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bruise the canes, and to express the juice. These are cast hollow,and their cavities are tilled up with wood, the cylinders of whichare properly the rollers.

Rolls Office, is an office in Chancery-lane, London , ap-pointed for the custody of the rolls and records in chancery.

. Rolls of Parliament , are the MS. registers or rolls of theproceedings of our ancient parliaments, which before the inventionOf printing were all engrossed on parchment, and proclaimedopenly in every county. In these rolls are also contained manydecisions of very difficult points of law, which were frequently informer times referred to the decision of that high court.

ROLLER,in surgery, a long and broad bandage, usually of linen-cloth, rolled round any' part of the body, to keep it in, or disposeit to a state of health.

Rollers for cylinders, &c. The presses called calendars, orcylinders, serving to calendar stuffs withal, consist, among otheressential parts, of two rollers. It is also between the two rollersthat the waves are given to silks, mohairs, and other stuffs properto be tabbied. Impressions from copperplates are also taken by-passing the plate and paper between two rollers. See Print-ing.

ROLLIN, C harlf-s, a justly celebrated French writer, wasthe son ot a cutler at Paris , born there on the 30th of Jan. 1G6I.He studied at the college Du Plessis, in which he obtained a bur-sary, through the interest of a Benedictine monk of the WhiteMantle, whom he had served at table, and who discovered in himsome marks of genius. Here he acquired the regard of M. Gobi-net, principal of that college, who had a particular esteem for him.After having studied humanity and philosophy at this college, heapplied to divinity three years at the Sorbonne; but he did notprosecute this study, and never rose in the church higher than tothe rank of a tonsured priest. He afterwards became professor ofrhetoric in the same college; and, in 1688, succeeded Ilorsan, hismaster, as professor of eloquence, in the royal college. In 1694,he was chosen rector ; and continued in that office two years, whichwas then a great mark of distinction. By virtue of his office, hespoke the annual panegyric upon Lewis XIV. Upon the expiration of the rectorship, cardinal Noaillos engaged him to super-intend the studies ot his nephews, who were in the college ofLaon ; and in this office he was agreeably employed, when, in1699, he was with great reluctance made coadjutor to the principalof the college of Beauvais. This college was then a kind of de-sert, with very few students, and without any manner of discipline :but Rollin’s great reputation and industry soon re-peopled it, andmade it that nourishing society it has ever since continued. Inthis situation lie continued till 1712; when the war between (lieJesuits and the Jansenists drawing towards a crisis, he fell a sacriliceto the prevalence of the former. Father le Tellier, the king’s con-fessor, a furious agent of the Jesuits , infused into his master pre-judices again-.t Rollin, whose connections with cardinal de Noailleswould alone have sufficed to have made him a Jansenist ; and onthis account lie lost his share in the principality of Beauvais. Hisedition of Quinlillian with his own notes appeared in 1715, in twovois. 12mo. with an elegant preface, setting forth his method andviews. In 1710, the university of Baris, willing to have a headsuitable to the importance of their interests in the then critical con-juncture of alliiirs, chose Rollin again rector: but lie was displacedin about two months hv a lettre de cachet. The university hadpresented to the parliament a petition, in which it protested againsttaking any part in the adjustment of the late disputes; and theirbeing congratulated in a public oration by Roliin on this step, oc-casioned the letter which ordered them to choose a rector of moremoderation. \\ hatever the university might sutler by the remo-val of Rollin, the public was a gainer; for lie now composed histreatise upon the Manner of Studying and Teaching the BeliesLettres, which was published, in two vols. 1726, and two morein 1728, Svo. The work, however, was exceedingly successful,and its success encouraged its author te undertake another work ofequal use and entertainment; his Histoire Ancienno, &c. or “ An-cient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylo-nians, Merles and Persians , Macedonians, and Greeks,” which hefinished in 13 vols. 8vo. and published between 1730 and 1738.Rollin was one of the most zealous adherents of deacon Paris ; andbefore tire inclosure of the cemetery of St. Medard, this distin-guished character might have been often seen praying at the foot

of his tomb. This he confesses in his Letters. He published alsoLesser Pieces; containing different Letters; Latin Harangues ,Discourses, Complimentary Addresses, &c. Paris 1771, two vols.12mo. This excellent person died in 1741. The prince royal ofPrussia, afterwards the great Frederic, and the duke of Cumber*land, were among his correspondents.

BOLLING, the motion by which a ship rocks from side to sidelike a cradle, occasioned by (lie agitation of the waves.

Rolling Tackle, a pulley or purchase fastened to that partof a sail-yard which is to the windward of the mast, in order to con-fine tlie yard close down to the leeward when the sail is lul led, ftis used to prevent the yard from having a great friction against themast in a high sea, which would he equally pernicious toboth.

ROLLO, the conqueror of Normandy, was a Norwegian duke ,banished from his country by Harold Harfager, who conqueredNorway in 870, on account of his piracies. He lirst retired withhis fleet among the islands of the Hebrides to the N. YV. of Scot-land, whither the flower of the Norwegian nobility had fled forrefuge, ever since Harold had become master of the kingdom.He was there received with open arms by those warriors, who,eager for conquest and revenge, waited only tor a chief to lead themon. Rollo , setting himself at their head, sailed towards England,which had been long a field open to the violence of the northernnations. But the great Alfred had some years before established:such order in his part of the island, that Rollo , after several fruit-less attempts, despaired of forming there such a settlement as shouldmake him amends for the loss of iiis own country. He pretended,therefore to have had a supernatural dream, which promised hima glorious fortune in Fram e, and which served at least to supportthe ardour of his followers. The weakness of the government inthat kingdom, and the confusion in which it was involved, were stillmore persuasive reasons to ensure them success. Having there-fore sailed up tlie Seine to Rouen , lie immediately took that capi-tal of tlie province then called Neustria , and making it his maga-zine of arms, he advanced up to Paris , to .which he laid siege inform. ’Phis war at length ended in the entire cession of Neu-stria, which Charles tlie Simple was obliged to give up to Rollo and his Normans, to purchase a peace. Rollo received it in perpe-tuity to himself and his posterity, as a feudal duchy dependent oiltlie crown of France .

ROMAGNA, a late province of Italy ', formerly in the pope’s ter-ritories, but now constitutes tlie department of the Rubicon. It wasbounded on the N. by tlie Ferrarese, S. by Tuscany and tlie duchyI of Urbino , E. by tlie Gulf of Venice, and VV. by tlie Bologneseand a part of Tuscany . It is fertile ill corn, wine, oil, ’.ruits, andpastures. It has also mines, mineral-waters, and salt-wets, whichmake its principal revenue. Ravenna was the capital ; but Cesenais now the capital of tlie Rubicon.

ROM A IN E, Rev. William, a late popular English divine ;born at Hartlepool, in Durham , in 1714; and educated lirst atHertford College, Oxford , afterwards at Chrisl-church, where liemade himself master of tlie Hebrew, and became a zealous Hut-chinsoniaii. He was ordained in 1737, and in 1738 attacked bishop:YVurlnirton’s Divine Legation of Moses. In 1739, he preacheda seiniou before tlie University against the bishop’s doctrine. In1739, lie was chosen lecturer ot St. Dunstan ’s YV. and in 1740, thepreacher of St. George’s. He was now become so popular, thattiie churches were crowded ; on which account he was dismissedIrom tlie latter. He was next appointed professor of astronomyi at Gresham College , but soon resigned it. In 1764, lie waselected rector of St. Andrew, and St. Anne,. Blackfriars. lie diedin 1765, with the character of a powerful preacher, and a good, wrifer. lT.s works, ("insisting of sermons and practical tracts,were published in eight vols. Svo. 1766. lie also published Ca-lasio’s Hebrew Concordance, in four vols. folio, 1743.

ROMAN, CAPE, a promontory of the United Slates, oiltlie coast of S. Carolina. Lor,. 79. 30. YV. Lai. 35. 5. N.

Roman Catholics, a name generally given to tlie members ofthe church of Rome . See Catholic, Papist, Pole, midPopery.

Homan Republic, Ancient . The republican form of govern-ment continued among the ancient Romans 461 year;:, horn tlieabolition of monarchy A. U. C. 245, to its restoration under tlieimperial form by Julius C'xsar . Some protract the existence of* the