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of any kind, lie had rendered his name fo famous by his 
fpirit of enterprife, and his Angular faculty of recruiting 
after lofles, and keeping the field though often defeated, 
that he found himfelf courted at the fame time by the 
king of France, the French proteftants, the kings of Spain 
and England, and the republics of Holland and Venice. 
He determined, however, to join the duke of Bouillon, 
and the reformed party in France ; and performed many 
feats of furprifing valour. When he had difbanded his 
troops, he vifited France and England ; and from the lat¬ 
ter country he obtained troops, with which he affifted the 
the prince of Orange to raife the fiege of Breda. In 1615 
he returned to Germany; and, after ravaging thearchbi- 
Ihopric of Cologne, joined the king of Denmark in Lower 
Saxony. A train of ill fuccefs now purfued him, and he 
was anxious to try his fortune at Venice ; with this view 
he fet out, accompanied by twelve officers, although at 
that time labouring under a flow fever : he, however, 
palled through Servia and Bofnia, and arrived in Dalma¬ 
tia, but with fuch an increafe of his diforder, that he was 
obliged to Hop at a village near Zara: there, finding his 
end approaching, he exhorted his companions to remain 
true to the liberty of their country, and tranquilly ex¬ 
pired in November 165:6, at the age of forty-one. He had 
every quality of a great captain, and he always afted with 
fidelity and indefatigable zeal in the fervice of the party 
whofe caufe he efpoufed. The want of regular authority, 
and refources, obliged him to connive at the diforders 
committed by his foldiers ; and his marches were fome- 
times fo definitive, that the houfe of Auftria named him 
the “ Attila of Chriftendom.” The Hollanders alfo faid 
of him, that he was bonus in auxilio, cams in pretio-, that is, 
that he rendered great fervices to thofe wtio employed 
him, but that he made them pay well for it. He was, 
however, not devoid of generous fentiments, and poflefl'ed 
a perfeft command over his paffions Having difcovered 
that Cazel, an officer in whom he confided, betrayed him 
to Buquoy, the imperial general, he gave him a purfe of 
money, and fent him to Buquoy with the following let¬ 
ter: “ Cazel being more in your intereft than in mine, I 
fend him to you that you may profit by his fervices.” To 
an apothecary who, as he was informed, had undertaken 
to poifon him, he faid, “ I can fcarcely believe that a man 
whom I have never injured fhould engage to take away 
my life; but, if neceffity has induced you to undertake 
the office of an alfaffin, there is money to enable you to 
live like an honed man.” Mod. Univ. Hijl. 
MANS'FIELD, a market-town and pariffi in Notting- 
hamlhire, fituated in the forelt of Sherwood. It appears 
to have been a place of high antiquity ; coins of l'everal 
Roman emperors have been found in and near the town ; 
and the recent difcovery of ancient relics near Mansfield 
Woodhoufe is an indifputable proof that the Romans had 
a llation or fettlement in this vicinity. In the Domef- 
day-furvey, Maunsfe/d, as it was anciently called, is men¬ 
tioned as a royal manor; and fncceffive monarchs have 
granted feveral privileges to it. A market was eftablilhed 
by a charter of Henry III. and a fair by a grant front 
Richard II. When Sherwood-foreft was a royal chace, 
here was a royal villa which the fovereigns kept as a hunt¬ 
ing-feat; and, to life the words of an old inquifition, 
“ Henry Fauconberge held the mannor of Cuckney, in 
ferjeantry,by the fervice of flioeing the king’s palfrey when 
the king came to Mansfield.” Leland’s account of this 
place is not very favourable; he calls it “a little pore 
fireet, a thoroughfare at the end of the wood ;” but at 
prefent it is a large and opulent town ; the houfes, which 
are in general well built, were Hated in the population- 
return of the year 1800, to be, in number, 114.5, and oc¬ 
cupied by 5998 perfons. The market, which is held on 
Thurfdays, is generally well Hocked with corn and cat¬ 
tle ; and here are now three annual fairs, chiefly for cat¬ 
tle and cheefe. Several coniiderable manufactories of 
Itockings and cotton goods are eflablilhed here and in the 
furrounding villages. A great trade in free-Hone is car¬ 
ried on. with Nottingham ; .and the malting bufinels is 
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very extenfive. The church is a commodious ftrufture'; 
and here is a refpetable free-fchool, with two fcholarfliips 
at Jefus college, Cambridge, founded by queen Elizabeth 
in the third year of her reign. It is fourteen miles north 
of Nottingham, and 138 north-north-weft of London. 
Lat. 53. 8. N. Ion. 1. 12. W. 
Mansfield Woodhouse, about a mile and a half 
diftant, is a village containing 211 houfes, and 1112 inha¬ 
bitants. In the year 1786, Hayman Rooke, efq. of this 
place difcovered, within about a mile from the village, 
two Roman villas, which he called Urbana and Ruftica ; 
the former containing nine rooms, the latter thirteen; 
with hypocaults, baths, and other appendages ; the walls 
of moll of the rooms appeared to have been ftuccoed, and 
painted in (tripes of various colours ; and in the centre'- 
100m of the Urbana was a teffellated pavement. Mr. 
Rooke alfo found the remains of two Roman fepulchres, 
with urns, bones, Si c. and various fragments of paterae 
and pots of Roman ware, with other relics of antiquity, 
were difcovered in the rooms of the villse. 
Within a few miles of Mansfield are feveral magnifi¬ 
cent manfions, viz. Workfop, the feat of the duke of 
Norfolk; Clumber, the duke of Newcaftle’s; Thorefby, 
lord Newark’s; anti Welbeck, belonging to the duke df 
Portland, of which fee farther under Worksop. In po¬ 
pular language this part of the country is called the duke- 
ry, from the number of feats belonging to dukes. For 
an account of the principal villages ot trade, and the nu¬ 
merous gentlemen’s feats in this neighourhood, fee Wilkes's- 
Britijh Diredory, vol. iii. 
MANS'FIELD, a townffiip of America, in Suflex coun¬ 
ty, New Jerfey, fituated on Muflonenunk river, about fe- 
ven miles fouth-eaft of Oxford.— A townfhip in Briflcd 
county, Mafiachufetts, twenty-nine miles fouth of Bof- 
ton, incorporated in 1770, and containing 1016 inhabit¬ 
ants.—A townfhip in Chittenden county, Vermont, be¬ 
tween La Moille and Onion rivers, about feven miles 
from each, and 183 miles north by eaft from Bennington. 
Mansfeld mountain riles in this town.—A townfhip in 
Burlington county, New Jerley, on the fouth fide of 
Black’s creek, confifting of 19,000 acres of excellent foil, 
noted for its fine paftures and large dairies; eight miles 
welt-by-north from Burlington. The inhabitants are for 
the molt part quakers.—A townfhip in Windham county, 
Connefticut, about thirty miles north of New London; 
containing 2560 inhabitants. 
MANS'FIELD (Earl of). See Murray. 
MANS'FIELD l'SLAND, an ifland in Hudfon’s Bay; 
fifty miles long, and fifteen wide. Lat. 62. 5. N. Ion. 
80. 4.0. W. 
MANSIA'TRE, a river on the weft coaft of Mada- 
gafear, which runs into the Straits of Mozambique in lat. 
19. 4.5. S. 
MANSIGNE', a town of France, in the department of 
the Sarte : nine miles weft of La Fleche: 
MANSIL'LA el BU'RGO, a town of Spain, in the 
province of Leon : ten miles fouth-eaft of Leon. 
MAN'SION, f. \manfio , Lat.] The lord’s houfe in a 
manor. Place of refidence ; abode ; houfe.—All thefe 
are but ornaments of that divine fpark within you, which, 
being deicended from heaven, could not elfewhere pick 
out l’o fweet a mavfion. Sidney. 
To leave his wife, to leave his babes, 
His manfion, and his titles, in a place 
From whence himfelf does fly ! he loves us not. Shakcfp. 
Refidence; abode : 
Thefe poets near our princes fleep. 
And in one grave their manfions keep. Denham. 
MAN'SION-HOUSE, f. in law, an inhabited houfe.— 
Nor is the breaking open of houfes wherein no man re- 
fides, which therefore for the time are not manfon-houfes, 
attended with the fame >circumftance of midnight terror. 
Blackjlone. 
MAN'SLE, a town of France, in the department of the 
Charente 1 twelve miles north of Angoulefme. 
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