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companions, as appears from a paftage in an old play, 
wherein it is faid of one of the characters, “ He wants no 
cloths, for he hath a cloak laid on with gold lace, and an 
embroidered jerkin ; and thus he is marching hither like 
the foreman of a morris.” Blind Beggar of BednalGreen, 
1659. 
“ I do not find that the morris-dancers were confined 
to any particular number: in the ancient reprefentation 
of this dance given by Strutt, there are five, exclufive of 
the two muficians. A modern writer fpeaks of a fet of 
morris-dancers who went about the country, confiding 
of ten men who danced, befides the maid Marian, and 
one who played upon the pipe and tabor.” Strutt's Sports 
and Pajlimes of the People of England, p. 170. 
Nine-Men's Morrice. A kind of play with nine holes 
in the ground. It is called alfo merils, and five-penny 
moiris. The game is played with ftones in England, but 
in France with pawns or men made on purpofe, called 
merelles, which Mr. Toilet thinks “to have been origi¬ 
nally black, and therefore fo termed ; as we call a black 
cherry a morello, and a fmall black cherry a merry; per¬ 
haps from Maurns, a moor, or rather from rnorum, a mul¬ 
berry.”— Nine-men's morris is a game dill played by the 
fhepherds, cowkeepers, &c. in the midland counties, as 
follows: A figure (of fquares one within another), is 
made on the ground by cutting out the turf; and two 
perfons take each nine ftones, which they place by turns 
in the angles, and afterwards move alternately, as at chefs 
or draughts. He who can play three in a draight line may 
then take od' any one of his adverfary’s, where he pleafes, 
till one, having lod all his men, lofes the game. Alchorne's 
Note on Shakefpcare. 
The folds dand empty in the drowned field, 
And crows are fatted with the murrain dock; 
The nine-men's morris is filled up with mud. 
Shahefpeare's Midf. N. Dream. 
MOR'RICE-DANCER, f. One who dances alamo- 
refca, the mooridi dance.—There w'ent about the country 
a let of morrice-dancers, compofed of ten men, who danced 
a maid marian, and a tabor and pipe. Temple. 
MORRICE-PI'KE, f. A Mooridi pike; a formidable 
weapon ufed by the Moors.—The Englifn mariners laid 
about them with brown-bills, halberts, and morrice-pikcs. 
Reynard's Deliv. of Chrifiiuns from the Turks. —He that 
fets up his red to do more exploits with his mace than a 
morris-pike. Shakefpeare's Com. of Err. 
MOR'RIS, a county of the date of New Jerfey, with 
17,750 inhabitants, of whom 775 are daves. 
MOR'RIS (Lewis), a Welfli antiquary and poet, was 
born in the ide of Anglefey in 1701, and died in 1765 at 
Penhryn in Cardigandiire. He furveyed the coad of 
Wales in 1737, by order of the admiralty-board ; and his 
work was publifhed in 1748. Some of his poetical pieces 
in the Weldi language have been printed ; and he left 
above eighty volumes of manufcripts of antiquity, now 
depofited in the Weldi charity-fchool, Gray’s-inn-lane, 
London. 
Richard Morris, brother of the above, was alfo a 
poet and critic in his native language. He was clerk in 
the navy pay-office, and fuperintended the printing of 
two valuable editions of the Weldi Bible. He died in 
1779 - 
William Morris, another brother, was a great col¬ 
lector of Weldi manufcripts, and died comptroller of the 
cuftoms at Holyhead in 1764. Owen's Camb. Biog. 
MORRIS BA'Y, a bay on the tveft coaft of the idand 
of Antigua. 
MORRISA'NIA, a towrn of New York, in a cove of 
Long-Illand Sound. Lat. 40.48. N. Ion. 73. 54. W. 
MOR'RISON, a town of North Carolina: forty miles 
north of Charlottefburg. 
MOR'RISON (Richard), a learned and accomplifhed 
gentleman, flouridied in the time of Henry VIII. who, 
in the year 1545, prefented to him the manor of Cadiio, 
or Watford. The date of his birth is not known, nor 
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the place. Wood adigns that honour to Oxforddiire, 
while Fuller places him among the worthies of Eftex, 
upon the authority of Bale, though at the fame time he 
acknowledges that this account is involved in great un¬ 
certainty. After fpending feveral years at Oxford, during 
which time he made a confiderable proficiency in philol’o- 
phical ftudies, and in the Greek and Latin languages, he 
travelled into foreign parts; and, having acquired the 
charafler both of a learned and accompiifhed gentleman, 
attrafted the notice of Henry the Eighth, who conferred 
upon him the honour of knighthood, and employed him 
in feveral embafiies to the emperor Charles the Fifth, and 
other princes of Germany, in which he was attended by 
Roger Afcham. He was employed in the fame capacity 
in the reign of Edward the Sixth, and having manifefted 
an ardent zeal for the proteftant religion, was appointed 
by that prince one of the reformers of the univerfity of 
Oxford. After refiding many years abroad, he returned 
to his native country, and began the houfe at Cafhiobury, 
near Watford, now belonging to the earl of Efiex, his 
defcendant in the female line. Upon the acceftion of 
queen Mary to the throne, he fought a voluntary exile 
in foreign parts, on account of his zealous adherence to 
the proteftant religion; and died at Strafbourg on the 17th 
of March, 1556. He was author of the following works s 
1. Apomaxis Calumniarum Convitiorumque, quibus Jo¬ 
hannes Coclasus, homo theologus, exiguus artium pro- 
feffor, &c. Henrici VIII. nomen obfcurare, rerum gefta- 
rum gloriam fcedare, nuper edita, non tarn ad regem, 
quam in regis invidiam, epiftola ftuduit; London, 1537, 
4to. dedicated to Thomas Cromwell, fecretary of ftate. 
2. An Exhortation to ftir all Englilhmen to the Defence 
of their Country; 1539, 8vo. 3. Inveftive againft the. 
great and deteftable vice Treafon, &c. 1539, 8vo. 4. Com¬ 
fortable Confolation for the Birth of Prince Edward, ra¬ 
ther than Sorrow for the Death of Queen Jane. He alfo 
tranflated into Englifh the Epiftle of Joh. Sturmius to the 
Cardinals and Bilhops that were chofen by the Bilhop of 
Rome to fearch out the Abufes of the Church; 1538,, 
8vo. and the Symboles of Ludovic Vives much about the 
fame time; with other matters. Wood's Athena Oxon. 
MOR'RISTOWN, a town of the ftate of New Jerfey: 
fifty-feven miles north-north-eaft. of Philadelphia. Lat. 
40.45. N. Ion. 74. 28. W. 
MOR'RISVILLE, a town of Pennfylvania, on the De¬ 
laware: nine miles from Briftol. 
MOR'RO. See Moro. 
MOR'RO, f. in geography, a term for headland or 
promontory on the coafts of Chili and Peru in South 
America, and on the fouth of the Pacific Ocean; of which 
the following are the raoft remarkable. 
MOR'RO de BONIFA'CIO, a cape on the coaft of 
Chili. Lat. 39.25. S. 
MOR'RO de CARAPU'CHO, a headland on the coaft 
of Peru. Lat. 19. 35. S. 
MOR'RO CHI'CO, a cape on the coaft of Honduras. 
Lat. 15.35. N. 
MOR'RO COBI'R, a cape on the coaft of Africa, in 
the Indian Sea. Lat. 8. 5. N. 
MOR'RO de los DIAB'OLOS, a headland on the coaft 
of Peru. Lat. 18. S. 
MOR'RO HERMO'SO, a cape on the weft coaft of Ca¬ 
lifornia. Lat. 27.52. N. Ion. 245. 7. E. 
MOR'RO de St. JOR'GE, a cape on the weft coaft of 
America. Lat. 24. S. 
MOR'RO de St. JO'SEF, a headland on the coaft of 
Peru. Lat. 24. S. 
MOR'RO MORE'NA, a cape on the coaft of Chili. 
Lat. 23 10. S. 
MOR'RO-MOR'RO, a town of the government of 
Buenos Ayres, in the diocefe of La Plata: forty miles 
north-eaft of Cocha. 
MOR'RO de PUER'COS, a cape on the weft coaft of 
Mexico. Lat. 7.35. N. 
MOR'RO QUEMA'DO, a headland on the coaft of 
Peru. Lat. 14.20. S. 
F MOR'RON. 
