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tion of. 3101 perfons, a great proportion of whom are 
employed in the woollen-trade. 
Above the town, on the furjimit of Sponebed-hill, is 
an ancient entrenchment, defignated by the different ap¬ 
pellations of Kembfbury Caftle, King’s Barrow, and 
Caftle Godwin. This fortification is of a fquare (hape, 
and has a double ditch and vallum. The inner ram¬ 
part inclofes an area of about three acres, and, as well 
as the outer one, is ftill of confiderable height, though 
both have of late years fullered great dilapidation for the 
lake of the ftones employed in conftrufting them. This 
encampment is fuppofed to have been of Roman origin, 
as coins of that people are frequently dug up within its 
area. It was afterwards, however, occupied by earl God¬ 
win, during the infurreftion made for the expulfion of all 
foreigners from the kingdom ; and again by the royalill 
army, after the fiege of Gloucefter, in the time of the 
grand rebellion. The pofition of this entrenchment, in 
a military view, is excellent, as, from its loftinefs, it has a 
profpeft over the vale to Malvern-Hills, Shropfhire, Wor- 
cefterfhire, Herefordfhire, and Monmouthlhire. 
Shepfcombe is a hamlet in theparifh of Painfwick, three 
miles from the church. In the reign of Edward VI. 
there were feveral infurreftions in the weft; at which 
time fir Anthony Kingftou was lord of the manor. He 
catifed a gallows to be erefted for the infurgents upon 
Shepfcombe-green ; and made a prifon at Painfwick, to 
fiecure all forts of offenders ; he gave three pieces of land, 
now called Gallon's-lands, one to maintain the gallows, 
the fecond to keep two ladders in readinefs, the third to 
provide halters; and, that nothing in fo neceflary a bu- 
finefs might be wanting, provided the tything-man of 
Shepfcombe fhould be hangman, that he lhould enjoy an 
acre of land in this tything for hisfervice. 
Haresfield parifh, to the weftward of Painfwick, con¬ 
tains fome veftiges of antiquity. On the high ridge of 
hills which fhelter the village is a very fingular entrench¬ 
ment, conjectured to have been a ftation of the Roman¬ 
ized Britons. It extends on one fide 600 yards in length, 
and is defended by afinglevallum fifteen feet high. Con¬ 
nected with this work is another, (partly in the parifh of 
Standifh,) which inclofes the bold promontory called 
Beacon-hill by a “ tranfverfe vallation fifty feet deep, 
and containing fifteen acres.” At Harefcomb is the fite 
pf an ancient caftle of the Bohuns. Beauties of England 
and Wales, vol. v. Bigland's Hijl. of Gloucejlerjhire, vol. 
ii. Wilkes's Britijh Directory, vol. iv. England's Gazetteer, 
vol. i. ii. 
To PAINT, v. a. [peindre, Fr. pinto, Ital. pintar, Span. 
penta, Icel. pingo, piSlus, Lat.] To reprefent by delinea¬ 
tion and colours : 
We’ll have thee, as our rarer monfters are, 
Painted upon a pole. SkakeJ'peare's Macbeth. 
To cover with colours reprefentative of fomething: 
Who fears a fentence, or an old man’s faw, 
Shall by a painted cloth be kept in awe. Shakefpeare. 
To reprefent by colours, appearances, or images.—Till 
•we, from an author’s words, paint his very thoughtsin our 
minds, we do not underftand him. Locke. 
Whether the charmer finner it or faint it, 
When folly grows romantic, we muff; paint it. Pope. 
To deferibe ; to reprefent.—The lady is diftoyal. Dif- 
loyal 1 The word is too good to paint- out her wickednefs. 
Shakefpeare. —To colour; to diverfify : 
Such is His will that paints 
The earth with colours frefh, 
The darkeft Ikies with ftores of ftarry lights. Spenfer , 
To deck with artificial colours in fraud or oftentation.—- 
Jezebel painted her face and tired her head, a Kings, ix. 30, 
Hath not old cuftbm made this life more fweet 
Than that of painted pomp ? are not thefe woods 
More free from peril than the court itfelf ? Shakefpeare. 
To PAINT, v. 71. To lay colours on. the face; 
Oh ! if to dance all night, and drefs all day, 
Charm’d the fmall-pox, or chas’d old age away, 
To patch, nay ogle, might become a faint, 
Nor would it fure be fuch a fin to paint. Pope. 
PAINT, f. Colours reprefentative of any thing.—The 
church of the Annunciation looks beautiful in the infide, 
all but one corner of it being covered with ftatues, gilding, 
and paint. Addifon on Italy. 
Poets are limners, 
To copy out ideas in the mind ; 
Words are the paint by which their thoughts are fhown ; 
And nature is their obieft to be drawn. Granville. 
Colours laid on the face.—Together lay her pray’r-book 
and her paint. Anon. 
Arts on the mind, like paint upon the face, 
Fright him that’s worth your love from your embrace. 
Young. 
Pigment. Colours ready prepared for artifts and houfe- 
painters, and fold by colourmen. See the article Paint¬ 
ing. 
PAINT, a town of the United States, in Fayette- 
county, in the ftate of Ohio; with 534. inhabitants.—A 
town of Highland-county, in the fame ftate; with 775 
inhabitants. 
PAI'NTED LA'DY, /. inbotauy. See Dianthus. 
PAINTED-LADY PE'A. See Lathyrcs. 
PAINTED PO'ST, a town of the ftate of New-York: 
thirty miles eaft of Bath. 
PAI'NTEN, a town of Bavaria, in the principality of 
Neuburg: ten miles eaft-fouth-eaft of Dietfurt, and ele¬ 
ven welt of Ratilbon. 
PAI'NTER, One who profefles the art of reprefent- 
ing objefts by colours.—Beauty is only that which makes 
all things as they are in their proper and perfeft nature; 
which the belt painters always chtife by contemplating 
the forms of each. Dryden. —A naval term.— Painter is 
a rope employed to fallen a boat either alonglide of the 
fhip to which fhe belongs, or to fome wharf or key. A au- 
tical Terms in Hawkefworth's Voyages. 
PAI'NTER’s hAR'BOUR, a port on the weft coalt 
of the ifland of Cape Breton. Lat. 46. N. 
PAI'NTING, /. The art of reprefenting objefts by 
delineation and colours —If painting be acknowledged 
for an art, it follows that no arts are without their pre¬ 
cepts. Dryden. 
’Tis in life as ’tis in painting. 
Much may be right, yet much be wanting. Prior. 
Pifture ; the painted refemblance: 
This is the very painting of your fear; 
This is the air-drawn dagger which you faid 
Led you to Duncan. SkakeJ'peare's Macbeth. 
The painting is almoft the natural man : 
For, lince diflionqur trafficks with man’s nature. 
He is but outfide: pencill’d figures are 
Ev’n fuch as they give out.. Shakefpeare's Timon. 
Colours laid on : 
If any fuch be here 
That love this pahiting, wherein you fee me fmear’d. 
Let him exprefs his difpofition. SkakeJ'peare's Coriol. 
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