Tonson
JACOB, an English publisher; born in London, England, in 1656. He commenced business in Chancery Lane in 1677, removed to Gray's Inn in 1697, and thence in 1712 to the Shakeer; born in London, England, in 1656. He commenced business in Chancery in the Strand. He retired from business in 1720, and died A April 21, 1736. He is worthy of remembrance as Dryden's regular publisher, as the originator of the miscellanies which bear his name, as having brought out the first good editions of Milton and the first complete octavo edition of Shakespeare, and as the secrethe miscellanies which bear his name, as having brought out the first good editions Thames. round the head, all above and below being leges of a cleric, and furnishes a means to distinguish the higher from the lower clergy, as the extent of the tonsure inshaved; the tonsure of secular clerics is small. The tonsure is a necessary preliminary to entering the clerical state, of the religious house, if a mitered abbot. former case it is conferred by the bishop of the diocese, in the latter by the head It invests the receiver with all the privileges of a cleric, and furnishes a means to distinguish the higher from the lower clergy, as the extent of the tonsure increases with the rank till the priesthood is reached. Also, the act of admission to given without some minor order being the clerical state. At first it was never conferred at the same time, but this practice ceased in the 7th century.