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Who sees pale Mammon pine amidst his store. 
Sees but a backward steward for the poor; 
This year a reservoir to keep and spare : 
The next a fountain spouting through his heir. Pope. 
RESET, in Law, the receiving or harbouring an out¬ 
lawed person. Hence a receiver of an outlawed person is 
called a resetter* 
To RESETTLE, v. a. To settle again.—Will the house 
of Austria yield the least article, even of usurped prerogative, 
to resettle the minds of those princes in the alliance, who 
are alarmed at the consequences of the emperor’s death ? 
Swift. 
RESETTLEMENT, s. The act of settling again.—To 
the quieting of my passions, and the resettlement of my dis¬ 
composed soul, I consider that grief is the most absurd of all 
the passions. Norris. —The state of settling again.—Some 
roll their cask to mix it with the lees, and after a resettlement, 
they rack it. Mortimer. 
RESHD, a town of Persia, capital of Ghilan, and the only 
place in that province worthy the name of a town. It con¬ 
tains about 2000 houses, irregularly built. It is situated on 
the shore of the Caspian, and carries on a considerable trade 
in silk and other articles, with Astracan; but the harbour is 
unsafe in stormy weather, and commanders of ships generally 
prefer the neighbouring one of Lankeroon. Lat. 37. 20. N. 
long. 49. 50. E. 
RE'SIANCE, s. [rescancia , low Lat. V. Du Cange.] 
Residence; abode; dwelling Rcsiance and resiant are 
now only used in law.—The king forthwith banished all 
Flemings out of his kingdom, commanding his merchant 
adventurers, which had a rcsiance in Antwerp, to return. 
Bacon. 
RE'SIANT, adj. [resseant , Fr.] Resident; present in a 
place.—Solyman was come as far as Sophia, where the 
Turks’ great lieutenant in Europe is always resiant , before 
that the Hungarians were aware. Knollcs. 
To RESI'DE, v.n. [resideo, Lat.] To have abode; to 
live; to dwell; to be present. 
How can God with such reside ? Milton. 
In no fix’d place the happy souls reside ; 
In groves we live, and lie on mossy beds. Dry den. 
[Resido, Lat.] To sink; to subside; to fall to the bottom. 
—Oil of vitriol and petroleum, a dram of each, turn into a 
mouldy substance ; there residing in the bottom a fair cloud, 
and a thick oil on the top. Boyle. 
RESIDENCE, or Residency, s. [ residence , Fr.] Act 
of dwelling in a place. 
Something holy lodges in that breast, 
And with these raptures move the vocal air, 
To testify his hidden residence. Milton. 
Place of abode; dwelling. 
Within the infant rind of this small flower, 
Poison hath residence, and medicine power. Shakspeare. 
{Re sido, Lat.] That which settles at the bottom of 
liquors.—Separation is wrought by weight, as in the ordinary 
residence or settlement of liquors. Bacon. 
By the rule of the ancient canon law, beneficiaries are 
obliged to residence, without just and necessary cause, and 
especially without the consent of the diocesan, under pain 
of deprivation of their benifices. The original reason is, 
that in the primitive church none were promoted to holy or¬ 
ders, but such as had a benefice in promptu, which they 
were obliged to serve; so that this service was necessarily at¬ 
tached to the orders; and whoever was honoured with them, 
at the same time was obliged to perform personal service. 
Regularly, personal residence is required of ecclesiastical 
persons upon their cures; and to that end, by the canon law, 
if he that hath a benifice with cure be chosen to an office 
of bailiff, or beadle, or the like secular office, he may have 
the king’s writ for his discharge. The intendment of the 
common law is that a clerk is resident upon his cure. 2 Inst. 
625 
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Residence is also required by statute 9 Ed. II. stat. I* 
c. 8. called the statute articuli cleri. Thus also, by 2l 
Henry VIII. c. 13.. commonly called the statute of non-resi- 
4ence, persons wilfully absenting themselves from their be¬ 
nefices for one month together, or two months in the year, 
incur a penalty of 51. to the king, and 51. to any person that 
will sue for the same; but the king’s service or king’s plea¬ 
sure exempts them, and by a more recent enactment, situa¬ 
tions in the universities and some others are exceptions. 
But by 43 Geo. III. c. 84. it is enacted, that so much of 
21 Hen. VIII. c. 13. as imposes the penalty of ten pounds, 
shall be repealed; and that every spiritual person who 
shall wilfully absent himself from his cure for three months 
together (or several times in any one year), and make his 
residence at any other place or places, except at some other 
dignity, prebend, benefice, donative, perpetual curacy, or 
parochial chapelry, of which he may be possessed, shall, 
when such absence shall exceed such period, and not exceed 
six months, forfeit one-third of the annual value of his 
office; and when such absence shall exceed six months, and 
not eight months, one-half of such annual value; and when 
such absence shall exceed eight months, two-thirds of such 
annual value; and when such absence shall have been for 
the whole year, three-fourths of such annual value; to be 
recovered by action of debt, bill, plaint, or information, in 
any of his majesty’s courts of record at Westminster, or the 
courts of great sessions in Wales, wherein no essoign, pri¬ 
vilege, protection, or wager of law, or more than one im¬ 
parlance, shall be allowed; and the whole of every such 
penalty or forfeiture shall go and be paid to the person or 
persons who shall inform and sue for the same, together 
with such costs of suit as shall be allowed ; provided that 
no parsonage that hath a vicar endowed, or perpetual curate, 
and having no cure of souls, shall be taken to be or be 
comprehended under the name of benefice, within the 
meaning of this act. s. 12. 
It shall be lawful for any bishop to grant licences to spi¬ 
ritual persons within his diocese, to reside out of the proper 
house of residence, or out of the parish, and within such 
distance therefrom, as the case may appear to such bishop to 
require, if such bishop shall, in his discretion, think the 
same fit and proper; provided, that in every such case, the 
reasons that have induced such bishop to grant such licence 
shall be transmitted to his archbishop, who shall allow or 
disallow such licence, or make any alteration therein which 
shall seem fit. 
If any person, returning to residence on monition, shall 
before six months thereafter absent himself, the bishop 
may, without monition, sequestrate the profits of the bene¬ 
fice. s. 32, 
If any clerk shall continue under any sequestration.for 
non-residence for the space of three years, or shall in¬ 
cur three sequestrations in the said space of three years, 
not being relieved with respect to any of such seques¬ 
trations, upon appeal, the benefice shall become ipso 
facto void, and the patron or person entitled to present 
or nominate some clerk thereto, other than the clerk 
who shall have so continued under such sequestration or 
sequestrations. 
RE'SIDENT, adj. [residens, Lat.] Dwelling or having 
abode in any place.—He is not said to be resident in a 
place, who comes thither with a purpose of retiring imme¬ 
diately; so also he is said to be absent, who is absent with 
his family. Ay life. —Fixed.—.The unskilful, unexperienced 
Christian shrieks out whenever his vessel shakes, thinking it 
always in danger, that the watery pavement is not stable and 
resident like a rock. Bp. Taylor. 
RE'SIDENT, s. An agent, minister, or officer residing 
in any distant place with the dignity of an ambassador.— 
The pope fears the English will suffer nothing like a Resident 
or consul in his kingdoms. Addison. 
Residents are a class of public ministers inferior to ambas¬ 
sadors and envoys; but like them, they are under the protec¬ 
tion of the law of nations. 
Resident, Residens, in our ancient customs, was a tenant 
who 
