BARBEYRAC, John, born 1674, at Bariers, Thou hast tasted of prosperity and adversity; a city of Lower Languedoc, in France. He thou knowest what it is to be banished thy natranslated into French the two celebrated works tive country, to be overruled as well as to rule of "Puffendorf," his "Law of Nature and Na-and sit upon the throne; and, being oppressed, tions," and his "Duties of a Man and Citizen;" thou hast reason to know how hateful the opwrote excellent notes to both these performan-pressor is both to God and man: if, after all ces, and to the former gave an introductory pre- these warnings and advertisements, thou dost face. He published also, in 1724, a translation not turn unto the Lord with all thy heart, but into French of Grotius' treatise "De Jure Belli forget him who remembered thee in thy distress, ac Pacis," with ample and excellent notes, and and give up thyself to follow low lust and vanidied in 1729. ty, surely great will be thy condemnation."He did great service to his sect over all Europe, by his writings, and died 1690.

BARBIER D'AUCOUR, John, a native of Langres, and a lawyer of some merit, died 1694. BARBIER, Mary Ann, a native of Orleans, and a writer of tragedies, died 1745.

BARBIER, Lewis, a favourite of the Duke of Orleans, and bishop of Langres, died 1670. BARBIERI, John Francis, a historical painter of some merit, died 1666.

BARBOSA, Arius, one of the restorers of learning in Spain, and professor at-Salamanca, died 1540.

BARCOCHEBAS, or BARCOCHAB, an impostor among the Jews; his followers were numerous, but afterwards destroyed by Julius Se

verus.

BARCOS, Martin de, a controversial writer, of Bayonne, died 1678.

BARD, a Mahomedan writer.

BARD, John, a learned Physician, in the city of New-York, several years, and elected presiBARBOSA, Peter, a native of Portugal, pro-dent of the medical society of the same, died fessor at Coimbra, and chancellor of the king-1799. dom, died 1596.

BARDAS, a chief at Constantinople, guardBARBOSA, Emanuel, a Portuguese author, ian to Michael III., was put to death 866. BARDAS, called Scelerus, a general raised to

died 1638.

BARBOU, Hugh, a celebrated printer at Ly-the purple by his soldiers; time of his death unons, about 1580. known. BARBOUR, John, a Scotch clergyman, am- BARDESANES, a Syrian author, and foun bassador from Bruce to the court of England, der of a sect which bore his name, lived about died 1378. 172.

BARBUD, a celebrated musician at the court

of Persia.

BARCALI, a Mahomedan writer, died 960 of the hegira.

BARDET, Peter, a French advocate and author, died in 1685.

BARDHADI, a Mahomedan writer. BARDIN, Peter, a native of Rouen, and auBARCHAM, John, a learned divine and an-thor, was drowned in 1637. tiquary, born at Exeter, about 1572. He assisted BÁRDIN, John, a French historical painter, Speed in his History of England; and was au-born at Monthar, in 1732, and died at Orleans, in thor of a "Display of Heraldrie," folio, 16111809. In 1764, he gained the prize for a picture but having composed this in his youth, and of Tullia driving over the body of her father. thinking it too light a subject to acknowledge, BARDNEY, Richard, a Benedictine, died in he gave it to John Gwillim, a herald of his ac-1504. quaintance, under whose name it has been re- BAREBONE, Praise-God, a bigoted zealot of peatedly printed. He died 1642. Cromwell's parliament, of such celebrity as a demagogue, that the parliament was ludicrously called after him. His two brothers adopted as Scripture_names, "Christ came into the world to save, Barebone," and "if Christ had not died, thou hadst been damned, Barebone," called by the wits of the day, by the two last words. BARENT, Dieterich, a Dutch painter, died 1592.

BARCHUSEN, or BARKHAUSEN, John Conrad, a German, eminent as a physician, and lecturer on chymistry, died 1717.

BARCLAY, or BARKLAY, Alexander, a native of Scotland, rector of a church in England, and an elegant writer of the 16th century.

BARCLAY, William, a Scotchman, professor of the university of Pontamousson, in France, died 1605.

BARCLAY, John, son of the preceding, a writer of some celebrity, died 1621.

BARETTI, Joseph, born at Turin, about 1716. He came over to England in the year 1750, where he resided (with a short interval) the re

BARCLAY, Henry, D. D. sometime mission-mainder of his life. Baretti had the good forary to the Mohawk Indians, afterwards rector of Trinity Church, New-York, died 1765.

tune to be introduced to Dr. Samuel Johnson, and between them a very long intimacy had BARCLAY, Robert, an eminent writer, of place. From the time of his arrival in Engthe society of Quakers, born at Edinburgh, 1648 and, he subsisted by teaching the Italian lan. In 1676, his famous "Apology for the Quakers"guage, and by the sale of his writings. In 1760 was published in Latin, at Amsterdam, 4to. he made a tour to Italy, through Portugal and He translated it, however, into English, and Spain, and returned to England after an absence published it in 1678. This work is addressed to of six years. In 1769, he was tried at the Old Charles II., and the manner in which he ex-Bailey for having stabbed a man who violently aspresses himself to his majesty is very remarka-saulted him in the Haymarket. He made a most ble. Among many other extraordinary pas- admirable defence; which, added to the bad re sages, we meet with the following: "There isputation of his prosecutors, impressed the court no king in the world who can so experimental much in his favour. He was acquitted of the testify of God's providence and goodness; nei murder, and of the manslaughter: the verdict After this unfortunate transther is there any who rules so many free people was, self-defence. so many true Christians; which thing rende action he again sat down to his studies, and in thy government more honourable, thyself more 1770 published his "Travels," for which, it is considerable, than the accession of many na-said, he received 5001. On the establishment of tions, filled with slavish and superstitious souls. the Royal Academy, he was appointed foreign

secretary, a post of more honour than profit. He died May 5, 1789, without a struggle or sigh, the moment after taking a glass of wine; preserving his faculties to the last moment.

BAREZI, a Mahomedan author, died 738 of the hegira.

BARGRAVE, Isaac, Chaplain to James I. and Charles, died 1642.

BARIDAH, a Mahomedan writer on Aristotle.

BARINI, a Mahomedan writer.

BARKER, Robert, a painter, known as the inventor of panoramic exhibitions, died 1806. BARKER, Thomas, son of the preceding, was a member of the royal society, and the auther of several theological and other pieces, he died in London, 1809.

BARKHAM, John, a native of Exeter, and a divine of reputation for learning; time of his death unknown

BARKI, a Mahomedan writer.

BARKSDALE, Clement, master of Hereford school, and rector of Naunton, died in 1687. BARLAAM, a monk of Calabria, made abbot of St. Salvador, by the emperor Andronicus, died in 1348.

BARLÆUS, Gasparaus, a Latin poet, of Antwerp, sub-principal of the college at Leyden, and afterwards professor of philosophy at Amsterdam, died 1648.

BARLÆUS, Lambert, Greek professor at Leyden, died in 1655.

BARLAND, Adrian, a native of Zealand, and professor at Louvain, died in 1542.

BARLETTA, Gabriel, a dominican, of some celebrity as a writer and preacher, born at Naples, about 1400.

BARLOTTA, Joseph, a Sicilian poet of the 18th century.

BARNARD, Thomas, a highly respected minister in Salem, Mass., died 1755.

BARNARD, Theodore, a native of Amsterdam, and painter under Titian.

BARNARD, John, prebendary of Lincoln, died in 1683.

BARNARD, Sir John, was in the year 1722 chosen one of the representatives in parliament for the city of London; a trust which he continued to enjoy during the six succeeding parliaments, and which he always discharged with equal integrity and ability. In 1727, he was chosen alderman of Dowgate Ward. On the subject of the famous excise scheme, projected by Sir Robert Walpole, in 1733, Sir John made so strenuous an opposition, that, in conjunction with other members, he obliged the ministry entirely to lay it aside. In 1737, he formed a scheme for reducing the interest on the national debt; a project which, though it did not at that time succeed, was, nevertheless, afterwards carried into execution, to the great emolument of the trading part of the nation. In 1738, he served in the high office of lord-mayor of London; and in July, 1758, resigned his gown, and retired to Clapham; where, after having attained to near the age of 80, he died August 29, 1766. A statue is erected to his memory in the Royal Exchange.

BARNAVE, Anthony Peter Joseph Marie, a deputy to the national assembly of France, who lost his popularity for some expressions in favour of the king, and was guillotined, 1793.

BARNES, Juliana, prioress of Sopewell nunnery, eminent for her accomplishments and piety, died after 1486.

BARNES, Joshua, an eminent critic, and professor of the Greek language in the university of Cambridge, was born in London, 1654. He published editions of Euripides, Anacreon, and BARLOW, William, bishop of different dio- Homer; a life of Edward IIL, folio, 1688; and reses, under Henry VIII., and Mary and Eliza-several poems, both in Latin and English; and beth of England, died 1568.

BARLOW, Francis, a native of Lincolnshire, 1 painter, died 1702.

died in 1712.

BARNES, Thomas, D. D., an English dissenting minister, of Manchester, and preceptor of an BARLOW, Joel, L_L. D., author of the Co-academy at the same place, died in 1810. lumbiad, was born at Reading, Conn., 1758, and BARNES, David Leonard, attorney of the educated at Yale College; he served in the United States, for the district of Rhode-Island, American army as a volunteer, and as a chap-and judge of the same, died 1812. lain. At the close of the war, he went to France, where he became conspicuous and popular as a zealous friend of the revolution He was appointed American consul at Algiers, and afterwards minister from the U. S. to France, and died, on his way to Wilna to meet Napoleon,

1812.

BARLOWE, Thomas, successively fellow of Oxford, keeper of the Bodleian, professor of divinity, and bishop of Lincoln, died 1691. BARLOWE, William, remarkable for having been the first who wrote on the nature and properties of the loadstone, 20 years before Gilbert published his book on that subject. It was Le likewise who found out the difference between fron and steel, and their tempers for magnetical uses He died in 1625.

BARNES, Robert, D. D., employed by Henry, VIII.; afterwards incurring his displeasure, he was burnt at the stake, 1540.

BARNEVELDT, John d'Olden, an able statesman, of Holland, ambassador to England and France, condemned on faise charges, and executed, 1619.

BARO, or BARONI, Peter, a native of France, who retired to England as a protestant, and resided with lord Burleigh; afterwards professor of divinity at Cambridge, died after 1574.

BAROCHE, Frederick, a painter, of Urbino, of great celebrity, died in 1612.

BARON, Bonaventure, a native of Ireland, and divinity professor at Rome, died 1696.

BARON, Michael, the Roscius of the French theatre, born 1652, died 1729. The father of BARNABAS, St., a Levite, converted to Baron also was an actor, famous for his talent Christianity, and a preacher of the gospel with in declamation; and the manner of his death SL Paul: he was stoned to death by the Jews. was singular playing the part of Don Diego, BARNARD, John, minister, of Marblehead, in The Cid, his sword fell from his hand, as the Mass; the father of the commercial enterprise piece requires; and kicking it from him with of that place, and long regarded as the father of the churches in New-England. His publications are numerous and valuable; he died 1770. BARNARD, Edward, a worthy and dis finguished minister, of Haverhill, Mass. died

indignation, he unfortunately struck against the point of it, by which his little toe was pierced It turned to a gangrene; he refused to suffer amputation, and died 1655.

BARON, Hyacinth Theodore, a learned phy sician of Paris, died in 1758.

BARONI, Adrianne Basile, sister to Basileverse with him, and, in his humorous way, the poet; greatly admired for her beauty, wit, call him an "unfair preacher," because he and accomplishments. hausted every subject, and left nothing for othe BARONIUS, Cæsar, a Neapolitan Cardinal, to say after him. In 1675, he was chosen vi librarian of the Vatican, and author of "Eccle-chancellor of the university. This great a siastical Annals, from A. D. 1, to 1198," born learned divine died of a fever the 4th of Ma 1538, died 1607. 1677, and was buried in Westminster Abbey. BARROW, Isaac, a native of Spiney Abbe bishop of Sodor, Man, and St. Asaphs, di

BAROU DU SOBEIL, N., a distinguished lawyer at Lyons, put to death in 1792.

BAROZZI, James, a skilful architect, of Mo-1677. dena, who succeeded Michael Angelo, as the architect of St. Peters, died in 1577.

BARRAL, Peter, an ecclesiastic of Grenoble, teacher at Paris, and author of a historical dictionary, died in 1772.

BARRE, Francois Pouillain de la, a native of France, professor at Geneva, died in 1723.

BARRY, Girald, a native of Pembrokeshi a clergyman, and author of a history of the co quest of Ireland; he died after 1215.

BARRY, James, an Irish lawyer; he was baron of the exchequer, chief justice of t king's bench, and afterwards lord Santry of t peerages; he died 1673.

BARRE, Lewis Francoise Jos. de la, a native of Tournay, author of some books on Antiqua-cotemporary with, and a powerful rival of, M rian history, &c.; he died in 1738.

BARRE, Michel de la, of Paris, an eminent player on the German flute, died 1744.

BARRY, Spranger, an eminent English act Garrick, born in Dublin, 1719, died in Londo Jan. 1774. His peculiar advantages were d rived from a fine person, melodious voice, a BARRE, Joseph, canon of St. Genevieve, pleasing address; and his performances in am chancellor of the university of Paris, and autory characters were perhaps never excelle thor of a history of Germany, died 1764. See CRAWFORD. BARRE, Madame du, mistress of Lewis XV., of France, executed during the revolution in

1793.

BARRY, James, an eminent painter, w born at Cork, in Ireland, 1742; and having ear discovered great genius for the art, he was p BARREAUX, Jacques Vallee, a libertine of tronized by Mr. Burke, and brought to Londo Paris; he was celebrated rather for his volup-where he became a pupil to Sir Joshua Re tuous life, than for the productions of his pen; died 1673.

BARRELIER, James, a dominican_friar, eminent as a scientific botanist, died 1673. BARRERE, Peter, a physician of Perpignan,

died 1755.

BARRETT, George, an eminent self-taught painter, of Dublin, and a member of the Royal Academy, died 1784.

nolds. When Mr. Burke came into administr tion with the marquis of Rockingham, he se Mr. Barry to Italy, at his sole expense. Aft visiting all the celebrated schools of the con nent, in which he occupied three years, M Barry returned to London; and in 1775, pu lished "An Inquiry into the real and imagina Obstructions to the Acquisition of the Arts England." About two years after this, he w elected a Royal Academician, and in 1786 ma professor of painting to the Royal Academ but in 1799, on an alleged addiction to dem

BARRETT, William, a surgeon, of Bristol,and author of a history of that city, died 1789. BARRIERE, Pierre, a soldier who attempted to assassinate Henry IV. of France, but was de-cratical principles, was removed from that tected and broken on the wheel, 1693.

BARRINGTON, John Shute, lord viscount, a nobleman of considerable learning, and author of several books on religious subjects, was born in 1678, and died in 1734.

fice. He seems soon afterwards to have tak disgust at society, from which he retired into wretched obscurity, living unattended, and ha starved, till some friends raised about 1000 with which they purchased an annuity for hir BARRINGTON, Daines, son of the above, but before the first quarter's payment of it t a celebrated English lawyer, antiquary, and came due he died, Mar. 22, 1806, and was inte writer on subjects of law, politics, natural histored in St. Paul's cathedral. His greatest eff ry, geography, and criticism, born 1727, died of art is a series of allegorical pictures, whi March 14, 1800. His writings are very nume- he painted gratuitously for the great room of t rous, and many of them are in the Philosophi-Society of Arts, in the Adelphi. cal Transactions and the Archæologia; but those which most distinguished him as an author were, his "Observations on the Statutes, chiefly the more ancient," &c. of which, two 4to editions were published in one year, (1766.) BARRINGTON, Samuel, son of lord B., a distinguished admiral in the British navy, died 1800.

BARROS, or DE BARROS, John, a native of Viseo, preceptor to the princes of Portugal, afterwards governor of St. George, on the African coast, and treasurer of the Indies, under king Juan. He wrote a history of the Indies, and died 1570.

BARRY, George, D. D., an ominent Scot divine, author of a history of the Orkneys, di 1805.

BARRY, John, first commodore in the Ame can navy; he possessed great courage, was patriot, and Christian, and died 1803.

BARSUMA, or BARSOMA, metropolita author of several books in Syriac.

BARTAS, Guillaume de Salluste du, a Fren poet of Monfort, in Armagnac, died 1590.

BARTH, John, a native of Dunkirk, who, his bravery and skill, rose to a high rank in t French navy; he died in 1702.

BARTHE, Nicholas Thomas, a native Marseilles; he was author of some drama pieces, and died 1785.

BARROW, Isaac, an eminent mathematician and divine, born in London, 1630. When the King advanced Dr. B. to the dignity of master BARTHELEMI, Nicholas, a Benedictine of Trinity College, Cambridge, his majesty was the 15th century, and author of some devotion pleased to say, "he had given it to the best scho-Latin poems. far in England;" and he did not speak from re- BARTHELEMI, the Nestor of French lit port, but from his own knowledge. The doctor rature, and author of the "Travels of An being then his chaplain, he used often to con-charsis in Greece," died May 4, 1795. Duri

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the domination of Robespierre, like most other physician, of Philadelphia. He was appointed men of learning, he was imprisoned; when, professor of natural history and botany, and afnotwithstanding his great age (upwards of 80)terwards of Materia Medica, in the univer and infirmities, instead of sinking under the risity of Pennsylvania, and succeeded Dr. Rush, gour with which he was treated, he exerted him-on his death, as professor of the theory and 1 self in consoling his fellow-sufferers. Soon af-practice of medicine; he died in 1815. ter the fall of Robespierre, he was released, and allowed a pension. In the " Memoirs of the holy Maid of Kent," was a religious impostor BARTON, Elizabeth, commonly called "The Academy of Inscriptions and Belles Lettres," in the reign of Henry VIII., and executed at are preserved many of his papers, illustrating Tyburn, April 20, 1534. Greek literature. BARTRAM, John, a distinguished botanist, BARTHELEMI DES MARTYRS, a domini-born in Pennsylvania; he was elected American, of Lisbon, archbishop of Braganza, died can botanist to George III., and died in 1777. in 1590. Linnæus pronounced him "the greatest natural BARTHES DE MARMORIONS, Paul Jo-botanist in the world." seph, a French medical writer, and professor BARUCH, the prophet, the friend of Jereof medicine, and chancellor of that faculty, in miah, he was author of a book not received as the university at Montpelier; he died 1806. canonical, either by Christians or Jews. He BARTHIUS, Gaspard, of Brandenburg, an went to Babylon with the Israelites in their cap. elegant scholar, and perfect master of most for-tivity. eign languages, died 1658. BARWICK, John, a native of Westmoreland, BARTHOLIN, Gaspard, professor of Latin, distinguished for his zeal in the royal cause; of medicine, and afterwards of divinity, at Co-and his attachment to Charles I. and II.; he penhagen, died 1629. was afterwards dean of Durham and St. Paul's, BARTHOLIN, Thomas, son of Gaspard, pro-and died 1664.

fessor of mathematics and of anatomy at Co- BARWICK, Peter, a brother of the dean, an penhagen, afterwards librarian to the univer-eminent physician; he supported Hervey's docsity, and physician to the king of Denmark; he trine of the circulation of the blood, and died died 1680.

BARTHOLIN, Thomas, son of the above, professor of law and history at Copenhagen, and counsellor to the king; he died in 1890. His three brothers were also professors of the university of Copenhagen, and their sister was an eminent Danish poetess.

BARTHOLOMEW, St., one of the apostles, who preached the gospel in Ethiopia, Lycaonia, and the Indies.

BARTHOLOMEW, the Martyr, a kind and benevolent Christian, and archbishop of Braga, died 1590.

BARTLET, John, minister of St. Thomas, near Exeter, and author of some divinity tracts.

1705.

BARZERINI, a Mahomedan writer. BAS, Le, a French engraver of eminence, died 1765.

BASCHI, Matthew, founder of a new order of Franciscan capuchins, died 1552.

BASEDOW, John Bernard, professor of moral philosophy, at Soroe, in Denmark, from which he was expelled for irreligion; he died 1790.

BASHUYSEN, Henry James Van, professor of ecclesiastical history and the oriental at Berlin, died 1758. languages at Hanau, and afterwards of divinity

BASIL, St., bishop of Cæsarea, persecuted by Valens, for refusing to embrace Arianism, BASIL, an Arian, bishop of Ancyra.

BARTLETT, Josiah, a physician in New-died 379. Hampshire; he was a member of the continental congress from that state, and a signer of the BASIL I., a Macedonian. Being but a comdeclaration of independence, and was after-mon soldier, he was taken prisoner by the Bulwards governor of the state; he died 1795. garians, from whom, however, he escaped, and BARTOLI, Cosimo, of Florence, resident of solicited alms to support him on a journey to duke Cosmo at Venice, in the 16th century. Constantinople, where he became emperor of BARTOLI, Daniel, a Jesuit of Ferrara, set-the East. Dreaded by his enemies the Saracens, tled at Rome, where he wrote several historical whom he frequently vanquished; and beloved works in Italian; he died in 1685. by his subjects for his justice and clemency; he died in 886.

BARTOLO, a lawyer of eminence, professor of law at Pisa, and counsellor to Charles IV., died 1359.

BARTOLOCCI, Julius, a cistercian monk, of Naples, and Hebrew professor at Rome, died

1687.

BASIL II., emperor of Constantinople, a valiant, but cruel and inhuman prince, died 1025. BASIL, an impostor, who disturbed Constantinople, by pretending to be Costantine Ducas, for which he was burned alive, after 934.

BARTOLOZZI, Francesco, a very eminent engraver, born at Florence, in 1728. In 1764 he sect called Bogomiles, in Bulgaria, and was conBASIL, a physician, who became head of a came to England and worked for the printsellers,demned for his heresies.

particularly Mr. Boydell. In 1769 he was cho- BASILIDES, a sectary of Alexandria, in the sen a member of the Royal Academy. The 2d century, who enjoined five years silence on new mode of stippling, or engraving in the red his followers.

chalk manner, now becoming fashionable, gave BASILICES, brother of Verina, the wife of Bartolozzi ample employment, and he executed Leo I., emperor of the East; he seized and rein that way many hundreds of prints. The finest tained the throne a short time, during which the of all his works, perhaps, are the Marlborough valuable library of Constantinople, containing Gems, and the prints for Boydell's Shak-120,000 volumes was burnt; he died 478. speare. In 1802 he went to Lisbon, on an invi tation from the prince regent of Portugal, who allowed him a pension; and there he died in March, 1815. BASINE, wife of the king of Thuringia, who BARTON, Benjamin S., M. D., an eminent left her husband to espouse Childeric I., of

BASILOWITZ, Iwan, a hero, who laid the foundation of the Russian empire, and first assumed the name of Czar, died 1584.

France, as the bravest man of his day; she was phy, for the great mental acquirements dismother of Clovis the Great. played in her lectures on that subject, and disBASINGSTOKE, or BASINGE, John, arch-inguished as possessing every amiable virtue; deacon of Leicester, author of "Sermons," she died in 1778. "Latin Translations from the Greek," &c. ;) BASITH, Khaiath, a Mahometan, author of he is supposed to have introduced the Greek a treatise on prayer. numerical figures into England. He died 1252. BASSOMPIERRE, Francois de, marechal of BASIRE, Isaac, D. D., archdeacon of France, of a distinguished family of Lorraine, Northumberland, and chaplain to Charles I.;a courtier and ambassador of Lewis XIII.; he afterwards prebendary of Durham; he died

1676.

BASIRE, James, an eminent English engraver, born Oct. 6, 1730, died Sept. 6, 1802 He was many years engraver to the Royal Society and to the Society of Antiquaries.

BASKERVILLE, John, an ngenious English letter-founder and printer, famous for the beauty and elegance of his types and editions; born at Wolverly, in Worcestershire, 1706, died 1775. BASKERVILLE, Sir Simon, knight, obtained by his skill as a physician, in London, distinction, the honour of knighthood, and immense wealth; he died 1641.

was confined ten years in the Bastile by the duke of Richelieu, during which time he wiste his memoirs; he died in 1646.

BASSVILLE, Nicholas John Hugon de, ambassador from France to Rome, where he was stabbed 1793.

BASSUEL, Peter, a distinguished surgeon and lecturer of Paris, died 1757.

BASTA, George, known as a warrior in the service of the duke of Parma, and afterwards of the emperor, in Hungary, died 1607. BASTARD, Thomas, a poet and preacher of England, of considerable learning, died 1618. BASTON, Robert, a Carmelite monk, poet BASTWICK, Dr. John, a physician, who was severely fined and imprisoned for his writBASNAGE, Henry, an advocate of the par-ings against the clergy, but during the civil wars, liament of Rouen, who, upon the proscription recalled to London, and indemnified for his sufof the protestants, in France, fled to Holland,||ferings. where he died, 1710.

BASNAGE, James, a French refugee in Hol-laureat, and public orator, at Oxford, died 1310. land, author of "A History of the Jews," died 1723.

BASNAGE, Benjamin, a protestant, author of a treatise on the church, and deputy from the French churches to Scotland, in the reign of James VI., died 1652.

BATE, John, D. D., prior of the Carmelites at York, distinguished for his learning; he died in 1429.

BATE, George, physician to Charles I., then to Oliver Cromwell, and afterwards to Charles

BASNAGE, Anthony, son to the above, mi-II.; he died 1669. nister of Bayeux; he was imprisoned for his religion at Havre de Grace, and afterwards fled to Holland, where he died in 1691.

BASNAGE, DU FRAQUENAY, Henry, an advocate of Rouen, eminent for eloquence, died 1695.

BASNET, Edward, dean of St. Patrick, in Ireland, in 1537, afterwards privy counsellor.

BASS, Edward, D. D., a scholar and divine; he was first bishop of Massachusetts, and died in 1803.

BATE, Julius, a friend of Hutchinson, author of a defence of his system, and of some valuable pieces of criticism, died 1771.

BATECUMBE, William, a mathematician who lived about 1420.

BATEMAN, William, bishop of Norwich, and founder of Trinity-hall, Cambridge, also ambassador to the court of Rome, died 1534.

BATES, William, D. D., chaplain to Charles II., a non-conformist divine of great learning, and the intimate friend of the first men of the kingdom, died 1699.

BATHALMIUSI, an eminent Mahomedan writer, of the family of Ali, died 421 of the hegira.

BASSAN, James Du Pont, a painter, born 1510, in the village of Bassano, in the republic of Venice. He had great success in landscape and portraiture; and has also drawn several night-pieces; but it is said he found great diffi- BATHE, Henry de, a justice of the common culty in representing feet and hands, and for this pleas, and afterwards chief justice of the King's reason those parts are generally hid in his pic-Bench under Henry III., died 1261. tures. Anibal Caracci, when he went to see Bassan, was so far deceived by the representation of a book, drawn upon the wall, that he went to lay hold of it. The pieces of this painter are spread over Europe; he died at Venice, 1592. BASSANDYNE, Thomas, a Scotchman, known as a printer, died 1591.

BASSANI, James Anthony, a Jesuit of Vicenza, an eloquent preacher, distinguished by Pope Benedict XIV.; he died in 1747.

BATHE, William, an Irish Jesuit, rector of an Irish school, at Salamanca, and a writer on music and divinity, died 1614.

BATHURST, Ralph, a Latin poet, physician and divine of Trinity College, Oxford, after wards dean of Wells, and vice chancellor of the university; he died 1704.

BATHURST, Allen, Earl, an English nobleman of distinguished abilities, born November 16, 1684. To uncommon talents he added many BASSANI, John Baptiste, an admired Italian virtues, integrity, humanity, and generosity composer in the 17th century, master to Corelli.and to these virtues, good breeding, politeness, BASSANTIN, James, a Scotchman, who ac-and elegance. His wit, taste, and learning, conquired reputation as a teacher of mathematics at nected him with all persons eminent in that Paris, died 1568. way, as Pope, Swift, Addison, &c. He died at his seat, near Cirencester, September 16, 1775, in his 91st year.

BASSELIN, a fuller, of Vire, in Normandy, in the 15th century, known for his popular songs and ballads.

BASSET, Peter, chamberlain to Henry V. and author of an account of the expeditions of that prince.

BASSI, Laura, wife of Joseph Verati, was Ponoured with the degree of doctor of philoso-||

BATONI, Pompeo, an eminent painter, of Lucca, ennobled by the emperor Joseph, for his distinguished merit, One of his most valuable pieces, the death of Mark Antony, is now owned in Hartford, Conn.; he died 1787.

BATSCII, Augustus, John George Charles,