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fon of the gentleman above-named was' a very liberal be- 
r.efaftor to the inffitution. Buildings have been errfted 
for the accommodation of the ftudentsand prefident. The 
library, apparatus, and profefforfhips of the college, are, 
as yet upon a limited fcale; but its fituation is favourable, 
and the activity of its patrons and friends cannot fail to 
promote its growing profperity.—Academies alfo have 
been incorporated by the legiflature in Hallowell, Berwick, 
Fryeburg, Bath, Hamden, and Machias, and endowed with 
•grants of the public lands; and another has been indi¬ 
cated at Portland. Town-fchools are alfo maintained in 
mod: of the towns and in many of the plantations. 
The people of this didrift are diftinguifhed by no 
peculiar features from their neighbours in New Hamp¬ 
shire and Vermont; but are, like them, brave, hardy, 
eriterprifirng, induftrious, and hofpitable. The pre¬ 
vailing religious denominations are Congregationalids 
and Baptifts ; and there are a few Quakers, Methodifts, 
Ep’ifcopalians, and Roman Catholics. The remains of 
the Penobfcot tribe are the only Indians whorelide in this 
diftrift ; they confift of about one hundred families, and 
live together in regular fociety at Indian Old Town, which 
is fituated on an ifland ofabout two hundred acres, on Pe- 
iiobfcot river, juft above the Great Falls.' Theyare Roman 
Catholics, and conduft their worfhip in an orderly man¬ 
ner, and without moleftation. The conftitution of Maine 
is the fame with that of the Maffachufetts, both being in¬ 
corporated under one government. In the diftrift of 
Maine are large trafts of land belonging to the ftate, 
called the Eallern Lands. Of thefe Lands the common¬ 
wealth have fold as much as h'as brought into the treaftiry 
a net balance of 269,005k 8s. 2d. Exclufi ve of thefe lands, 
that have been fold, trafts for the encouragement of lite¬ 
rature and other ufeful and humane purpofes have been 
granted to the amount of 431,000 acres. Several propo- 
fals have been made for feparating this diftrift from the 
Maftachufetts; the laft was made in 1802 ; but the legif- 
Jature has not interfered in the bufinefs. Such, how¬ 
ever, are the rapid fettlement and growth of this coun¬ 
try, that the period when this contemplated reparation 
will take place is probably not far diftant. Morfe's Geo¬ 
graphy. - 
MA'INEVILLE, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Eure: thirteen miles north-eaft of Grand 
Andely, and twenty-four eaft-fouth-eaft of Rouen. 
MA'INFROY. See Manfred. 
MA'INLAND,/". Continent. Spenfer and Dryden feem 
to accent this word differently : 
Ne was it ifland then. 
But was all defolate, and of fome thought 
By fea to have been from the Celtic mainland brought. 
Spenfer. 
Thofe whom Tyber’s holy forefts hide, 
Or Circe’s hills from the mainland divide. Dryden. 
MA'INLAND. See Pomona and Shetland. 
MA'INLY, adv. Chiefly; principally.—The metallic 
matter now found in the perpendicular intervals of the 
It rata, was originally lodged in the bodies of thofe ftrata, 
being interlperfed amongft the matter whereof the faid 
11 rata mainly confift. Woodward's Natural Hi/lory. 
A brutifli vice, 
Induftive mainly to the fin of Eve. Milton. 
Greatly; hugely.—It was obferved by one, that himfelf 
came hardly to a little riches, and very eafily to great 
riches ; for, when a man’s flock is come to that, that he 
can expeft the prime of markets, and overcome thofe bar¬ 
gains, which, for their greatnels, are few men’s money, 
and be partner in the induftries of younger men, he can¬ 
not but increafe mainly. Bacon. 
MA'INMAST, f. The chief or middle maft.—-A 
Dutchman, upon breaking his leg by a fall from a main- 
majl, told the ftanders-by, it was a mercy it was not his 
neck. Spectator. 
M A I 
One dire Ihot 
Clofe by the board the prince’s mahimajl bore. Dryden. 
MA'INO (Jafon del), an eminent Italian lawyer, born 
at Pefaro in 1405, was the natural fon of Andreotto dd 
Maino, an exiled Milanefe, who had retired to that city. 
He was fent to Pavia for the ftudy of law ; but during the 
firit year he applied much more to cards than to the code 
and digeft, and was reduced by gaming to a ftate of ex¬ 
treme indigence. The animadverfions of his father, with 
his own fufferings, effefted fuch a change in his conduft, 
that he foon became the admiration of the profeffors for 
his learned accjuifitions. It appears that he Itudied fpr 
fome time at Bologna under the famous Alexander da 
Imola, but whether he graduated there or at Pavia is not 
known. At the latter univerfity he became a profeffor 
in 1467; and continued there till 1485, when he accepted 
a chair at Padua. In 1488 he removed to the univerfity 
ol Pila, to which the republic of Florence invited him on 
a very liberal falary. He afterwards refumed his chair at 
Padua, where his reputation was fo high, that he is faid 
to have had three thoufand auditors. To his profeftional 
dignity was added that of leveral honourable commiflipns 
with which lie was entrufted. In 1492 he was fent by 
the duke of Milan to do homage to pope Alexander VI. 
on which occafion he pronounced an oration which was 
afterwards printed. When the emperor Maximilian had 
married the lifter of the duke Giangaleazzo Maria, Jafon 
was fent to compliment him at Infpruck in 1494, and was 
rewarded with the title of cavalier and count-palatine. 
On the affumption of the dukedom of Milan by Lodo- 
vico the Moor, Jafon recited an harangue, for which he 
obtained the title of patrician, and {he honorary poll of 
fenator. Louis XII. king of France beftowed a fief upon 
him, and once honoured his fchool at Pavia with his pre¬ 
fence, attended by five cardinals and many other perfons 
of rank. Jafon was richly clad on this occafion ; and, 
condufting the king to the door of his fchool, humbly 
requefted him to enter firft; but Louis, obferving “that 
he was no king there,” and that the profeffor was the 
only perfon entitled to refpeft in that place, obliged him 
to precede. After the letture he embraced Jafon, and in 
a familiar convention afked him why he never had mar¬ 
ried. The profeffor replied, “That the pope might know, 
from your majefty’s information, that I am not difquali- 
fied for a cardinal’s hat.” In this objeft of his ambition, 
however, he was fruftrated. He occupied his chair till 
1511, after which he fell into a ftate of dotage. He died 
at Pavia in 1519. This lawyer was accounted one of the 
greateft mafteis of jurifprudence in his time, and is enu¬ 
merated by Alciatus among the five jurifts who alone de- 
ferve to be read. 
MA'INOUR,/ [from the Fr. manier, to handle, or take 
with the hand.] In law, denotes a thing taken away and 
found in the hand of the thief. Thus to be taken with 
the mainour, is to be taken with the thing ftolen about 
him. 
One mode of profecution by the common law, without 
any previous finding by a jury, was when a thief was 
taken with the mainour ; that is, with the thing ftolen 
upon him, in manu ; for he might, when fo detefted, be 
brought into court, arraigned, and tried, without indict¬ 
ment. But this proceeding was taken away by feveral 
ftatutes in the reign of Edward III. though in Scotland 
a fimilar procefs.remains to this day. 
MAINPER'NABLE, adj. Bailable; that may be ad¬ 
mitted to give furety. 
MAINPER'NOR,/! [from the Fr. main, hand, and pre- 
neur^ taker.] -Surety ; a kind of bail.—He enforced the 
earl himfelf to fly, till twenty-fix noblemen became main¬ 
pernors for his appearance at a certain day ; bur, be mak¬ 
ing default, the uttermoit advantage was taken againft 
bis fureties. Davies on Ireland.—Mainpernors differ from 
bail, in that a man s bail may impriion or lurrender him 
up before the ftipulated day of appearance; mainpernors 
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