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who confirmed to them not only all the ancient rights and 
privileges of the mariners of England, but also their several 
possessions: which, together with various grants of queen 
Elizabeth and king Charles II., were confirmed by letters 
patent of the 1st of James II. in 1685 ; under the name of 
the master, wardens, and assistants of the guild or fraternity 
of the most glorious and- undivided Trinity, and of St. Cle¬ 
ment in the parish of Deptford Strand, in the county of 
Kent. 
This corporation is governed by a master, four wardens, 
eight assistants, and eighteen elder brethren: the inferior 
members of the fraternity, denominated younger brethren, 
and chosen among the masters and mates expert in naviga¬ 
tion, are of an unlimited number, and serve for supplying 
vacancies among the thirty-one elder brethren. The master, 
&c. of this corporation, are invested by charter with a power 
to examine the mathematical children of Christ’s Hospital; 
to examine the masters of his Majesty’s ships; to appoint 
pilots for conducting ships in and out of the river Thames; 
and to amerce such as shall act as masters or pilots without 
their approbation in a fine of 20/.; to settle the several rates 
of pilotage, and erect light-houses, and other sea-marks, on 
the several coasts of the kingdom, for the security of navi¬ 
gation ; to prevent aliens from serving on board English 
ships, without their licence, under penalty of 51. for each 
offence; to punish seamen for desertion or mutiny in the 
merchant service; to hear and determine the complaints of 
officers and seamen in this service, under an appeal to the 
Court of Admiralty; and to grant licences to poor seamen 
(non-freemen) to row on the river Thames. 
To this company belongs the ballast-office, for cleaning 
and deepening the river Thames, by taking from it a suffi¬ 
cient quantity of ballast for the supply of all ships that sail 
out of the river; in which service sixty barges, of the burden 
of thirty tons, and two men each, are constantly employed : 
all ships taking in ballast pay to them \2cl. a ton. 
This corporation is empowered by charter to purchase 
lands, &c. to the amount of 500/. per annum, and also to 
receive charitable benefactions to the like amount. They 
have also light-houses, to which all ships pay a halfpenny 
per ton. 
Out of the income of this corporation, about three thou¬ 
sand poor seamen, their widows and orphans, are annually 
relieved, at the expense of about 6000/. 
The house in which the brethren of this corporation usually 
meet for the dispatch of business, is on Tower-Hill. They 
have three hospitals, two at Deptford, and one at Mile-End, 
which last is designed for decayed sea-officers, masters of 
vessels, pilots, and their widows. 
TRINITY INLET, a bay of the North Pacific ocean, on 
the west coast of North America; 30 miles south of Queen 
Charlotte’s Sound. 
TRINITY ISLAND, an island in the North Pacific ocean, 
discovered by Captain Cook, situated in lat. 56. 33. N. 
long. 206. 47. E. 
TRI'NKET, s. [trinquetum , a game at tables, as trick¬ 
track, draughts, or chess; whence trinquet or trinket, 
might be applied to one of the marks or figures used in the 
game, and thence to any toy.] Toys; ornaments of dress; 
superfluities of decoration.—They throng who should buy 
first, as if my trinkets had been hallowed. Shakspeare .— 
Things of no great value; tackle; tools.—Go with all your 
servants and trinkets about you. L’Estrange. 
To TRI'NKET, v. n. To give trinkets.—By their tricks 
and trinket ting between party and party, and their intriguing 
it with courtiers and court-ladies, they had upon the matter 
set the whole court together by the ears. South. 
TRINO, a town in the north-west of Italy, in Piedmont, 
situated on the Po, at the confluence of the small river 
Astura. Its population is about 5500, and its only buildings 
worth notice are the churches; 10 miles east-by-north of 
Casale, and 28 east-north-east of Turin. 
TR1NOBANTES, Trinouantes, or Trinovantes, 
in Ancient Geography, were inhabitants of Britain, situated 
next to the Cantii northward, and occupied, according to 
Camden and Baxter, that country which now composes the 
counties of Essex and Middlesex, and some part of Surrey. 
But if Ptolemy be not mistaken, their territories were “not 
so extensive in his time, as London did not then belong to 
them. The name of this British nation seems to be derived 
from the three following British words; Tri, Now, Hant, 
which signify the inhabitants of the new city. This name 
was perhaps given them by their neighbours, on account of 
their having newly come from the continent into Britain, 
and having there founded a city called Tri-Now, or the New 
City, the most ancient name of the renowned metropolis of 
Britain. The Trinobantes had come so lately from Belgium, 
that they seem hardly to have been firmly established in Bri¬ 
tain, at the time of the first Roman invasion. For their new 
city, which soon after became so famous, was then so incon¬ 
siderable, that it is not mentioned by Caesar, though he must 
have been within sight of the place where it was situated. 
They were then at war with their neighbours, the Cattivel- 
launi, whose king, Cassibelanus, commanded the confede¬ 
rated Britons against the Romans; and, on this account, the 
Trinobantes were amongst the first of the British states who 
deserted that confederacy and submitted to Caesar. They 
submitted again to the Romans, on their next invasion in the 
reign of Claudius, with the same facility, and almost for the 
same reason. For, in the interval between the invasion of 
Julius and that of Claudius, the Cattivellauni had reduced 
them under their obedience; and, in order to emancipate 
themselves from this subjection to their neighbours, they put 
themselves under the protection of the Romans. But the 
Trinobantes soon became weary of their obedience to their 
new masters. For the Roman colony at Camulodunum, 
which was within their territories, depriving some of them 
of their estates, and oppressing them several other ways, they 
joined in the great revolt of the Britons under Boadicea, and 
shared very deeply in the miseries of that revolt. From that 
time the Trinobantes remained in peaceable subjection to 
the Romans, as long as they continued in Britain. The 
country of the Trinobantes was greatly valued and much fre¬ 
quented by the Romans, on account of the excellence of its 
soil and climate, and the many advantages of its situation. 
That sagacious people soon fixed their eyes on the new town 
of the Trinobantes; and observing its admirable situation for 
health, for pleasure, and for trade, great numbers of them 
settled in it, and giving it the name of Londinium from its 
situation, and of Augusta from its grandeur, it became in a 
little time the largest and most opulent city in this island. 
In the reign of Nero, as Tacitus informs us, London was be¬ 
come a city highly famous for the great conflux of mer¬ 
chants, her extensive commerce, and plenty of all things. 
No fewer than seven of the fourteen journies of Antoninus 
begin or end at London; a plain proof, among many 
others, that this city was the capital of Britain in the Ro¬ 
man times, as it is at present the great and flourishing 
metropolis of the British empire. Camulodunum, now Mal¬ 
den in Essex, was the seat of the first Roman colony in Bri¬ 
tain, and a place of great beauty and magnificence in these 
times; though at present few or no vestiges of its ancient 
grandeur remain. Cmsaromagus, from its pompous name, 
was probably a place of some note in the Roman times; but 
it is now so entirely ruined, that it is difficult to discover the 
ground where it once stood; some of our antiquaries placing 
it at Chelmsford, and others at Dunmow. The Colonia of 
Antoninus was probably Colchester, and Durolitum, as some 
think, Leiton, but, according to others, Waltham. But 
though the county of Essex was certainly very much fre¬ 
quented by the Romans, who erected many noble works in 
it, yet time, cultivation, and various accidents, have made 
so great a change in the face of that country, that very few 
vestiges of these works are now remaining. The territories 
of the Trinobantes were included in that Roman province 
which was called Britannia Prima. 
TRINOMALEE, a town and fortress of the south of 
India, province of the Carnatic. It is situated on a moun¬ 
tain, 
