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RUSHALL, a parish of England, in Norfolk; 4 miles 
west of Harleston. 
RUSHALL, a parish of England, in Staffordshire; 1 mile 
from .Walsall. 
RUSHALL, a hamlet of England, in Wiltshire; 3 miles 
south-west of Pewsey. 
RUSHBROOK, a parish of England, in Suffolk; 4 miles 
south-east of Bury St. Edmund’s. 
RUSHBURY, a parish of England, in Salop; 8 miles 
south-west of MuehWenlock. 
RUSHCARACH, a village of England, in Cornwall, east 
of Padstow Haven. 
RUSHCROW, a village of England, in Cornwall, north¬ 
west of Penryn. 
RUSHDEN, a parish of England, in Hertfordshire; 41- 
miles north w r est of Bantingford. 
RUSHDEN, a parish of England, in Northamptonshire; 
If mile south of Higham Ferrers. Population 858. 
RU'SHED, adj. Abounding with rushes.—Near the 
rush'd marge of Cherwell’s flood. War ton. 
■ RU'SHER, s. One who rushes forward.—They will be 
teachers of the simple before they have been the scholars of 
the wise.—Remit such rushers, not into the church only 
but pulpit, to the philosophy school to be shamed. Whit- 
loch. —One who strewed rushes on the floor, at the dances 
of our ancestors. 
Fidlers, rushers, puppet-masters, 
Jugglers, and gipsies. B. Jonson. 
RUSHFORD, a hamlet of England, in Norfolk, south 
west of East Harling. 
RUSHFORD, a village of England, in Yorkshire, north¬ 
west of Bradford. 
RU'SHINESS, s. State of being full of rushes. 
RU'SHING, s. Any commotion or violent course.—A 
rushing like the rushing of many waters. Isaiah. 
- RUSHLAND, a hamlet of England, in Lancashire ; 5 
miles from Hawkeshead. 
RUSHMERE, a parish of England, in Suffolk; 3 miles 
north-east of Ipswich. 
RUSHMERE, a parish in the above county; 5 miles 
south-west of Lowestoft. 
RUSHOCK, a parish of England, in Worcestershire; 5 
miles west-by-north of Broomsgrove. 
RUSHTON ALL SAINTS AND St. PETER’S, two 
united parishes of England, in Northamptonshire; 3J miles 
north-north-west of Kettering. Population 338. 
RUSHTON, St. James, a hamlet of England, in 
Staffordshire; 7 miles north-west of Leeke. 
RUSHTON, Spencer, another village in the same 
county, about a mile distant from the foregoing. 
RUSHTON, a village of England, in Cheshire ; 3 miles 
from Torperly.—-Also a village in the same county, north¬ 
east of Congleton. 
RUSHTON, a hamlet of England, in Dorsetshire, near 
Wareham.—Also, a village of the same county, east of 
Blandford. 
RUSHULME, a township of England, in Lancashire, 
near Manchester. Population 796. 
RUSHWORTH (John), an useful collector of historical 
matter, was born about 1607, in the county of Northumber¬ 
land. He was for some time a student in the University of 
Oxford, which he quitted without matriculation, and entering 
at Lincoln’s-inn, remained there till he was called to the bar. 
His attachments were to the Parliamentarian and Presby¬ 
terian parties, and in 1640 he was admitted clerk-assistant 
to Mr. Elsynge, clerk of the House of Commons. He was 
much confided in by the House, and during the King’s 
residence at York was employed to convey to him its ad¬ 
dresses and messages, on which occasions he sometimes rode 
from London to that city in 24 hours. For these services he 
received various presents, and was recommended by the 
House to a place in the excise. He took the covenant in 
1643 ; and his relation. Sir Thomas Fairfax, when made 
general of the Parliamentary forces, appointed Rushworth 
Vol. XXII. No. 1514. 
to be his secretary. In this situation he neglected his op¬ 
portunities of making a fortune, but was zealous in perform¬ 
ing his duties, public and private. In 1649 he attended 
Fairfax to Oxford, where he was created M. A. as a member 
of Queen’s-coilege. When Fairfax resigned his commission, 
Rushworth took up his residence in Lincoln’s-inn; and he 
was one of the commissioners nominated by the House of 
Commons in 1652, to reform abuses in the common law. 
At this time he was closely engaged in the compilation of 
his Historical Collections, of which the first part appeared 
in 1649, dedicated to Richard Cromwell, Protector. He 
was then a member of parliament, having been elected repre¬ 
sentative for Berwick-upon-Tweed in 1658. He was chosen 
for the same place in 1660, and was appointed one of the 
clerks of the new council of state. After the Restoration, 
he endeavoured to ingratiate himself with Charles II., by 
presenting to him several of the books of the privy-council 
during the former reign, which he had preserved from de¬ 
struction ; for this service he received the King’s thanks, but 
nothing more. Sir Orlando Bridgman, keeper of the great 
seal, made him his secretary in 1667; and he was again 
elected representative for Berwick in the parliaments of 
1678-9 and 1679, and the subsequent one at Oxford. After 
the dissolution of the latter, having, from carelessness in his 
private affairs, become necessitous, he lived in great obscurity 
in Westminster, still assiduously occupied with his Collec¬ 
tions, of which he published the second part in 1680. He 
was at length arrested for debt, and committed to the King’s- 
Bench prison, in wdiich he was suffered to languish for the 
last six years of his life. His misfortunes threw him into a 
habit of drinking, which impaired his memory and under¬ 
standing previously to his decease, which happened in 1690, 
at the age of 83. 
Rushworth’s “ Historical Collections of private Passages of 
State, weighty Matters in Law, remarkable Proceedings in 
Parliament, &c.” commence in the reign of King James, 
A. D. 1618, and were brought down in hisfirstand second 
parts, published in his lifetime, to 1640. The third and 
fourth parts, printed from his MSS., extend to the death of 
Charles I. in 1648-9. The whole was reprinted uniformly 
in 7 vols. fob, in 1721. Thisisavery laborious compila¬ 
tion, and highly useful in historical enquiries relative to that 
period. That there should be many errors and omissions 
in pieces taken down from speech in short-hand, or copied 
from inaccurate papers, is not extraordinary; but the author 
has undergone the more serious charge of purposely making 
alterations and omissions with the view of serving his party. 
It is certain that his first part was submitted to the revision 
of Cromwell, who, not having time himself to examine it, 
put it into the hands of Whitelock, where it underwent va¬ 
rious alterations. Rushworth himself professes great fidelity 
and impartiality in his work, and gives himself as an example 
that a man may be of a party, yet not partial; and his 
authority has always stood high. 
RU'SHY, adj. Abounding with rushes. 
By the rushy-ihxigeA bank, 
Where grows the willow, and the ozier dank. Milton. 
Made of rushes.—What knight like him could toss the 
rushy lance. Tichell. 
RUSHY FORD, a hamlet of England, in the county of 
Durham, where the petty sessions are held ; 9 miles south- 
by-west of Durham, and 253 north-by-west of London. 
RUSIB1S PORTUS, a port of Africa, in Mauritania 
Tingitana, between the mouth of the riv*r Cosa and that of 
Asatna, according to Ptolemy. It is called Rutuhis Portus 
by Pliny. 
RUSICADA, Sgigata, a town of Africa, according to 
Mela and Ptolemy. It was situated towards the middle of 
the gulf of Numidia, about 30 miles east of Collops Magnus. 
In the Itinerary of Antonine, this town is placed in Mauri¬ 
tania Caesariensis, upon the route from Carthage to Leninx, 
between Chuli Municipium and Paratiante. Here are some 
remains of antiquity. Its cisterns serve as a corn maga¬ 
zine. 
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