a small but strong town of France, in Lower Picardy. Here was an interview between Francis I. and Henry VIII. king of England in 1520. It is situated in the midst of a morass. E. Long. 2° 0'. N. Lat. 50° 35'.

ARD, barony of, in the county of Down in Ireland: it is a narrow slip of land, in some places three, and in none above six, miles broad; but the soil is for the most part tolerably good. It lies between the lake of Strangford and the sea, and in the south part it is opposite to Lecale. Sir Thomas Smith obtained a patent for this barony from Queen Elizabeth, and sent his natural son with a colony to possess it; but he was intercepted and slain by an Irishman. After Sir Thomas's death, Ard was granted by James I. to some of the Scots nobility.