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particularly thofe of the family of Hancock, one of whom 
is faid to have fet on foot the plating-trade at Sheffield. 
The plague broke out in the fpring of 1666, and ceafed 
at the beginning of Oftober in the fame year. It was 
fuppofed to have been brought from the metropolis in 
fome woollen cloths that were purchafed in that city foon 
after the plague of 1665, and which had not been fuffi- 
ciently ventilated and fumigated. To prevent the con¬ 
tagion from fpreading into the neighbourhood of Eyam, 
the earl of Devonlhire, then refident at Chatfworth, fix 
or feven miles from Eyam, caufed provifions and the ne- 
cefiaries of life to be placed upon the hills at regular 
times, and at appointed places, to which the Inhabitants 
reforted, and carried off what was left for them. By the 
perl'uafion and authority of the excellent reftor, the in¬ 
habitants were prevailed upon to remain within a certain 
diftridl. 
Mr. Seward, the laft reftor, the father of the elegant 
poetefs of his name, preached a centenary fermon upon 
the plague, in 1766, in the pafiffi-church of Eyam, com- 
pofed with fuch power ofdefcription, and fuch apathetic 
appeal to the feelings of his auditors (many of whom had 
loll their anceltors by that dreadful visitation), that he 
was continually interrupted by the exclamations and 
tears of his audience. The fecond volume of “ Se¬ 
ward’s Anecdotes of diftinguilhed Perfons,” from which 
this article is taken, has preferved three letters of Mr. 
Mompeffon. 
MOM'POX, or Santa Cruz de Mompox, a town of 
South America, in the province of Carthagena, on the 
left bank of the Madalena : no miles fouth-fouth-eaft of 
Carthagena, and 185 well-fouth-weft of Maracaybo. Lat. 
9. 18. N. Ion. 74. 11. W. 
MO'MUS, in mythology, was, according to Heliod, the 
fon of Night and Sleep ; and was fuppofed both by the 
Greeks and Romans to be the god of buffoonery and jells. 
Satirical to excels, he made even the gods, and Jupiter 
himfelf, the objects of his moll pungent raillery. None 
of the ancients have exhibited him in his true and lively 
colours more appropriately than Lucian. Momus is faid 
4 to have derived his name from the free and bold manner 
in which he cenfured the vices and defeats of others; 
in Greek implying cenfure. He found fault with 
the gods, becaufe, in the formation of man, they had not 
made a little hole or window in his breaft, that one might 
have feen into his heart what were his thoughts : though 
Vitruvius afcribes this reflection to Socrates. He cen¬ 
fured the houfe which Minerva had made, becaufe the 
goddefs had not made it moveable, by which means a bad 
neighbourhood might be avoided. In the bull which 
Neptune had produced, he obferved that his blows might 
have been furer if his eyes had been placed nearer the 
horns. Venus herfelf was expofed to his fatire; and, 
when the fneering god could find no fault in the body 
of the naked goddefs, he obferved, as lhe retired, that 
the noife of her flippers were too loud. Thefe illiberal 
reflections upon the gods were the caufe that Momus was 
driven from heaven. Pie is generally reprefented railing 
a malk from his face, and holding a fmall figure in his 
hand. Hejiod. Lucian. 
MON-KIEU-TCHIN-HO'TUN, a town of Corea: 
075 miles eall-north-eall of Peking. Lat. 43. 1. N. Ion. 
129. 50. E. 
MO'NA, in ancient geography, two iflands of this 
name in the fea lying between Britain and Ireland. The 
one defcribed by Caelar as fituated in the middle paffage 
between both iflands, and Itretcliing out in length from 
fiouth to north. Called Monaaeda by Ptolemy ; Monapia, 
or Monabia, by Pliny. Suppofed to be the I/lc of Man .— 
Another Mona, (Tacitus ;) an ifland more to the louth. 
and of greater breadth ; fituated on the coaff of the Or- 
dovices, from which it is fieparated by a narrow- llrait, 
The ancient feat of the Druids. Now called Ajtglefey, 
the Ifland of the Angles, or Englilh. 
MO'NA, or La Guenon, a fmall ifland in the Weil 
Yol. XV. No. 1072.- 
M O N <541 
Indies, between Hifpaniola and Porto Rico. Lat. i 3 .10. N. 
Ion. 68. 28. W. 
MO'NA. See Moen, p.609. 
MO'NACPI, a river of South Wales, which runs into 
the Rydol in Cardiganfnire. 
MON'ACHAL, adj. [monacal , Fr. monachalis, Lat. from 
yol Gr.] Monallic ; relating to monks, or con¬ 
ventual orders. Sherwood. 
MON'ACPIISM, f. [ monachifme , Fr.] The Hate of 
monks ; the monallic life.—Hovedon, Matthew of Weft- 
minller, and many others of obfcurer note, with all their 
monacliijms. Milton's Hijl. of Eng.- —Antony the hermit 
thus compares the different Hates of monachifm together. 
Bingham's Cliriftian Antiquities. 
MONA'CO, a fmall principality of Italy, fituated on 
the coall of the Mediterranean, between the county of 
Nice and the Genoefe territories. It is only four or five 
Italian miles in circuit. The chief line of the Grimaldi, 
which had ruled this principality 800 years fucceffively, 
failed in 1731, in the perfon of Antony Grimaldi; but 
his eldell daughter, in 1715, being declared heirefs of the 
principality of Monaco and its dependencies, was married 
to Francis Leonoras count of Torrigny ; and the fruit of 
this marriage was Honoratus Camillus Leonoras, who 
adopted the name and arms of Grimaldi. Monaco is 
now united to Sardinia. 
MONA'CO, capital of the above principality, Hands 
on a rock, near the fea. It is fmall, and the ilreets nar¬ 
row; but, befides its fortifications, it has a garrifon, with 
a good harbour, and can compel all fliips paffing by to 
put in, and pay toll. It is fix miles north-eall of Nice, 
Lat. 43. 43. N. Ion. 7. 22. E. 
MONACON'DA, a town of I-Iindooftan, in Tellirt- 
gana: eight miles weft-fouth-well of Warangole. 
MO'NAD, or Mon'ade ,/! [ monade , Fr. from </.o vett, Gr.] 
An indivilible thing.—Difunity is the natural property 
of matter, which of itfelf is nothing but an infinite con¬ 
geries of phyfical monads. More. —In man, the monad, or 
indivilible, is the avro ro xvto, the felf-Iame felf or very 
felf; a thing, in the opinion of Socrates, much and nar¬ 
rowly to be inquired into and difeuffed, to the end that, 
knowing ourfelves, we may know what belongs to u$ 
and our happinefs. Bp. Berkeley. 
MONADEL'PHIA, f. [from p.oios, alone, and 
a brotherhood ; i. e. a “ Angle brotherhood.”] The name 
of the 16th clafs in Linnaeus’s fexual fyilem ; confiding 
of plants with hermaphrodite flowers; in which all the 
ftamens are united below into one body or cylinder, 
through which paifes the piftillum. See this clafs exem¬ 
plified under the article Botany, vol.iii. Plate X. fig. 16. 
and Plate XII. fig. 26-29. P- 2 5S, 2 73- 
Monadelphia is alfo the name of an order of the 21ft 
and 22d daffies (Monoecia and Dioecia) of the Linnsan 
fyftem, founded on the fame charadler as the clafs fo de¬ 
nominated. This order in the 2 iff clafs is chiefly formed 
of the fir, or coniferous, tribe; and in the 22d alio it 
contains fome of the allies of the fir, with a very few ge¬ 
nera befides. See Botany, vol. iii. p. 277, 278. 
MONAD ICAL, adj. Having the nature of a monad s 
All here depend on the orb unitive. 
Which alfo hight nature monadical. More. 
MONADNOCK' (Great), a mountain of United Ame¬ 
rica, in the fouth-weil part of the Hate of New Hampffiire, 
whofe fummit is a bald rock, 3254 feet above the level of 
the fea, and its bafe three miles in diameter. 
MONADNOCK' (Upper), a mountain in the north- 
eaft part of the ftate of Vermont. 
MONAGHAN', a county of Ireland, in the province 
of Ulfter; thirty miles in length from north to fouth, 
and from eleven to twenty in breadth from.eaft to well. 
It contains nineteen parilhes, and about 21,523 houfe a, 
and 118,000 fouls. The foil is in general deep and fertile, 
in fome places damp and wet; fome places are hilly, but 
can hardly be called mountainous, except Sliebh-Baught, 
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