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became the petitioners. The counfel for the petitioners 
then proceeded to objedft to a great number of votes 
which the mayor had admitted for the fitting members; 
and, though not fewer than 72 votes were difallowed in 
one lot, yet at the conclufion there appeared a majority 
of two votes for St. Leger, and one for Ladbroke, who- 
were thereupon declared to be duly elected. 
So little do the rights of election feem to have been 
underltood, until very lately, that, at an election for this 
borough in 1660, the freeholders, who firft afferted their 
right to vote, affembled in a tumultuous manner to 
oppofe the mayor, and made a return of one member only, 
contrary to every idea of right; for they either muft have 
been entitled to the eleflion of two members, or none. 
However, the houfe recognized their right the enfuing 
year, and they have continued to exercife it ever fince. 
The corporation confifts of eight principal burgeffes, 
or aldermen, (from whom the mayor is annually chofen,) 
and eight afliftants called common-councilmen, with 
a recorder and town-clerk. The right of election (Feb. 
24, 1710,) is in the freeholders and freemen, being made 
free according to the charter and bye-laws of the faid 
borough. Number of voters, 220. But the right of 
eleftion in this borough, not having received any deter¬ 
mination under the amended Grenville-a£l, is Hill open 
to litigation, and is difputed between the freemen and 
freeholders, particularly fuch as are called faggots. Thofe 
made by Mr. Savile the patron, on purpofe to form a 
majority on the poll over the freemen, are held, by the 
belt legal authorities, to be bad, and will probably occafion 
another petition. If they lhould not, then the nomination 
of the two members will be exclufively in the patron, as 
is the cafe in thirty-fix burgage-tenure boroughs, which 
fend feventy-two members to the Britifh parliament by 
the fiat of thirty-fix individuals! 
This borough was the property of the late duke of 
Bedford, and the prefent earl Spencer, who fold it to 
Richard Bateman Robfon, efq. and his brother, the late 
Mr. Holland the architect; it was by them again fold, 
we nnderftand, for 6o,oool. to Mr. Albany Savile, the 
prefent proprietor, w'ho is recorder of the borough, and 
one of the members. He has a feat near this place, 
called Sweetlands. The other member is lord Dunaldy, 
In the room of C. A. Savile, efq. lately deceafed. Mr. 
Wardle, at the time he brought forward and fubftantiated 
thofe charges againft the duke of York which occafioned 
him to refign the poll; of commander-in-chief, was one of 
the members for this borough. Wilkes''s Britijh Diredory. 
Oldfield's Reprefentative Hifit. edit, of 1816. 
OKEISUT', a cape on the weft coaft of Weft Green¬ 
land. Lat. 61.48. N. Ion. 50. 3. W. 
OK'ELAS, f. In Egypt, and fome other of the eaftern 
countries, a fort of indifferent buildings round a court, 
appropriated to the merchants of particular countries, 
with their goods: as at Cairo there is one for the mer¬ 
chants of Nubia, and the black fiaves, and other goods 
they bring with them; and another for white fiaves from 
Georgia. 
O'KEMAN, orO akman (John), an engraveron copper 
and wood, and a hackney-writer, was born at Farnham 
in Surrey,in 1738. He ferved his apprenticefiiip to Bowen, 
geographer to the king; and, at the conclufion of his time, 
married his young miftrefs. Soon after, he joined in part- 
nerlhip with the noted Darley, the caricaturift; but the 
love of pleafure and good company got fo much the 
better of his judgment, that he was foon put to other con¬ 
trivances to obtain a living. The Nobles, bookfellers, 
at that time in full bufinefs, were a fure market for fuch 
as could write fuch fluff as fills the lhelves of a circulating 
library. He wrote novels for two guineas a.volume; and fuch 
was his rapidity, that he could produce one work a-week. 
The life of Ben Brafs was one in which he has delineated 
fome of his own youthful fcenes. He never excelled as 
an artift; but he was a good natural lyric poet, and wrote 
for the gardens of Marybone, Vauxhall, and latterly the 
buriettas for thofe claflical exhibitors, Meffrs. Aftley and 
Hughes. A fmall book of Fables, in the manner of Gay, 
was brought out by Mr. Newbery in 1764. Skillern and 
the muiic-lhops loft a ufeful compofer in him. He died in 
indigence in the fummer of 1795. Monthly Mag. vol. x. 
O'KENHEIM (John), the oldeit and moft venerable 
compofer in parts on the continent, of whofe works we 
have been able to find any remains. Duchat, in his notes 
upon Rabelais, lays he was a native of Hainault, and 
treafurer of St. Martin de Tours; but we believe this 
affertion was hazarded more with the patriotic view of 
making Okenheim as much a Frenchman as pofiible, than 
from proof or conviction ; for he was always fpoken of as 
a Netherlander by his contemporaries. 
Little more is recorded concerning the life of Okenheim 
than that he was a Netherlander, who flourilhed in the 
fifteenth century, produced many learned and elaborate 
compofitions for the church, and had many fcholars, by 
whom he feems to have been much beloved and refpeCted. 
It is, indeed, often mentioned to his honour, that he was 
the mailer of Jufquin : and he feems to have been as for¬ 
tunate in a difciple as Jufquin in a mailer. 
None of the mufical writers of the fixteenth century 
forget to tell us that Okenheim compofed a motet in 
thirty-fix parts : of what thefe parts confifted, or how 
they were difpofed, is not related by Ornithoparcus, Gla- 
reanus, Zarlino, or any one who mentions the circum- 
ftance, which all feem to have received from tradition. 
But of our countryman. Bird, a fong is Hill preferved in 
forty parts; yet, though we have feen this effort of 
fcience and labour, the effefts muft Hill be left to imagi¬ 
nation ; for where lhall we find forty voices, affembled 
together, that are able to perform it ? We may, however, 
deduft from the reputation of Okenheim all the increafe 
it received from the llory of his polyphonic compofition, 
and there will ftill remain fufficient caufe for the refpeCt 
and wonder of contrapuntifts, in the fragments only of 
his works which have been preferved in the Dodecachor- 
don of Glareanus. This writer tells us, that he was 
fond of the xuQohiy.a. in the cantus; that is, of compo- 
fing a melody which may be lung in various modes, or 
keys, at the pleafure of the performer, obferving only 
the ratio or relation of confonant notes in the harmony. 
Okenheim compofed a mafs for three and four voices, ad 
omtiem tonum, which, as the words imply, might be fung 
in any of the three Ipecies of diatefiaron, each part be¬ 
ginning at ut, re, mi, or in c, f, g, major, and d, e, a, 
minor; on which account no indicial clef is marked, as 
the performer, at fettingoff, has his choice of any of the 
modes, or ecclefiaftical keys. Indeed, all the fragments 
from Okenheim are inferted in Glareanus without bars, 
clefs, or accidental flats and lliarps. It is not certain 
when Okenheim died ; but he is generally mentioned 
as a compofer of the fifteenth century, and we have met 
with no proof of his exifting in the next. Burney, vol. ii. 
OKER, f. A colour. See Ochre, p. 388. — Red oker is 
one Of the moft heavy colours; yellow oker is not fo, be- 
caufe it is clearer. Dryden's Dufrefnoy. 
And Klaius, taking for his younglings cark. 
Left greedy eyes to them might challenge lay, 
Bufy with oker did their lhoulders mark. Sidney. 
OK'ERAH, a town of Bengal: forty-three miles north- 
weft of Burd wan. Lat. 23.49. N. Ion. 87.20. E. 
OKEREE', a call of Hindoos which lprung from the 
connexion of a man of the Chehlree call with a woman of 
the Sooder. Indian Glojfary. 
O'KEY HO'LE. See Mendip Hills, vol. xv. 
O'KI, an illand of Japan, about iixty miles in circum¬ 
ference, near the north-weft coaft of Niphon. Lat. 3 5. 5c, 
N. Ion. 133. 30.E. 
OKIANO'W, a town of the duchy of Warfaw: twen¬ 
ty miles north of Warfaw. 
OKILPOU'R,atown of Hindooftan, in Bengal: twenty 
miles fouth-eaft of Mauldah. 
OK'LANDBEIG, 
