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timber-trees fit for the navy, containing 7230 loads of 
timber, fquare-meafure; and 4.02 fcrubbed, dotard, and 
decayed, trees, containing 569 loads. The fame furvey 
ftates, that there were 18,617 trees in theforell conftantly 
lopped for browze for the deer; viz. 6335 oak-trees, com¬ 
puted to contain 8907 loads of timber, fquare-meafure. 
The Forelt of Rockingham is fituated in the northern 
part of the county, and is efteemed to have been formerly 
one of the largeft forefts in the kingdom. In a peram¬ 
bulation, dated the 14th of Edward I. it is defcribed as 
extending from Northampton to Stamford, being about 
thirty miles in length ; and from the river Nen on the 
fouthto thofe of the Welland and Maid well on the north- 
weft, being a medium breadth of nearly eight miles. 
This extent was limited foon after the acceftion of 
Henry II. but the bounds were particularly fpecified and 
fettled in the 17th of Charles I. The foreft confilts of 
three feparate diftridts, called the bailiwicks of Rocking¬ 
ham, Brigftock, and Clive, or Cliffe, fituated at the dis¬ 
tance of between two and four miles from each other. 
Thefe three bailiwicks were formerly under the fuperin- 
tendance of one warden or mafter-forefter of the whole 
foreft; which office was granted, on the ift of James I. to 
Thomas lord Burleigh, for three lives. Charles I. divid¬ 
ed, or rather abolilhed, that office, and conllituted three 
mafter-forefters of feparate diftridts. The mafter-forefter- 
ftiip of Rockingham bailiwick, with Geddington woods, 
was granted to Edward lord Montague, for three lives ; 
but no fubfequent grant of it appears. That of Cliffe 
bailiwick was granted, in the 5th of Charles I. to truf- 
tees for Mildmay earl of Weftmoreland, for three lives ; 
and is now held by the prefent earl'of Weftmoreland on 
the fame tenure; and that of Farming-woods, the patent 
for which was not fued out in that reign, was granted, 
in the 27th of the next, to fir John Robinfon for three 
lives, and is now held by the earl of Upper Offory. The 
other officers of this foreft, in the reigns of James I. and 
Charles I. befides the warden, were a lieutenant, four 
verderers, a ranger of the foreft, an under ranger of 
each bailiwick, a bow-bearer, mafter-keepers, and under¬ 
keepers, of the refpedtive walks, and twelve regarders for 
each bailiwick, befides woodwards and under-woodwards. 
The bailiwick of Cliffe is the largeft divifion of the foreft, 
and comprehends four extenfive tradls of woodland ; 
namely, Wefthay-woods, belonging to the earl of Exeter; 
Moorhay and Sulchay woods, belonging to the earl of 
Weftmoreland; and Earl’s-woods in Moorhay-walk, the 
property of the Rev. Abraham Blackhome and others. 
Thofe woods, with the open plains and waftes adjoining, 
and two inclofed lawns, called Moorhay-lawn and Sul- 
chay-lawn, held by lord Weftmoreland, in right of the 
keeperfhip of thofe walks, contain together about 4532 
acres. 
Northamptonfhire may juftly boaft, and we believe ex- 
clufively, that in the important article of water it is en¬ 
tirely and completely independent: for of the fix rivers, 
which flow through or interfedl it, every one originates 
within its boundaries ; and not a Angle brook, however 
infignificant, runs into it from any other county. The 
Oufe, 
Slow winding through a level plain 
Of fpacious meads, with cattle fprinkled o’er, 
rifes at Oufewell near Brackley. The Welland near the 
vicarage houfe, Sibbertoft. The Charwell, near Char- 
welton. The Leam near Halidon. The Tow, from four 
wells at Sulgrave. The Wanvickfhire or Shakelpeare's 
Avon, 
F,ver full be thy ftream, like his fame may it fpread, 
And the turf ever hallow’d which pillow’d his head ; 
at Avonwell. AndtheNen’s “ barge-laden wave,” from 
Chapelwell, both in the pariffi of Nafeby, 
Where haplefs Charles beheld his fortunes crofs’d, 
His forces fcatter’d, and his kingdom loft. 
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Northamptonfhire is not a manufacturing county; but 
ftill many of its inhabitants are employed in, and derive 
a livelihood from, different fpecies of handicraft bufinefs. 
The making of flioes, lace, woollen fluffs, and wool- 
ftapling, are the chief objedts of manufadlure, and parti¬ 
cularly the firft. 
The following places in Northamptonfhire confer the 
honours of peerage: Althorp, vifcounty to earl Spencer, 
who is alfo baron Spencer of Althorp; Brackley, vif¬ 
county to Egerton earl of Bridgewater; Braybrook, ba¬ 
rony to Griffin; Burleigh, barony to Cecil marquis of 
Exeter ; Grafton, dukedom to Fitzroy ; Harrington, earl¬ 
dom and barony to Stanhope; Lilford, barony to Powis ; 
Milton, vifcounty and barony to earl Fitzwilliam ofNor- 
borough; Northampton, marquilate. and earldom to 
Compton. Of Boughton, Montague barony to Scott; of 
Daventry, barony to Finch earl of Winchellea and Not¬ 
tingham; of Dean, barony to Brudenell earl of Cardi¬ 
gan; of Drayton, Sackville vifcounty to Germaine duke 
of Dorfet; of Haryngworth, De la Zouch barony to 
Bifhopp ; of Thornhaugh, Ruffell barony to Ruffed duke 
of Bedford ; of Waldegrave, earldom to Waldegrave. 
This county has fent members to parliament from the 
firft fummons of Edward I. The reprefentatives are nine 
in number ; two for the county, two for Brackley, one for 
Higham Ferrers, two for Northampton, and two for Pe¬ 
terborough. The nobility are more numerous in this 
county than in any other of the lame dimenfionsin Eng¬ 
land : whence it might be concluded, that the reprefen- 
tation would always be divided among fome of thefe fa¬ 
milies ; but they are too numerous for each perfon to be 
accommodated ; they therefore of neceffity range them- 
felves with their refpedtive parties, the oppolition lords 
bring in one member, and the minifterial ones the other. 
There was a conteft in 1807, when lord Althorpe fuc- 
ceeded on the former and general Cartwright on the 
latter intereft ; and they are the prefent members for the 
county. Oldfield's Rcprefentative Hifiory. Pitt's View of 
the Agriculture of Northamptovjhire. Beauties of England, 
vol. xi. 
NOR'THBOROUGH, a townffiip of America, in 
Worcefter county, Maffachufetts ; incorporated in 1760, 
and containing 698 inhabitants : ten miles eaft of Wor¬ 
cefter. 
NOR'THBOURNE. See Mongham, vol. xv. p. 667, S. 
NOR'THBRIDGE, a townlhip in Worcefter-county, 
Maffachufetts, bounded fouth by Uxbridge; incorpora¬ 
ted in 1772, and containing 544 inhabitants : twelve 
miles fouth by eaft of Worcefter. 
NOR'THEIM, a town of the duchy of Wurzburg: 
three miles fouth of Volckach. 
NOR'THERLY, adj. Being towards the north.—The 
northerly and foutherly winds, commonly efteemed the 
caufes of cold and warm weather, are really the effedts 
of the cold or warmth of the atmofphere. Derham. 
NOR'FHERN, adj. Being in the north.—If we eredt 
a red-hot wire until it cool, and hang it up with wax and 
untwifted filk, where the lowerend which cooled next the 
earth doth reft, that is the northern point. Brown. 
NOR'THERN INDIANS, a name given to the wan¬ 
dering tribes that inhabit the region of North America 
which lies between lat. 59. and 68. N. being 500 miles 
wide ; bounded eaft by Hudfon’s bay, weft by the coun¬ 
try of Athapufcow Indians, fouth by Churchill-river, 
and north by the Dog-ribbed and Copper Indians. In 
their perfons they are generally above the common fize, 
ftrong, but not corpulent. They are neither adlive nor 
lively in their difpoiitions; they have very low foreheads, 
finall eyes, high cheek-bones, Roman nofes, full cheeks, 
and generally long broad chins. On each cheek they 
have three or four parallel ftrokes marked black. In 
their difpofition, they are morofe, covetous, and ungrate¬ 
ful ; much addidled to deceit and impofition ; and, when 
treated with refpeft, infolent. Among their good quali¬ 
ties, we may enumerate their mildnefs, temperance in 
drinking. 
