l’empire romain (Paris, 1766–1768). His Théorie des lois civiles
(London, 1767) is a vigorous defence of absolutism and attack on
the politics of Montesquieu. His best legal treatise is Mémoire pour
le comte de Morangies (Paris, 1772); Linguet’s imprisonment in the
Bastille afforded him the opportunity of writing his Mémoires sur la
Bastille, first published in London in 1789; it has been translated
into English (Dublin, 1783, and Edinburgh, 1884–1887), and is the
best of his works though untrustworthy.
See A. Devérité, Notice pour servir à l’histoire de la vie et des écrits de S. N. H. Linguet (Liége, 1782); Gardoz, Essai historique sur la vie et les ouvrages de Linguet (Lyon, 1808); J. F. Barrière, Mémoire de Linguet et de Latude (Paris, 1884); Ch. Monselet, Les Oubliés et les dédaignés (Paris, 1885), pp. 1-41; H. Monin, “Notice sur Linguet,” in the 1889 edition of Mémoires sur la Bastille; J. Cruppi, Un avocat journaliste au 18 e siècle, Linguet (Paris, 1895); A. Philipp. Linguet, ein Nationalökonom des XVIII Jahrhunderts in seinen rechtlichen, socialen und volkswirtschaftlichen Anschauungen (Zürich, 1896); A. Lichtenberger, Le Socialisme utopique (1898), pp. 77-131.
LINK. (1) (Of Scandinavian origin; cf. Swed. länk, Dan.
laenke; cognate with “flank,” and Ger. Gelenk, joint), one of
the loops of which a chain is composed; used as a measure of
length in surveying, being 1100th part of a “chain.” In Gunter’s
chain, a “link” = 7.92 in.; the chain used by American
engineers consists of 100 links of a foot each in length (for “link
work” and “link motions” see Mechanics: § Applied, and
Steam Engine). The term is also applied to anything used for
connecting or binding together, metaphorically or absolutely.
(2) (O. Eng. hlinc, possibly from the root which appears in “to
lean”), a bank or ridge of rising ground; in Scots dialect, in
the plural, applied to the ground bordering on the sea-shore,
characterized by sand and coarse grass; hence a course for
playing golf. (3) A torch made of pitch or tow formerly carried
in the streets to light passengers, by men or boys called “link-boys”
who plied for hire with them. Iron link-stands supporting
a ring in which the link might be placed may still be seen at
the doorways of old London houses. The word is of doubtful
origin. It has been referred to a Med. Lat. lichinus, which
occurs in the form linchinus (see Du Cange, Glossarium); this,
according to a 15th-century glossary, meant a wick or match.
It is an adaptation of Gr. λύχνος, lamp. Another suggestion
connects it with a supposed derivation of “linstock,” from “lint.”
The New English Dictionary thinks the likeliest suggestion is
to identify the word with the “link” of a chain. The tow and
pitch may have been manufactured in lengths, and then cut
into sections or “links.”
LINKÖPING, a city of Sweden, the seat of a bishop, and chief
town of the district (län) of Östergötland. Pop. (1900) 14,552.
It is situated in a fertile plain 142 m. by rail S.W. of Stockholm,
and communicates with Lake Roxen (12 m. to the north) and the
Göta and Kinda canals by means of the navigable Stångå.
The cathedral (1150–1499), a Romanesque building with a
beautiful south portal and a Gothic choir, is, next to the cathedral
of Upsala, the largest church in Sweden. It contains an altarpiece
by Martin Heemskerck (d. 1574), which is said to have
been bought by John II. for twelve hundred measures of wheat.
In the church of St Lars are some paintings by Per Horberg
(1746–1816), the Swedish peasant artist. Other buildings of
note are the massive episcopal palace (1470–1500), afterwards
a royal palace, and the old gymnasium founded by Gustavus
Adolphus in 1627, which contains the valuable library of old
books and manuscripts belonging to the diocese and state college,
and collection of coins and antiquities. There is also the
Östergötland Museum, with an art collection. The town has
manufactures of tobacco, cloth and hosiery. It is the headquarters
of the second army division.
Linköping early became a place of mark, and was already a bishop’s see in 1082. It was at a council held in the town in 1153 that the payment of Peter’s pence was agreed to at the instigation of Nicholas Breakspeare, afterwards Adrian IV. The coronation of Birger Jarlsson Valdemar took place in the cathedral in 1251; and in the reign of Gustavus Vasa several important diets were held in the town. At Stångåbro (Stångå Bridge), close by, an obelisk (1898) commemorates the battle of Stångåbro (1598), when Duke Charles (Protestant) defeated the Roman Catholic Sigismund. A circle of stones in the Iron Market of Linköping marks the spot where Sigismund’s adherents were beheaded in 1600.
LINLEY, THOMAS (1732–1795), English musician, was born
at Wells, Somerset, and studied music at Bath, where he settled
as a singing-master and conductor of the concerts. From 1774
he was engaged in the management at Drury Lane theatre,
London, composing or compiling the music of many of the pieces
produced there, besides songs and madrigals, which rank high
among English compositions. He died in London on the 19th
of November 1795. His eldest son Thomas (1756–1778) was a
remarkable violinist, and also a composer, who assisted his father;
and he became a warm friend of Mozart. His works, with some
of his father’s, were published in two volumes, and these contain
some lovely madrigals and songs. Another son, William
(1771–1835), who held a writership at Madras, was devoted to
literature and music and composed glees and songs. Three
daughters were similarly gifted, and were remarkable both for
singing and beauty; the eldest of them Elizabeth Ann
(1754–1792), married Richard Brinsley Sheridan in 1773, and
thus linked the fortunes of her family with his career.
LINLITHGOW, JOHN ADRIAN LOUIS HOPE, 1st Marquess of
(1860–1908), British administrator, was the son of the 6th earl
of Hopetoun. The Hope family traced their descent to John de
Hope, who accompanied James V.’s queen Madeleine of Valois
from France to Scotland in 1537, and of whose great-grandchildren
Sir Thomas Hope (d. 1646), lord advocate of Scotland,
was ancestor of the earls of Hopetoun, while Henry Hope settled
in Amsterdam, and was the ancestor of the famous Dutch
bankers of that name, and of the later Hopes of Bedgebury,
Kent. Sir Thomas’s son, Sir James Hope of Hopetoun (1614–1661),
Scottish lord of session, was grandfather of Charles, 1st
earl of Hopetoun in the Scots peerage (1681–1742), who was
created earl in 1703; and his grandson, the 3rd earl, was in 1809
made a baron of the United Kingdom. John, the 4th earl (1765–1823),
brother of the 3rd earl, was a distinguished soldier, who
for his services in the Peninsular War was created Baron Niddry
in 1814 before succeeding to the earldom. The marquessate of
Linlithgow was bestowed on the 7th earl of Hopetoun in 1902, in
recognition of his success as first governor (1900–1902) of the
commonwealth of Australia; he died on the 1st of March 1908,
being succeeded as 2nd marquess by his eldest son (b. 1887).
An earldom of Linlithgow was in existence from 1600 to 1716, this being held by the Livingstones, a Scottish family descended from Sir William Livingstone. Sir William obtained the barony of Callendar in 1346, and his descendant, Sir Alexander Livingstone (d. c. 1450), and other members of this family were specially prominent during the minority of King James II. Alexander Livingstone, 7th Lord Livingstone (d. 1623), the eldest son of William, the 6th lord (d. c. 1580), a supporter of Mary, queen of Scots, was a leading Scottish noble during the reign of James VI. and was created earl of Linlithgow in 1600. Alexander’s grandson, George, 3rd earl of Linlithgow (1616–1690), and the latter’s son, George, the 4th earl (c. 1652–1695), were both engaged against the Covenanters during the reign of Charles II. When the 4th earl died without sons in August 1695 the earldom passed to his nephew, James Livingstone, 4th earl of Callendar. James, who then became the 5th earl of Linlithgow, joined the Stuart rising in 1715; in 1716 he was attainted, being thus deprived of all his honours, and he died without sons in Rome in April 1723.
The earldom of Callendar, which was thus united with that of Linlithgow, was bestowed in 1641 upon James Livingstone, the third son of the 1st earl of Linlithgow. Having seen military service in Germany and the Netherlands, James was created Lord Livingstone of Almond in 1633 by Charles I., and eight years later the king wished to make him lord high treasurer of Scotland. Before this, however, Almond had acted with the Covenanters, and during the short war between England and Scotland in 1640 he served under General Alexander Leslie, afterwards earl of Leven. But the trust reposed in him by the Covenanters did not prevent him in 1640 from signing the “band of Cumbernauld,” an association for defence against Argyll, or from being in some way mixed up with the “Incident,” a plot for the seizure of the Covenanting leaders, Hamilton and Argyll. In 1641 Almond became an earl, and, having declined the offer of a high position in the army raised by Charles I., he led a division of the Scottish forces into England in 1644 and helped Leven to capture Newcastle. In 1645 Callendar, who often imagined himself slighted, left the army, and in 1647 he was one of the promoters of the “engagement” for the release of the king. In 1648, when the Scots marched into England, he served
