Volume 2

The great historical, geographical, genealogical and poetical dictionary; being a curious miscellany of sacred and prophane history. Containing, in short, the lives and most remarkable actions of the patriarchs, judges, and kings of the Jews; of the apostles, fathers, and doctors of the church; of popes, cardinals, bishops, &c. ... Together with the establishment and progress both of religious and military orders, and the lives of their founders. As also, the fabulous history of the heathen gods and heroes. The description of empires, kingdoms, commonwealths, provinces, cities, towns, islands, mountains ... The whole being full of remarks and curious enquiries, for the illustration of several difficulties in theology, history, chronology and geography. Collected from the best historians, chronologers, and lexicographers ... but more especially out of Lewis Morery, D.D. his eighth edition corrected and enlarged by Monsieur Le Clerc; in two volumes in folio. To which are added, by way of supplement, inter-mix'd throughout the alphabet, the lives, most remarkable actions, and writings of several illustrious families of our English, Scotch and Irish nobility, and gentry, and most famous men of all professions, arts and sciences: as also, an exact description of these kingdoms; with the most considerable occurrences that have happened to this present time / [Louis Moréri].

  • Moréri, Louis, 1643-1680.
Date:
1701
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Credit: The great historical, geographical, genealogical and poetical dictionary; being a curious miscellany of sacred and prophane history. Containing, in short, the lives and most remarkable actions of the patriarchs, judges, and kings of the Jews; of the apostles, fathers, and doctors of the church; of popes, cardinals, bishops, &c. ... Together with the establishment and progress both of religious and military orders, and the lives of their founders. As also, the fabulous history of the heathen gods and heroes. The description of empires, kingdoms, commonwealths, provinces, cities, towns, islands, mountains ... The whole being full of remarks and curious enquiries, for the illustration of several difficulties in theology, history, chronology and geography. Collected from the best historians, chronologers, and lexicographers ... but more especially out of Lewis Morery, D.D. his eighth edition corrected and enlarged by Monsieur Le Clerc; in two volumes in folio. To which are added, by way of supplement, inter-mix'd throughout the alphabet, the lives, most remarkable actions, and writings of several illustrious families of our English, Scotch and Irish nobility, and gentry, and most famous men of all professions, arts and sciences: as also, an exact description of these kingdoms; with the most considerable occurrences that have happened to this present time / [Louis Moréri]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    famous Authors. Eufebius in Chron. S. Auguftin de C'vOitat. Dei, lib. 18. cap. 36. S. Cyril in Malac. cap. l. Sixtus Senenfis Bi- blioth. lib. i. Bell an,min de Script. Eccl. Sc. MALACHY, Archbifhop of Ardmagh in Ireland, lived in the Xllth. Century. He is famous for his Holinefs, pre¬ tended Miracles, and for his Acquaintance with St. Bernard. He was firft a Monk in the Abby of Bercor, and then Arch- bilhop of Ardmagh. He quitted his Archbilhoprick to be an Inferior Prelate in the Church of Downe. Pope Innocent II. eflecmed him much, and expreffed it when this Prelate vific- ed him at Rome. He died in 1148. at Clairvaux, in St. Ber¬ nard's Arms, who made his Funeral Panegyrick in a Ihort Draught of his Life. He had alfo written three Epiftles to him, vi%. the 315th. the 316th. and the 317th. He is faid to be the Author of the Prophecies concerning the Charafters of the Popes, from Coeleftine II. whom he charafierifes by thefe Words, Ex Caftro Tyberis, becaufe this Pope, whofe Name was Guy du Cafter, was born in a Caflle upon Tyber. He writ fome other Books befides. S. Bernard in his Life. Baronius in Annal. fy Martyr. Ciaconius in Vit. Pontif. Balms de Script. Angl. MALAGA, or Malgue, a Sea-Port Town of Spain, in the Kingdom of Granada , near the River Guadalquivir. It is famous for good Wines, and two forts. The Phoenicians are reported to have firfl built it, long before the Birth of Chrift ; Strabo, Pliny, and other ancient Authors, mention it often. Here is a Bilhop’s See, formerly Suffragan to Seville, and now to Granada. Strabo, lib. 3. Pliny, lib. 5. cap. 2. Merula, Ma¬ riana, (fyc. There was formerly a great Trade of Salt-Fiih and Flelh,according to Strabo-, whence came the Name of Malaca, from the Phoenician Word Malach, to fait. It was taken from the Moors by Ferdinand and Ifabella, after a long Siege, in 1487. In 1661. an Inundation of the River drowned 2000 Men, car¬ ried away 1060 Houfes, and rendred 3000 more uninhabitable. Boch. Canaan, lib. 1. cap. 34. MALAGUETTE, or Managuet, the Weftern Part ot Guinea, about 60 Leagues in length; extending from the Ri¬ ver Sanguin to the Cape of Palmu. It is noted for its Pepper- Trade. It was firft planted by the French, and afterwards by the Portuguefe, Englifh, and Dutch. MALAISES, a People in the Kingdom of Malaca, in the Peninfula of Indus, beyond the Gulf of Bengala. A great Number of them have fettled themfelves in the Kingdom of Siam. They are Mahometans; but there is fome difference between their Religion , and that of the Turks and Perfians. They are good Soldiers, and great Robbers. Mandeflo. Olea- rius, Tom. 2. MALAPERT ftCharlesJ a Jefuit, born at Mons in Hai- nault. He read with Reputation at Dduay, and writ many Pieces, both in Profe and Verfe. He was an excellent Ma¬ thematician. Fie died at Madrid in Spain, Nov. 1. 1530. He left thefe Works behind him: De Ventis, lib. 2. Comment, in lib. 6. prior es Euclidis. Element a Geometries.. Inftitutiones Arithmetics. Prallies. Auftriaca. Sidera Heliocyclica, fyc. Ale- gambe Bibliot. Soc. Jef. Valerius Andreas Bibl. Belg. fyc. MALATESTA, (Sigifmundus) Lord of Rimini, was ve¬ ry famous in the XVth. Century. He was a Philofopher and Hiftorian, a great Soldier, and one of the mofl famous Com¬ manders of his Age. But thefe good Qualities were over- Ihadowed by very ill ones: He was impious, ridicul’d Religi¬ on , he denied the Immortality of the Soul, and ftuck at no¬ thing to ferve his Interefl and Ambition. Such a Behaviour offended the Pope, fo that Pius II. excommunicated him in 1462. which cooled his Temper in fome meafure. Malatefta, together with Francis Sforga , routed Antonio Ordelaffi, Lord of Forli. Sigifmond made War againft his Neighbours, and got always the better of them. Afterwards the Venetians made him their General: He paffed into the Morea, and took Sparta, and fome other Places, from the Infidels. Being re¬ turned, he was made General of the Siennefes and Florentines.- Then he made War againft Pope Pius II. but he was not fuc- cefsful in ii. He died OItob.6. 1467. being 51 Years old. He left many Children; among the reft, Robert Malatefta, a famous Commander in his Time. He was General to the Ve¬ netians : Then he commanded Pope Sixtus IV’s Army, againft Alphonfus, King of Naples, and his other Allies, whom he routed in 1482. Jeronymo Riarco is reported to have poi- foned him a little time after, for he died in 1483. The Pope commanded a Statue on Horfeback to be erefted for him in St. Peter's Church. The Malatefta's Family was both Famous and Potent: Several Heads of it have commanded at Pefaro and Rimini-, and in this laft City the Malateftas maintained themfelves above 200 Years. Pope Clement VII. took it from Pandolpho Malatefta, who died poor at Ferrara. Mar chefeUi <fy Sanfovino Orig. de Famig. d'ltal. Pius II. in Comment. Gui- chardini. Paulus Jovius, lye. M A L A X E ft John J lived at Conftantinople in 1578. his Mifery and Poverty appear by thefe Words, written from Conftantinople, to Martinus Crufius , by Gerlach: (Malaxe, faith he, is very old; he teaches Children in a pitiful Cottage, where I faw fome few dry Fifties , which were all his Pittance. He copies Books, and with the Money he buyeth Wine; and fori all that he is in very good Health.J Three Years after, the fame Man affirms that he was Dead. He writ The Patriar¬ chal Hiftory of Conftantinople, in Greek-, which Father Labbi hath printed with The Byzantine Hiftory. Voffius de Hill. Grsc. MALCHUS, a Sophift of Byzantium, according to Suidat and Philadelphus. As Photius faith, he lived in the Vth. Century, under Anaftafius the Emperor. The fame Photius faith , That he had read Seven Books of his Hiftory, which began at the 17th. Year of the Empire of Leo, and ended at Nepos's Death. He praifes him for the Purity and Elegancy of his Stile; and commends him, as a Model of a perfeft Hiftorian. Suidas faith, that his whole Hiftory began at Con- Jlantine, and ended at Anaftafius. Photius in Biblioth. cap. 78. Suidas. Voffius de Hft. Gulc. lib. 2. cap. 21. Gefnerus in Bi¬ blioth. lyc. M A L C O I. M: See Milcolumbus. MALDERUS ft JamesJ Bifhop of Antwerp, was Born at a Village near Bruxels, in 1563. He profefs’d Divinity, and read in that Faculty with Reputation at Bruxels, Doway, and Lorrain. He wrote fome Trafts of Divinity upon Aqui¬ nas's Summs. De Abufu Reftrillionum Mentalium. Commentaria in Cantica Canticorum. De Sigillo Confeffionis Sacrament alls, <fyc. Mir ms, Valer. Andr. Bibl. Belg. <(yc. MALDIVES, fome Illands of Afia , in the Indian Sea. They lie near one another in 13 Clufters, called Atollons, di¬ vided by Currants and Streights. Thefe are the Names of the 13 Colleftions, which extend from North to South, 350 or 300 Leagues; Trillad, or Alachis, which the Portuguefe call Cabexade las Ilhas-, Milladove, Madove, Padipola, Malos- Madou, Ari-Atollon, Male-Atollon , where is Male, the Chief of the Maldives; Polifdou, Moluque, Nillandoux, Collomadoux, Adoumatis, Sovadou, Addou, and Pove-Moluque. The two laft are counted but for one; and all of them have a King, who commonly keeps his Court at Male. The Air of thefe Blands is not exceflive hot, though they be under the Line, becaufe of the long Nights; during which there fall Dews that allay the Heat of the Day. Here are fine Tortoiles, Black Coral, Amber-Greafe, fyc. See Francis Pyrard’s Defcrip. of the Maid. Maffeus's Hiftory of the Indies. Linfchot's Voyage into the In¬ dies, fyc. Thefe Iflands have their Name from two Words, vi^. Male, and Dive: The firft is the Name of the Chief Ifland; and the fecond, in the Language of the Country, fig- nifieth an Ifland. They were difeovered in 1507. That Parc of the Sea is called by Mariners, The Sea of the Maldives. Some reckon above 12000 of thole Illands, but the Number is not certainly known; they making up an Archipel-, or an Heap of Iflands, fo confufed, that very often a Rock or Shelf is taken for an Ifland. They lie upon a ftruight Line. The 13 Atollons are divided by 12 great Streights; and the Iflands are parted by fmall Chanels, where the Sea is very ftullow. The Air of thefe Iflands is generally dangerous to Strangers; and the putrefied Waters of fo many Chanels exhale ftinking Vapours, which, together with the Unwholefomnefs of their frelh Waters, caufe Peftilential Fevers. There are alfo fo many Crocodiles between thofe Atollons, that it is not fafe to go into the Water. Thofe People are generally thought to have come from the Ifland Ceilan. They are of an Olive- Tawny Complexion , and of a low, but well proportioned Shape. Moll: of them go all naked , except what Modefty makes them cover. None but the King and Soldiers are al¬ lowed to wear long Hair. They are ingenious, and apply themfelves to Phyfick and Aftrology. Thefe Iflands bear no Wheat,nor Rice; but Honey, Pomegranates, Limons, Oranges, and Cacoa or Indian Nuts. The Tree that bears them is the moft ufeful of all others: It fupplies Juices and Liquors-, which being prepared feveral Ways, or drawn in feveral Sea- fons of the Year , makes Oil, Wine, Butter, Milk, or Sugar : The Fruit is an Almond, which they make Bread withal: The Leaves they make Writing-Paper of: And of the Trunck they make Houfes and Ships. There are alfo white Shells in thofe Iflands, fo pretty, that they pafs for current Coin in feveral Parts of the Continent of the Indies. The Mahometan Religion is profdfed there: And when an Blander hath made a Voyage to Mecha, he is privileged to wear a long Beard, as a Token of his Hoiinefs. All thefe Iflands are Hereditary, and the Succeffion is incailed upon the Males, excluding the Females. The chief Revenue of the King is, the Fifth Part of all the Fruics, and the Confifeation of all the Wrecks. His Titles are, Sultan King of 13 Provinces, and 12c00 Iflands. Pyrard’s Voyages. M A LDO N, Lat. Camalodunum, a Town in Dengy Hundred in Ejfcx, fituate upon the River Chelmer, about Seven Miles from the Sea, between which, and it, lie two fmall Iflands, called Northey and Ofey. This was the Royal Seat of Cunebe- Linus, a Britifh Prince, who lived in the Times of Tiberius and Caligula, to whom one of his Sons tied. Aulus Plautius, the Roman General, in Claudius's Reign, fought Caralh.cus, ano¬ ther of his Sons, and flew him in Battel. Claudius, coming over into Britain in Pcrfon, in the Third Year of his Reign , and An. Ch. 43. made himfelf Mafter of this City, and was therefore called Britannicus. He made it a Roman Colony, planting in it a Regiment of Old Soldiers, and ordered Money to be Coin’d with this Infcription, Col Cama Lodun. This City /