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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Clubley, Charles Witty

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​CLUBLEY. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 10; h-p., 32.)
Charles Witty Clubley entered the Navy, 7 Feb. 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Ambuscade 32, Capt. Wm. D’Urban, on the Mediterranean station, where he became, 15 Aug. following. Midshipman of the Madras 54, Capt. Chas. Marsh Schomberg, and continued to serve, until Dec. 1807, in the Spider 10, Lieut.-Commander H. Shaw, Queen 98, Capt. Fras. Pender, and Zealous 74, Capts. John Okes Hardy and John Giffard. While in the Spider he assisted in cutting out, from the port of Reggio, 10 Dec. 1805, the Andromeda French privateer, of 4 guns and 43 men. From 26 March, 1808, until 26 March, 1811, we next find Mr. Clubley studying at the Royal Naval College; after which he returned to the Mediterranean, where, and latterly on the Home station, he appears, until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, 17 Feb. 1815, to have been successively employed in the Blossom 18, and Swiftsure 74, both commanded by Capt. Wm. Stewart, Volontaire 38, Capt. Hon. Granville Geo. Waldegrave, Repulse 74, Capt. Rich. Hussey Moubray, San Josef 110, flag-ship of Sir Rich. King, Furieuse 36, Capt. Wm. Mounsey, Cossack 22, Acting-Capt. Jones, Caledonia 120, bearing the flag of Lord Exmouth, Undaunted 38, Capt. Thos. Ussher, Pilot sloop, Capt. John Toup Nicolas, Leveret 10, Capt. Jonathan Christian, Monmouth 64, Capt. Wilkinson, Namur 74, Rear-Admiral Sir Chas. Rowley, and Bombay 74, Capt. John Bazely. On 29 April, 1812, he served in the boats of the Blossom, with those of the Undaunted and Volontaire, under Lieut. John Eagar, at the capture and destruction, near the mouth of the Rhone, of a national schooner of 4 guns and 74 men, and a convoy of 20 vessels. He assisted also, in the same sloop, at the reduction of two towers in the Bay of St. Mary’s. He co-operated, next, with the patriots on the coast of Catalonia, particularly at Tarragona; and, when in the Furieuse, aided, as well as in other boat affairs, at the taking of a privateer and convoy close to Civita Vecchia, and was also present in the unsuccessful attack on Leghorn, and at the surrender of Genoa. Since 1815 Lieut. Clubley has been on half-pay.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Coakley, Thomas

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​COAKLEY. (Retired Commander, 1840.)
Thomas Coakley entered the Navy, 25 Jan. 1798, as A.B., on board the Lynx 16, Capt. Robt. Hall, and, while cruizing off the coast of North America, assisted in capturing, 27 June, 1798, Le Mentor privateer, of 14 guns and 79 men. About the commencement of the century he became Master’s Mate of the Assistance 50, Capt. Rich. Lee, On the North Sea station; and, after an additional attachment to the Andromache 38, Capt. Robt. Laurie, obtained an Acting-Lieutenancy in the Téméraire 98, Capt. Elias Harvey, in time to participate in the battle off Cape Trafalgar, 21 Oct. 1805, on which occasion the latter ship was stationed next astern of the Victory, and enacted a most distinguished and important part. Having been officially promoted in the Gibraltar 80, Capt. Whitby, the subject of this sketch soon afterwards rejoined Capt., then Rear-Admiral, Harvey, as his Flag-Lieutenant, on board the Tonnant 80, off Cape Finisterre; from which ship we next find him transferred to the Procris 18, part of Lord Gambler’s force during his operations against Copenhagen in Aug. and Sept. 1807. On subsequently proceeding to the Cape of Good Hope with Capt. Jas. Murray Gordon, he joined the Raisonnable 64, Capts. Josias Rowley and John Hatley; and, in Sept. 1809, took part in the reduction of St. Paul’s, Isle Bourbon. Since 1812, in the course of which period he further served, on the Jamaica station, in the Polyphemus 64, Capt. Peter John Douglas, and Thalia 36, Capt. Jas. Giles Vashon, Commander Coakley has been unemployed. He assumed his present rank 29 Dec. 1840.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Clerk, Francis North

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​CLERK. (Lieutenant, 1825.)
Francis North Clerk entered the Navy 20 Jan. 1810; passed his examination in 1816; obtained his commission 9 July, 1825; and, since 13 July, 1829, has been employed in the Coast Guard.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Clifford, William John Cavendish

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​CLIFFORD. (Commander, 1842. f-p., 16; h-p., 2.)
William John Cavendish Clifford, born 12 Oct. 1814, is eldest son of Capt. Sir Augustus Wm. Jas. Clifford, Bart., R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 24 Feb. 1829, on board the Undaunted 46, commanded at first by his father, and afterwards, at the Cape of Good Hope, by Capt. Edw. Harvey. He next joined the Ocean 80, Capt. Alex. Ellice, guardship at Sheerness; was lent for some time to the Royal George yacht, Capt. Lord Adolphus FitzClarence; and, having passed his examination in 1835, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 7 May, 1838. His subsequent appointments, in the latter capacity, were – 5 June, 28 July, and 8 Oct. 1838, to the Princess Charlotte 104, flag-ship of Sir Robt. Stopford, Rodney 92, Capt. Hyde Parker, and Tyne 28, Capt. John Townshend, on the Mediterranean station; and, early in 1842, to the William and Mary yacht. Having been advanced to his present rank 7 March, 1842, in honour of her Majesty’s visit to Spithead, the subject of this sketch has, since 7 Sept. 1844, been in successive command of the Wolverine 16, and Ringdove 16, in the East Indies. He appears, on 19 Aug. 1845, while in the former sloop, to have in part commanded the boats of a squadron, carrying altogether 530 officers, seamen, and marines, at the destruction, under Capt. Chas. Talbot, of the piratical settlement of Malloodoo, on the north end of the island of Borneo, where the British encountered a desperate opposition, and sustained a loss of 6 men killed and 15 wounded.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Clowes, Thomas Ball

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​CLOWES. (Captain, 1823. f-p., 15; h-p., 31.)
Thomas Ball Clowes, born 30 June, 1787, at Wingham, co. Kent, is son of the late Surgeon Clowes, of Canterbury.
This officer entered the Navy, 17 June, 1801, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Overyssel 64, Capt. John Bazely, flag-ship in the Downs of Vice-Admiral Skeffington Lutwidge; removed for a brief period, in the early part of 1802, to the Amazon 38, Capt. Sam. Sutton; and, from 29 May, 1804, until Nov. 1807, served, as Midshipman, in the Leda 38, Capt. Robt. Honyman. After experiencing several warm collisions with the Boulogne flotilla, he took part in the reduction, in Jan. 1806, of the Cape of Good Hope, was next present at the attacks on Maldonado and Monte Video, and on his return from a second visit to the Cape, whither he had been sent in charge of a prize, joined in the operations against Copenhagen. He subsequently served, in the Downs and Mediterranean, on board the Canada 74, Capt. John Harvey, and Leonidas and Active 38’s, Capts. Jas. Dunbar and Jas. Alex. Gordon; passed his examination 5 April, 1809; commanded, as Master’s Mate of the St. Fiorenzo 36, Capt. Henry Matson, a gun-boat in the ensuing expedition against Flushing; became, 6 Dec. 1809, Acting-Lieutenant of the Clyde 38, Capt. Edw. W. C. R. Owen; and, on 26 of the same month, was presented by the Admiralty with his first commission. Mr. Clowes’ next appointment was, in May, 1810, to the Hamadryad 36, Capt. Sir Thos. Staines, from which ship, after serving off St. Helena, and on the North American and Irish stations, he was promoted to the rank of Commander 23 March, 1812. We find him, until he invalided in Dec. 1814, next holding command of the Goshawk and Sparrowhawk sloops, in the Mediterranean, whither, in the former vessel, he escorted a convoy during the summer of 1812. He was afterwards, from 22 May, 1821, until posted, 16 May, 1823, actively employed in the Rose 18, in the Levant, at a time when hostilities raged between the Turks and Greeks. Since the date last-mentioned Capt. Clowes has been on half-pay.
He is married, and has issue two daughters. Agents – Case and Loudonsack.
# A Dictionary of Saintly Women/Bonosia

​St. Bonosia, Feb. 2, M. at Borne, with Cappa and many others. Boll., AA.SS.
# A Dictionary of Saintly Women/Boylette

​St. Boylette, Colette Boilet.
# A Dictionary of Saintly Women/Borema

​St. Borema, Beata (1).
# A Dictionary of Saintly Women/Boulogne

​St. Boulogne, Bolonia.
# A Dictionary of Saintly Women/Bozena

​St. Bozena, Beatrice (2).
# A Dictionary of Saintly Women/Breaca

​St. Breaca, Oct. 27, June 4 (Breage, Breca, Breock, Brig, Briga, Brigh). 5th or 6th century. Possibly the same as Briga (3) or (4). Breaca joined or headed a band of Irish missionary settlers. Accompanied by her foster-son, King Germoe, SS. Fingar and Piala, Ia, Burian, Crewenna, and several others, she crossed over from Ireland to Cornwall, where they landed ​in the Hayle estuary on the north coast. They were well received by King Theodore. Breaca built several churches. Cornish legend says she was a midwife, and the sister of St. Levin. He was a hermit at Bodellen, in Cornwall. He need to catch one fish every day for his own food. One evening, when he went fishing, he caught two bream on his hook. He took them both off, and threw them back into the sea; the same two came again a second and a third time; he supposed there was some reason for this double supply, and carried them both home; there he found that his sister St. Breaca had come to visit him with her two children, who had had a long walk, and were very hungry. The fish were cooked for supper. The children ate their portions eagerly, without waiting to pick out the bones, and both were choked. From that day the bream has been called by the Cornish fishermen, chak-cheel (choke-child); some people say it was the chad, but the bream has very dangerous bones, and is more likely to have been the fatal food. Nothing is known with any certainty about St. Levin, and some of the stories give him, instead of Breaca, a sister Manaccan. AA. SS. British Piety. A. Forster, English Dedications. Rev. S. Baring-Gould, Book of the West. Forbes. Hunt, Popular Romances of the West of England… Traditions of Old Cornwall. Smith and Wace.
# A Dictionary of Saintly Women/Bourguine

​St. Bourguine, Burgundofora.
# A Dictionary of Saintly Women/Bova

​St. Bova, Aprll 24, sometimes erroneously called Bona, in French Beuve, V. Abbess at Rheims. 6th or 7th century. Sister of St. Balderic, or Baudri, founder and abbot of Montfauçon, or Fauquemont, near Rheims. Those saints are said to have been the children of a King Sigebert. If Mr. Baring-Gould is right in making him Sigebert I., who began to reign 561, their mother was the celebrated Queen Brunehaut, whose marriage is said to be the first that was solemnized with a religious ceremony in France. Butler and Baillet say Bova was a great lady at the court of King Dagobert, and edified the court by her virtues until she was about thirty years old, when, about 639, she withdrew to the monastery St. Balderic had built for her in a suburb of Rheims. Here she was soon joined by her niece, St. Doda. Balderic went to stay with his sister and niece, and died in their nunnery. Bova did not long survive him. Doda succeeded her aunt as abbess, about 673. These saints are mentioned by Flodoard, in his history of the Church of Rheims (10th century). The original history of their lives was destroyed in a great fire. In the 10th century an anonymous author compiled another, with the help of the nuns who had often heard it read. Butler, Lives. Baillet, Vies. Hugo Menard, Mart. Ben. Baring-Gould, Lives, "St. Balderic," Oct. 16.
# A Dictionary of Saintly Women/Botild

​St. Botild, or Bothildis, July 28. † 1102. Queen of Denmark. Daughter of Turgot, or Trugillus, a Swedish noble. Wife of Eric II. (Eyegod), king of Denmark (1095-1102), stepson of St. Guda. Botild suffered her husband's infidelities meekly. He was beloved by his people for many noble qualities, but was liable to fits of fury, in one of which he killed some of his faithful servants. His repentance was deep, and after paying the blood fine, he could not quiet his conscience without making a pilgrimage to Jerusalem to atone for the sin of murder. When his intention was known, his people besought him not to go, and offered a third of their property to pay for Masses, and to buy off the king's vow. He insisted on going, and Botild determined to accompany him. One of his illegitimate sons was appointed regent. Knud, the only son Botild had given to Eric, was left at home; he grew up a great warrior, and was crowned King of the Obotrites by the Emperor Lothaire. The pilgrims went through Russia to Constantinople, and thence to Cyprus, where Eric was taken ill and died. Botild proceeded on her pilgrimage, and died on the Mount of Olives, within sight of the gates of Jerusalem, in 1102. Some historians place their death a year later. During their life, Eric's brother Knud, king of Denmark, was canonized. Vastovius, Vitis Aquiloniæ, Saxo Grammaticus, Hist. Dan. Otté, Scandinavia, Dalin. Svea Rikes Historia, Mas Latrie, Trésor, Hamsfortii, Chron. Langebek, Scriptores Rerum Danicarum, i. 271. Dahlmann, Denmark.
# A Dictionary of Saintly Women/Breenada

​Breenada, July 3, V. 7th century. Irish. Commemorated with Tirechan, a disciple of Ultan. Boll., AA. SS., Præter.
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Knight (Thomas)

​KNIGHT (THOMAS), bookseller in London; Holy Lamb Paul's Churchyard, 1629-60. Took up his freedom August 26th, 1627. [Arber, iii. 686.] Succeeded Clement Knight at this address. [Sayle, 591.]
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Kirton (Joshua)

​KIRTON (JOSHUA), bookseller in London, (1) Foster Lane, next to Goldsmith's Hall, 1644; (2) White Horse in Paul's Churchyard, 1638-46; (3) Golden-Spread-Eagle, St. Pauls Churchyard, 1649 (1638-59). Took ​up his freedom November 7th, 1636. [Arber, iii. 688.] Originally in partnership with Thomas Warren. Shared with Humphrey Robinson, Richard Thrale and Samuel Thompson the copyrights of T. Whitaker, q.v., consisting of 109 copies. Was one of the six stationers who in 1652 published a list of Popish books under the title of A Beacon set on Fire.
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Lambert (John)

​LAMBERT (JOHN), printer in London; Pilkington Court, Aldersgate Street, 1666. Mentioned in the Hearth Tax Roll for the half-year ending Lady Day, 1666. [P.R.O. Lay Subsidy 252/32.]
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Lambert (Richard)

​LAMBERT (RICHARD), bookseller in York; The Crown Minster Yard, 1660-68. Publisher of Robert Wittie's Scarborough Spaw 1660, 1667. Mentioned in an advertisement of patent medicines in the news-sheets of the year 1663.
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Lambert (Thomas)

​LAMBERT (THOMAS), bookseller in London, (1) Horse-shooe, neare the Hospitall gate in Smithfield; (2) neere the Red Crosse in Little Britain. 1633-43. Publisher of ballads, broadsides, and other ephemeral literature. His first imprint is found on the title-page of a pamphlet entitled A True Discourse of the Two infamous upstart Prophets Richard Farnham … and John Bull, 1636. [B.M. G. 20167.]
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Lambeth (Thomas)

​LAMBETH (THOMAS), stationer in London; Scroope's Court over against y$^e$ church in Holborne, 1661. Mentioned in the parish register of St. Andrew's, Holborn, 1661.
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Lane (Phil)

​LANE (PHIL), (?) bookseller in London. Gray's Inn Gate, 1643. Appears to have been in partnership with Matthew Walbanck at the above address. Their names are found on a pamphlet entitled: The Proceedings of the Commissioners … 1643. [E. 247 (28).]
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Lamberd (William)

​LAMBERD (WILLIAM), bookseller in London, 1641. Mentioned in a list of stationers dated August 5th, 1641, as paying five shillings as his proportion of the Poll Tax. [Domestic State Papers, Charles I, vol. 483. 11.] His address has not been found.
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Kirton (Joseph)

​KIRTON (JOSEPH), (?) bookseller in London; King's Arms, St. Paul's Churchward, 1667. Smyth, in his Obituary, has this entry (p. 76): "Octr. 1667. This month Joseph Kirton sometime a bookseller at ye Kings Arms in Paul's Churchyard died; buried in St. Faith's."
# A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Queensbury, Catherine Hyde, Duchess of

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QUEENSBURY, CATHERINE HYDE, DUCHESS OF,
Was the daughter of Henry, Earl of Clarendon and Rochester, and wife of Charles Douglas, third Duke of Queensbury. She was a celebrated beauty, and received tributes from Pope and from Prior.
A forgotten poet, Whitehead, has celebrated her octogenary charms. Since the Grecian Helen, no lady seems so nearly to have filled a century of praise. What is rare in a woman so admired, she was ​modest, unaffected, devoted to her family and friends. She and the duke were fond of literary society, and maintained an intimacy with Swift, Pope, and especially Gay. To the last, the ducbess was unspeakably kind; she not only gave him the shelter of her roof, but paid attention to the minute, every-day comforts, which the unpractical poet could never manage for himself. At the prohibition of his opera, "Polly," their graces were so warm in their resentment, that they were forbidden to appear at court. The duchess corresponded with many persons of note; her letters are to be met with dispersed among the collections that are brought forward for the gratification of modern curiosity. They exhibit considerable sprightliness and good sense.
# A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Proba, Valeria Palconia

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PROBA, VALERIA PALCONIA,
Was the wife of Adolphus, the Roman proconsul, in the reigns of Honorious and Theodosius the Younger. She composed a ​Virgilian cento upon the books of the Old and New Testaments, which was printed at Frankfort, in 1541. She also wrote an epitaph on her husband.
# A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Quenburga, or Keneburgh

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QUENBURGA,
Or Keneburgh, as it is sometimes spelled, was the wife of one of the Saxon kings who ruled in Britain during the Heptarchy; she was the daughter of Penda, King of Mercia, and was mainly instrumental, it is said, in converting that powerful monarch to Christianity. She was married to Alfred, eldest son of Oswy, and was called Queen of Deria, over which district her husband had control. Through her influence, we are told that the court of Alfred became converted into a kind of monastic school of regular discipline and Christian perfection, according to the ideas of religion then prevalent Her heart, it is said, was more set upon the kingdom of heaven than on any earthly diadem.
Alfred having died during his father's lifetime, Quenburga returned to her father's dominions, and, resolving to devote the rest of her life to religious seclusion, founded an establishment of Christian virgins at a place on the confines of Huntingdon and Northampton, called Dormund-caistor, and afterwards in her honour Kunneburg-ceastor, or the town of Quenburgh. Here she lived, and here she died, and here, when her father was killed, and heavy misfortunes ​fell upon her family, she received her three sisters, Keneswitba. Quendrida, and Idaburga, desirous, like her, of finding a place of rest and retirement from the troubles of life. Drayton, in his "Polyalbion," says,
"Kenebarg in this our sainted front shall stand. To Alfred the loved wife, King of Northomberland;"
and, according to Palgrave, she was "A mirror of sanctity, so that many virgins of all ranks and degrees resorted to her monastery, to be instructed in the rules and exercises of a religious life; and while the daughters of princes reverenced her as a mistress, the poor were admitted to regard her as a companion, and both tho one and the other honoured her as a parent."
# A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Quenburga, or Robba

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QUENBURGA,
Or, as she was sometimes called, "Robba," a name commonly adopted by the consorts of the Northumbrian monarchs, was the daughter of Kynigils, one of the Kings of Wessex, who was converted to Christianity by the missionary Bririuus, and under his direction founded Winchester Cathedral. Oswald and his Queen Robba held their court at the royal city of Robbanburgh, the name and site of which is still preserved—Bamburgh Castle, a fortress at one time of great size and strength. Queen Robba, we are told, was as much celebrated by her admirable conduct, as was the saintly king, her husband, by his holiness of life. After the death of Oswald, who was attacked and cruelly slain by Penda, King of Mercia, who envied his goodness and prosperity, the widowed queen obtained permission to bury the head and arm of her husband, which were the only portions of his dismembered body she could procure; she had the precious relics enshrined in a silver case, and conveyed to St. Aidan, by whom they were carefully deposited in St, Peter's Church, in the royal city of Robbanburgh, as is recorded by the Venerable Bede. After this, we hear no more of the pious Quenburga, who probably retired to a monastery, and spent the rest of her days in seclusion,
# A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Rachel, youngest daughter of Laban

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RACHEL,
The youngest daughter of Laban, the Syrian, the beloved wife of Jacob, the patriarch, mother of Joseph and Benjamin;—how many beautiful traits of character, how many touching incidents of her husband's life, are connected with her name! Rachel was the true wife of Jacob, the wife of his choice, his first and only love. For her, "he served Laban seven years, and they seemed to him but a few days, for the love he bore her." At the close of this term, the crafty father, who wished to retain Jacob in his service, practised the gross deception of giving Leah instead of Rachel, and then permitting Jacob to have the beloved one as another wife, provided he would serve another seven years! Thus Rachel really cost her husband fourteen years' servitude.
She was "beautiful and well-flavoured," Moses tells us; yet surely it was not her personal charms which gained such entire ascendency over the wise son of Isaac. Jacob must have been nearly sixty years old at the time of his marriage; and if Rachel had been deficient in those noble qualities of mind and soul, which could understand and harmonize with his lofty aspirations to fulfil the great duties God had imposed upon him, as the chosen Founder of the house of Israel, she never would have been his confidant, counsellor, friend, as well as his lovely and loving wife. That she was this all in all to her husband, seems certain by the grief, the utter desolation of spirit, which overwhelmed him for her loss. He cherished her memory in his heart, loved her in the passionate love he lavished on her children till his dying day. Her two sons were, in moral character, far superior to the other sons of Jacob; and this is true testimony of her great and good qualities. She died in giving birth to Benjamin, while Jacob, with all his family, was on his way from Syria to his own land. She was buried near Bethlehem, in Judea, and Jacob erected a monument over her grave. Her precious dust was thus left, as though to keep possession of the land sure, to hers and her husband's posterity, during the long centuries of absence and bondage. And, as if to mark that this ground was hallowed, the Messiah was born near the place of Rachel's grave. She died B.C. 1732.
# A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Pulcheria

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PULCHERIA,
A daughter of Theodosius the Great, Emperor of Rome, in 379. She was eminent for her piety, moderation, and virtue.