Mr. Noyes lived at Salem when the witchcraft excesses were agitating the community of that place. He was severe in his denunciations of the wild fanatics who be- lieved in those extravagant supposed spiritual manifes- tations, and advocated their public prosecution. Later in life he saw the error of his course, and greatly regret- ted that he had been a party in the illiberal treatment of the poor fanatics. A letter of his, with an account of James Noyes, is in Mather's Maf/nolia. He pub- lished a Poem on the death of Joseph Green, of Salera (1715).
Noyon, Council of (Concilium Koriomense), an important ecclesiastical gathering of the Middle Ages, was convoked in consequence of a dispute between the French king, St. Louis, and bishop Milo, of Beauvais, in 1233. The prelate claimed that the king had vio- lated his rights by bringing to punishment in Beauvais certain incendiaries who had raised a sedition there, in which murder had been committed. The bishoi> laid the province under an interdict, upon which the cathe- dral chapters made complaint that it had been done without their consent; and in a council held at St. Quentin on the Sunday before Christmas, at which eight bishops were present, the interdict was suspended. From this decision the bishop of Beauvais appealed to the pope, but he died before the question had been settled ; it was not until some years after that his successor con- firmed the removal of the interdict, and made peace with St. Louis. Five sessions were held. See Labbe, Cone, xi, 446 ; INIansi, note ; Eaynald, ii, 48.
Another Church council was convoked at Noyon, July 26, 1344, b\' John of Yienne, archbishop of Rheims, and six bishops. Seventeen canons were published, re- lating chiefly to ecclesiastical immunities and the de- fence of the clergy :
4. Directs that in all churches divine service shall be conducted after the example of the cathedral church.
5. Exconimunirates those lords who forbid their vassals io buy and sell with ecclesiastics, and to till their lands.
S. Directs thnt those clerks who submit voluntarily to the sentence of the secular judsjes, and who pay the lines inflicted upon them by such judges, slinll be punished.
12. Forbids priests and other ecclesiastics, etc., publicly to solemnize (ut solemnizent in publico) miracles which they assert to have recently been done, without the con- sent of the ordinary.
13. Excommunicates those lords who stripped off the vestments and shaved the heads of ecclesiastics accused of crimes.
14. Excommunicates lay persons who pretended to be clerks and assumed the tonsure.
17. Condemns the exorbitant exactions of the proctors in the ecclesiastical courts.
—Labbe, Cone, xi, 1899.
Ntoupi, a name which is given to excommunicated persons by the Greek Christians, because (as the uned- ucated and superstitious among them pretend) the bod- ies of the Ntoupi do not rot in the earth, but swell and sound like a drum whenever they are touched or moved. In confirmation of this ridiculous notion, they tell the following story: Mohammed II, having heard much of the etficacy of excommunication in the Greek Church, ordered Maximus, the patriarch of Constantinople, to procure him the sight of the body of an excommuni- cated person. The patriarch, at a loss how to satisfy the grand -seignior's request, communicated it to his clergy, among whom some of the most ancient remem- bered that under the patriarchate of Gennadius the body of a beautiful widow, who had been excommuni- cated for slandering the patriarch, had been taken up a considerable time after her death, and been found en- tire, and then buried a second time. Maximus, being informed of the pLnce where this lady was buried, sent word thereof to the sultan, who sent some of his officers, in whose presence the grave was opened, and the corpse was found whole, but black, and puffed up like a blad- der. The officers having made a report thereof, Mo- hammed was astonished thereat, and ordered the body to be transported to a chapel of the church Pummaca- rista. A few days after, by the sultan's command, the
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coffin was presented to the patriarch to take off the ex- communication. Accordingly tlie patriarch, having repeated the absokition, there was heard a crackling noise of the bones and nerves ; whereupon the officers shut the body up again in the chapel, and visiting it some davs after, found it crumbled to dust. They add, the sultan, being convinced of this miracle, acknowl- edged the Christian religion to be very powerful. See Broughton, Ilist. of Rdiyions, s. v.
Nubia. See Abyssinia; Egypt; Ethiopia; Nile.
Nucci, Allegretto, an old Italian painter of the 14th century, is noted as the author of several works of ecclesiastic art. There are, e. g., in the church of St, Antonio in Fahriano some histories of that saint, divided into pictures in the early style, resembling the school of Giotto, inscribed, "AUeff}-ettu$ A^iititis de Fahriano hoc opus fecit, 1366." See Spooner, Biog. Hist, of the Fine A rts. p. 623.
Nucci, Alvanzino, an Italian painter, was born at Citta di Castello in 1552. After studying in his native place he went to Eome, and became the pupil of Niccolo Circigano, and was his ablest scholar. Nucci assisted his master in almost all the works he executed in the Vatican. Nucci also painted many works by himself in the churches and palaces at Rome. He afterwards went to Naples, where he painted for the churches. He wrought with great facility and despatch in a style re- sembling his master, though he was inferior to him in grandeur. Lanzi commends his Murder of the Innocents in the church of St. Silvestro, at Fahriano. He died in 1629. See Spooner, Biorj. Ilist. of the Fine Arts, p. 623.