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power of natural gravitation, without contact or impulfe, 
can in noirij'e be attributed to mere matter. Bentley. —No; 
God was io to profecute his defigns of goodnefs and 
mercy, as thereby noicijit. to impair or obfcure, but rather 
to advance and illiterate, the glories of his fovereign dig¬ 
nity, of his fevere juftice, of his immaculate holiuefs, of 
his unchangeable fteadinefs in word and purpofe. Bar- 
row's Semi, on G. Friday, 1677. 
NOWL. See Nout. 
NOWLAYE', a town of Hindoo!!an, in the circar of 
Kitchwara : twenty miles fouth-weft of Odgein. 
NOWOFICK'LI, a town of Poland, in the palatinate 
of Cheltn : eight miles well of Chelm. 
NOWOGROD', a town of Poland, in the palatinate 
of Braclaw: twenty-four miles fouth of Braclaiv. 
NOWOPOL', a town of Poland: fifty-fix mile’s north- 
north-weft of Cracow. 
NO'WY GIC'ZIN. See Titsc.hein. 
NOWYTA'RG, a town of Poland, in the palatinate 
of Cracow ; forty miles fouth of Cracow. 
NOX, in fabulous hiftory, one of the moft ancient dei¬ 
ties among the heathens, daughter of Chaos. From her 
union with her brother Erebus, the gave birth to the Day 
ar.d the Light. She was alfo the mother of the Parcae, 
Hefperides, Dreams, Difcord, Death, Momus, Fraud, 
&c. She is called by fome of the poets “the Mother of 
all Things,” of gods as well as of men; and file was 
worfiiipped with great folemnity by the ancients. She 
had a famous ftatue in Diana’s temple at Ephefus. It 
was nfual to offer a black fheep, as fhe was the mother of 
the Furies. The cock was alfo offered to her, as that 
bird proclaims the approach of day during the darknefs 
of the night. She is reprefentedas mounted on a chariot, 
and covered with a veil befpangled with liars. The con- 
ftellations generally went before her as lierconftant mef- 
lengers. Sometimes Ihe is feen holding two children un¬ 
der her arms; one of which is black, reprefenting Death, 
,and the other white, reprefenting Sleep. Some of the 
moderns have defcribed her as a woman veiled in mourn¬ 
ing, and crowned with poppies, and carried on a chariot 
drawn by owls and bats. 
NOX'AN, Noxonton, or Nox Town, a town of the 
ftate of Delaware : eighteen miles fouth-fouth-weft of 
Wilmington. 
NOX'BY CREE'K, a river of Georgia, which runs 
into the Tombighe in lat. 32. 37. N. Ion. 87. 52. W. 
NOX'IOUS, at]. [ noxius, Lat.] Hurtful ; harmful ; 
baneful; mifchievous; deftruflive; pernicious; unwhole- 
fome.—Arife, the pines a noxious fliade difrufe. Pope. 
Kill noxious creatures where ’tis fin to five ; 
This only juft prerogative we have. Dnjden. 
Guilty ; criminal.—Thofe who are noxious in the eye of 
the law, are juftly punifhed by them to whom the execu¬ 
tion of the law is committed. Bramhall againfl Hobbes. — 
Unfavourable; unkindly.—Too frequent an appearance 
in places of much refort, is noxious to Ipiritual promotions. 
Swift's M if cell. 
NOX'IOUSLY, adv. Hurtfully ; pernicioufly. 
NOX'IOUSNESS, f. [pronounced new and uncouth, in 
1656, by P. Heyiin.j Hurtfulnefs; infalubrity.—The wri¬ 
ters of politicks have warned us of the noxiovfuefs of this 
doctrine to all civil governments, which the chriftian re¬ 
ligion is very far from difturbing. Hammond. 
NOY (William), an able and indultrious, but unprin¬ 
cipled, lawyer - , was born about 1577, at St. Burien’s in 
Cornwall. At the age of fixteen, he was entered of Exe- 
ter-college, Oxford, whence he removed to Lincoln’s Inn, 
for the Itudy of the law. Arriving at eminence in his 
profeffion, he was chofen representative for Helfton, in 
two parliaments, towards the end of king James’s reign ; 
and became a firm oppofer of the royal prerogative, as 
then arbitrarily exerted. In 1625, he was elected for St. 
Ives; and in the parliament of that year under Charles 
I. and a fucceeding one, he perlilted in the fame courfe 
NOY 
of patriotic conduct. No man furpafled him in thedii-i- 
gence with which he fought all precedents favourable to 
parliamentary privilege, and detected all the oblique me¬ 
thods employed by former kings in the railing of money. 
Such a man was thought worth purchafing; and the place 
of attorney-general, conferred upon him in 1631, brought 
him entirely over to the royal party. From that time, he 
was the moft abfive of all the fervants of the crown in 
promoting every violent and arbitrary meafure; and exe¬ 
cuted his particular office, that of public profecutor, with 
the moft oppreftive feveriry. The illegal exa£lion of (hip- 
money was efpecially countenanced by him, though he 
did not live to fee it carried into eft'eil. His manners and 
difpofition aggravated the odioufnefs of his public con¬ 
duit; for he was haughty, rude, and cynical. Labouring 
under the popular hatred, and beloved by none, he funk 
under the fatigues of his office, and died in 1634, at the 
age of fifty-feven. His zeal and abilities caufed him, 
however, to be regretted by thole who were engaged in 
Supporting the fame fyftem of tyranny, and archbifhop 
Laud thus records his death in his diary: “ I have loft a 
near friend in him, and the church the greateft Ihe had 
or his condition, lince fhe needed any fuch.” 
Of Noy, and of his will, Howel thus fpeaks, in one of 
his “ Familiar Letters” to lord Savgge : “ My lord; The old 
fteward of your courts, mailer attorney-general Noy, is 
lately dead, nor could Tun bridge-waters do him any good ; 
though he had good matterin his brain, be had, it feems, 
ill materials in his body, for his heart was fhrivelled like 
a leather peny-purfe when he was differed, nor were his 
lungs found. Being fuch a cleric in the law, all the world 
wonders he left fuch an odd will, w’hich is ihort, and in 
Latin: the fubftance of it is, that he, having bequeath’d 
a few legacies, and left his fecond Ion too marks a-year, 
and 500 pounds in money, enough to bring him up in his 
father’s profeffion, lie concludes, Iteliqua meorum omnia 
primogenito mco Eduardo, difflpanda (nee melius mupiam 
Jperavi) lego: ‘ I leave the reft of all my goods to mynrft- 
born, Edward, to be confum’d or f’catter’d (for I never 
hoped better.)’ The vintners drink caroufes of joy that 
he is gone; for now they are in hopes to drefs meat again, 
and fell tobacco, beer, fugar, and fagots, which, by a 
fullen capricio of his, he would have reftrain’d them from. 
He had his humour as other men, but certainly he was a 
folid rational man ; and, though no great orator, yet a 
profound lawyer, and no man hetter verfed in the records 
of the Tower. I heard your lordfhip often fay with what 
infinit pains and indefatigable Itudy he came to this 
knowledge ; and I never heard a more pertinent anagram 
than was made of his name, William Noye, ‘I moyle in 
law.’ If an s be added, it may be applied to my coun¬ 
tryman, judge Jones, an excellent lawyer too, and a far- 
more gentleman, William Jones, ‘ I moile in laws.’ ” 
Noy left behind him the following monuments of his 
legal knowledge and induftry. 1. A Treatife of the prin¬ 
cipal Grounds and Maxims of the Laws of England, 
164.1, 4-to. 2. Perfect Conveyancer, or ieveral feledt and 
choice Precedents, 1655, 440. 3. Reports of Cafes in the 
Time of Queen Elizabeth, King James, and King 
Charles I. 1656, folio. 4. Complete Lawyer, or a-Trea- 
tife concerning Tenures and Eftates in Lands of Inherit¬ 
ance for Life, and other Hereditaments and Chattels, 
real and perfonal, 1661, 8vo. 5. Arguments of Law, and 
Speeches. Noy alfo left in MS. 6. Collections from the 
Records in the Tower in Support of the King’s naval Pre¬ 
rogatives, and of the Privileges and Powers of ecclefiafti- 
cal Courts. 
To NOY, v.a. [yioyen, Tent.] To annoy. Nut noiv in 
vfe. —Dr. Johnion has printed this old word noie, and its 
derivatives noiunce, noious, &c. But our bell old writers, 
and our old lexicography, are in favour of the orthogra¬ 
phy before us. Todd. —He noyede him nothing; [foirtfhim 
not, prefeiit verfioti.j Wicliffe's Luke iv. 35. 
The heat whereof, and harmefull pellilence, 
So lore him noifd, that forc’d him to retire. Spcnfer. 
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