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ficenca and variety of his ideas. Some of bis greateft florins; of which fum the laid counts, afterwards ftyled 
works were the chateau de Clagny, the palace of Versailles, princes, paid 120, Saxony 135, and Magdeburg 4j> To 
with its (tables and chapel, the houfe of St. Cyr, the gal- the chamber at Wetzlar, the elector of Saxony was charged 
lery of the Palais Royal, the Places of Louis le Grand and for Mansfeld at 125 rix dollars 48 kruitzers ; and Magde- 
des Vidtoires, and the dome and finilhing of the Invalides. burg, 83 rix-dollars Gz kruitzers. At the peace of Tdfir, 
He died fuddenly at Marly (a place of his creation) in the Pruflian part was annexed to Weftphalia; but by the 
1708, and was buried at the parilh-church of St. Paul in Att of the Congrefs at Vienna, June 9, 1815, it is reftored 
Paris, where his toinb was fculptured by Coyfevox. to Pruflia. 
D'Argenville, Vies des Archil. MAN'SFELD, a town in the above principality, with 
M ANS'BURG, a town of the duchy of Carniola: three a caftle, fituated on a high rock, which was formerly a 
miles fouth-fouth-welt of Stein. fortrefs, and refidence of the counts of Mansfeld 5 great 
MAN'SBY, a town of Sweden, in Weft Bothnia, on part of the walls and baftions was deltroyed and blown 
the Calix : twenty-five miles weft-north-weft of Tornea. up in the year 1674: thirty-fix miles north-north-ealt of 
MAN'SCOE, a bailiwick in Georgia, fouth of the Muf- Erfurt, and twenty-fix fouth-fouth-eaft of Halberftadt. 
cle fhoals, in the Teneflee river, remarkable for the mam- Lat. 51. 38. N. Ion. 11. 41. E. 
moth-bones found here. 
MANS'DORF, a town of Pruflia, in Pomerelia: feven 
miles north ot Marienburg. 
MAN'SE, f [ manfum , Lat. formed, a mantndo, abiding, 
as being the place of dwelling, or refidence.] In ancient 
law-books, denotes a houfe or habitation ; either with or 
without land. 
Manse, or Mansum Presbv'teri, is a parfonage or 
vicarage-houfe, for the incumbent to refide in. This was 
originally, and dill remains, an effential part of the en¬ 
dowment of a parilh-church, together with the glebe and 
tithes. It is lometimes called prejbylerium. 
MANSEE', in geography. See Maunsee. 
MAN'SEL, an illand in the north-eaft part of Hudfon’s 
Bay, between Southampton illand and the coaftof Labrador. 
Lat. 62. 38. N- 
MANSEL GAM'AGE, a village in Hereford (hire, be¬ 
tween Hereford and Stanton. 
MANSEL HO'PE, a village in Herefordlhire, fouth-eaft 
of Rofs. 
MANSEL LA'CY, a village in Herefordlhire, fouth- 
eaft of Weobly. 
MAN'SERET, a town of Spain, in the Afturia of 
Oviedo. 
MAN'SFELD, a county or principality of Weftphalia, 
bounded by Saxony and Querfurt, the diocefe of Merfe- 
burg and the duchy of Magdeburg, the principalities of 
Anholt and Halberftadt, and the county of Stolberg. Its 
greateft length is twenty-eiglu, and greateft breadth fix- 
teen, miles. Although it is generally mountainous, it 
affords good corn-land and pafturage, with a confiderable 
extent of woods, vineyards, chaces, and filheries ; befides a 
falt-workand mine, and a Hate from which copper is ex- 
trafted: this fiate bears impreflions of all kinds of ani¬ 
mals, efpecially of fifties. In this country are two lakes; 
almoft contiguous and communicating with each other ; 
and yet the water of the one is fait, and that of the other 
frelh and fweet. Thefe lakes abound with filh, which 
furnifh employment and fubiiftence for the adjoining in¬ 
habitants. They fupply alfo a great number of wild 
ducks, geefe, fnipes, and other water-fowl. The county 
contains feven towns. The prevalent religion is Luthe- 
ranifm, introduced into the country by the aftivity and 
zeal of Albert VII. count of Mansfeld. The counts of 
Mansfeld are defeended from the lords of Querfurt. The 
ancient male line of Mansfeld began in count Hoier I. 
who, in 1115, fell in the great battle fought near Welfe- 
fholze, in this county, between king Henry V. and the 
Saxons, to the difadvantage of the former. Ubrich I. 
and Burkhard I. grandfons to his fon Hoier II. in 1220, 
divided the county between them. The progeny of the 
former became extinft in the fourteenth century, and the 
latter left no fons; but, a little before his death, his fe- 
cond daughter Sophia was married to Burkhard VI. lord 
of Querfurt, count of Mansfeld and Hardeck, and burg- 
grave of Magdeburg, from whom defeended the prefent 
lineage of the counts of Mansfeld, and who are the firft 
branches of this new Hem. The county of Mansfeld is 
partly a fief of Saxony and Magdeburg. In the matricula 
of the empire, the county of Mansfeld was affeffed to a 
Roman month in ten horfemen and forty-five foot, or 300 
MAN'SFELD, a town of Pruflia, in Natangen : ten 
miles fouth-fouth-weft of Koniglberg. 
MAN'SFELD (Peter Erneft, Count of), was defeended 
from one of the molt illuftrious families in Germany, and 
which has produced the greatefl number of diftinguilhed 
characters. In 1552, he was taken prifoner at lvoy, (now 
Carignan,) where he commanded j and he was afterwards 
of great fervice to the Catholics at the battle of Mont- 
contour. In confequence of his great talents, he was em¬ 
ployed in affairs of the utmoft delicacy and importance. 
Being made governor ofLuxemberg, he maintained tran¬ 
quillity in that province, while the reft of the Low Coun¬ 
tries was a prey to the horrors of civil war. In teftimony 
of their gratitude, the ftates caufed the following inferip- 
tion to be placed on the gate of the hotel de ville : “ In 
Belgioomnia dum valtatcivile bellum, Mansfeldus, bello 
et pace fidus, hanc provinciam in fide continet fervatque 
illaefam, cum fummo populi concenfu et hilari jucun- 
ditate.” He was afterwards appointed to the command 
of the Low Countries; and died at Luxemburg, March 
21, 1604, at the age of eigbty-feven, with the title of 
Prince of the Holy Empire. His maufoleum, in bronze, 
which is to be feen in the chapel bearing his name, and 
adjoining to the church of the recollets at Luxemburg, 
is an admirable work; but the four highly-finilhed weep¬ 
ers, with which this monument was ornamented, were 
carried off by Louis XIV. when he took this city in 1684. 
To love of war, Mansfeld united a tafte for the feiences; 
and was a contfant encourager of the arts; he poffeffed 
a great and elevated mind ; but, like many heroes an¬ 
cient and modern, he was greedy of gain and lavilh of 
blood. Abbe Schannat has written the hiltory of the 
count of Mansfeld in Latin; printed at Luxemburg, 1707. 
—Charles prince of Mansfeld, his lawful fon, fignalized him- 
felf in the wars of Flanders and Hungary; and died with¬ 
out iffue in 1595, after having beaten the Turks who at¬ 
tempted to relieve the city of Gran (Strigonia), which 
he was befieging. 
MAN'SFELD (Erneft), a celebrated general, born in 
*585, was the natural fon of the foregoing Peter Erneft, 
count of Mansfeld. He was brought up at the court of 
the archduke Erneft, governor of the Low Countries, 
who fent him at an early age into Hungary, to learn the 
art of war under his brother Charles. He ferved the em¬ 
peror and the king of Spain in Hungary and the Low 
Countries ; and was legitimated by the former, on account 
of his bravery. He received fome flights from die Spa- 
nilh government, which caufed him to quit its fervice in 
difgult; and he entered into that of the duke of Savoy. 
He had been brought up in the Catholic religion, but 
did not fcruple to enter into the league of the Proteftant 
princes again ft the head of the empire, and henceforth he 
became one of the moft formidable enemies of the houfe 
of Auftria. He was fent by Frederic, elector palatine, 
in 1618, into Bohemia, to fupport the revolters from the 
authority of the emperor. After Frederic, who had been 
elected king, had lolt the battle of Prague in 1620, Manf- 
feld kept on the war till he was compelled by the fupe- 
rior forces of Tilly to retire into the palatinate. Has he- 
roifm was now every-where celebrated ; and, though lying 
under the ban of the 'empire, without eitate or property 
of 
