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furrender of Candia. When, in confequence of a league 
between the republic, the emperor, and the king of Poland, 
war with the Turks was renewed, Morofmi was again no¬ 
minated generaliflimo. In 1684 he failed for Greece, 
where he took the ifland and town of Santa Maura. He 
afterwards made himfelf matter of feveral places in the 
Morea, and gave the Turks a total defeat near the Dar¬ 
danelles. The news of thefe fucceftes was fo pleafing to 
the fenate, that this body conferred upon him the title 
of The Peloponnejiac, and eredled a brafs ftatue of him 
with this infcription : “ Francifco Mauroceno Pelopon- 
nefiaco adhuc viventi Senatus pofuit, Anno 1687.” He 
extended his conquefts to Corinth, Sparta, and Athens; 
and from the latter fent to Venice fome figures of lions of 
extraordinary beauty, taken from the Temple of Minerva, 
which were placed in the arfenal. On the death of the 
doge Juftiniani in 1688, Morofmi was elected to fucceed 
him, to the general joy of the people; he was obliged, 
however, in that year to raife the fiege of Negropont, and 
he returned fick to Venice. The war ftill continuing in 
the Levant, he was a fourth time chofen generaliflimo at 
the age of feventy-five ; and in 1693 departed for the 
army, and made the Turkifh fleet fly before him. Fatigue, 
however,exhaufted his remaining vigour; and he died at 
FJapoli de Romagna in January 1694. His body was 
brought to Venice and honourably interred under a mo¬ 
nument raifed by the fenate to his memory. Moreri. 
MOROSTTY, f. Morofenefs ; fournefs ; peevifhnefs. 
-—The pride of this man, and the popularity of that; the 
levity of one, and the morofiiy of another. Clarendon. —Is 
not a morofity and Angularity in fuch things often made a 
veil and cover of licentioufnefs in greater things ? Sprat. 
Some morojities 
We mutt expeSl, fince jealoufy belongs 
To age, of fcorn, and tender fenfe of wrongs. Denham. 
MOROSQUIL'LO. See Morrosquillo. 
MOROTO'I, or Morokoi, one of the Sandwich Iflands, 
In the Pacific Ocean. The number of inhabitants is efti- 
mated at 36,000. Lat. 21. 10. N. Ion. 185. E. 
MOROTOU'NA, a town of Hindooftan : twenty-four 
miles eaft of Tellicherry. 
MOROZ'ZO, a town of France, in the department of 
the Stura : nine miles eaft of Coni. 
MOR'PETH, a market and borough town in the 
county of Northumberland, is feated on the northern and 
fouthern banks of the Wonfbeck river, in the courfe of 
the great road from London to Edinburgh. It is a place 
of remote antiquity ; and Camden informs us, that it was 
“ burned down by its inhabitants in 1215, out of hatred 
to king John;” but the Chronicle of Melrofe afligns a 
more probable caufe for the event, by affecting that the 
barons deftroyed it, as they did many other towns, with 
the view of diftrefling that monarch, when on his march 
to punifli their revolt. It was again vifited with fimilar 
deftruftion in 1689, at which time the damage was efti- 
mated at 3500I. The prefent appearance of Morpeth is 
that of a fmall neat town, fituated between the woody 
banks of the Wonfbeck. Here are a county gaol for 
Northumberland, and an ugly town-houfe, built at the 
expenfe of the earl of Carlifle in 1714, from a defign by 
Vanbrugh. The market-day is on Wednefday, when there 
Is ufually a very confiderable fhow of fat cattle and flieep 
for the confumption of Newcaftle, Shields, and Sunder¬ 
land : indeed it is reckoned the largeft in England for 
live cattle, except Smithfield. This town has alfo the 
privilege of two yearly fairs, one o-f which is held on 
Holy Thurfday, the other on Magdalen-day. 
The parifti-church ftands about a quarter of a mile from 
the town, on Kirk-hill; and there is, befides, a chapel at 
the bridge end. Adjoining to this laft, in an old chantry, 
is a free-fehool, which was founded by king Edward VI. 
Here was formerly alfo an hofpital for the fick; and at 
about the fame diltance as the church, well of the town. 
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appears the whole of a fmall door-way, which anciently 
led into the New Minfter abbey, founded in 1139 by 
Ranulphus de Merlay, who placed in it monks of the 
Ciftertian order. The abbots of this monallery were fre¬ 
quently fummoned to parliament during the reign of 
Edward I. 
Of Morpeth-caftle, which was feated on a confiderable 
eminence clofe to the town, few veftiges remain, except 
a portion of the gateway-tower, and fome fragments of 
the outer walls. This fortrefs owed its erection to Wil¬ 
liam lord Greyftock in the year 1538, and is laid to be of 
fome extent and confequence as a baronial manfion. In 
the time of Leland, who fays, “ Morpeth-caftle ftandeth 
by Morpeth town,” it was the property of lord Dacres, 
as hulband of Elizabeth baronefs Grejdtock; and conti¬ 
nued in his family till the reign of queen Elizabeth, when 
a daughter of Thomas lord Dacres conveyed it to lord 
William Howard of Naworth, anceftor to the prefent 
earl of Cariifte, whofe landed property nearly encircles 
the whole town. The north end of Morpeth, called Bul- 
lers-green, formerly belonged to New Minfter abbey. It 
was purchafed by Thomas Wharton in 1677, and is now 
the property of Mrs. H. Burdon, his lineal defeendant. 
Morpeth is a borough by prefeription, governed by two 
bailiffs and feven aldermen, annually elected out of the 
free burgeftes, being inhabitants, and paying fcot and lot. 
In the firft year of the reign of queen Mary, 1553, it be¬ 
gan to fend members to parliament, who are now elefted 
by the bailiffs and free burgeftes, (including the aider- 
men,) and are returned by the bailiffs. The number of 
voters is about two hundred. This borough was under 
the abfolute controul of the earl of Carlifle, who is lord 
of the manor, and has confiderable eftates in the neigh¬ 
bourhood, till the year 1802, when William Ord, efq. a 
gentleman who has alfo an extenfive property near the 
town, and who had been fome years reviving an old fa- 
mily-interefc, (his anceftors having reprefented it from 
the years 1741 to 1754,) fo far lucceeded as to render it 
prudent to divide the political intereft, and each to re¬ 
turn a member. The influence has been eftabliflied here 
by letting the burgeftes paftures at a fmall or nominal 
rent, and keeping the number of them as low as poiftble 
by oppofing difficulties to their admiffion, which nothing 
but an application to the court of King’s Bench for a 
mandamus can remove. This was the principal ground 
of complaint in the petition of 1774, and remains a griev¬ 
ance ftill unredrefled. 
Morpeth is ten miles fouth of Felton, fourteen north 
of Newcaftle, nineteen fouth-eaft of Alnwick, twenty- 
five north-eaft of Hexham, and ninety-one fouth of Edin¬ 
burgh. Lat. 55.12. N. Ion. 1.24. W. 
Mitford, a village about two miles and a half fouth-weft 
from Morpeth, was formerly a market-town. The barony 
here was originally the property of a family which gave 
its name to the village; and, after changing mafters fe¬ 
veral times and in different ways, has, by an unufual ac¬ 
cident of fortune, returned to a collateral branch of its 
ancient owners, the Mitfords of Molefden. The caftle 
of this barony flood on a lofty natural eminence, on the 
fouth bank of the Wonfbeck. When it was originally 
built is uncertain ; but it is mentioned in hiftory as hav¬ 
ing been deftroyed by king John and his Rutars (a band 
of Flemifh troops), when they laid wafte this part of the 
country in 1215. It was however rapidly rebuilt; for in 
the following year we find it befieged by Alexander king 
of the Scots. Leland fays, “ it was beten downe by the 
king, becaufe one fir Gilbert Middleton robby’d a car¬ 
dinal! cominge out of Scotland, and fled to his caftle at 
Mitford.” The ruins of this fabric, now remaining, are 
the keep-tower and the exterior walls, which have a deep 
ditch on the fouth and eaftfides, cut out of the (olid rock. 
Near the caftle ftands the prefent manor-houfe, the feat 
of Bertram Mitford, efq. and alfo the parifti-church. On 
a hill, immediately above the village, is St. Leonard’s 
Hofpital, 
