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the chief manufacture carried on in the town is that of stock¬ 
ing frame-work knitting, particularly in cotton. A consider¬ 
able trade is also carried on in malting, and some business in 
the making of nails. Tewkesbury was incorporated by a 
charter granted by queen Elizabeth, and aonfirmed by James 
I.; but in the reign of James II., the corporate officers sur¬ 
rendered their seal to that monarch, who in his second year 
re-incorporated them by the names of the mayor, aldermen, 
and common council. The revolution which immediately 
followed prevented the charter from being carried into effect, 
and the town remained in a state of uncertainty as to its 
government till the 13th of William III., when the present 
form was ordained. By this the government of the town is 
vested in two bailiffs and four justices, annually chosen, and 
a recorder. The corporate body consists of 24 principal 
burgesses, and the same number of assistants; but as each 
principal burgess holds also the office of assistant, the mem¬ 
bers of the corporation are now uniformly confined to 24 
persons, instead of 48, as formerly. The town sends two 
members to parliament, the privilege of which was obtained 
from James I. in 1609. The right of election is possessed by 
the freemen and freeholders, who amount to about 500. It 
was at Tewkesbury that the last battle was fought between 
the adherents of the houses of York and Lancaster. This 
battle, it is well known, proved fatal to the Lancastrians. 
The field on which it was fought is still called the Bloody 
Meadow, and is situated about half a mile from the town. 
In the civil wars in the reign of Charles I., Tewkesbury was 
the scene of many severe contests between the contending 
forces. Markets on Wednesday and Saturday, and various 
annual fairs; 10 miles north of Gloucester, and 102 west- 
north-west of London. Lat. 51. 59. N. long. 2. 8. W. 
TEWKESBURY, a township of Lower Canada, in the 
county of Quebec, on the north side of the St. Lawrence, 
except a small part, which is in the county of Northumber¬ 
land. 
TEWKSBURY, a post township of the United States, in 
Middlesex county, Massachusetts, 23 miles north of Boston. 
Population 943. 
TEWKSBURY, a township of the United States, in 
Hunterdon county. New Jersey. Population 1308. 
To TE'WTAW, v. a. [formed from tew by reduplica¬ 
tion.] To beat; to break.—The method and way of wa¬ 
tering, pilling, breaking, and tewtawing of hemp and flax, 
is a particular business. Mortimer. 
TEXAS, a track of country of North America, claimed 
by the United States, as a part of Louisiana, and by Spain 
as a part of the Internal Provinces, and included in the 
intendancy of San Louis Potosi. It is bounded north by 
Red river, east by the state of Louisiana, south by the gulf 
of Mexico, and west by the Del Norte; containing up¬ 
wards of 100,000 square miles. 
TEXEL, an island of the Netherlands, at the entrance of 
Zuyder Zee, separated from the continent of North Holland 
by the narrow channel called the Mars-diep. Its form is 
oblong ; 12 miles in length, and about 6 in breadth. It is 
secured from the sea by strong dikes. Its soil is well fitted 
for sheep-pasture, and it has long been noted for its cheese. 
Besides the petty town of Texel, it contains six villages, and 
has in all about 5000 inhabitants. 
TEXMELUCAN, a settlement of Mexico, in the intend¬ 
ancy of Mexico, containing 150 families of Spaniards, mes¬ 
tizoes, and mulattoes, and 94 Indians.—There is another 
settlement of the same name in the same intendancy, con¬ 
taining 91 families of Indians. 
TEXT, s. [texte, Fr.; textus, Lat.] That on which a 
comment is written. 
We expect your next 
Should be no comment but a text, 
To tell how modern beasts are vext. Waller. 
A sentence of Scripture. 
In religion 
What errour but some sober brow 
Will bless it, and approve it with a text. Shakspeare. 
T E Y 
To TEXT, v. a. To write as a text. 
Indifferent judges might condemn me for 
A most malicious slanderer, nay text it 
Upon my forehead. Beaum. and FI. 
TEXT-HAND, s. A particular kind of large hand¬ 
writing : so called, because formerly the text was ever written 
in a large hand, and the comment in small. Pegge. 
Once she writ only text-hand, when 
She scribbled giants, and no men. Cleaveland. 
TE'XTILE, adj. [t ex tills, Lat.] Woven; capable of 
being woven.—The placing of the tangible parts in length 
or transverse, as in the warp and woof of textiles. Bacon. 
—The materials of them were not from any herb, as other 
textiles, but from a stone called amiantus. Wilkins. 
TE'XTMAN, s. A man ready in quotation of texts.— 
Men’s daily occasions require the doing of a thousand things, 
which it would puzzle the best textman readily to bethink 
himself of a sentence in the Bible, clear enough to satisfy a 
scrupulous conscience of the lawfulness of. Sanderson. 
TEXTO'RIAL, adj. [ textorius, Lat.] Belonging to 
weaving.—From the cultivation of the textorial arts among 
the orientals came Darius’s wonderful cloth. Warton. 
TE'XTRINE, adj. [textrina, Lat.] Relating to weaving. 
—It is a wonderful artifice how newly hatched maggots, not 
the parent animal, because she emits no web, nor hath any 
textrine art, can convolve the stubborn leaf, and bind it 
with the thread it weaves from its body. Derliam. 
TEX'TUAL, adj. [textuel, Fr.] Contained in the text. 
—They seek to rout and disarray the wise and well-couched 
order of St. Paul’s own words, using a certain textual riot 
to chop off the hands of the word presbytery. Milton. — 
Serving for texts.—Here shall your majestie find—specula¬ 
tion interchanged with experience, positive theology with 
polemical, textual with discursorie. Bp. Hall. 
TE'XTUALIST, s. One ready in citing texts.—How 
nimble textualists and grammarians for the tongue the 
rabbins are, their comments can witness. But, as in 
Chaucer, “ the greatest clerks are not the wisest men;” so, 
among them, these that are so great textualists are not best 
at the text. Light foot. 
TE'XTUARY, adj. Contained in the text.—He extends 
the exclusion unto twenty days, which in the texiuary 
sense is fully accomplished in one. Brown. —Serving as a 
text; authoritative.—I see no ground why his reason should 
be textuary to ours, or that God intended him an universal 
headship. Glanville. 
TE'XTUARIST, or Te'xtuary, s. [ textuaire, Fr.] 
One ready in the text of Scripture ; a divine well versed in 
Scripture.—Common textuaries abolish laws, as the rabble 
demolish images; in the zeal of their hammers oft violating 
the sepulchres of good men. Milton. 
TE'XTUIST, s. One ready in quotation of texts.—I 
remember the little that our Saviour could prevail about this 
doctrine of charity against the crabbed textuists of his time. 
Milton. 
TE'XTURE, s. \tcxture, Fr., Cotgrave ; textus, Lat.] 
The act of weaving.—Skins, although "a natural habit unto 
all before the invention of texture , was something more unto 
Adam. Brown. —A web; a thing woven. 
Others, far in the grassy dale, 
Their humble texture weave. Thomson. 
Manner of weaving with respect either to form or matter. 
—A veil of richest texture wrought she wears. Pope. — 
Disposition of the parts of bodies; combination of parts. 
Spirits—nor in their liquid texture mortal wound 
Receive, no more than can the fluid air. Milton. 
TEXUPA, a settlement of Mexico, in the province of 
Oaxaca, which contains 192 families of Indians, and some 
of Spaniards, mestizoes and mulattoes. 
TEY, They, or Teise, a small river of England, in 
Sussex, which runs into the Beala. 
TEY, Great, a parish of England, in the county of 
Essex 
