PAS 
f-Tlat all thofe who had buffered baniflmient, or any other 
calamity, on account of their having been concerned in 
the league or war of Smalcalde, (hould be reinftated in 
their privileges, pofleffions, and employments ; that the 
Imperial Chamber of Spires fhould be open to Proteft- 
ants as well as Catholics; and that there fhould be always 
a certain number of the Lutheran perfuafion in that high 
court. 
The bifhop of PafTau was formerly fuffragan of Salz¬ 
burg; but, from the year 1728, only dependent on the 
fee of Rome. As a prince of the empire, his aflelfment 
in the imperial matricula was 18 horfe and 70 foot, or 
528 florins ; to the chamber at Wetzlar he paid 94 rix- 
dollars, 62! kruitzers. In 1802, part of the bifhopric 
beyond Iltz and the Inn, towards Auftria, was given to 
the Grand Duke of Tufcany. It is eighty-two miles eaft- 
north-eaft of Munich, and 120 eaft of Vienna. Lat. 48. 
34. N. Ion. 13. E. 
PASS'AVANT, a town of France, in the department 
of the Marne: fix miles fouth of St. Menehould. 
PASS'AVANT, a town of France, in the department 
of the Doubs: four miles fouth of Baume les Dames, 
and thirteen eaft-north-eaft of Befancon. 
PASS'AVANT, a town of France, in the department 
of the Maine and Loire: fix miles eaft-fout-h eafl: of Vi- 
biers, and fifteen fouth-weft of Saumur. 
PASSAVAN'TE (James), an Italian dominican monk, 
was defcended from a noble family, and born at Florence, 
where he died in 1357. His name is celebrated in Italy, 
on account of his being the author of a treatife on ge¬ 
nuine repentance, entitled, “ Le Specchio della vera Pe- 
nitenza/’ which was publifhed for the firft time in the 
year 1595, quarto. What entitles it to our notice is the 
circumftance, that the famous Academy de la Crufca di¬ 
rected an edition of it to be printed in 1681, which was 
its feventh impreflion, and received their imprimatur as a 
beautiful exemplar of chafte and elegant Italian ftyle. 
In 1725, it was again reprinted at Florence, in quarto. 
Gen. Biog. 
PASS'AW AY, a town of Hindooftan, in the circar of 
Jyenagur : thirty miles eafl: of Parafaoli. 
PASSE, or De Passe, a family of Dutch engravers, 
of whom the elder came to England from Utrecht early 
in the feventeenth century, and introduced a better tafte, 
and a neater and more elaborate ftyle of engraving, than 
had hitherto been praClifed in England. 
Crispin de Passe, the patriarch of the family, was a 
man of letters, ftudious, and of a liberal mind. Hol¬ 
land’s Heroologia was embellilhed and publiftied at his 
expenfe ; and in the preface to a drawing-book, publifhed 
by him at Amfterdam, in the year 1643, (after his depar¬ 
ture from England,) he difcovers fome knowledge in 
geometry and perfpe&ive ; gives directions for the pro¬ 
portions of the human body; for drawing in the acade¬ 
my by lamp-light, and for the ufe of the lay-figure in 
ftudying draperies ; and details the proportions of horfes, 
lions, and other quadrupeds, and of birds and fillies. In 
the fame preface he fays of himfelf, that he applied early 
to the ftudy of the arts; and mentions Reubens, Bloemart, 
and other diftinguifhed contemporary artifts, as his 
friends and encouragers i but he appears alfo to have 
looked with advantage at the neater productions of the 
German fchool of engraving. The following is a tolerably 
juft eftimate of his powers as an artift, and is from the 
pen of the late Mr. Strutt. “ Pafie worked entirely with 
the graver, in a neat clear ftyle, which has much origi¬ 
nality ; and, excepting fome little lliffnefs which fre¬ 
quently appears, and the want of harmony with refpeft 
to the diftribulion of the light and lhadow, (a fault 
which prevailed at the time in which he lived,) his bell 
works poflefs a very confiderable fliare of merit, efpe- 
cially his portraits, many of which he drew from the 
life; and the far greater part of his hiftorical and emble¬ 
matical fubjefts are engraved from his own compofitions. 
He drew the human figure very correClly, and marked the 
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extremities with a degree of exaCtnefs not ufually found 
in the works of thofe mailers who employed themfelves 
upon fmall fubjeCts. 
CriJ'pin, the elded fon, produced but few prints) and 
hence it has been fuppofed that he either died young, or 
quitted the profeflion of engraving. The principal of 
thefe are the portraits of Frederic eleCtor palatine, and 
Johannes Angelins Werdenhagen, both from his own 
drawings ; but the date of the latter, 1630, (hows that he 
lived at lead to the age of thirty years; and three plates 
from the Hiftory of Lazarus. A fourth plate from this 
hillory, which completes the fet, was engraven by De 
Pafie the elder. 
The works of William, the fecond fon, who redded 
chiefly in London, were fomewhat more abundant, but 
confill chiefly of portraits ; among which are thofe of 
Robert Dudley earl of Leicefter ; Robert Devereux earl 
of Eflex,and George Villiers duke of Buckingham, both 
on horfeback ; and Frances, duchefs of Richmond, &c. 
all of quarto dimenfions. King James I. with his fa¬ 
mily, infcribed “ Triumphus Jacobi Regis Auguftae qui 
ipfius fcrolis;” James I. with prince Henry of Wales, &c. 
folio. A fet of the Five Senfes, with each a Latin verfe, in 1 
quarto; a family of gypfies, dated 1621, in folio ; and a 
family-piece, fuppofed to be that of the palatine, "where 
the youngell child Is reprefented playing with a rabbit, 
folio fize. 
Simon, the youngeft of the Tons of Crifpin, refided alfo 
for fome time in England, where he was employed by 
Hilliard, who was the Reynolds of bis day, and for whom 
he engraved the portraits of mod of the royal family 
of England. He was afterwards employed by the king 
of Denmark, and probably died at Copenhagen. The 
lateft of his works executed in England are dated 1613. 
They chiefly confill of portraits, with fome few devo¬ 
tional fubjeifs and book-ornaments. 
The works of Magdulen, the firll female engraver we’ 
read of who praClifed the art in England, are not equal 
to the bed of thofe of her brethren. In three plates from 
Ovid’s Metamorphofes, which (he has engraved after pic¬ 
tures by EKheimer, (he has judicioufly imitated the ftyle 
of Goudt; but has not produced the fame forcible ef- 
feCl, nor attained the fame exquifite degree of finifti. 
Lifts of the numerous portraits and other engravings by 
his family, may be feen in Lord Orford’s Catalogue, and 
Mr. Strutt’s Diflionary of Engravers ; and,in the royal 
library at Paris, before the revolution, was a collection 
of their works in two or three large volumes. The mo¬ 
nograms of William, Simon, and Magdalen, de Pafie, 
will be found on the preceding Plate. 
PASS'E-PAR-TOUT,/. [French.] A mafter-key 5 a 
key that opens feveral locks. 
PASSE'-VOLANT,/. [Fr. from puffer, to pafs, and 
volant, flying.] A man that is not really in the fervice, 
but who (lands to be muftered for the purpofe of com¬ 
pleting th e fuppofed number of effectives in a regiment, or 
on-board a (hip of war. They are likewife called faggots. 
Paf'e-volans likewife mean thofe wooden pieces of ord¬ 
nance w’hich are made to refemble real artillery, and 
fill up the vacant places in a (hip. Thefe were firll adop¬ 
ted by the French, in confequence of a regulation which 
was made by M. de Pontchartrain, when he became mi- 
nifter of the marine department. He gave orders that no 
veflels, except fuch as carried 16 guns, (hould fail to and- 
from America: in order to comply, at lead in outward 
appearance, with this regulation, the merchants had re- 
courfe to paf'e-volans, or wooden guns; this invention 
has been adopted by other nations, for the purpofe of 
deceiving an enemy as to the ftrength and probable re- 
fiftanceof fmall (hips of war, privateers, See. 
PASS'EHENDAELE, a town of the kingdom of the 
Netherlands, in the province of Weft Flanders. Before 
the peace of 1815, it was a town of France, in the de¬ 
partment of the Lys, and chief place of a canton, in the 
diftriCt of Ypres. The place contains 2664 inhabitants. 
3 PASSEMAN'T, 
