416 OLD 
Plead you to me, fair dame ? I know you not. 
In Ephefus I am bat two hours old; 
As ftrangeunto your town as to your talk. Shakefpeare. 
Subfifting before fomething elfe.—He muft live in danger 
of his houfe falling about his ears ; and will find it 
cheaper to build it from the ground in a new form, which 
may not be fo convenient as the old. Sivifl. 
Equal fociety with them to bold, 
Thou need’ll: not make new fongs, but fing the old. 
Cowley. 
Long praftifed.—Then faid I unto her that was old in 
adulteries, Will they now commit whoredoms with her? 
Ezeh. xxiii. 43.—A word tofignify, in burlefque language, 
more than enough. Johnfon. —It is a common expreffion, 
in the middle and northern parts of England, for great, 
without burlefque intention. Todd. —I Ihall have old 
laughing. Trag.of Soliman and Perfeda, 1599.—Here’s a 
knocking, indeed ; if a man were porter of hell-gate, he 
ihould have old turning the key. ShaheJ’peare. 
Of Old. Long ago ; from ancient times.—Thefe things 
they cancel, as having been inftituted in regard of occa- 
fions peculiar to the times of old, and as being now fuper- 
fluous. Hooker. 
A land there is, Hefperia named of old, 
The foil is fruitful, and the men are bold ; 
Now called Italia, from the leader’s name. Dryden. 
In days of old there liv’d of mighty fame 
A valiant prince, and Thefeus was his name. Dryden. 
OLD BUCK'ENHAM, or Buckenham St. An'drew’s, 
is a pleafant and extenfive village in Norfolk, 17 miles 
from Norwich, and 93 from London. Though fituated 
in a flat, the air is efteemed to be very healthy. Here is 
a good Englifh fchool, endowed for the education of poor 
children, befides fome other fmall charities, which are 
annually diftributed among the molt aged and infirm 
paupers. The church is a neat but old edifice, with fix 
bells; and the officiating curate, who is elefted by the 
feoffees, is allowed by them a fixed yearly ftipend for 
flowing the cure, the pariffi being tythe-free. The caftle, 
a truly venerable relic of antiquity, is well deferring of 
the attention of the traveller. It is furrounded by a 
deep moat, and a prodigious lofty mound, forming 
within a flpacious amphitheatre of near four acres, in the 
middle of which there ftill remains part of the gate-houfe 
and the dungeon, which, with the vail: thicknefs of the 
few remaining walls, fliow it to have been formerly a 
place of confiderable flrength. Here are alfo fome ruins 
of an abbey and chapel, on whole fcite feveral modern 
buildings are now erefted. 
A great part of the land in the pariffi is copyhold, 
fubjeft to arbitrary fines on the deceafe or alienation of 
the tenant. The manors are very valuable, and extend 
into the adjoining town Attleburgh, and the villages of 
Great Ellingham and Befthorpe. There is only one inn 
in the pariffi, the White Horfe. The neareft poll and 
market-town is Attleburgh, about three miles diftant. 
The inhabitants of Old Buckenham amount to 600. 
New Buckenham, called Buckenham St. Martin’s, was 
formerly a part of Old Buckenham, from which it is 
diftant about two miles eaft; and was founded in the 
reign of Henry I. and erefted into a diftinft pariflt by 
William d’Albany, who built a very ftately and hand- 
fame church, dedicated to St. Martin. This town con¬ 
tinued to fiourilh for fome centuries, and its inhabitants 
were favoured with many privileges, fome of which ftill 
remain, (fee Buckenham., vol. iii.) though the place is 
greatly fallen from its ancient grandeur. The inhabitants 
are exempt from fervingon juries; and they eleft annually 
a high and under bailiff, who hold a court, for the election 
of conftables, and other officers of the town. The market 
has of late years been difcontinued. Here are kept an¬ 
nually two fairs for cattle, horfes, hogs, &c. which are 
much frequented ; one on the laft Saturday in May, and 
OLD 
the other.on the aad of November, St. Martin’s day. The 
foil is rich and fertile, and the air wholefome and 
pleafant. 
O'LD-FASHIONF.D, adj. Formed according to obfolete 
cuftom.—He is one of thofe old-fajhioned men of wit and 
pleafure, that thews his parts by raillery on marriage. 
Addifon. 
OLD FO'RD, a village in Middlefex, two miles and 
three quarters eaft-north-eaft from London, in the pariffi 
of Stratford-le-Bow, and on the river Lea, over which, 
in this place, palled a Roman military way. Here is an 
ancient gateway, ftill entire, fuppofed to be the remains 
of a royal palace, vulgarly called King John’s Palace. 
Here,. in ancient times, was a ford over the river Lea, 
in which Maud, queen of Henry I. was nearly drowned. 
This occafioned the building of Stratford-bridge with 
ftone, which in thofe times was thought fo beautiful, 
as to be called Le Beau, and fince corrupted into Le Bow. 
OLD FORT BA'Y, a bay on the fouth coaft of Canada, 
in the river of St. Laurence. Lat. 51. 26. N. Ion. 58. W. 
OLD FORT BA'Y, a bay at the fouth end of the 
ifland of St. Lucia. 
OLD FORT I'SLANDS, a duller of fmall illands in 
the gulf of St. Laurence. Lat. 51. 20. N. Ion. 57 43. W. 
OLD H AR'BOUR, a bay on the fouth coaft: of Jamaica, 
weft of Port Royal ; with a number of flioals and illands 
at its entrance. 
OLD HEAD', a cape on the fouth-eaft coaft of Ro- 
naldlha, one of the Orkney Illands. Lat. 58. 37. N. Ion. 
2. 47. W. 
OLD HEAD of KINSA'LE, a cape on the fouthern 
coaft of Ireland, in the county of Cork: fix miles fouth 
of Kinfale. Lat. 51.37. N. Ion. 8.30. W. 
OLD KIRK'. See Kirk Marown, vol. xi. 
OLD MAN', a cape on the weft coaft of Africa. 
Lat. 14. 40. S. 
OLD MAN’S BA'Y, a bay on the fouth coaft of 
Newfoundland: eighty miles eaft of Cape Ray. 
OLD MAN’S BE'ARD. See Clematis and Gero- 
pogon. 
OLD MAN’S CREE'K, a river of New Jerfey, which 
empties itfelf into the Delaware. 
OLD MAN’S HEAD'. See Dianthus. 
OLD MAN of the MOU'NTAINS. See Assassins, 
vol. ii. p. 279. 
OLD MAN’S PORT, lies northward of Lima river, 
in Peru : eight or nine miles north of Cadavayllo river. 
OLD NABB', a cape of England, on the coaft of York- 
Hiire : nine miles north-weft of Whitby. 
OLD PE'AK, a capeof England, on the coaft of York- 
fliire : nine miles north-north-weft of Scarborough. 
OLD RO'AD, a town and harbour in the ifland of 
Antigua. * 
OLD ROAD TOW'N, a town of the ifland of St. 
Chriftopher, in a bay with five to fifteen fathoms water 
near the ffiore : five miles weft of Baffe Terre. Lat. 17, 
25. N. Ion. 62. 48. W. 
O'LD-SAID, adj. Long fince faid; reported of old: 
To kirk the nar, from God more far, 
Has been an old-faid faw. Spenfer's Shep. Cal. 
OLD SA'RUM, or Old Salisbury, an ancient 
borough, in the pariffi of Stratford-under-the-Caftle, 
hundred of Underditch, Wilts, about two miles from 
Saliffiury; and though, as Walker flays, it once covered 
the fummit of a high fteep hill, is now reduced to part of 
the foundation only of the old caftle, containing neither 
houfe nor inhabitant. 
The city of Old Sarum is as ancient as the time of the 
Britons : but by whom it was founded is not known ; and 
indeed, we find very little notice refpefting it before the 
year 968, at which time Edgar convened hither a parlia¬ 
ment, (fays Brompton,) to confiderhow to provide for the 
fafety of Northumberland againll the Danifh incuriions. 
It was certainly a place of importance at that time, and 
after 
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