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ft.ENTs Refolute, are reckoned among the Farm Rents to be This proves a great Obfhcle to the Re-union of thofe Mini- fold by the Stat. 12. Car. If. and are CachRents or Tenths as were Iters to the Church of England; mmy of whom, otherwife dif- anriently payable to the Crown from the Lands or" Abbies and poled to conform, have fcrupled to be Re-ordai/d; inafmuch as other Religious Houfes : Which Lands, upon the Diflblution of Re-ordination, implies their former Vocation to be null; that they Abbies, being demifed toothers, the faSA Rents wereftill referved had adminifter'd the Sacraments without any Right thereto; and and made payable' to the Crown. that all their minittcrial Ads were invalid. See Presbyterian".
RENTER-#We», an Officer in moil of the Companies of In the eleventh Century, the Crime of Simony having been
landon, whofe Bulinefs is to receive \hzRents or Profit belong- very flagrant; many People fell into the Error to believe thst the
ing r° [ ' 1C Company. See Treasurer. Simionkcal Billiups could not Ordain validly; and that thofe who
^ENTERING, in the Manufactories, the fewing of two had received Orders at their Hands fhould be re~ordabi'd.
pieces of Cloth, edge to edge, without doubling them; fo as The People of this Sentiment made a Party of themfelvesj
that the Seam icarce appears at all; hence alto called Fine-draw- and were diltinguifhed by the Title of Re-ordi?tantes.
■ tn g. REPSILVER, was Money anciently paid by Servile Tenants
Sergps, &c. are fewed; Cloths renter d.—To renter in Ta- to their Lords; to be ealed of the Service of reaping his Corn.
piltry, is to work new Warp into a piece of Tapiftry damaged, See Service.
eaten by the Rats, &c. and on this Warp to reltore the antient REPAIRING, in Building, &c. See Reparation.
Pattern, or DeGgn. — The Warp is to be of Woollen, not Lin- The Repairing of large Walls, Doors, Ceilings, Coverings, &c
D en.— Among the Titles of the Tapiltry-makcrs, is included that belongs to the Proprietor or Landlord.
of* Renterers. The Locatory or Tenant is only charged with fmall Repairs*
The Author of one of the Lett. Edif. & Cur. fpeaking of the as Glafs- Windows, Locks, &e. ca'lTd Locative Repairs.
great Dexterity of the Renterers in the Eafi h lies, allures us, that To repair a Statue, or other Piece of Sculpture, is to touch
if you tear a Piece of fine Mullin, and give it one of them to up a Statue, &t. (call in a Mould J with a Chificl, Graver, or
mend, it flull be impoffible for you to difcover the Place where other fnitrument; to finiih the Places which have not come
'tis rejoined, even chough you had make a Mark to know it. well off.
- The Dexterity of our own Renterers is fuch, as puts them in To repair a caft Figure or Statue, they clear off the Barb, and
a Condition to defraud the King, by towing a Head or Slip of what is redundant in the Joints and Projectures. See Statue.
Englijb Cloath, on a Piece of Dutch, Span'ijh, or other Foreign See alio Foundery.
Cloath ; or a Slip of Foreign Cloath on a Piece of Englifb, fo as To repair a Medal, is to retouch it ; fo as rufty and defaced as
a pafs the whole, as of a Piece; and by that means avoid the Deities, Penalties, &<.
The Trick was fir ft difcovered in France, by M. Savary, Au- thor of DiBon. de Commerce.
The Word u form'd from the French, rentraire, which fignifies the fame thing; and which Menage after Salmafmsy derives horn
if was, to render ic clean, near, and perfect. — In order to this, they take oft the Ruft with a Graver, touch up the Letters, po- lith the Ground, and raife and reftore the Figures which before were icarce ken.
When the Figures are gnaw'd or broke, they fit a Piece of Maftic, or Cement on the Spot; and en this cut with a Graver
the iM'm, textura; as if it were making a Tilfue or Web, in- '° dextrouily chat the Figures appear entire and well kept. — Yet
nothing {polls Medals fo much as repairing them. See Medal.
REPAIRS, in Hunting, are the Haunts or Places that the Hare runs to. See Hunting.
REPAIRERS, Artificers who chafe Figures, and beautify Sword-Hihs, efr. See Chasing.
REPARATION, the Act of repairing, re-eftablifhing, re-
' or gone
1 of a Seam.
Rentering is particularly ufed for a Rent, or Hole, happen- ing in the dreifing or preparing of a Piece of Cloath, artfully few'd up or mended with Silk.
All Renterings zve reputed Defects cr Blemifhc?; and ought to be allnw'd for in the Price of the Piece. — Hence, M. Savary
Eftablifhes ic as a Rule, which is certainly founded on natural trieving, or mending a Building, or other Work, <
Equity, that every Manu facte rer mark the Renterings of his t0 decay. See Repairing.
Doaths with a Piece of Packthread tied to the Lift; to direct Thf - En^my repair a the Breach as foon as 'twas made.— The
the Draper to the Spot: And that the Draper apprize the Taylor Elhblilhment of Turn-pikes is for repairing of the Roads.
Of other Perfon, to whom he fells it, of the fame; that he mayn't An Eccleiiaitua! Patron is by antienc Cuftoms obliged to re-.'
come to Damage in the cutting; there being Initances of Dra- pair the Choir or Chancel of a Church, and the Paritnioners the
pers condemned to take back their Cloath, when cut to Pieces, Nave. See Restauration.
for omitting to mention the Renterings, and o.her Flaws. REPARATIONE faciende, is a Writ which lies in divera
On this occafion M. Savary excolls the Procedure of an En- C-fes; e. gr. where three ar^ Tenants in Common, or joint
glijjj Merchant, who fending a Piece of Cloach damaged in one Tenants pro indivifo, of an Houfe, &c. fallen to decay ,_ and
Spot, ro his Correfpondeut at Paris, put a Piece of Gold in the the one being willing to repair ic, the other two will not; in this
damaged Place, to make up the Damage.— But as this Example Cafe the Party willing fhall have this Writ againlt the other
is- perhaps the only one of its Kind, ihat Author recommends it two. \
to the Merchant or Draper to unfold all the Pieces entirely, as Repartition, a dividing or fharing a thing a fecond time,
they come to him; to difcover the Renterings and other Flaws, See Partition.
in order ro make the Clothier accountable for them. There are fo many Deficiencies found this Year in the Taxes
RENUENTES, in Anatomy, a pair of Mufcles of the Head, of this Parifh, that there mult be a Repartition on the Iubabi-
thus called as being Antagonists to the Annuentes; and fervingto tants; or a new Impofition.
throw the Head backwards, with an Air of Refufal. See REPARTY, a ready, fmart^Reply ; efpecially in Matters of Head.
From their Situation they arc slfo called ReStus Capitis Minor. See Rectus Capitis.
RENUNCIATION", the Act of renouncing, abdicating, or relinquishing any Right, real or pretended. See Abdication, <&c.
Renunciations are fometimes exprefs; as by Contracts, &c. fometimes. tacit, as by contrary Acts.
Wit, Humour, or Raillery. — 'Tis dangerous attacking this Lady, her Reparties are fo keen.
Wicquefort obierves a World of difference between a free fprightly Reparty ; and an offentive Sarcafm. See Sarcasm.
The Word, in the Original French, Repartie, has the fame Sig- liBcation. REPAST, REPAsfuM, a Meal, or Refection, taken at a fta- To renounce a Succeffion, "a Community, &c. is to pafs a ted Hour. See Refection. folemn Act before a Notary, or other publick Officer, whereby In old Law Books, Repafi is particularly ufed for a Meals-meat a Perfon declares he will not intermeddle in a Succciiion, or given to fervile Tenants, while at Wotk for their Lord. Profit in a Company; but fur renders his Part, and quits all Pre- The French call their Meal, Repafi ; the Latins, Paflus; the teniions, Italians and Spaniards, Pafto. See Meal.
Diocletian renounced the Empire to live as a Phibfopher.— The The Repafis whereof the Scripture has preferved the Memory, late King Philip of Spain, by the Treaty of Utrecht, was obliged fhew that, the antient Hebrews were not very delicate in their to renounce the SuccefTion of the Crown of France; to which Eating. — Abraham, a Man of Wealth and Eminence, entertain- he was Heir Preemptive : And has fince by a voluntary Act re- ing the Angels, ferves rhem with Cakes baked under the Afhes, vaunted his 'own Crown, in favour of his Son.— Renunciations of a fatted Calf haftily drefs'd, and Milk and Butter.-— But theQuan- Kings are always fufpeited. See Resignation- tity makes amends for the Quality: Three Meafures of Flower,
REN VERSE, inverted, in Heraldry, is when any thing is fet and a whole Calf, for three Perfons. With the Head downwards, or contrary to its natural Way of Be- Jofeph to fhew his refpect to his Brother Benjamin, order'dhim ing.— Thus a Chevron renvcrfe is a Chevron with the Poincdown- a Portion of Meat five times as big as that of his other Bro- wavds.— The fame Term we ule when a Beaft is laid on its thers.
Back. In Antiquity the Repafis were frequently Sacrifices; for which
REORDINATION, the k£t of conferring Orders a fecond Reafon we find them often prepared by Kings themfelves. See time. See Ordination. Sacrifice.
The Ceremony of Ordination imprelTes what the Divines call REPEALING, in Law, the revoking or annulling of a Sta-
- n indelible Character; and cannot, therefore, be repeated: Yet is tute by Authority of Parliament See Parliament.
&wdvation practiced in England, with regard to the DifTenting No Act of Parliament fhall be repealed in the fame Seffion it Minifters, who conform to the Church ; The Bifhops pretending was made in. See Session.
that they alone have Right to confer Holy Orders, and that eve-, Brook ufes the Word Repellame in the fame Senfe. J7 Pneft o r Miniftcr who does not receive them at their Hands, Qas no lawful, regular Vocation. REPEAT,
