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dition goes, celebrated his nuptials with the lady Jane Sey¬ 
mour, and kept his wedding-dinner in a very large barn, 
hung with tapeftry on the occafion : for confirmation 
of which they fiiow' in the walls thereof, fome tenter¬ 
hooks, with fmall pieces of tapeftry faftened to them; and 
between this place and Tottenham there is a walk, with 
old trees on each fide, ftill known by the name of King 
Harry’s Walk. 
On the downs, about two or three miles from the town, 
are abundance of ftones, lying fcattered about the plain, 
fome whereof are very large, and appear to be nearly of 
the fame kind w ith thofe of Stonehenge, and fome larger. 
They are called by the country people the Grey Wethers ; 
and it mu ft be confelfed, that they look not much unlike 
fheep draggling upon the downs, on a tranfient and diftant 
view', as travellers pafs. Thefe Grey Wethers, on a more 
curious infpeftion, are found to be a fort of white marble, 
and lie upon the furface of the ground in infinite num¬ 
bers, and of all dimenfions. They are loofe, detached 
jfrom any rock. Dr. Stukeley thinks they have lain here 
ever fince the creation ; and that they were folid parts, 
thrown out of the furface of the fluid globe, when its ro¬ 
tation was firft impi'eATed. 
At the village of Badmington have been found nine 
caves, all of a row, but of different dimenfions, the leaft 
of them four feet wide, fome nine or ten feet long, two 
long ftones being fet upon the fides, and the top covered 
■with broad ftones. Spurs, pieces of armour, and the like, 
have been found in thefe caves ; which gives ground to 
believe, that they were tombs of fome ancient warriors, 
Romans, Saxons, or Danes. 
Eaft Kennet is on the downs, four miles from Marlbo¬ 
rough, near the fource of the river from whence it takes 
its name. Hard by is Silbury-hi) 1 , which is thought to 
have been caft up by men’s labour; and in the neighbour¬ 
hood are feveral forts of barrows, fuppofed to have been 
burial-places.—Little Kennet, near the former, has a field 
in which are three great upright ftones, vulgarly called 
the devil’s coits . 
Littlecott-park, which lies on the fouth bank of the 
Kennet, about eight miles from Marlborough, would 
feem, more probably than that town, to have been the 
pofition of the Roman ftation Cunetio. This fuggeftion is 
founded upon the fact, that this fpot agrees better with 
the relative fituation in which Cunetio is faid by Anto¬ 
ninus to have flood, with regard to Verlucio (Heddington) 
and Spinis (Speen). It further derives fupport from the cir- 
•cumftance of a Roman telfelated pavement having been dif- 
covered within the park which furrounds the houfe. Here, 
alfo, it is known that two Roman ways interfefl each other 
at a point called Crofs-ford. Here alfo great quantities 
of filver and copper coins of Roman emperors have been 
found ; of which fome were given to the Royal Society, and 
others to Alhmole’s Mufeuin at Oxford. Here king Al¬ 
fred gave the Danes fuch a total defeat, that they gave 
hoftages to quit the land; which they performed accord¬ 
ingly, and did not moleft it more for three years. It was 
anciently called Edendon; and William, who was bifliop 
of Winchefter, favourite of Edward III. who took his fur- 
iiame from hence, becaufe he was born in it, founded a 
college here of Eons Hommes, Wilkes’s Britifi Dire&ory. 
Oldfield’s Hifl. Bor. 
MARL'BOROUGH, a county of South Carolina, twen¬ 
ty-five miles long, and nineteen broad, near the Great 
Pedee river. 
MARL'BOROUGH, a town of the flate of Maflachu- 
fetts : twenty-five miles weft of Bofton. 
MARL'BOROUGH, a town of Pennfylvania: twenty- 
eight miles weft-fouth-weft of Philadelphia. 
MARL'BOROUGH, a poll-town of the flate of Ver¬ 
mont i twenty-one miles eaft of Bennington, 
MARL'BOROUGH, a pofl-town_of New Hamplhire: 
fixty miles weft of Portfmouth. 
MARL'BOROUGH (New), a town of Virginia, on the 
Potomack: ten’mile's eaft of Falmouth. ' 
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MARL'BOROUGH (New), a town of Maftachufetts: 
135 miles weft of Bofton. 
MARL'BOROUGH (Lower), a town of the Hate of 
Maryland : thirty miles fouth of Annapolis. 
MARL'BOROUGH (Upper), a town of the ftate of 
Maryland : feventeen miles fouth-weft of Annapolis. 
MARL'BOROUGH (Duke of). See Churchill, vol. 
iv. p. 5ro..and the article England, vol. vi. p. 702-10. 
MARLBOROUGH FO'RT, an Englifh faftory on the 
weft coaft of the ifiand of Sumatra, in Afia ; feated three 
miles weft of the town of Bencoolen. Lat. 4. 21. S'. 
Ion. 101. 12. E. 
MAR'LE, or Marl, f. in mineralogy. See Marga, 
P- 352 - 
MARLE, in geography, town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Aifne : thirteen miles north-north-eall of 
Laon. 
MAR'LESREUT, a town of Germany, in the princi¬ 
pality of Culmbach : fix miles weft-fouth-weft of Hof. 
MARL'HEIM, a town of France, in the department 
of the Lower Rhine: nine miles weft of Stralburg. 
MARL'HES, a town of France, in the department of 
the Rhone and Loire: ten miles fouth of St. Etienne. 
MAR'LI. See Marly. 
MARLIEU'X, a town of France, in the department of 
the Ain : ten miles fouth-fouth-weft of Bourg en Brefle, 
and five fouth-eaft of Chatillon les Dombes. 
MAR'LINE, f. [meajtn, Skinner .J Long wreaths of 
untwifted hemp dipped in pitch, with which the ends of 
cables are guarded againft fri&ion : 
Some the gall’d ropes with dawby marline bind, 
Or ‘fearcloth malls with ftrong tarpawling coats. Dryden. 
MAR'LING, f. The art of winding any fmall line, as 
marline, fpun-yarn, packthread, &c. about a rope, fo that 
every turn is lecured by a fort of knot, fo as to remain, 
fixed in cafe all the reft Ihould be cut through by fric¬ 
tion, &c. Marline is commonly ufed to fatten flips of 
canvas, called parfling, or parcelling, upon the furface of 
a rope, to prevent it from being galled by another rope 
that rubs againft it, to attach the foot of a fail to its bolt- 
rope, &c. 
Marling a Sail, is when, being fo ript out of the bolt- 
rope that it cannot be fowed in again, the fail is faftened 
by a marline, put through the eyelet-holes, made in it for 
that pupofe, under the bolt-hole. 
Marling-Spike, an iron pin, tapered to a point, and 
furniflied with a large round head. It is principally ufed 
to penetrate the twills or ftrands of a rope, in order to 
introduce the ends of fome other through the intervals, in 
the art of knotting or fplicing. It is alfo ufed as a lever 
on many other occafions about the rigging, particularly in 
fixing the feizings upon the flirouds, blockftrops, clues of 
the fails, &c. Falconer. 
MAR'LING of LAND, tlie operation of digging up 
and putting niarl or fome fort of material of this nature 
upon the ground, fo as to effedl its amelioration and im¬ 
provement. See the article Husbandry, vol. x. p. 567, S. 
MAR'LO, a town of the duchy of Mecklenburg, on 
the Trebel: four miles eaft of Roltock. Lat. 54. 12. N. 
Ion. 12. 42. E. 
MAR'LOE (Chriftopher), an early Englilh poet. 
“ There is no account extant,” fays the Biographia Dra- 
rnatica, “ of this author’s family.” Indeed we are igno¬ 
rant of the time and place of his birth. From the manu- 
fcript notes of Mr. Oldys, a very diligent inquirer, we learn 
that he was born about the former part of Edward Vi’s 
reign. It is, however, certain, that he was of Bennet’s 
College, Cambridge; where he took the degree of B. A. 
in 1583, and M. A. in 1587; afterwards, leaving the uni- 
verfity, he became an afitor, and a writer for the ftage. 
Of liis line of charafler, or liis merit, in the former, we 
have no account; in the latter, he gained a very high re¬ 
putation among his contemporaries, and maintained it 
with the poets of the lucceedingage. Robert Green, in 
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