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neighbourhood is noted for its excellent wine; 21 miles south¬ 
west of Dijon. 
SAVIGNY, a small town in the north-west of France, 
department of La Manche, with 1200 inhabitants; 6 miles 
east of Coutances. 
SAVIGNY, a small town in the south-east of France, 
department of the Rhone; 3 miles south-west of Arbrele. 
SAVIGNY SUR BRAY, a large village near the central 
part of France, department of the Loire and Cher; 14 miles 
north-by-west of Vendome. Population 2600. 
SAVIGNY SUR SEILLE, a small town in the east of 
France, in Burgundy noted for its wine; 25 miles north-by¬ 
east of Macon. 
SAVILLA, St., a town of the state of Georgia; 64 miles 
south of Savannah. 
SAVILLE (Henry), an eminent scholar, was born of a 
good family, at Over-Bradley, near Halifax, in 1549. He 
was admitted of Merton College, Oxford, where he dis¬ 
tinguished himself for his classical and mathematical 
knowledge. He was elected a fellow of his college, and 
in 1570 took his degree of M. A., after which he read a 
mathematical lecture in the university. He served as proctor 
for two years, and then made a tour to the continent, in 
which he acquired several foreign languages, and improved 
himself in his knowledge of the world. Upon his return, 
he was appointed preceptor in the Greek language to queen 
Elizabeth. In 1581 he published a translation of the first 
four books of Tacitus, with the life of Agricola, accom¬ 
panied with notes, which were afterwards translated into the 
Latin language by Gruter, and published at Amsterdam. 
He was elected warden of Merton College in 1585, which 
office he held for thirty-six years. In 1596 he enriched the 
literature of his country by publishing a collection of the 
best of its ancient historians and chroniclers, to which he 
subjoined chronological tables of the kings and bishops of 
England from the time of Julius Caesar to William I. In 
the course of this same year he was nominated, by favour of 
the queen, provost of Eton College. It was during the reign 
of king James that he received the honour of knighthood. 
About this period he lost his only son, and having now no 
hopes of raising his family, he devoted his time and fortune 
from henceforward to the encouragement of literature. He 
set up a Greek press at Eton, from which, at the expense of 
8000/. and after the labour of several years, he sent forth an 
edition of all the works of Chrysostom, in 8 vols. folio, 
which is still esteemed as one of the most elegant and correct 
Greek books that has come from the English press. He 
also printed an edition of Xenophon’s Cyropmdia, and other 
works. He was a great benefactor to the university of Ox¬ 
ford, and in 1619 founded two professorships, one of geo¬ 
metry, and the other of astronomy, and endowed each with a 
salary of 180/. per annum; and he gave at his death a legacy 
of 600/. to purchase more lands for the same use. He also 
furnished a library with mathematical books for the use of 
Iris professors, and gave 100/. to the mathematical chest of 
his own appointment. He gave 120/. towards new-building 
the schools, besides several rare manuscripts and printed 
books to the Bodleian library, and a good quantity of Greek 
types to the printing-press at Oxford. After a life thus 
nobly spent in the encouragement of literature and science, 
he died at Eton College, on the 19th of February, 1622, and 
was buried in the chapel there. Upon this occasion, the 
university of Oxford, paid him the greatest honours, by 
having a public speech and verses made in his praise, which 
were published under the title of “ Ultima Linea Savilii.” 
The highest encomiums were bestowed on Saville by all the 
learned of his time; by Casaubon, Mercerus, Meibomius, 
Joseph Scaliger, and especially by the learned bishop Mon¬ 
tague, who styles him “ that magazine of learning, whose 
memory shall be honourable among not only the learned, 
but the righteous, for ever.” 
SAVILLE (Sir George), afterwards marquis of Halifax, 
and one of the most considerable statesmen of his time, was 
born about the year 1630, and some time after his return 
from his travels he was created a peer, in consideration of 
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his own and his father’s merits. At the close of the reign 
of Charles II. he strenuously opposed the bill of exclusion; 
but proposed such limitations of the duke of York’s autho¬ 
rity, as should effectually prevent him doing any harm. In 
1682 he was created a marquis, and soon after he was made 
privy seal; but upon his refusal to consent to the repeal of 
the test, he was dismissed from all public employments. In 
that assembly of the lords which met after king James’s ac¬ 
cession, he was made president, and upon the kiug’s return 
from Feversham, he was sent, together with the earl of 
Shrewsbury and lord Delamere, from the prince of Orange, 
to desire his majesty to quit the palace at Whitehall. In the 
convention parliament he was chosen speaker of the house 
of lords, and strenuously supported the motion for the va¬ 
cancy of the throne, and the conjunctive sovereignty of the 
prince and princess, upon whose accession he was again made 
privy seal. In 1689 he quitted the court, and became a 
steadfast opposer of the measures of government till his 
death, which happened in April, 1695. Grainger speaks of 
him as “ a person of unsettled principles, and a lively ima¬ 
gination, which sometimes got the better of his judgment. 
He was deservedly celebrated for his parliamentary talents; 
and, in the famous contest relating to the bill of exclusion, 
was thought to be a match for his uncle Shaftesbury. The 
pieces he has left us shew him to have been an ingenious, 
if not a masterly writer; and his ‘Advice to a Daughter’ 
contains more good sense in fewer words, than is, perhaps, 
to be found in any of his contemporary authors.” His 
other principal works are, “ The Anatomy of an Equiva¬ 
lent;” “A Letter to a Dissenter” “A rough Draught 
of a new Model at Sea,” and “ Maxims of State.” These 
have all been printed in one volume octavo. Under his name 
have also appeared the character of king Charles II., the 
character of bishop Burnet, and historical observations upon 
the reigns of Edward I. II. III. and Richard II., with re¬ 
marks upon their faithful counsellors and false favourites. 
SAVILLE (Sir George), a public-spirited and truly pa¬ 
triotic English baronet and senator, was descended from the 
Savilles, marquisses of Halifax. He distinguished himself by 
his opposition to the American war, a contest which was but 
the beginning of those miseries in which this country has so 
long been involved. He brought into parliament a bill to re¬ 
peal the penal statutes against the Roman Catholics, for 
which his person w'as insulted, and his house destroyed by an 
abandoned rabble, during the infamous riots of June, 1780. 
He was a most zealous friend to parliamentary reform, and en¬ 
couraged the efforts of the late Mr. Pitt on that subject, who, 
as well as himself, thought the salvation of the country de¬ 
pended upon it. He was also one of the committee ap¬ 
pointed by different counties in England to obtain this de¬ 
sirable measure ; and it appears from his answer to an address 
of thanks presented to him in January, 1780, that he had 
some small hopes of success: I most heartily wish,” says he, 
“ nay, I will venture to entertain some hope, that the voice 
of a complaining people will be attended to; and that every 
beneficial consequence may ensue which the most sanguine 
can promise themselves from an application so constitution¬ 
ally and temperately made.” But at the dissolution of par¬ 
liament in the following autumn, he speaks in a very de¬ 
sponding tone: after giving an account of his conduct in 
parliament to his constituents, the freeholders of York, and 
of the miserable state of the country, he says, in offering 
himself a candidate for their suffrages, “I return to you, 
therefore, baffled and dispirited, and I am sorry that truth 
obliges me to add, with hardly a ray of hope of seeing any 
change in the miserable course of public calamities.” He 
was re-elected, and continued to exert himself in the great 
cause of his country, till May, 1783, when, though ex¬ 
tremely ill, he attended in the house to support a motion 
made by Mr. Pitt for parliamentary reform, and zealously 
entered into the debate, to which it appears his strength was 
unequal, and he very soon desired leave to vacate his seat, 
being incompetent to perform his duties. 
SAV'IN, s. [sabina, Lat.] A tree.—It hath compact, 
rigid, and prickly ever-green leaves: the fruit is small, 
spherical, 
