198 M U N 
van, and 640 eall-fouth-eaft of Tobollk. Lat. 54. 52. N, 
Ion. 85 . 50. E. 
MUN'KER,yi With the Mahometans, one of the two 
angels who are fuppofed to examine the fouls of the de¬ 
parted. 
MUNK'HOLM, a town of Norway, in the province of 
Drontheim: three miles north of Drontheim. 
MUN'KOES, a town of Hungary, the cattle of which, 
feated on a deep rock, and artificially fortified, is deemed 
impregnable. The town is fituated on the river Latortza, 
and it is the refidence of a Greek bifhop, united with the 
Roman church, and a convent of the order of St. Bafil. 
It is fifty-two miles eall-fouth-eaft of Calkau. Lat. 48. 
29. N. Ion. 20. 14. E. 
MUN'KORP, a town of Sweden, in Weftmanland : fe- 
ven miles weft of Stroemlholm. 
MUN'KY, a town of Hindooftan, in Canara: feven 
miles fouth of Onore. 
MUN'NERSTADT, a town of the duchy of Wurzburg, 
on the Lauer : nine miles north of Schweinfurt, twenty- 
eight north-north-eaft of Wurzburg, and thirty-one 
north-weft of Bamberg. Lat. 50. 18. N. Ion. 10. 24. E. 
MUN'NION, f. [mullion is probably the true word. See 
Mullion.] —The upright polls, that divide the feveral 
lights in a window-frame, are called munnions. Moxon. 
MtJN'NOW. See Monnow. 
MUNNYPOU'R, a town of Afia, capital of Caflay. In 
177+it was taken by the king of Burmah. It is 264 miles 
north-north-eaft of Aracan. Lat. 24. 40. N. Ion. 95. E. 
MUNOOCA'RY, a town of Hindooftan, in the Car¬ 
natic : feven miles fouth-weft of Arnee. 
MU'NOS (Don Juan Baptifta), a moll voluminous Spa- 
nifh writer, who publilhed 130 volumes of hillorical and 
other works, many original documents and letters of Co¬ 
lumbus, Ximenes, &c. and other productions relating to 
America, and was employed in 1779 by the king of Spain 
to write the Hillory of the New World. He died at Ma¬ 
drid about December 1799. Jones's Biog. Di£l. 
MU'NOZ (Jerome), an able Spanilh mathematician and 
oriental lcholar in the lixteenth century, was a native of 
Valentia, but of the date of his birth or death we have 
feen no account. He appears to have rifen into fame firft 
ot all in Italy, as a teacher of the Hebrew language at 
Ancona, where the Jews themfelves bellowed the higheft 
commendation on his intimate knowledge of their facred 
tongue. Nor was he lefs applauded for his profound ikill 
in the Greek language, polite literature, and the mathe¬ 
matical fciences. The reputation which he had acquired 
rendered his countrymen defirous of fecuring the benefit 
ol his inftruClions to his native land, and he accepted of 
their invitation to repair to the univerfity of Salamanca. 
In this leminary, he was at the fame time appointed pro- 
lellor of Hebrew, and of the mathematics, with a very 
ample llipend; and he fpent the remainder of his days 
in the alfiduous difcharge of the duties of his double 
office. He was the author of, 1. Inftitutiones Arithme- 
tmas ad Percipiendam Allrologiam et Mathematicas Fa¬ 
cilitates neceflariae, 1566, 4to. a. Alphabetum Hebrai- 
cum, cum ratione legendi cum punClis. 3. LeClura Geo- 
graphica. 4. L reatile on the new Comet, and its Prog¬ 
noses, of which a French tranllation was publilhed at 
Paris in 1574, in 8vo. Gen. Biog. 
MUNRE'E, a river of Ireland, which runs into Tul- 
laghan Bay in lat. 54. 5. N. Ion. 9. 42. W. 
MUNS, J. [mund, Germ, and Dan. mitnnr, Icel.] A term 
for the mouth and chops, noticed by Ray; and Hill ufed 
in vulgar language. 
MUNSA'LA, a town of Sweden, in the government of 
Wafa; fifteen miles fouth of Jacobftadt. 
MUNSAPET'TA, a town of Hindooftan, in the Car¬ 
natic: five miles north of Tritchinopoly. 
MUN'SEN, a town of Hindooftan, in the country of 
Vifiapour : twenty-feven miles north of Poonah. 
MUN'SESKIRCHEN, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Mofelle: five miles welt of Bouzonville, and 
twelve ealt of Thionville. 
M U N 
MUNS'HOLM, a fmall ifland of Denmark, in the Great 
Belt; ten miles north-north-well of Corfoer. Lat. 55. 29. 
N. Ion. 11. 6. E. 
. MUNSIN'GEN, a town of Wurtemberg; twenty-fix 
miles fouth-fouth-eall of Stuttgart, and twenty weft of 
Ulm. Lat. 48.25. N. Ion. 9.33. E. 
MUN'STER, formerly a bilhopric of Germany, bounded 
on the north by Ealt Frielland and Oldenburg; 011 the 
eaft by the bilhopric of Ofnabruck, and counties of Diep- 
holz,Tecklenburg, Lingen.andRavenlberg; on the fouth 
by Weftphalia, the counties of Mark and Recklinghaufen, 
and duchy of Cleves; and on the weft by Holland, and 
the county of Bentheim. This country is level, with 
fome agreeable heights, but no mountains. The exten- 
live heaths here lerve for the breeding of cattle. In it 
are alfo fruitful plains, fine woods and turf, together 
with good quarries of Hone, and rivers abounding in fifh. 
The moll remarkable are the Embs, the Lippe, the Veclit, 
and the Berkel. The Dummer Lake, which is one Ger¬ 
man mile in length, and half a one broad, lies between 
the bilhopric and the county of Diepholz, and in part be¬ 
longs thereto. At the time of the reformation, the Lu¬ 
theran doCtrine found here, indeed, many adherents; but 
it was afterwards fupprefled, and the exercife of the Lu¬ 
theran religion, which had been permitted in the quarter 
of Emblland, in the years 1613 and 1614, was again put 
down. In the year 802, the emperor Charlemagne created 
Ludgern, of Frielland, firft bilhop of Mimigerriford, in- 
ftead of which name was afterwards ufed that of Munller. 
Bilhop Louis I. fet this bilhopric free from the heredi¬ 
tary right of protection from the counts of Tecklenburg. 
Bilhop Hermann II. who governed in the 12th century, 
was, by the emperor Otto IV. made a prince of the em¬ 
pire. Bilhop Otto, a count of Bentheim, was the firft 
prelate who was eleCted by the chapter, on whom the 
emperor Frederic II. conferred a power for this purpofe. 
Bilhop Louis II. a landgrave of HelTe, was the firft who 
was confirmed by the pope. Bilhop Chriliopher Bern- 
hard, a baron of Galen, who died in the year 1678, is ce¬ 
lebrated as a great warrior. In 1802, the bilhopric was 
fecularifed and given to the king of Pruflia; by whom, at 
the peace of Tillit, 1807, it was ceded to the kingdom of 
Weftphalia. 
In the year 1S10, it was thought fit by Bonaparte to 
unite the kingdom of Holland, the Hanle-towns, the 
grand duchy of Berg, and the territory of Munller, to the 
French empire. The following is a part of the proclama¬ 
tion ilfued upon that occalion by the general lent to take 
polfelfion. 
To the Inhabitants of the County of Mtmjler. Feb. 24, 1811. 
“ An imperial decree of the 22ft of January laft, ilfued 
in confequence of the lenatus confultum of the 13th of 
December, 1810, which unites you to the empire, autho¬ 
rized the giving up of your country, of which I have 
taken polfelfion in the name of his majefty the Emperor 
of the French, King of Italy, &c. Called to partake of the 
deftinies of the grand people, happy for the future under 
the lafeguard of the eagles who are coming to furround 
your territory, and render it inviolable ; be worthy of 
the protection which our invincible monarch offers you. 
When you were only the neighbours of his vaft empire, 
you could reckon upon this powerful protection; but 
now, lubjeCls of the greateft, bell, of fovereigns, you will 
more particularly intereft his magnanimous heart. Ad¬ 
mire his glory; cherilh his paternal goodnefs.” 
Accordingly, this country was formed into a depart¬ 
ment called La Lippe; and on the 19th of Augult fol¬ 
lowing, the emperor replied to the perlons who brought 
him an addrels from the capital in the following terms.— 
“ Gentlemen, Deputies of the Department of La Lippe; 
The town of Munller belonged to an ecclefiaftical love- 
reign ; deplorable etfeCt of ignorance and fuperftition ! 
You were without country. Providence, who willed that 
I Ihould reftore the throne of Charlemagne, has made you 
naturally enter, with Holland and the Hanfe-towns, into 
the bofom of the empire. From the moment in which 
1 you 
