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of Chartres, and twenty-fix north-weft of Chateaudun. 
Lat. 48.20. N. lon.o. 55. E. 
NOGENT ROU'LEBOIS, a town of France, in the 
department of the Eure and Loire, and chief place of a 
canton, in the diftridt of Dreux. The place contains 
3290 inhabitants. 
NOGENT sur SEI'NE, a town of France, and prin¬ 
cipal place of a diftridt, in the department of the Aube : 
twenty-nine miles north-weft of Troyes, and nine eaft- 
fouth-eaft of Provins Lat. 48. 30. N. Ion. 3.35. E. 
NOGENT sur VERNISSO'N, a town of France, in 
the department of the Loiret: nine miles fouth of Mon- 
targis. 
NOGG, f A provincial word often ufed to fignify 
ftrong beer. 
NOG'GEN, adj. Hard; rough; hard).—He put on a 
hard coarfe nog-geti fhirt of Pendrels. Efcape of K, Charles. 
NOG'GIN, J'. [from Jtogg.] A fmall mug, containing 
a quarter or half a pint.—Of drinking-cups divers and 
fundry forts we have; fome of maple, fome of holly: 
mazers, broad-mouthed difhes, noggins, whilkins, piggins, 
&c. Heijwood's Drunkard opened, 1635. —Frog laughed in 
his fleeve, gave the fquire the other noggin of brandy, and 
clapped him on the back. Arbuthnot. 
NOG'GING, f. [in building.] A partition framed of 
timber fcantlings, with the interftices filled up by bricks. 
Mafon. 
NOG'HE, a town of Nubia, on the right bank of the 
Nile : fifty miles north eaft of Sennaar. 
NOGONG', a town of Bengal, capital of the circar of 
Barbuckpour: fifty miles north-eaft of Moorlhedabad. 
Lat. 24. 48. N. Ion. 88. 53. E. 
NOGUE'RA PALLERE'SA, a river of Spain, which 
runs into the Segra four miles north of Belaguer. 
NOGUE'RA RIBAGOR 9 A'NA, a river of Spain, 
which runs into the Segra ten miles fouth of Balaguer. 
NOHN, a town of France, in the department of the 
Mofelle: thirteen miles north-weft of Sar Louis, and fix- 
teen north-eaft of Thionviile. 
NOHO'THA, a river of Thibet, which runs into the 
Sanpoo twenty-one miles weft-fouth-weft of Tankia. 
NOHUKUN', a river of Mexico, which rifes in the pro¬ 
vince of Yucatan, and runs into the bay of Honduras 
by feveral mouths in lat. 17. 30. N. Ion. 90. 16. W. 
NOHUT'TA, a town of Bengal: eighteen miles weft 
of Nattore. Lat. 24. 28. N. Ion. 88. 46. E. 
NOHUTTA, a town of Bengal : five miles fouth-weft 
of Mahmudpour. 
NOHUT'TA, a town of Hindooftan, in Bahar: thirty- 
three miles eaft-louth-eaft of Durbungah. Lat. 25. 59. N. 
Ion. 86. 40. E. 
NOl'A, a town of Naples, in the province of Otranto: 
five miles fouth-eaft of Nardo. 
NOl'A, a town of Naples, in Balilicata: twelve miles 
fouth-fouth-weft of Turfi. 
NOl'A, a town of Naples, in the province of Bari: fix 
miles weft-fouth-weft of Converfano, and twenty-five 
eaft-fouth-eaft of Bari. 
NOI'ANCE. See Noyance. 
To NOIE. See To Nov. 
NO'IER. See Noyer. 
NOIE'RA, a town of Naples, in Principato Citra: 
feven miles weft-north-weft of Salerno. 
NOI'LSBERG, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of 
Leitmeritz: eighteen miles north-weft of Leitmeritz. 
NOI'OUS. See Nqyous. 
To NOINT, v. a. [from oindre, Fr.] To anoint.— 
Noiuted with fweet fmells and odours. Huloet. 
NOIR (Cape), a cape on the northern fide of Chaleur- 
bay, about feven leagues well-north-weft of Bonaventure. 
—A cape on the fouth coaft of the ifland of Milo. Lat. 
36. 47. N. Ion. 24. 22. E. See alfo Cape, vol. iii. 
NOIR (John le), a celebrated French divine, and an 
able though intemperate defender of the principles of 
Janfenius, in the 17th century, was the fon of a counfellor 
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of the prefidial court of Avigno, but the date of his birth 
is not known. Poflefting excellent natural abilities, which 
were improved by a liberal education, he was ordained 
prieft, and acquired very high reputation at Pari^, la 
Fleche, Belefme, and various other cities, by his qualifi¬ 
cations as a preacher. In reward of his merit, he was 
promoted to a canonry and prebend in the cathedral 
church of Seez. Jealous of his fame, and hoftile to him 
on account of his having adopted the auguftinian dodtrine 
of grace, the Jefuits left no means unattempted of injuring 
his credit, and even directed againft him the fury of a 
number of fanatics who appeared in Normandy. Thefe 
fanatics aftembled at Argentan, where le Noir was preach¬ 
ing a courle of Advent and Lent fermons; and, having 
eredted an image of the virgin at the crofting of two 
ftreets, chanted litanies before it every evening, into 
which were introduced the words, “ Virgo extirpatrix 
Janfenillarutn.” Under the feet of this image was the 
figure of a large black ferpent, by which they meant to 
defignate the prebendary of Seez. Some time afterwards 
they came in proceftion to Seez, with a fanatical licentiate 
of divinity at their head; and, as foon as they entered the 
city, the men began to chant, after the manner of the 
litany, “ Lord, deliver us from the Janfenifts ;” to which 
the women added in turn, te Good Lord, deliver us.” 
The civil power, however, now thought proper to inter¬ 
fere ; and, after committing the ring-leaders to prifon, dif- 
perfed the reft. Before the prifoners could obtain their 
liberty, befides being enjoined a levere penance, they 
were obliged to wait on the prebendary of Seez at his 
houfe, and aik his pardon. 
After this, M. le Noir had a conteft with his bifhop, 
who advanced a claim of firft-fruits on the incumbents 
dependent upon his chapter. This claim our preben¬ 
dary refilled with unbending firmnefs, as well as fome 
other exadlions attempted by his diocefan ; and he ex¬ 
erted great fpirit in expofing and checking abufes which 
had thefandfion of the bifhop’s licence. Provoked at his 
intrepid oppofition to his defigns, the bifhop of Seez 
obtained a lettre de cachet in the year 1663, by which M. 
le Noir, under the pretence that he had in his fermons 
advanced erroneous notions, was for a time exiled to 
Fougeres in Britanny. In 1665, the manner in which 
the bifhop endeavoured to enforce fubmiftion to the 
formulary occafioned new quarrels between him and his 
canons; which provoked M. le Noir to publifh charges of 
various errors againft that prelate. Among others, one 
was founded on his refufal to pay any attention to our 
prebendary when he denounced to him a catechifin pub- 
lilhed in his diocefe, by the Sieur Enguerran, under tire 
title of “ Le Chretien Champetre,” in which it is ftated, 
“ Tha't there are four divine perfons who are the proper 
objedts of the devotion of the faithful; namely, Jefus 
Chrift, St. Jofeph, St. Anne, and Sr. Joachim.” On ac¬ 
count of this refufal, M. le Noir accufed the bifhop judi¬ 
cially of favouring the propagators of fuch errors, and of 
holding feveral notions which he believed to be heretical. 
On this fubjedt he publifhed feveral pieces, in which he 
overleaped all the bounds of moderation in the language 
which he applied to the bifhop of Seez, and alfo to his 
metropolitan Harlay archbifhop of Rouen, whom he re- 
prelented to be in collufion with his fuffragan. After¬ 
wards he oppofed the bifhop of Seez when about to take 
polfeftion of the archbifhopric of Rouen, upon the tranl- 
lation of Harlay to the lee of Paris. The procefs againft 
his diocefan was referred by the king’s council to the 
ecclefiaftical judges, before whom it lay many years. In 
1682, he oppofed the eledlion of Harlay, archbifhop of 
Paris, to the office of prefident in the aflembly of the 
clergy, under the plea that he had not yet cleared himfelf 
fro'm the fulpicion of herely, and was confequently in¬ 
eligible by the canons. In the following year M. le Noir 
wasarrefted, and committed prifoner to the Bafti lie, where 
a procefs was carried on againft him before fpecial com- 
miftiaries, who pronounced him guilty of publifhing de¬ 
famatory 
