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In this country he exerc'ifed the miniflerial fun&ions Tor 
t wo or three years, and in 174.4. returned to Rome. Father 
Norbert now employed himfelf in drawing up an account 
ofthe religious rites of the Malabar Chriflians ; and, that 
he might not be interrupted by the intrigues of the Je- 
fuits, he withdrew to Lucca, where he completed and pub- 
Jilhed his work, in two quarto volumes, under the title 
of “ Hiflorical Memoirs relative to the Millions into the 
Indies.” This work, though the flyle of it is faulty and 
inelegant, abounds in curious fafts, and excited a great 
fenfation at its fil'd appearance, by difcovering the means 
made ufe of by the milfionaries of the fociety of Jefus 
in order to increafe their number of converts, by permit¬ 
ting them to retain, with their new' principles, the fuper- 
ilitions and prejudices which they had imbibed in their 
childhood. This difcovery highly exafperated the Jefuits 
againfl him; and was indeed fo much dilapproved of by 
many of his own community, that, to avoid the eftedfs 
of their refentment, he found it neceflary to retire to Ve¬ 
nice, whence he went to Holland, and from that country 
to England, where he eflablilhed, within three miles of 
London, two manufactories of tapeflry, one in imitation 
of the tapeflry of the Gobelins, and the other of that of 
Chaillot. Afterwards he removed into Prulfia, and from 
thence into the duchy of Brunfwick. Here he received, 
in 1759, a brief from the pope which permitted him to 
afi’ume the habit of a fecular pried. Taking the name of 
the abbe Plaid, he now went to France, which he foon 
quitted, and repaired to Portugal. In this country his 
quarrel with the Jefuits, and their hatred to him, recom¬ 
mended him to the court, which bedow'ed on him a conli- 
derable penfion. Having completed.in this afylum his 
great w'ork againd the Jefuits, he revifited France, where 
lie committed it to the prefs in 6 vols. 4-to. Afterwards 
he re-entered the order of Capuchins at Commercy ; but 
it was not long before he again quitted their community, 
and took up his abode at a village in Lorraine, where he 
finifhed his wandering life in 1770, when he was about 
feventy-three years of age. Gen. Bing. 
NOR'BORG, a town of Denmark, in the idand of 
Aden. Lat. 55. 3. N. Ion. 9. 4.6. E. 
NOR'BURY, a village in Staftordlhire, on the fouth- 
wed tide of Ecclelhall. Here is an echo, which, taken 440 
yards north-ead from the manor-houfe, near a little bank 
under a wood-fide, repeats in a dill day 10 or 11 fyllables 
-very diflin&ly, and 12 or 13 if fpoken very quick. It is 
marked that the banks of the Black Meer, in this paridi, 
grow forward every year over the furface of the water, at 
the rate of three or four yards every feven years. England's 
Gazetteer. 
NOR'BURY, a village in Surry. See Leatherhead, 
-yol. xii. p. 427, 
NOR'CIA, a city of Italy, in the duchy of Spoleto, 
the fee of a bilhop, l’uffragan of the pope. This city is 
governed by its own magidrates : eighteen miles fouth- 
ead of Spoleto, and forty-eight north-ead of Rome. Lat. 
42. 37. N. Ion. 13, 4. E. 
NORD LI'BRE. See Conpe', vol. v. 
NORD FIO'RD, a bay on the north coad of Iceland, 
Lat. 66. N. Ion..17. 46. N. 
NOR'DBERG (Joran), dodlor of theology, and chap¬ 
lain to Charles XII. king of Sweden, was born at Stock¬ 
holm in the year 1677. After completing his education 
at the univerlity of Upfal, he entered into holy orders in 
1703 ; and, being appointed chaplain extraordinary to 
the artillery, joined the Swedilh army, then encamped be¬ 
fore Thorn, and remained with it during the campaigns 
in Poland and Saxony till the year 1709. In the courfe of 
that period, he formed an acquaintance with the mod ce¬ 
lebrated of the German literati at Dantzic, Brellau, Leip- 
fic, Wittenberg, and Halle; and was promoted to be fird 
chaplain to the royal life-guards and chaplain to the court. 
After the unfortunate battle of Ptiltowa, lie was. taken 
prifoiver by the Rudians; but was indulged with pertnif- 
fion to remain in the fame place with count Piper, the 
NOR 
Bwedifli minider, alfo a captive, whom he accompanied In 
all the removals he experienced during his long confine¬ 
ment. Being exchanged in 1715, he returned, through 
Finland, to Stockholm ; and next year repaired to his So¬ 
vereign at StraKund; and afterwards attended him to 
Scandinavia, and in his expedition to Norway. About 
the end of the above year he was appointed to the living 
of St. Clara and St. Olaus at Stockholm ; and in 1731 was 
feledled to compote a Hidory of Charles XII. a talk which 
he executed in a very ample manner, partly from his own 
knowledge, and partly from information communicated 
to him by various perfons who had accompanied rise 
northern hero in his campaigns. The manufcript, during 
the progrefs of the work, was fubmitted to the revilion of 
queen Ulrica Eleonora, the king’s fider; who corrected 
it in feveral places, and made additions to it with her own 
hand. It then underwent a further examination by a 
commifiion nominated for that purpofej and, having re¬ 
ceived its fandlion, was publilhed at Stockholm in 1740, 
in 2 vols. folio; and was afterwards tranllated into Ger¬ 
man and French. In the latter years of his life Nordberg 
fudered very much from bad health ; and died at Stock¬ 
holm in 1744. He was always held in great edeem by his 
fovereign, and after his death he enjoyed the favour of the 
queen his fuccefior. His dyle is dry and tedious; and his 
literary labours, in general, difplay more induflry than, 
talent. His other works, befides his hidory, confid 
chiefly of funeral-fermons, of which he leems to have 
written a great many. Gezelii Biugraphijka Lexicon. 
NOR'DEN, a feaport-town of Ead Frielland, lituated 
about three miles from the German Sea, and the olded 
town in Ead Frielland; open, but large, and commercial, 
containing a good harbour: fifteen miles north of Emden. 
Lat. 53. 34. N. Ion. 7. 10. E. 
NOR'DEN (Frederic Louis), a naval officer in the 
Daniih fervice, was born at Gluckfladt, in Holflein, in the 
year 1708. He was (killed in mathematics, (hip-building, 
and all the branches of agriculture. In 1732 he obtained 
a penfion to enable him to travel for the purpofe of flu¬ 
dying the condruftion of (hips, particularly the galleys 
and other rowing-veflels ufed in the Mediterranean. He 
fpent about three years in Italy; and, Chriflian VI. being 
defirous of obtaining a circumdantial account of Egypt, 
Mr. Norden, while at Florence, received an order to ex¬ 
tend his travels into that country. He publilhed an ac¬ 
count of his Travels into Egypt and Nubia in the year 
1756, which were tranllated into theEnglilh by Dr. Peter 
Templeman. In the war between England and Spain, 
Mr. Norden, then a captain in the Daniih navy, attended 
count Ulric Adolphus, a lea-captain, to England ; and 
they went out volunteers under fir John Norris, and after¬ 
wards under fir Chaloner Ogle. During his refidence in 
London, Mr. Norden was made fellow of the Royal So¬ 
ciety, and gave the public drawings of lome ruins and 
coloflal flatues at Thebes in Egypt, with an account of 
the lame in a letter to the Royal Society, in 1741, After 
this he undertook a tour into France, and died at Paris in 
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NOR'DENBURG, a town of Prulfia, in the province of 
Natangen, on a lake; founded by the Teutonic Knights 
in 1305: eighteen miles north.north-ead of Radenburg, 
and forty-five fouth-ead of Koniglherg. Rat. 54, j6.N. 
Jon. ai. 45. E. 
NORDERNA'Y, an illand in the German Occam near 
the coad of Ead Frielland, about four miles long, and two 
where broaded. Lat. 53. 40. N, Ion. 7. 8.E. 
NQR'DFOF,, a lake of Norway, thirty-twq miles in 
circumference: fifty miles wed of Chrifliana, 
NORDHAL'BEN, a town of Bavaria, in the bilfiopric 
of Bamberg: thirty-fix miles north-ead of Bamberg, and 
feventeen wefl-north-wefl of Hof. Lat. 50. 23, N, Ion. 
11. 37. E, 
NOR'DI-IAUSEN, a city of Germany ? lituated on the 
Zorge, between the county of Kohenfleiq qnd the lord- 
fllip of Klettenberg, and diyided into Old and New, In 
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