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fions; an exterior arch, or coved recefs, with a feries of 
archivolt mouldings, charged with a great variety of fculp- 
tured figures in balTo-relievo: within this is a fquare apart, 
ment, or veftibule, on each fide of which are l uge llatues 
in balTo-relievo ; and over the door is another compartment, 
faid to be meant to reprefent the Deity on a throne, Tup- 
ported by angels ; and jult within it is a head, fuppofed to 
reprefent our Saviour crowned with thorns. In the inte¬ 
rior, the nave is divided from the fide aides by round co¬ 
lumns, with plain capitals, above which are three rows of 
arches. The groins in the vaulting are adorned with fo¬ 
liage and heads. On this altar-piece are carved griffins, 
dragons, and other grotefque figures. At the north-eaft 
of the church Hands a building denominated the abbot’s 
houfe, the lower part of which is a remnant of that edifice. 
A particular hiftory and defcription of the abbey-church, 
with feveral plates, illuftrative of its architefhire, have 
been publifhed in the firft volume of Britton’s <{ Archi¬ 
tectural Antiquities of Great Britain.” 
The remains of the old parilh-church of St. Paul Hands 
on the fouthern fide of the cemetery 5 and oppofite, on the 
fame fide, is the old vicarage-houfe. The building called 
Chapel-houfe, on the weftern fide of the town, is fuppofed 
to have conllituted the chapel of the ancient nunnery, al¬ 
ready mentioned. The White-Lion inn, and the alms- 
houfe, together with the workhoufe, and fome other build¬ 
ings, prefent remnants of more ancient ltrufture, in ge¬ 
neral dedicated to religious purpofes, or connected with 
monafiic eftabliffiments. As to the caitle, ereCted by Ro¬ 
ger bilhop of Saturn, as fome fuppofe on the fite of an 
older one, no traces of it can now be difcovered with any 
certainty; but there is a well, Hill called the Caftle-well, 
which probably belonged to it. In the market-place Hands 
a very beautiful crols of Hone, of an octangular fhape, 
and enriched with a variety of fculpture. Malmefbury is 
fifty-fix miles north-ealt of Briftol, and ninety-five weH 
of London. Lat. 51.35. N. Ion. 2. 8. W. 
About a mile (oufh from the town lies a field, called 
Cam’s Hills, in which are two enclofures, one of them 
perfectly fquare, and the other of an oblong fhape, both 
of which are ufually eHeemed veltiges of a Roman en¬ 
campment. 
Sherefion, fouth-weH of Malmefbury, on the Roman 
FotTe-way, appears to have been one of the Roman fla- 
tions, by the filver coins often found at it, fome of which 
are depofited in APnmole’s Mufeum at Oxford. 
Newenton, two miles north of Malmefbury, is in fome 
maps called Long Newenton ; it has a noble profpeCt to 
the fouth as far as Hackpen-Hills, over Malmefbury and 
Charlton houfe and park. Near here is a fine fountain of 
free-Hone, from whence water was brought in pipes to 
Malmefbury-abbey, to which its church was a chapel of 
eafe ; fome of the pipes were found in the la ft century. 
MoffatCs Hijl. of Malmefbury. Wilkes's Britifa DireElory, Appen. 
MALMIGNAT'TO, f. A name given by the inhabi¬ 
tants of the illand of Corfica to a fpecies of large infeCf, 
called by fome tarantula, and ignorantly fuppofed to be 
the fame with the tarantula of Apulia. This ifland pro¬ 
duces neither ferpents, nor many other of the mifchievous 
and defiruCtive animals which infeH the neighbouring 
countries; but it produces two fpecies of this venomous 
infeCf called the malmignatto. The one of thefe has a round 
body, and the other an oblong one, refembling that of 
our large kind of ant; it has alfo fix legs, not eight, and 
never makes any web ; from all which it appears not to 
be a fpider, but truly of the ant kind, though a monflrous- 
fized one, and very venomous. The round-bodied kind, 
by its bite, occafions violent pains, a fenfation of cold- 
nefs and cramps all over the body ; and the long-bodied 
one is yet more venomous: its Hing occafions an imme¬ 
diate lividnefs of the flefh, with intolerable cramps and 
convulfions over the whole body; fometimes the natural 
evacuations by flool and urine are alfo wholly fiopt by it. 
The cure, in both cafes, is to be attempted by cutting 
and cauterizing the wound, and drefling it with Venice 
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treacle, as alfo by giving the fame in large dofes diflolved 
in wine. 
MAL'MISCH, a town of Ruffia, in the government 
of Viatka, on the Vi itka : one hundred miles fouth of 
Viatka. Lat. 56 44 N. Ion. 50. 14. E. 
MAL'MO, a feaport town of Sweden, in the province 
of Schonen, fituated in the Sound. In the year 1319, the 
inhabitants were removed, from a former fituarion, higher 
up.the country, to the place where the town now Hands. 
It is furrounded with walls, moats, and baltions, towards 
the land ; and is defended by feveral fortifications and a 
cafile towards the fea. The caflle was built in the year 
1434, razed in 1534, and re-built in 1538. In this town 
are two burgo-mafiers, a good fchool, one Swedifii and 
one German church, an orphan-houfe, a large market¬ 
place, fine fireets, and feveral woollen manufactures. 
It is nine miles fouth-weH of Lund, and fixteen fouth- 
eaft of Copenhagen. Lat. 55. 34..N. Ion. 12.49. 
MAL'MO, a linall ifland on the weH fide of the culf 
of Bothnia. Lat. 63. 13. N. Ion. 18.40. E. 
MALM'SAS, a town of Sweden, in Sudermanland : 
twenty-three miles weH-north-weft of Nykoping. 
MALM'SEY, f A fort of grape.—A kind of wine.— 
Metheglin, wort, and malmfey. Shakfpeare. 
MALNA'IR, a town of Hindooflan, in the province of 
Sirhind : forty miles fouth-weH of Sirhind, and 120 fouth- 
eaH of Lahore. Lat. 30. 24. N. Ion. 75. 25. E. 
MALNOR', a town of Hindoolian, in the circar of Sir- 
hind : twenty miles weH-fouth-weH of Sirhind. 
MA'LO, a town of Italy, in the Vincentin : eleven' 
miles weH of Vicenza. 
MA'LO, a town of Africa, in the kingdom of Fonia. 
MA'LO, Maclou', or Mahou't (St.), the fon of an 
Englishman, and coufin to St. Magloire, was educated in 
a monaflery in Ireland, and afterwards chofen biffiop of 
Gui-Caflel, a dignity which his humility prevented him 
from accepting. The people wiffiing to compel him, he 
went to Brittanny, and put himfelf under the direction of 
a holy anchoret called Aaron, in the neighbourhood of 
Aleth. Some time after, about the year 541, he was 
chofen biffiop of that city, and there cultivated piety and 
religion with great fuccefs. He afterwards retired to a 
folitude near Xaintes, where he died November 15, 565, 
From him the city of St. Malo derives its name; his body 
having been carried thither, after the reduction of Aleth 
to a fmall village called Guidalet, or Guichalet, and the 
transference of the epifcopal fee to St. Malo. 
MA'LO (St.), a feaport town of France, and principal 
place of a diflrict, in the department of the Ille and Vi- 
laine, fituated on a fmall ifland, joined to the continent by 
a mole, at the head of which is a Hrong fort. Before the 
revolution it was the fee of a biffiop, iuffragan of Tours, 
who was lord of the town. The harbour is large, and one 
of the mofl frequented in France, though at low water aL- 
mod dry, and at all times difficult to enter, on account 
of the rocks which furround it. The place is Hrong, by 
its fituation on a peninfula, almofl furrounded by the fea, 
and having no communication with the land but by a 
narrow mole or caufeway of about fix or feven hundred 
yards in length ; and it has alfo 250 pieces of cannon 
mounted on its ramparts. It has no outworks, and its 
fortifications are fuch as could not fuflain a regular fie°-e 
for any length of time ; but it is Hrong by nature and 
art towards the fea. During the wars between Henry IV. 
of France and the partifans of the League, in the year 
1590, the inhabitants of St. Malo, apprehending that their 
governor intended to declare for the king, and admit his 
troops into the town, found means to furprife the caflle; 
and, having murdered the governor, and divided among 
them his treafures, which were confiderable, openly ef- 
poufed the caule of the League ; yet they would not re¬ 
ceive a garrifon into the town, but, on the contrary, kept 
the caflle in their own hands till the end of the war. In 
1594, the king’s arms being attended with great fuccefs, 
they fent deputies to wait on his majefty, whofurxendered 
the 
