.—There men are of the mind, that they have 
clearer ideas of infinite duration than of infinite fpace, 
becaufe God has exifted from all eternity; but there is 
no real matter co.-extended with infinite Ipace. Locke. 
The gods, permitting traitors to fucceed, 
Become not parties in an impious deed ; 
And, by the tyrant’s murder, we may find. 
That Cato and the gods were of a mind. Granville. 
Memory; remembrance.—The king knows their difpofi¬ 
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