THOMAS, an eminent bookseller, founder of the hospital for sick and lame in Southwark bearing his name, was the son of Thomas Guy, lighterman and coal-dealer in Horley-down, Southwark. He was put apprentice, in 1660, to a bookseller in the porch of Mercato's chapel; and set up trade with a stock of about 20l. in the house that forms the angle between Cornhill and Lombard-street. The English Bibles being at that time very badly printed, Mr Guy engaged with others in a scheme for printing them in Holland and importing them; but this being put a stop to, he contracted with the university of Oxford for their privilege of printing them, and carried on a great bible-trade for many years to a considerable advantage. Thus he began to accumulate money, and his gains rested in his hands; for being a single man, and very penurious, his expences could not be great, when it was his custom to dine on his shop counter with no other table-covering than an old newspaper: and besides he was not more scrupulous about the style of his apparel. The bulk of his fortune, however, was acquired by purchasing feamen's tickets during Queen Anne's wars, and by South-Sea stock in the memorable year 1720. To show what great events spring from trivial causes, it is asserted, that the public owe the dedication of the greatest part of his immense fortune to charitable purposes, to the indiscreet officiousness of his maid-ervant in interfering with the mending of the pavement before the door. Guy had agreed to marry her, and, preparatory to his nuptials, had ordered the pavement before his door, which was in a neglected state, to be mended, as far as to a particular stone which he pointed out. The maid, while her master was out, innocently looking on the pavers at work, saw a broken place that they had not repaired, and mentioned it to them; but they told her that Mr Guy had directed them not to go so far. Well, says she, do you mend it; tell him I bade you, and I know he will not be angry. It happened, however, that the poor girl presumed too much on her influence over her careful lover, with whom a few extraordinary shillings expense turned the scale totally against her: the men obeyed; Guy was enraged to find his orders exceeded, his matrimonial scheme was renounced, and so he built hospitals in his old age. In the year 1707 he built and furnished three wards on the north side of the outer court of St Thomas's Hospital in Southwark, and gave 100l. to it annually for eleven years preceding the erection of his own hospital; and, some time before his death, erected the stately iron gate, with the large houses on each side, at the expence of about 3500l. He was 76 years of age when he formed the design of building the hospital contiguous to that of St Thomas's, which bears his name, and lived to see it roofed in, dying in the year 1724. The charge of erecting this vast pile amounted to 18,793l. and he left 219,499l. to endow it; a much larger sum than had ever been dedicated to charitable uses in this kingdom by any one man. He erected an alms house with a library, at Tenworth in Staffordshire (the place of his mother's nativity, and for which he was representative in parliament) for 14 poor men and women; and for their pensions, as well as for the putting out poor children apprentices, bequeathed 125l. a-year. Lastly, he bequeathed 100l. to every one who could prove themselves in any degree related to him.

rope used to keep steady any weighty body whilst it is hoisting or lowering, particularly when the ship is shaken by a tempestuous sea.

Guy is likewise a large flack rope, extending from the head of the main-mast to the head of the fore-mast, and having two or three large blocks, fastened to the middle of it. This is chiefly employed to sustain the tackle used to hoist in and out the cargo of a merchant ship, and is accordingly removed from the mast-head as soon as the vessel is laden or delivered.

GUR's Cliff, in Warwickshire, a great cliff on the west side of the Avon and the north side of Warwick, where in the Britons time was an oratory, and in that of the Saxons an hermitage, where Guy earl of War- GYG Guy's Cliff wick, who is said to have retired to it after his fatigues by the toils and pleasures of the world, built a chapel, and cohabited with the hermit; and that from thence it had the name. This hermitage was kept up to the reign of Henry VI. when Rich. Beauchamp, earl of Warwick, established a chantry here, and in memory of the famous Guy erected a large statue of him in the chapel eight feet in height, and raised a roof over the adjacent springs. The chapel is in the parish of St Nicholas, in the suburbs of Warwick.