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negleCted, but the date of its demolition is not mentioned. 
Leland fays that this place was anciently called Titmble- 
Jioun , and that PI a fly is a corruption for Cajiel de Placeto. 
A college for a matter and eight fecular priefts, two 
clerks, and two chorifters, was founded here by Thomas 
of Wood flock in 1393. The original endowments were 
fubfequently augmented by various benefactors: and at 
the time of the diflblution its revenues were valued 
at 139I. 3s. iod. per annum clear. This houfe was 
granted by Henry VIII. to fir John Gates, who razed all 
the old buildings, the college-church excepted, which he 
however alfo partly deftroyed. It continued in a ruinous 
ftate till the beginning of the lad* century, when bilhop 
Compton, having been promoted to the fee of London, 
repaired fuel) portions of it as were (landing, and added 
a neat body of brick. The principal monuments here 
are thofe of fir William Jolliffe, knt. and his nephew, 
Samuel Tuffnell, efq. whofe family poffeffed the manor 
for upwards of half a century. Some memorial of the 
former confequence of Plafliy appears in the eleftion of a 
mayor annually from among the freeholders of the 
village, at the court-leet for the manor. This cuftom is 
Angular, and feems to indicate that it was at one time a 
corporate town. Beauties of England and Wales. Wilkes's 
Britijh Directory, v ol. v. 
PLESOV'CZE, or Pliessocz, a fmall town in'the north- 
welt of Hungary: twenty one miles fouth of Neufohl. 
Lat,48. 26. 15. N. Ion. 19. 8. 45. E. 
PLESSE, a fmall town of Pruflian Silefia, in the go¬ 
vernment of Oppeln, on the frontiers of Poland. It has 
2300 inhabitants, who manufacture woollens, hats, and 
Itockings. It has a cattle, a Catholic and a Lutheran 
church. Piffle is the chief place of a principality fubjeCt 
to Pruflia, but belonging in property to a branch of the 
family of the dukes of Anhalt-Cothen. Its territorial 
extent is 530 fquare miles: its population 61,000. 
Here are mines of iron and coal; alfo manufactures of 
iron and glafs. It is thirty-two miles eaft-fouth-eatt of 
Ratibor. 
PLESSE, or Josephstadt, a fmall town and fortrefs 
of Bohemia, at the confluence of the Metau and the 
Elbe, with 1500 inhabitants : feventy miles eall-north-eaft 
of Prague. 
PLESS'IS GRIMOU'LT, a town of France, department 
of Calvados, with 1000 inhabitants. 
PLESS'IS les TOURS, a village of France, department 
of the Indre and Loire, fituated between the Cher and 
Loire, with 1000 inhabitants, and a magnificent cattle 
built by Louis XI. who died here in 1483. Befides the 
above, Pleffis is the name of more than thirty villages 
and petty towns in France, fituated for the molt part in 
the departments of the Seine, the Seine and Oife, and the 
Oife ; but none of them of importance. 
PLESSO'W, a town oft lie duchy of Warfaw : eight 
miles well of Kalifch. 
PLES'TIN, a town in the north-weft of France, de¬ 
partment of the Cotes-du-Nord 5 containing, with its 
parifti, about 3500 inhabitants : twelve miles north-eaft 
of Morlaix. 
PLE'SUR, a river of the Grifons, which runs into the 
Rhine at Coire. 
PLETCH'BERG, a mountain of Swifferland, in tlie 
canton of Berne: twenty-two miles fouth-fouth-eall of 
Thun. 
PLETH'ORA, f. [Greek.] The ftate in which the 
veflels are fuller of humours than is agreeable to a natural 
ftate of health. See Pathology, vol. xix. p. 280. —The 
difeales of the fluids are a plethora or $00 great abun¬ 
dance of laudable juices. Arbuthnot on Aliments. 
PLETHORET'IC, or Pleth'oric, adj. [from plethora. 
Dr. Johnfon places the accent on the lecond fyliable of 
plethoric, as Goldfmith alfo does. But it is now ufually 
placed on the firlt. Todd.'] Having a full habit.—The 
fluids, as they confift of fpirit, water falts, oil, and terref- 
trial parts, differ according to the redundance of the 
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whole or of any of thefe; and therefore the plethorick 
are phlegmatick, oily, faline, earthy, or dry. Arbuthnot. 
At laft the nation found, with fruitlefs (kill, 
Its former ftrength was but pletho'rick ill. Goldfmith's Trav. 
PLETH'ORY, f Fulnefs of habit.—The appetite falls 
down, like a horfe-leech, when it is ready to burft with 
putrefaction and an unwholefome plethory. Bp. Taylor’s 
Serm. 1651. —In too great repletion, the elaftick force of 
the tube throws the fluid with too great a force, and 
fubjeCts the animal to the difeafes depending on a pleth¬ 
ory. A rbuthnot. 
PLE'THRON, f. A Grecian meafure, by fotne faid to 
contain 1444, by others 10,000, fquare feet. 
PLET'TENBERG, a town of Pruflian Weftphalia, 
fituated among mountains, and containing 1300 inhabit¬ 
ants, whofe chief employment is making iron tools: thir¬ 
teen miles fouth-fouth-weft of Arenlberg. 
PLET'TENBERG BAY, a bay on the fouth-eaft coaft 
of Africa. Cape Seal, at the fouthern extremity of the 
bay, is in S. lat. 34. 6. E. Ion. 23. 48. Variation of the 
compafs 27. i2. W. The tide flows at full or change 
3 h io m , and riles or falls five or fix feet perpendicular. 
This bay fcarcely feems capable, by any expenle, of being 
rendered fecure, even for fmall craft, in the winter 
months; but, in the fummer feafon, (hips may remain 
without any danger. Plettenberg’s Bay is a divifion of 
the diltriCt of Zwellendam, which begins at the Kayman’s 
river, and continues to the inacceflible forefts of Sit(1- 
kamma. The whole of this traCt of country is very beau¬ 
tiful, agreeably diverfified by hill and dale, and lofty 
forefts. Within feven miles of the bay are large timber- 
trees, and the furface is almoft as level as a bowling-green, 
over which the feveral roads are carried. The pealantry 
who inhabit this diltriCt are moftly wood-cutters, who 
earn a very hard fubfiftence. The great diftance from 
the Cape of Good Hope, being 400 miles of bad road, 
allows them little profit on a load of timber, when fold 
at the dearell rate in the Cape market, fo that they 
prefer difpofing of it at the bay for a mere trifle. Plank 
of thirteen or fourteen inches in width, and an inch 
thick, may be purchafed on the fpot at the rate of 3d. per 
foot in length. The bark of feveral of the creeping 
plants in the foreft might be employed as fubftitutes for 
hemp; and the iron ores, near the bafe of the mountain, 
might be worked by clearing away the wood, of which 
there is an inexhauftible fupply. 
Knysna is an arm of the fea, in the colony of the Cape 
of Good Hope, at the diftance of about eighteen miles to 
the weftward of Plettenberg’s Bay, which, in the opinion 
of Mr. Barrow, may one day become an important liation. 
He has given a plan of it in the fecond volume of his 
Travels in Southern Africa. The tide fets into it through 
a narrow palfage, or portal, as into a dock. The depth 
of water, and great extent of it, running into the centre 
of very fine forefts, render it a molt eligible place for 
building and repairing (hips. Veflels of 500 tons and 
upwards, deeply laden, may pafs the portal; and thofe 
that are much larger might be built in it, and fent out 
light, to be completed in Plettenberg’s Bay. The 
forefts contain feveral different kinds of durable and 
well-grown timber fit for that valuable purpole, as well 
as abundance of malts and yards. Barrow’s Africa, vol. it. 
PLETZ'DORF, a town of Bavaria, in the bilhopric of 
Bamberg : fix miles weft-north-weft of Burg Eberach. 
PLETZ'KY, a town of Saxony: two miles welt of 
Gommern. 
PLEV'EN, a town of European Turkey, in Bulgaria, 
on the Vid : twenty-eight miles fouth of Nicopoli. 
PLEU'GLIA, a town of European Turkey, in Servia: 
40 miles well of Jembafar. 
PLEV'INj: [old Fr. plevina , low Lat.] In law, a war¬ 
rant or affurance. See Replevin. 
PLEULE, or Taschlid'scha, a town of European 
Turkey, in Bofnia, fituated on the eaftern borders of the 
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