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a fine alabafter ftatue, in armour, fuppofed to be the effigy 
of one of the Champernoune family. Befides the efta- 
bliflied church, there are two other buildings in this town 
appropriated to divine worfhip; one belonging to the 
preffiyterians, and the other to the anabaptifts. Here was 
formerly an alien priory, dependent on the .abbey of St. 
j>eter fur Dive, in Normandy, which feems to have been 
founded ffiortly after the conqueft. Its religious inmates 
were monks of the order of St. Bened.ift. On the diffo- 
lution of the alien monafteries, in the reign of Henry VI. 
this priory was granted to the college at Eton. The pre- 
cife fcite on which it ftood is uncertain ; but, as there are 
two fields adjoining to the weftern fide of the church¬ 
yard, ft ill called Priors’ Parks, it was moil probably fitu- 
ated fomewhere near that fpot. Indeed, on the oppofite 
fide of the road which pafies thefe parks, there appear 
fome remains of an ancient building, which may have 
formed part of the priory. 
The proprietor of the manor here, at a very remote 
period, was fir James Okeftone, or Oxton, from whole fa¬ 
mily it palled into that of the Champernounes., who po-1- 
l'efled a fplendid manfion immediately adjoining to the 
town, only a fmall portion of which is now Handing. Of 
the-grandeur of this feat, and the magnificent manner in 
which its owmer lived, tradition fpeaks very highly. They 
are laid, in particular, to have kept a fine band of fingers 
and inuficians, with whofe execution queen Elizabeth 
was fo much delighted, that Ihe requefted the loan of 
them for a month; but, being refufed by Mr. Champer¬ 
noune, out of pique Hie found fome pretence to fue him at 
law, and occafion his ruin; he being compelled to fell no 
lei's than nineteen manors to fupport the litigation. 
The vicinity of this town is adorned with a number of 
family-feats, fome of ancient and others of modern erec¬ 
tion.—Wimpfton, the ancient manfion of the Fortefcues, 
is remarkable as being the houfe in which the celebrated 
fir John Fortefcue was born. This gentleman railed him- 
i'elf by his talents to the dignity of chief juftice and chan¬ 
cellor in the reign of king Hem-y VI. and wrote a work 
entitled “ De Laudibus Legum Anglia;,” which is (till 
held in great repute among legal antiquaries. See vol. vii. 
p. 589, 90.— Other feats of note are, Train, Fleet-houle, 
Madridge, Fowlefcombe, Stowford, Butterford, Shillton, 
and Fardel, which laft was long in poffeffion of the Ra¬ 
leighs. Beauties of England and Wales. 
MODDAPOU'R, a town of Bengal, on the right bank 
of the Ganges: tw'enty-feven miles north of Mahmud- 
pour. 
MOD'DER, / [moer, Dan. a girl; moddc, moddcken, 
Teut. the fame. See Mauther.J A wench, or girl. 
Huloet, and Sherwood. Yet ufed in fome counties; as 
in Norfolk and Suffolk, according to Grole; and alfo 
applied, he fays, to fome female animals. 
MODDIGONG', a town of Hindooftan, in Goond- 
wana : ten miles north of Ramteak. 
MODDIGU'BA, a town of Hindooftan, in the circar 
of Gooty: ten miles weft of Amantpour. 
MODE,/ [Fr. from modus, Lat. This word feems to 
have been little ufed before the middle of the feventeenth 
century: for P. Heylin calls it, in 1656, new and un¬ 
couth.] External variety; accidental dilcrimination ; ac¬ 
cident.—A mode is that which cannot lubfift in and of k- 
j'elf, but is always efteemed as belonging to, and fubfifting 
by the help of, fome fubftance, which, for that reafon, is 
called its fubjett. Few allow mode to be called a being 
in the fame perfeft fenfe as a fubftance is, and fome modes 
have evidently more of real entity than others. Watts's 
Logic. —Gradation; degree: 
What modes of fight betwixt each wide extreme. 
The mole’s dim curtain, and the linx’s beam; 
Of fmell, the headlong lionefs between, 
And hound fagacious, on the tainted green. Pope. 
Manner; method ; form; fafliion.—The duty itfelf being 
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refolved upon, the mode of doing it may eafily be round. 
Bp. Taylor. 
Our Saviour beheld 
A table richly fpread in regal mode, 
With difiies pil’d. Bliltou. 
State; quality: 
My death 
Changes the mode; for what in me was purchas’d. 
Falls upon thee in a much fairer fort, 
For thou the garland wear’ft fucceffively. Skakefpeare. 
Falhion ; cuftom.—There are certain garbs and modes of 
fpeaking, which vary with the times, the falhion of our 
clothes being not more fubjeft to alteration than that of 
our fpeech. Denham. 
Though wrong the mode, comply; more fenfe is Drown 
In wearing others’ - follies than your own. Young. 
A kind of thin filk, worn by ladies. 
Mode, in grammar. See the article Grammar, vol. 
viii. p. 769. 
Mode, in mufic, a regular difpofition of the air and 
accompaniments, relative to certain principal founds upon 
which a piece of mufic is formed, and wdiich are called 
the effential founds of the mode. 
Our modes are not, like thofe of the ancients, charac¬ 
terized by any fentiment which they tend to excite, but 
refult from our fyftem of harmony alone. The founds 
elfential to the mode are in number three, and form to¬ 
gether one perfeft chord. 1. The tonic or key, which is 
the fundamental note both of the tone and of the mode. 
2. The dominant, which is a fifth from the tonic. 3. The 
mediant, which properly conftitutes the mode, and which 
is a third from the fame tonic. As this third may be of 
two kinds, there are of confequence tw r o different modes. 
When the mediant forms a greater third with the tonic, 
the mode is major; when the third is leffer, it is minor. 
See the article Music. 
MODEC'CiF, / in botany. See Convolvulus. 
MOD'EL, / [■modelle, Fr. modulus, Lat.] A reprefen- 
tation in little of fomething made or done.— Models of 
warlike inftruments, fortifications, &c. are prelerved in 
the royal laboratory at Woolwich, and in the Tower. 
James's Bill. Diet. 
I’ll draw the form and model of our battle; 
Limit each leader to his feveral charge, 
And part in jult proportion our fmall ftrength. Shahefp. 
A copy to be imitated.—They cannot fee fin in thofe 
means they ufe, with intent to reform to their models 
what they call religion. King Charles. —A mould; any 
thing which lliows or gives the ffiape of that which it 
inclofes : 
Nothing can we call our own but death, 
And that fmall model of the barren earth 
Which ferves as pafte and cover to our bones. Skakefpeare. 
Standard ; that by which any thing is meafured.—As he 
who prefumes fteps into the throne of God, fo he that 
defpairs meafures Providence by his own little contrafted 
model. South. —In Shakefpeare it feems to have two un¬ 
exampled fenfes. Something reprefentative: 
I have commended to his goodnefs 
The model of our chafte loves, his young daughter. 
Shakefpeare. 
Something fmall and diminutive; for module, a fmall 
mealure: which, perhaps, is likewife the meaning of the 
example affixed to the third fenfe: 
England ! model to thy inward greatnefs. 
Like little body with a mighty heart. Shakefpeare. 
To MOD'EL, v. a. To plan; to ffiape; to mould ; to 
form; to delineate.—The government is modelled after 
the fame manner as that of the Cantons, as much as fo 
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