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of that lhape and kind which was long ago adopted by 
f'eal-engravers, and its exclufive appropriation to the no¬ 
bility is of rather modern adoption ; and we may add, that 
heraldry was probably very little ftudied or refpedled du¬ 
ring the time of the commonwealth. Our authority, 
however,'for the feal and fubfcription is the Gentleman’s 
Magazine for 1797, p. 105. where a copy of the warrant 
is given, which is dated the 25th of February, 1659. 
General Monk was a man of plain and foldier-like 
manners, brave, good-tempered, and humane ; and, not- 
withlkmding the diffimulation he praftifed in the political 
crifis of his life, which mull be acknowledged to have been 
extreme, was generally confidered as honell and fincere. 
The natural coldnefsand referve of his temper feems on 
that occafion to have ferved him inftead of refined fubtlety. 
His abilities were rather folid than Ihining; and the great 
part he afted was more the refult of circumltances which 
threw the game into his hands, than of commanding ta¬ 
lents. Hume’s Hi ft. Campbell’s Lives. 
MONK BRET'TON. See Barnsley, vol. ii. p. 733. 
: MONK’S GRO'VE, a hamlet in the parifh of Chertfey, 
Surrey, on the declivity of St. Anne’s Hill. The feat 
called Monk’s.Grove is a neat brick building, the garden 
of which has a very curious appearance to the eye of the 
traveller; it feems to have been cut out of the hill at a 
very great expenfe to its ancient poflelTbr, as it is fecured 
from the intruder on the fouth and well lides by a high 
land precipice diredlly perpendicular. Above the garden, 
in the grove, is a curious piece of building, of brick arid 
Hone, in a ruinous Hate. From its appearance it feems to 
liave been a bathing-place of the nuns who inhabited the 
priory on the hill, being lecretly embofomed in the wood, 
a hundred cubits from the road. It confided of a per¬ 
pendicular wall with a deal of work ; and had a done urn 
fixed in the centre, but now nearly dedroyed. Adjoining 
this wall is a large bafon, about twelve feet fquare, for 
the reception of the water, paved and lined with fine 
tiles; on one fide the fpring makes its appearance, which 
had been long loll. 
St. Anne’s Hill is remarkable for its various extenfive 
and variegated profpefts over the counties of Surrey, Mid- 
dlefex, Buckingham, Berks, See. Here are fome remains 
of the ruins of St. Anne’s priory, which was l’ubjeft to the 
monadery at Chertfey.—On the fouth fide of St. Anne’s 
Hill is the feat of Mrs. Fox, relift of the celebrated 
Charles James Fox; a mod compaft refidence, with a ca¬ 
pital colleftion of paintings by the firll matters, and other 
curiofities. The gardens and pleafure-grounds are laid 
out with tade and propriety, and do honour to the de- 
figner. At the bottom of the garden, through a pleafant 
romantic walk,.lies the grotto, a neat building, completed 
in the year 1790. At the back of the manfion is a linall 
dairy, fitted up in a pleafing manner; it is paved and lined 
with white tiles edged with green ; the cream-pans, Ikim- 
mers and ladles, of the fame; the drefiers and dands are 
of marble, fupported with duted pillars green and white. 
Nearly adjoining the dairy, is a large handfome green- 
houfe, fupported by pillars, dored with a mod capital 
colleftion of odoriferous plants. The lawn and different 
parts of the pleafure-grounds are pleaiingly interfperfed 
with datues of the mod celebrated heathen gods, and 
other warlike heroes, which have a claflic effeft. The 
whole forms a complete and charming country refidence, 
worthy the enjoyment of its late owner. 
Contiguous to the above is Lyne Grove, lituated on a 
hill which commands extenfive profpefts. A handfome 
large (hect of water on the wed fide of the houfe adds 
much to the beauty of the pifturelque views which adorn 
this pleafant Ipot. 
One mile fouth of Lyne Grove is Botleys, the refidence 
of fir Joleph Mawbey, bart. an elegant done manfion, 
built by its prefent polfed’or, admirably lituated in the 
middle of a fine park, well docked with timber and 
abounding with game. Here is a good piece of artificial 
water, with a bathing-houfe at the head of it. The gar- 
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den and pleafure-grounds are well laid out, and the walks 
remarkably pleafant. There are both green and hot 
houfes, containing choice colleftions of aromatic and 
other plants. The whole prefents a feene of care and 
cultivation united to beauty and magnificence.—Nearly 
adjoining is Otterlhaw, a noble done edifice, built by fir 
Thomas Sewell, many years maderof the rolls. This feat 
is large, has an air of grandeur, and is well uefigned both 
for pleafure and convenience. In front of the houle is a 
lawn of confiderable extent, from which is a mod en¬ 
chanting pifturelque profpeft for many miles over the 
lurrounding country. Wilkes's Brilijh Directory. 
MONK’s HOO'D, f. in-botany. See Aconitum and 
Leontodon. 
MONK’s HOU'SE. See Lincoln, vol. xii. p. 734. 
MONK’S RHU'BARB. See Rumex. 
MONK STO'NE, a rocky projection on the north coaft 
of Wales : three miles north-ead of Denbigh. 
MONK’s WE'ARMOUTH, or Weremouth. See 
Weremouth. 
MON'KAH, a town.of Bengal: eight miles fouth of 
Palamow. 
MONKE'ARY, a town of.Bengal: twenty miles fouth- 
fouth-eaft of Palamow. 
MONKEDOO', a town on the wed coad of Borneo. 
Lat. 2. 40. S. Ion. 109. 51. E. 
MONK'ERY, j. [from monk.] The monadic life.—• 
Herefy in Britain arifeth of monkery. Hale.—Monkeries 
then were as far didant from thofe of our days, as the 
moon is didant from the earth. Harmer. 
MON'KEY, J. [Dr. Johnfon confiders the word as mo- 
nikin, a little man. Pennant derives it from monca, a 
name which the Malays give to a particular fpecies of the 
animal among them. Monicchio for monkey is old in the 
Italian language. Todd.] An ape; a baboon ; a jackanapes. 
An animal bearing fome refembiance of man. See the 
article Simia.—O ne of them lhewed me a ring that he 
had of your daughter for a. monkey. Tubal, it was my 
turquoife ; I would not have given it for a wildernefs of 
monkeys. Shakefpeare. —Other creatures, as well as mon¬ 
keys, dedroy their young ones by fenlelefs fondnefs. Locke 
on Education. 
With glittering gold and fparkling gems they lliine, 
But apes and monkeys are the gods within. Granville. 
A word of contempt, or (light kindnefs.:—This is the 
monkey’s own giving out; (he is perfuaded I will marry 
her. Shakefpeare's Othello. —In ihip and bridge building, 
a machine for driving bolts or piles, where more force is 
required than the common method. It is compofed of a 
long pig of iron travelling in a groove, or in a frame, 
with handles, with a groove on the under fide, and Hides 
upon a ridge of iron fixed in a bed. The whole is fixed 
to centre the bolt or pile to be driven, and then the mon¬ 
key is forcibly drawn by ropes and pulleys. 
MON'KF.Y’s BREAD. See Adansonia. 
MON'KEY FLOWER. See Mimulus. 
MONKEY I'SLAND, a linall illand in Currituck 
Sound, near the coall of North Carolina. Lat. 36. 22. N. 
Ion. 76. 4. W. 
MONKEY I'SLAND, Berks, in the centre of the 
Thames, between Maidenhead and Windfor, three miles 
well-north-well from the latter; and in the parilh of 
Bray. On this illand, which contains three acres, is a 
neat houfe, with convenient offices, built by the duke 
of Marlborough. On the ceiling of the room called 
Monkey Hall, is painted a variety of fuch flowers as grow 
by the water-iide. Here are alfo reprefented feveral mon¬ 
keys, lome filhing, fome Ihooting, anti one fitting in a 
boat fmoking, while a female is rowing him over the 
river. In the temple, the infide of the faloon is enriched 
by itucco modelling, reprefenting mermaids, dolphins, 
fea-lions, and a variety of fea-ihells, richly gilt. The ella- 
blilhing this delightful feat coll the duke 10,000 guineas. 
The ieafie of it for fome years, at 25I. a-year, was fold by 
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