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o_/S-PoRTATE is a Crofs cernedthe fame ; as alfo the Keys of the Gity and Cattle

which does not Hand upright, as Croffes generally do ; but of Riga, the Office of Great Matter, the Rights of Coinage,

lies athwart the Efcutcheon, in Bend, as if it were carry'd and all the Powers and Privileges appertaining to it ; re-

on a Man's Shoulder. See Cross. ceiving back again frotaRatfivil, the King'sCommiffioner,

Colombiere tells us, it is by fome call'd Tortk, that is, the Dukedom oiCourland to him and his Heits for ever,

carried > becaufe when our Saviour went to fuffer Death, PORT-FIRE, a Paper-Tube, about ten Inches long,

he was obliged to carry his Crofs, which is always thus fill'd with a Compofition of Meal-Powder, S.ilphur, and

reprefented iloping, and inclin'd after this manner. Saltpette, ramm'd moderately hard j ufed to fire Guns

PORTCULL1CE, Herfe, or Sarazine, in Fortification, and Mortars inftead of Match. SccMatch.

an Affemblage of feveral great Pieces of Wood laid, or PORT-M ANTEAU, a piece of Joiner's Work, fatten'd

joined a-crofs one another, like an Harrow 5 and M the to the Wall, in a Wardrobe, Armory, &c. proper for the

bottom pointed at the end of each Bar with Iron.

Thefe formerly ufed to hang over the Gate-ways of fortify 'd Places, to be ready to let down in cafe of a Sur- prize, when the Enemy Ihould come fo foon, as that there was not time to /hutup the Gates.

Butnow adays the Orgues are more generally ufed, as being found much better. See Orgues.

VGRT-T)ieii, among the French, is whofe Bufinefs is to carry the Viaticum, fick People. See Viaticum.

PORT-Jioj'«/, a Term that makes a confiderable Fi- gure in the Republic of Learning. Its Origin is this :

Thilip Altguflus wandering ftom his Company in Hunt- ing near Chevreufe, Wellwards of Taris, found a little Chappel, where he put up, expecting fome of his Atten-

hanging on of Cloaks, Hals,£2?e.

Ten-manteau is alfo ufed for a Cloak -Bag, of Cloth, Leather, or the like, wherein the Cloak and other Habili- ments of Travellers are difpofed, and laid on the Horfe's Crupper.

Tort-manteatt is alfo an Officer under the King of France, whereof there are twelve : Their Bufinefs is to Parilfi-Prieft, keep the King's Hat* Gloves, Cune, Sword, &c. to take or Sacrament, to 'em from him, and to bring 'em to him again when wan- ted.

The Dauphin has alfo his Tort-manteatt. Anfwerable to thefe are the Cardinal's Cauditaries, or Tail-Bearers.

The RomiJIi Bifhops have their Tort Croix, Port Mitres, &c.

PORT-VENT, in an Organ, is a wooden Pipe, well

dant's' might meet him. * This* happening accordingly, he clofed, which ferves to convey the Wind from the Bellows

gave the Place the Name of the King's Tort, Tort duRoi, to the Sound-Board of the Organ. See Organ. or 'Port Royal ; and to give thanks for his Deliverance, PORT-CRAION, a Tencil-Cafe ; an Inttrument fer-

relolved to erect a Monaflery there. ving to inclofe a Pencil, and to ferve both as a Handle

Odo, Eilhop of Taris, apprized of his Intention, pre- for holding it, and a Cover to make it portable, vented him ; and, with the concurrence of Mathilda, Wife 'Tis ufually four or five Inches long, and contrived fo as

of Matth. Montmorenci, flrtt Lord of Marly, built a Nun- the Pencil may be Aid up and down it by means of a Spring

nery in 12C4, filling it wi&iCiftercians, who continued un- and Button. Its ourlide is filed into eight Sides or Faces,

der the Jurisdiction of the General of that Order till the whereon are drawn the Sector-Lines : Its infide, round j

"year i6zj j when they were removed toa Houfe given 'em fometimes it is made round or cylindrical both wirhout-

in the Fauxbourg St. Jacques at Taris>. fide end within, and has its length divided into Inches and

In 1647, they quitted the Habit of Ciftercians, and em- parts of Inches, braced the lntiitution of the petpetual Adoration of the Sa- PORT- LAST, in a Ship, the Gun-wale. Hence when

cramenr. In 1647, the Archbilhop of Taris allowed 'em a Yard is down on the Deck, they fay, the Yard is down a

to remand fome of their Religious to their former Abbey, <Port-laJh_

and to re-ettablifh the fame.

Some time after, the Formulary of Alexander VII. be- ing appointed to be fubferibed throughout the Kingdom 5 the Religious of Fort Royal in the City lign'd it 5 thofe re- mitted tothefotmer Abbey fcrupled it extremely, and at lall only fign'd it with great Reflections.

Still petfifling in the fame Sentiments, the King finding Portmen. no way to reduce 'em but by difperfing 'em ; that was PORT-N^/l, in a Ship, fuch as are ufed to fallen the executed in 1709, and the Revenues given to the other Bin: rVl onallery.

Upon this Evacuation, feveral Ecclefiaftics, and others

FORTMANNIMOTE, in old Records, the Portmen's Court, held in any City or Town.

PORT- .Ro/'es, in a Ship, thofe which ferve to haul up the Torts of the Ordnance.

PORT-&*, Ann. 35 Men. 8. cap. 7. is the Sale of Filhprefently upon its Arrival in the Port or Haven. See

who had the like Sentiments with regard to the Subfcription, as the Religious ; retir'd to Tort Royal, and had Apart- ments there j and there publilhed feveral Books both on the Subjea of this Difpute, and other Topics ; whence all who adhered to that Party, took the Name of Tort Roya- iijis, and their Books, Booh of Tort Royal

to the Ports. SccNaie

FORT-Kcfes, in a Ship, are the Embraftres, or Holes in the fides of the Veffel, thro' which the Muzzles of the Can- nons are put. Sea Embrasure.

Large Ships have three Rows of Tort-Holes, or Batteries 5 each ufually confining of fifteen Tort-Holes.

In Storms, they ufe to Iliut up the Tort-Holes, to prevent the Water's driving thro' them.

In Englijb, Dutch, and French Ships, their Valves or

Hence we fay the' Writers of Tort Royal, Meffieurs de Cafements are fatten'd atop of the Aperture ; in Spanifi Tort Royal, the Tranilations of Tort Royal, the Greek and Vcffels a-fide of 'em latin Methods of Tort Royal, which are Grammars of

PORTER, in the Circuit of Juflices, is an Officer that carries a Verge, or white Rod before the Juttice in Eyrej fo call'd iportando Virgam. See Verger.

Porter of the Door of the Tarliament Houfe, is a neceffary Officer belonging to that High Court 5 who en- joys the Privileges accordingly. Cromp.Jurifd.

PORTICO, in Architecture, a kind of Gallery built on the Gtcund ; or a Piazza incompafs'd with Arches, Supported by Columns 5 where People walk under Covert. See Piazza.

The Roof is ufually vaulted, fometimes flat. The An- tients call'd it Lacunar. See Lacunar.

Tho' the Word Tortico be derived from Torta, Gate, Door j yet is it apply'd toanydifpofirion of Columns which form a Gallery ; without any immediate relation to Doors, or Gates.

The moll celebrated Tmico's of Antiquity were thofe of Solomon's Temple, which form'd the Atrium, and encom- pafs'd the Sanctuary : That of Athens, built for the People to divert themfelves in ; and wherein the Philofophers held theit Difputes and Conventions ; which occafion'd the the Knights havin? molt of Livonia taken Difciples of Zeno to be call'd Stoicks, from the Greek, ros, the Mufcovits, they put themfelves under Tortious : And that of Tompey at Rome, raifed merely

for Magnificence; confiding of feveral Rows of Co- lumns fupporting a Plat- Form of vaft Extent : a Dcfign whereof, Serlio gives us in his Antique Buildings.

Among the modern Tortico's, the moll celebrated is the Piazza of St. Teter of the Vatican. That of Covent- Gardtn, London, the Work of Inigo Jones, is alfo much

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FORT-GLAIVE, q.d. Sword Bearer, an Order ot Knights in Toland, call'd by the Latins Enffen. See Knight. .

It was confirm'd by Pope Innocent III. and by him lent mo Livonia to defend the Preachers of the Gofpels again!* the Infidels at the firrt Convctfion of that Country. Being too weak to effeS that Bufinefs, they united themfelves with the Teutonic, or Marian Knights, by the Pope's Au- thority ; and inllead of Knights of the Swotd, were call'd Knights of the Crofs. _

They feparated again in the time ollfnimis, their Great Matter, Anno 1541-. _

The 'Teutonic Knights being then dilpoflefsd of Trujjia, and the Tort-glaives going into Luther's Opinions, foon dwindled away ; for in the Year 1557. they fell out with the Eifhop of Riga, of the Houfe of ' "Brandenburgh, be- caufe he would not embtace their Notions ; and he, to fe- cute his own Eflate, put Riga into the hands of the To- landers.

Afterward from them by the Mufcovifs, they pi the Proteflion of Sigifmond Auguflus, King of Toland, An. 1559; but William of Furflembourg, their Great Matter, being bettay'd by his own Mercenaries into the hands of the Mnfcmttes, Gtv/jwWhisSucceflbr, following the Example of Albert, the Great Mailer of Tmffta, tranfafled with the aforefaid Sigifmond for the whole Eflate, which he fur- render'd to his own ufe in the Cattle of Riga, together admired.