N O W 
bl effing of providence on a life of piety, peace, and tem¬ 
perance, that neither his memory nor any of his faculties 
were impaired; and to the lull, it is faid, he was able to 
read the fmalleft print without the help of glaflfes. 
Befides fome controverlial pieces againft the papifts, 
Nowell pnbliflied three cntechifms. The firft, which met 
with the unanimous approbation of the convocation, and 
was printed in 1570, at the joint requeft of the archbifh- 
ops of Canterbury and York, was entitled “ Chriftiante 
Pietatis prima Inftitutio; ad lifum Scholarum Latine 
Scripta,” 4to. and has been frequently reprinted, and 
tranflated into Englifh and Greek. This catechifm, in a 
book dedicated to him, is called “ a hammer, a hatchet, 
a fword, an axe, to beat, to cut down, to wound, to de¬ 
stroy, Antichrift, and all heretics.” The fecond catechifm, 
which was an abridgment of the firft, was publiib.ed the 
fame year, and is called by fome the Middle Catechifm. 
The third orfmaller catechifm, is entitled “ Catechifmus 
jparvus, Pueris primum, qui edifcatur, proponendus in 
Scholis,” 1572, 8 vo. in Latin and Greek, which was 
tranflated into Englifti and into Hebrew. Thus, Chur- 
ton notices that he was “famed for his three catechifms;” 
and adds, that he was “ perhaps alfo the compiler of our 
Church-catechifm.” 
Dean Nowell was highly efteemed for his learning, mo¬ 
deration, generofity, and charity to the poor ; and gave 
an eftate of two hundred pounds a-year for the fupport 
of fcholai'ftiips in Brazen-nofe college. As a divine, he 
was a conftant and a fuccefsful preacher; for lfs fermons 
were unlike thofe of certain “ teeming and funburnt mi- 
■nifters,” of whom his friend Afcham fpeaks, “ whofe 
learning is gotten in a fummer-heat, and walked away 
with a Chriltmas fnow again.” His learning was folid, 
polilhed, and durable; his words, full of matter, drawn 
without violence from the fcriptures of truth, and their 
bell interpreters, the early fathers; and enlivened by ex¬ 
amples of ancient and of modern days. He had the ho- 
nefty of Latimer, and a portion of his familiarity, without 
his quaintnefs and occalional coarfenefs. “ in whatever 
light we view him, (fays his biographer,) we fee the linea¬ 
ments and proportion of a true fon of the church of 
England. Dignity and limplicity are the clvaraCteriftics 
of her (ervice and ordinances ; piety and plain-dealing is 
the character of Nowell, Generous and kind to his nu¬ 
merous relatives, grave without aufterity in his public 
deportment, condefcending without meannefs in his in- 
tercourfe with others, cheerful without levity at his hof- 
pitable board, he was formed for all times, and conciliated 
all hearts : dextrous alike to detain the ear of friendlhip, 
and enliven focial converfe with anecdotes of paft occur¬ 
rences ; or, as occafion might invite, to throw in truths 
of higher import ; or, as duty called, to confole the bed 
of ficknefs, and elevate the departing foul from earth to 
heaven. But, if in this fummary, as in life, religion has 
precedence, her faithful handmaid, erudition, nutftnot be 
overlooked or forgotten ; and here Nowell ranks with the 
very firft men of his time, with Afcham and Smith, with 
Grindal and Parker, with Cox and Jewell. His juft fame 
in this refpeCt, together with his known humanity, wif- 
dom, and experience, caufed his advice and alfiftance to 
be requeftedin behalf of a! molt every leminary of learning 
eftabliftied in his time ; and, when a work of ingenuity 
or literary labour, was to come, abroad, the recommen¬ 
dation of the venerable dean of St. Paul’s was ever llu- 
dioufly prefixed to it, as a paflport to public favour anti 
acceptance ; and dedications waited upon him, as if he 
had to beftow the dignities of the church, or the patro¬ 
nage of the crown. To encourage genius and draw forth 
humble, merit, his own labours, time, and talents, were 
uniformly devoted, fecuring to himfelf an honourable 
place in the memory and gratitude of mankind, while 
the right inftitution of youth is regarded as an objeCt of 
prime concernment, and the fociety (Brazen-nofe college) 
which he augmented by his munificence, and adorned by 
.his example, (hall, by the fupport of its friends, the vi- 
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gllance of its governors, and the blefting of Providence, 
continue tofiouriih.” duty ton's Life of Dean Nowell, 1809. 
NOWELL (Laurence), a younger brotherof theabove, 
was alfo a clergyman of the church of England. The 
date of his birth is not noted. He was entered of Bra¬ 
zen-nofe college, Oxford, in 1536, the fame year when 
his elder brother, in the fame college, became B. A. After 
a little while, Wood fays, he went to Cambridge, was 
admitted B. A. in that univerfity, and re T incorporated at 
Oxford in July 154-2, where he proceeded M. A. on the 
18th of March, 1544. In 1546, he was appointed mafter 
of the grammar-fchool at Sutton Coldfield; but was not 
yet, as Wood makes him, in facred orders, for he was 
not ordained deacon till 1550. During the troubles in 
queen Mary’s reign, he fled from perfecution; and, after 
lying concealed for fome time at Carew caftle, in Pepi- 
brokefhire, the feat of fir John Perrot, withdrew to his 
brother at Frankfort. After queen Elizabeth’s accelfion, 
he returned to his native country, where he was promo¬ 
ted, April 29, 1559, to the deanery of Lichfield and the 
archdeaconry of Derby. He alfo obtained prebends in 
the cathedral churches of York and Chichefter, and the 
reCtories ofHaughton and Drayton Baflet in Stafford (hire.. 
He died in 1576, when he was upwards of fixty years of 
age. He was well fkilled in the knowledge of antiqui¬ 
ties, and particularly of the Saxon language, being the. 
firft, as Camden informs us in his Britannia, who revived 
the'ftudy of it in this kingdom. Under his inftruCtions, 
the eminent William Lambarde made himfelf mafter of 
that tongue; and he availed himfelf of the aftiftance ami 
notes of his tutor, when he wrote his work De P rife is 
Anglorum Legibus. Our author left behind him, “ A. 
Saxon-Englifh Dictionary,” ftill remaining in MS. in the 
Bodleian library at Oxford ; of which Franc. Junius had 
a copy when he compiled his Etymoiogicum Anglicanum, 
and William Somnermade much ule when he wrote his. 
Saxon Dictionary. Our author alfo made “ Collections” 
from curious ancient hiftorical manuferip'ts, which are 
preferved in the Cottonian library, now forming.a part 
of the Brjtiih Mufeum. Wood's At/ten. Oxon. Churion's ’ 
Life of Dean Newell. 
NOWELZAE'LO, a town of Poland, in Galicia : for¬ 
ty-four miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Halicz. 
NOWES, / [from now, old French.] The marriage- 
knot. Out of life. 
Thou (halt'look round about and fee 
Thoufands of crown’d fouls throng to be 
Themfelves thy crown, foils of thy nowes; 
The virgin births with which thy Ipoufe 
Made fruitful thy fair foul. <7 rii/haw. 
NOWGONG', a town of Bengal: twenty-one miles, 
eaft-fouth-eaft of Nattore. 
NCftWHERE, adv. Not in anyplace.—True pleafure 
and perfeCt freedom are nowhere to be found but in the 
practice of virtue. Tillolfon. 
NOWIDWOR', a town of Lithuania, in the palati¬ 
nate of Novogrodek : fixty-eight miles fouth-weft of No- 
vogrodek. 
NOW®. See Neuberg. 
NO'WISE, adv. [This is commonly fpoken and written, 
by ignorant barbarians, nowaijs. Dr. Johnfon. —The cen- 
fure is not juft. See Noway. The noun wife, Signifying 
“ manner,” is quite obfolete. It remains now only in 
compolition, in which, along with an adjeCtjve, or other 
fubftantive, it forms an adverb or conjunction. Such are 
lengthwife, cocljiwife, Hkewife, See. Thefe always preferve 
the compound form, and never admit a prepofition ; con- 
fequently, nowife, which is an adverb of the fame order, 
ought analogically to be written in one word, and not to 
be preceded by it. Campbell's P/iil.of Rhet. —Dr.Johnfon’s 
folitary.example from Bentley gives this word with the 
prepofition ; but I add from Barrow, one of ourfineft wri¬ 
ters, an example which confirms the judicious reafoning 
of Campbell. Todd.] Not in any manner or degree.-r-A 
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