Edmund, D.D., the inventor of the weaving machinery termed *The Power-loom*, was born April 24, 1743, at Marnham in Nottingham. He was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, and was successively clergyman of Brampton in Derbyshire, and of Goadly Marwood in Leicestershire. He does not appear to have turned his attention to machinery until the year 1784, when he first conceived the idea of weaving by machinery; yet in April 1785 he produced his first power-loom, which he subsequently brought to perfection by numerous improvements. He took out no less than ten different patents connected with this process, one of which, dated in April 1790, was for the combing of wool. The first mill on his plan, which contained 500 of his looms, was destroyed by a wilful fire; and for 19 years, after a large expenditure, this great mechanical genius scarcely derived any advantage from his important inventions; but in 1809 parliament voted him a grant of L10,000, as expressed in the act, "for the good service Dr Cartwright had rendered the public by his inventions for weaving." Though this sum was less than the money he had actually expended in perfecting his inventions, it rendered his latter days unembarrassed and comfortable. He died October 30, 1823, at the age of 80. It may be mentioned that he was the younger brother of Major John Cartwright, the well-known English Reformer of the reign of George III, to whose memory a bronze statue is erected in Burton Crescent, London.

Thomas, a celebrated Puritan divine, was born in Hertfordshire about the year 1555. He studied divinity at St John's College, Cambridge, but during the reign of Mary was compelled to adopt the legal profession. On the accession of Elizabeth, he resumed his theological studies, and was soon afterwards chosen Fellow of Trinity College. In 1570, he was chosen Margaret divinity professor; and it was during his occupation of this chair that his sentiments on ecclesiastical polity provoked the hostility of Sir William Cecil and Dr Whitgift, by the latter of whom he was deprived of his post in 1571. Immediately after this he removed to the continent, and officiated as clergyman to the English residents, first of Antwerp and afterwards of Middleburg. On his return, he became still further embroiled with Dr Whitgift and the government, and was several times thrown into prison, but always released at the intercession of his friends. He was finally liberated in 1592 and allowed to preach, but the hardships which he had previously endured brought on his death in 1603.

He wrote *A Confutation of the Hebrew translation, glosses, and annotations on the New Testament; Commentaries practised in totum Historiam Evangelicam; A Directory of Church Government; A Body of Divinity*; and also two expository works on Proverbs and Ecclesiastes.

William**, a divine and poet of some eminence, was born at Northway, near Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire, in September 1611. He finished his education at Oxford, afterwards went into holy orders, and became a popular preacher in the university. In 1642 he obtained the place of succentor in the church of Salisbury, and was afterwards chosen junior proctor, and metaphysical reader in the university. His wit, judgment, elocution, combined with a graceful person and behaviour, elicited from Dr Fell the remark, "that he was the utmost that man could come to." He was an expert linguist, a good orator, and a respectable poet. His poems and plays were published in 1651. He died in 1643 of the fever called camp disease, which then prevailed.

**CARUCATURIUS**, in ancient law-books, he who held land in socage, or by plough tenure.

**CARUPANO**, a seaport-town of Venezuela, in the province of Cumana, on the Caribbean Sea, not far from Cariaco. It is a place of some trade. Pop. about 8000.