NAY 
yet his criminality ought to have been eftimated, not by 
the greatnefs of the titles and claims which he affumed, 
or v iich were given him, but by the delufion and frenzy 
which had feized his brain. On this ground he was an 
object of pity, not of indignation; and he ftiould have 
been affigned over to a phyiician for a cure of his madnefs, 
and not to the executioner to be punilhed. In its cruelty 
this fentence bears a great refemblance to that palled on 
Dr. Leighton by the infamous court of Star-chamber; 
(fee vol. xii. p. 287.) and it vied with it in illegality : for 
the houfe of commons is no court of judicature, nor has 
any power to inflidl a punilhment beyond imprifonment 
during its feffion. To the honour of humanity, however, 
it ought to be mentioned, that feveral perfons of different 
perfuafions had offered petitions to parliament on his 
behalf; but it was refolved not to read them till fentence 
had been palled. On the 18th of December, the firft part 
of it was carried into execution with the greateft rigour; 
but he was brought into a Hate of fuch extreme weak- 
nefs by his cruel whipping, that, upon repeated applica¬ 
tions to the parliament, his further punilhment was re- 
Ipited for one week. During this interval, many perfons 
again interpofed in his favour by a petition to parliament, 
that the remainder of his punilhment might be wholly 
remitted. But intolerance and vindiflivenefs refilled 
thefe folicitations. The protestor was then addrelfed, 
and wrote a letter to the houfe ; which, though it occa- 
fioned fome debate, obtained no refolution in favour of 
the pril'oner. On this the petitioners prefented a fecond 
addrefs to Cromwell; but, it is faid, the influence of the 
mivifers with him prevented its effect. Five of thefe 
reverend gentlemen, Caryl, Manton, Nye, Griffith, and 
Reynolds, went to Nayler, in order to bring him to an 
acknowledgment of his offence; but, though in many 
refpedls excellent charadters, they did not manage this 
interview in a manner worthy of themfelves, or honour¬ 
able to tlveir memory. For they would admit no friend 
of his, nor any neutral or impartial perlon, into the room, 
although requefted fo to do. When Nayler infilled that 
what palled Ihould be put in writing, and a copy be left 
with him or the jailor, they confented ; but on his re¬ 
marking in the courfe of the converfation, that he thought 
that they were defirous of wrefling his words, they rofe 
up with much warmth, burnt what they had committed 
to paper, and fo left him, as he faid, “ with fome be¬ 
moaning expreffions.” On the 27th of December, the 
remainder of his fentence was executed at the Old Ex¬ 
change. Afterwards he was lent to Brillol, where he was 
publicly whipt, from the middle of Thomas-ftreet, over 
the bridge, to the middle of Broad-ltreet; which punilh¬ 
ment, we are told, he bore with wonderful patience, as 
he had done the former. From Brillol, he was brought 
back to Bridewell, London, where he was confined about 
two years ; during which his mind recovered from the 
frenzy which had governed it, and he felt deep humilia¬ 
tion and fincere repentance on account of his pall con¬ 
duct. Having alfo, notwithllanding the prohibition in 
his fentence, found means to procure pen, ink, and paper, 
he wrote letters to the parliament, the magiftrates of 
Brillol, and his friends, in which he acknowledged and 
condemned his extravagant behaviour, and alked forgive- 
nefs of all to whom he had given offence. He likewife 
wrote feveral fmall books, in which he retracted his pall 
errors. 
After the protester’s death, Nayler was releafed from 
prifon, and went to Brillol, where, in a public meeting, 
he made confeffion of his offence and fall, in a manner fo 
affefting as to draw tears from moll of thofe who were 
prefent; and, having afforded fatisfaSlory evidence of his 
unfeigned contrition, was again received into the com¬ 
munion of his friends. Nayler did not long furvive his 
enlargement: for, having left London in Oilober 1660, 
with the intention of going home to his wife and children 
at Wakefield, he was taken ill in Huntingdonlhire, where, 
it is faid, he was robbed, and left bound in a field. Whe- 
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ther hd received any perfonal injury is not certainly 
known; but, being found towards evening by a country¬ 
man, he was carried to a friend’s houfe at Holm near 
King’s Rippon, where he expired in the month of Decem¬ 
ber, when about forty-four years of age. The expreffions 
uttered by him, about two hours before his death, evince 
a frame of mind which probably none of his perfecutors 
ever felt: “ There is a fpirit which I feel,” faid he, “ that 
delights to do no evil, nor to revenge any wrong; but to 
endure all things, in hope to enjoy its own in the end. 
Its hope is to outlive all wrath and contention, and to 
weary out all exaltation and cruelty, or whatever is of a 
nature contrary to itfelf. Its crown is meeknefs ; its 
life is everlafting love unfeigned ; it takes its kingdom 
with entreaty, and not with contention, and keeps it by 
lowlinefs of mind.” Nayler’s writings were collefted 
together, and publiffied in an odtavo volume in 1716. 
Sewell's Hiji. of the Quakers, book iv. 
NAY'LESWORTH, a village in Gloucefterfhire, near 
Minchinghampton. It lies in three pariffies. 
NA'YO, a fmall ifiand in the Eaftern Indian Sea, near 
the north coaft of Celebes. Lat. 1. 24. N. Ion. 124. 24. E. 
NAYRE. See Nair, p 510. 
NAYRET', a town of Syria, in the pachalic of Aleppo: 
fix miles eaft of Aleppo. 
NAYS, a town of France, in the department of the 
Meufe, on the Ornain : three miles fouth of Ligny. 
NAY'WARD,/ Tendency to denial: 
But I’d fay, he had not; 
And, I’ll be fworn, you would believe my faying, 
Howe’er you lean to the wayward. Shaliejp. Whit. Tale. 
NAY'WORD, /I A proverbial reproach; a bye word. 
—If I do not guil him into a nayword, and make him a 
common recreation, do not think I have wit enough 
to lie llraight in my bed. Shakefpeare's Twelfth Night. 
—A watch-v/ord. Not in ufe. —I have fpoke with her; 
and we have a waywoi-d how to know one another. I 
come to her in white, and cry Mum ; fhe cries Budget; 
and by that we know one another. Shakefpeare's M. 
Wives of Windfor. 
NAZAGUN'GE, a town of Bengal: forty-five miles 
fouth-fouth-eaft of Nattore. 
NAZARE'NE. See Nazarite. 
NAZ'ARETH, now called Nasra, a town or fmall' 
city of Paleffine, in the tribe of Zebulun, in Galilee, 
about 70 or 75 miles north of Jerufalem ; to the weft of 
mount Tabor, and eaft of Ptolemais. It was built on a 
hill, and noted for the wickednefs of its inhabitants. 
Mark i. 9. Luke iv. 29. John i. 46. Here our Saviour was 
conceived, and laboured the mod part of the thirty-three 
years of his private life; but their contempt of his miniftry, 
and early attempt to murder him, by carting him from 
the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, occa- 
fioned his refiding little afterwards, and working fev^ 
miracles, among them. Luke iv. 16-29. Maith.x iv. 57. 
Nazareth held the third rank among the metropoli¬ 
tan cities dependent on the patriarch of Jerufalem. 
The Jews continued to inhabit it in the time of the 
Romans, till the reign of Conftantine ; and after that 
epoch it paffed alternately from the Chriftians to the 
Saracens. At prefent it forms part of the domains of 
the chief of Acre; which chief, when Dr. Clarke vifited 
it, was the famous Djezzar Pacha. A defeription of the 
place, now' only an obfeure village, from the work of 
that judicious and accurate obferver, (Dr. Clarke,) we 
are certain will be gratifying to our readers. 
“ The fmall town or village of Nazareth is fituated 
upon the fide of a barren rocky eLevation, facing the eaft, 
and commanding a long valley. Throughout the do¬ 
minion of Djezzaf Pacha, there was no place that fuffered 
more from his tyrannical government than Nazareth. 
Its inhabitants, unable to fuftain the burthens impofeu 
upon them, u'ere continually emigrating to other terri¬ 
tories. The few -who remained were loon to be dripped 
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