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rochial about the fame time. The church, fince that pe¬ 
riod, has been twice ereited : firft by fir Jofeph Sheldon, 
leflee of the manor, little more than a century ago ; and 
again in 1791, by the parifli, under the authority of an 
ait of parliament. It is a fquare building, with a pro¬ 
jecting wing on each fide, an.d a portico of the Doric or¬ 
der fronting the fouth. Several perfons of note lie bu¬ 
ried both in the church and in the furroundingcemetery; 
among whom are John-Henry marquis of Lanfdown, Dr. 
Geddes, and the celebrated ftatuary Banks. 
Paddington parilh, according to the late parliamentary 
returns of i8it, contains 935 houfes, and a population 
of 4609 perfons. A charity-fchool, eftablilhed here in 
1802, for thirty boys and the fame number of girls, is fup- 
ported by voluntary contributions 5 and there are feveral 
alms-houfes for the accommodation of the poor, the gifts 
of various benefadors. And Mrs. Wakefield adds, the 
llrange cuftom is obferved, on the Sunday before Chrift- 
mas-day, of throwing bread from the church-fteeple, to 
be fcrambled for by the populace, in confequence of a 
gift from turn maiden ladies. 
Craven-hill, near this place, is named from that lord 
Craven wlio fo nobly exerted himfelf at the calamitous 
periods of the plague and the great fire of London. He 
gave a piece of ground as a burial-place for thofe who 
died of the peftilence, which was exchanged for a field 
on this eftate, ftill liable to the fame ufe, ftiould that awful 
iicknefs ever again vifit London. 
Bayfwater is a hamlet in this parifh. The public tea- 
gardens here, were the gardens of the late fir John Hill, 
who here cultivated his medicinal plants, and prepared 
from them his tinftures, eflences, &c. The refervoir at 
Bayfwater was intended for the fupply of Kenfington pa¬ 
lace ; and the property was granted to the proprietors of 
the Chelfea w'ater-works, on their engaging to keep the 
bafin before the palace full. The wheel at Hyde-Park 
wall, near Knightfbridge-chapel, was made for the con¬ 
veyance of this water. The conduit at Bayfwater be¬ 
longs to the city of London, and fupplies the houfes in 
and about Bond-ftreet which ftand upon the city-lands. 
The Queen’s Lying-in Hofpital, inftituted in 1752, for 
delivering poor women, married or unmarried, was re¬ 
moved herein 1791 from its formerfituation near Cum- 
berland-ftreet. It is an excellent inftitution. 
Tyburn is another hamlet in this parifh ; as to which, 
fee the article London, vol.xiii.p. 118 and 576. See alfo 
Lyfons’s Environs of London, 1795. and Suppl. 1811. 
Prifcilla Wakefield’s Perambulations in London; Lam¬ 
bert’s London ; the Ambulator, See. 
To PAD'DLE, v. n. [patouiller, Fr.] To row ; to beat 
water as with oars.— Paddling' ducks the (landing lake 
defire. Guy. —To play in the water.—A wolf, lapping at 
the head of a fountain, fpyed a lamb paddling' a good 
way off. L' P/lrange. —The brain has a verj' unpromifing 
afpedt for thinking : it looks like an odd fort of bog for 
fancy to paddle in. Collier. —To finger.—Of paddling' in 
your neck with his damn’d fingers. Shakefpeare's Hamlet. 
To PAD'DLE, v. a. To feel; to play with ; to toy with : 
But to be paddling palms and pinching fingers, 
As now they are, and making practis’d fmiles, 
As in alooking-glafs : Oh ! that is entertainment 
My bofom likes not. Shakefpeare's Wint. Tale. 
PAD'DLE, f. [pattal , Welfli.] An oar, particularly 
that which is ufed by a fingle rower in a boat.—The pad¬ 
dles ufed by the natives of Africa, America, and fome of 
the iflands in the South Sea, are made of light wood of 
various fhapes, but moftly fiiorter and broader in the 
blade than our oars ; and, inllead of rowing with them 
horizontally like an oar, they manage them very dex- 
-teroufly in a perpendicular manner, either for rowing or 
Iteering. Chambers. —Any thing broad like the end of an 
oar. A fmall iron inftrument for digging holes in the 
earth.—Have a paddle upon thy weapon. Dent, xxiii. 1 3. 
PAD'DLE-STAFF, f. A ftaff headed with broad iron. 
»—Befides the paddle-faff and other ceremonies. Bp. Hall , 
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PAD'DLER,/ One who paddles 1 
He may make a paddler in the world, 
From hand to mouth, but never a brave fwimmer. 
Beaum. and Fletcher. 
PAD'DOCK,/. [papjtuc, Sax. a park.] A fmall inclo- 
fure for deer or other animals.—Deleflable country-feats 
and villas environed with parks, paddocks, plantations, &c. 
Evelyn. 
PAD'DOCK, / [paba, Sax. padde, Dutch.] A great 
frog or toad.— 'The'paddock, orfrog -paddock, breeds on the 
land ; is bony and big, efpecially the (he. Walton. 
Where I was w'ont to feek the honey-bee, 
Working her formal rooms in waxen frame ; 
The grifly toad-ftool grown there mought I fee. 
And loathed paddocks lording on the fame. Spenfer. 
PAD'DOCK-PIPE, f. in botany. See Eouisetum. 
PAD'DOCK-STOOL, / [from paddock, a toad.] A 
toad-ftool ; a kind of poifonous mulhroom. 
PAD DY, [Indian.] Rice in the hulk, whether dry or 
green.—-More writers than one have made the miftake of 
confidering paddy as an inferior kind office. It is no¬ 
thing but the rice in the hulk ; and it is indeed furpri- 
fing that fuch an error ftiould not have been long ago 
corrected. Bertolacci's View of Ceylon, 1818. 
Paddy (for Patrick), a familiar term or nick-name, 
which is given to a native of Ireland ; as John Bull is ap¬ 
plied to an Engliftiman, and Sawney (Alexander) to a 
Scotchman. 
PA'DENS, f. A fort of bitter almonds from Perfia, 
which are ufed at Surat for money, about fixty of which 
pafs for one pice, which is lei’s than a halfpenny. 
PADEPAT'NAM, a town of Hindooftan, in the Car¬ 
natic : thirty-five miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Tanjore. 
PA'DER, a river of Weftphalia, which rifes near Pa- 
derborn, and, about three miles from the town, being 
joined by tw'o other Itreams, forms the Lippe. 
PAD'ERBORN, a duchy of Germany, in the circle of 
Weftphalia, has the county of Lippe on the north and 
weft; Hefle-Caflel and Waldeck on the fouth 5 and Mun- 
fter, with the duchy of Weftphalia, on the w'eft. Its 
greateft length from eaft to weft is about forty miles ; 
and its breadth, where wideft, thirty: fome parts of it 
yield good pafture, and breed abundance of cattle ; but 
it is not very fruitful in corn. There is a heath called 
the Senne or Scnde, of great extent, but very barren and 
defolate. There are, however, good iron-mines in the 
country, with laltand medicinal fprings, plenty of deer 
and other game ; and it is watered with feveral rivers 
abounding in filh, as the Wefer, the Dimer, the Diver, the 
Nette, the great Emmer, the Lippe, the Alme, and the 
Pader. It contains fifty-four pari(hes,in which are twen¬ 
ty-five market-towns, and fixteen monafteries. The Ro¬ 
man Catholic is the predominant religion of the country, 
but there are alfo many Proteftants in it. The bilhopric 
was eredted by Charlemagne, towards the clofe of the 
eighth century, and the cathedral was confecrated by 
pope Leo in perfon, anno 796. The biftiop was fovereign 
of the country, a prince of the empire, and fuffragan ot 
the archbilhop of Mentz. His revenue was about 30,000 
pounds a-year, and he was able to raife 3000 men. In 
1802, this bilhopric was given to the king of Pruflia; and, 
by the peace of Tilfit, 1807, became a province of the hew 
kingdom of Weftphalia. In 1815, by the treaty of Vienna, 
it was given back to the king of Pruflia. 
PAD'ERBORN, the capital of the above bilhopric. It 
Hands forty miles north-weft of Caflel, fifty fouth-eaft of 
Munfter, and fixty fouth-w'eft of Hanover ; being a large, 
populous, well-built, and well-fortified, city. Its name 
is compounded of pader, a rivulet, which riles juft under 
the high altar of the cathedral, and born, a Ipring. It 
was one of the Hanfe-towns; and, till 1604, an impe¬ 
rial city. The cathedral is a grand fabric, inferior to 
few in the empire. There is a gold crucifix in it of fixty 
pounds weight, prefented by Qtho II. The univerfity, 
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