. Encyclopaedia; or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature; constructed on a plan, by which the different sciences and arts are digested into the form of distinct treatises of . fterward ofFulkc Grcvil, lord Brook ; who having an excellenttade for poetry, was much with hiin. Hegot grca; edeemby writing poems and plays ; and up-on the death of Ben Johnfon was created wrote his poem Gondibcrt at Paris. Ke formeda dcfign for carrying over a confiderable immbcr of -, .artifieers, efpecialiy weavers, to Virginia, by the en- couragemcnt of He
. Encyclopaedia; or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature; constructed on a plan, by which the different sciences and arts are digested into the form of distinct treatises of . fterward ofFulkc Grcvil, lord Brook ; who having an excellenttade for poetry, was much with hiin. Hegot grca; edeemby writing poems and plays ; and up-on the death of Ben Johnfon was created wrote his poem Gondibcrt at Paris. Ke formeda dcfign for carrying over a confiderable immbcr of -, .artifieers, efpecialiy weavers, to Virginia, by the en- couragemcnt of Henrietta Maria, the quetn-mother ofEngland, who obtained leave for him of the king of1- ranee. But he and his company were feizcd by fomepiiliament Ikips, and he carrir;! prifoneriird to the iTieof^^?ight, and then to the Tower of London ; hit, bythe Mediation ot Milton and others, he get his libertyas fl prifoner at large. At this time tragedies and beinJ prohibited, he contrived to fet up an O-pera, to be performed by decUmations and niulic. This *Italian opera began in KHiL-nd-hoale in Charter-honfe-vard, 1656 ; b;it was afterwards removed 10 the Cock- Un/r/ rAr/.n f///l ///rf/J /9/. ^fi/nujf ( fi.
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