a botanist, of Jena, was professor of philosophy in the university of that place, and founder and president of a society for the study of natural history; he died 1802.

BATTAGLINI, Mark, bishop of Nocera and Cesena, died 1717.

BATTELY, Dr. John, fellow of Trinity College, and chaplain to the primate Sancroft, died 1708.

BATTEUX, Charles, a French philosopher, professor of philosophy in the royal college, member of the French academy, &c., eminent for bis erudition, and his private virtues, and author of several works on classical literature; he died 1780.

BAUME, James Francis de la, canon of a church at Avignon, author of a poem called the Christiade, died 1757.

BAUME, Nicholas Auguste de la, a marechal of France, who served in Germany with great reputation, died 1716.

BAUME, James de la, a Jesuit of Paris, died 1725.

BAUMER, John William, professor of medicine at Erfurt, and a writer on the natural history of the mineral kingdom, died 1788.

BAUMGARTEN, Alexander Gottlieb, professor of philosophy at Halle, and afterwards at Frankfort, died 1776.

BAUR, John William, a painter and engraver

BATTIE, Dr. William, a physician of emi-of Strasburg, died 1640. nence in Uxbridge and London, author of seve- BAUR, Frederick William Von, a Hessian ral works on medical subjects, died 1776. soldier in the pay of Britain, made a general and BATTISHILL, Jonathan, an eminent musi- ennobled by Frederick II. of Prussia, and aftercal composer, who added to profound know-wards an able engineer and mechanic in the ledge, great taste, and a fine imagination. His service of Russia; he died 1783. Kate of Aberdeen" will be celebrated (among camerous other of his compositions) as long as pure melody shall be admired in this country. He was born in London, May, 1738, and died at Islington, December 10, 1801.

BAUAB, a learned Mahomedan, died 413 of the begira.

BAUSCH Abu Giafar, a Mahomedan writer, died 546 of the hegira.

BAUSSIRI, a Mahomedan poet, highly esteemed by the followers of Mahomet.

BAUTRU, a celebrated wit, and one of the first members of the French academy, was born at Paris, in 1588, and died there in 1665. Once, when he was in Spain, having been to see the famous library of the Escurial, where he found

BAUDELOT DE DAIRVAL, Charles Cæsar, advocate of the parliament of Paris, died 1722. BAUDET, Stephen, an eminent French en-a very ignorant librarian, the king of Spain graver, of Blois, died 1671.

asked him what he had remarked. To whom BAUDIER, Michael, a native of Languedoc, Bautru replied, that "the library was a very historiographer of France under Louis XV. fine one; but your majesty (adds he) should BAUDIN, Peter Charles Lewis, a native of make your librarian treasurer of your finances." Sedan, a member of the French national assem-"Why so?" "Because (says Bautru) he never bly, and of the convention. He was a man of touches what he is entrusted with." great firinness and moderation, and died 1799. BAUDIUS, Dominique, a native of Lisle, and advocate of the parliament of Paris, author of some Latin poems, and died 1613.

BAUDOIN, Benedict, a divine of Amiens, author of a dissertation on the shoes of the ancients, in 1615.

BAUDORI, Joseph du, a native of Vannes; educated among the Jesuits, died 1749.

BAUDOT, de Juilli, Nicholas, of Vendome, a historical writer of some merit, died 1759. BAUDAUIN, emperor of Constantinople, vid. BALDWIN.

BAUDOUIN, John, a soldier in the armies of France, and translator of Sallust, Tacitus, &c. died 1650.

BAUDRAND, Mich. Anton. an ecclesiastic, of Paris, author of a "Dictionaire Geograph lque" of merit, died 1700.

BAUDRICOURT, Jean de, a marechal of France, distinguished under Charles VIII. at the conquest of Naples. His father introduced the famous maid of Orleans on the public stage. BAUHINUS, John, a physician of Amiens, afterwards of great expectation at Basil, died

BAUVES, James de, advocate of the parliament of Paris, in the 17th century.

BAUVIN, John Gregory, a native of Arras, eminent for his knowledge of belles lettres, died in 1776.

BAUX, William de, prince of Orange, with the title of king of Arles and Vienna, murdered at Avignon, in 1218.

BAWDWEEN, William, vicar of Hooten Pagnell, near Doncaster, died Sept. 14, 1816. This gentleman was an excellent Saxon scholar, and translated vols. I. and II. of that valuable national record, Domesday Book, which was published by a vote of the British parliament. He proposed to print the whole in 10 vols. 4to; and the remaining 8 vols. are said to be prepared for the press. He left a widow and twelve children.

BAXTER, Richard, an eminent nonconformist divine, was born Nov. 12, 1615, at Rowton, near High Ercal, in Shropshire, and died 1691. He wrote a vast number of books; Mr Long, of Exeter, says 80; Dr Calamy, 120; but the author of a note in the Biographia Britannica tells us that he had seen 145 distinct treatises of Mr. Baxter's; his practical works have been published in four vols. folio Bishop Burnet, in BAUHINUS, John, son of the preceding, the history of his own times, calls him " a man physician to the duke of Wirtemburg, a medi-of great piety; and says, "that if he had not cal writer at Basil, died 1613. BAUHINUS, Gaspar, professor of botany at Basil, and physician to the duke of Wirtemburg, died 1624.

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meddled with too many things, he would have been esteemed one of the most learned men of the age; that he had a moving and pathetical way of writing; and was, his whole life long, BAULDRI, Paul, a native of Rouen, profes- a man of great zeal and much simplicity; but sor of sacred history at Utrecht, died 1706. was unhappily subtle and metaphysical in every BAULOT, or BEAULIEU, James, who tra-thing. velled through Europe as a lithotomist, and BAXTER, Andrew, a writer in metaphysics operated with great success. The city of Am-and natural philosophy, born in 1686, at Abersterdam had a medal struck in honour of this doen, where he received his educaon at King's bumane man; he died 1720. College. His principal employment was think

of a private tutor. His celebrated work, "An piety, which flourished before these controverInquiry into the Nature of the Human Soul," sies were hatched." The design was good; was first published in 4to, and has been several and the reception this book has met with may times reprinted. Bishop Warburton calls it be known from the astonishing number of its "the most finished book of the kind that the editions. This prelate died in 1634. present times have produced." Baxter drew BALEY, Matthias, remarkable for longevity; up for the use of his pupils, a piece entitled he was baptized, and died, in North Carolina, in "Matho; sive Cosmotheoria Puerilus, Dialo-1789, aged 136. gus," &c. which he afterwards greatly enlarged, BAYLY, Thomas, sub-dean of Wells, died a and published in English, 2 vols. 8vo., 1745. He catholic on the continent, in the time of Charles I. died in 1750, after bearing with the greatest for- BAYLY, Nathan, author of an English dictitude a complication of the most painful dis- tionary, and of some grammatical works. BAYNARD, Anne, a lady of great literary and scientific acquirements, died in 1697. BAYNES, Sir Thomas, knight, a physician, professor of music at Gresham college, died in 1681.

orders.

BAXTER, William, an eminent critic and grammarian, nephew to the foregoing, born at Lanlugany, in Shropshire, 1650, died 1723. He published excellent editions of "Anacreon" and "Horace," was author of a "Latin Grammar," 1679, and of a Glossary of the Roman Antiquities," which, however, goes no farther than the letter A, and was printed 1726.

BAYNES, John, a native of Yorkshire, distinguished for his intense application to study, and his attachment to liberty, died in 1787.

BAZIRE, Claude, a native of Dijon, raised, BAYARD, James A., a native of Delaware, by the French revolution, from obscurity to inwas a representative, and afterwards a senator famous celebrity. He proposed in the convenin congress from that state. In 1813 he was ap-tion, a law fixing a price on the head of La pointed one of the ministers who negotiated the Fayette; guillotined with Danton, in 1794. treaty of peace with Great Britain at Ghent; BAZZAZ, a Mahomedan theological writer. subsequent to which, he was sent as minister BE, Guillaume C., an engraver and letter to the court of St. Petersburg. He returned to founder, at Troyes and at Venice, where he acthe United States, and died in 1815. quired both reputation and wealth; he died in 1598.

BAYARD, John, speaker of the house of assembly in Maryland, was a member of the old congress, 1785; he died 1807.

BEACH, John, an episcopal writer, and a missionary at Reading, Conn.

BEACON, Thomas, an English divine, prere-bendary of Canterbury under Elizabeth.

BAYARD, Le Chevalier, a celebrated French warrior, called The knight without fear or proach, slain at the siege of Rebec, 1524.

BAYER, Theophilus Sigfred, a German who assiduously devoted himself to ancient and modern languages, and was professor of Greek and Roman Antiquities at Petersburg, died in 1738. BAYEUX, N., an advocate and poet of Caen, translator of Ovid, executed during the French revolution.

BAYLE, Peter, author of the Historical and Critical Dictionary, was born, Nov. 18, 1647, at Carla, a small town in the county of Foix, and was a most laborious and indefatigable writer. In one of his letters to Des Maizeaux, he says, that since his 20th year he hardly remembers to have had any leisure. He died the 28th of December, 1706, after he had been writing the great est part of the day. Among the productions which do honour to the age of Lewis XIV., Mr. Voltaire has not omitted the " Critical Dictionary" of our author: "It is the first work of the kind (says he) in which a man may learn to think." He was a man of brilliant parts and acute intellect; but his religious principles savour of infidelity.

BAYLE, Francis, professor of medicine at Toulouse, died in 1709.

BAYLEY, Anselm, L. L. D., an English divine, minor canon of St. Paul's and Westminster Abbey, and sub-dean of the chapel royal, author of several theological works, died in 1794.

BEALE, Mary, a portrait painter in the reign of Charles II., was born in Suffolk, 1632. In the manuscripts of Mr. Oldys, she is celebrated for her poetry, as well as for her painting; and is styled "that masculine poet, as well as painter, the incomparable Mrs. Beale." She died December 28, 1697.

BEARD, John, a very eminent and popular singer on the English stage; married, first, lady Henrietta, relict of Lord Edward Herbert, and only daughter of Lord Waldegrave; secondly, a daughter of Mr. Rich, patentee of Covent Gar den Theatre. He then became one of the proprietors, and acting manager of that house, and continued to perform till disqualified by the loss of his hearing. He died in his 75th year, February 5, 1791.

BEATON, or BETON, David, archbishop of St. Andrews, in Scotland, and cardinal of the Roman church, born 1494, lost his life by the hands of Norman Lesly, eldest son of the earl of Rothes, about the year 1546. This famous prelate was a man of great parts, but of boundless pride and ambition, and withal an eminent instance of the instability of what the world calla fortune.

BEATON, James, nephew of the archbishop of the same name, and bishop of Glasgow al 25, author of a manuscript history of Scotland, died in 1603.

BEATRIX, daughter of the count of Burgun BAYLEY, Lewis, author of that most me-dy, and wife of the emperor Frederick I., 1156. morable book, entitled, "The Practice of Piety." BEATRIX, of Provence, daughter of Ray He was born at Caermarthen, in Wales, edu-mond, count of Provence, wife of Charles, sor cated at Oxford, made minister of Evesham, in of Lewis VIII. of France, afterwards king of Worcestershire, about 1611, became a chaplain Naples and Sicily, died at Nocera. to king James, and was promoted to the see of Bangor, in 1616. His book is dedicated "to the high and mighty prince Charles, prince of Wales" and the author tells his highness, that "he had endeavoured to extract out of the chaos! of endless controversies, the old practice of true

BEATSON, Robert, L. L. D., an indefatiga ble compiler, author of "a Political Index to th Histories of Great Britain and Ireland," and o several other works, died 1818.

BEATTIE, Dr. James, an ingenious poet an miscellaneous writer, born in Kincardineshire

Scotland, 1735, was many years a schoolmaster BEAUFORT, Henry, brother of Henry IV at Aberdeen; but at length promoted to the of England, was successively bishop of Lincoln chair of Moral Philosophy and Logic in the Ma- and Winchester, chancellor of England, ambasrischal College. His principal poems are, "The sador to France, cardinal, and pope's legate in Judgment of Paris," 4to., 1765. "The Min-Germany; he died in 1447.

strel," 4to., 1770, 1774. "The Hermit," a beau- BEAUFORT, Francois, Vendome duc de, a tiful song, and many odes and elegies. Besides native of Paris, conspicuous in the civil wars these, he was author of "An Essay on the Im-for courting the good will of the populace, died mutability of Truth, in opposition to Sophistry in 1669.

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and Scepticism," 4to., 1777; "Dissertations BEAUFORT, Lewis de, a learned man, auMoral and Critical," 4to., 1783; "Evidences thor of the history of Germanicus, &c., died in of the Christian Religion, briefly and plainly stated," 8vo., 1786; and "Elements of Moral Science," 2 vols. 8vo., 1790, 1793. His prose writings display good sense, extensive knowledge, and able reasoning; his versification is elegant. He died at Aberdeen, August 18, 1803. BEATTIE, James Hay, son of the poet, a man of eminent talents, who was, at the age of 19, appointed assistant professor of moral philosophy and logic at the Marischal College of Aberdeen, died 1790.

BEAULIEU, John Baptiste Allais de, a writing-master of celebrity in Paris, lived about 1681.

BEATUS, Rhenanus, a classical scholar and writer of Rheinach, died in 1547.

BEAU, John Lewis le, a learned academician and professor of Paris, died in 1766. BEAU, Charles le, brother of the preceding, was also an eminent scholar, and professor of belles lettres at Paris, and author of a history of the lower empire, in 22 vols.; he died in 1778. BEAUCAIRE DE PEQUILLON, Francois, instructer of Cardinal Charles de Lorraine, and bishop of Metz, died in 1591.

BEAULIEU, Sebastian Pontault de, an engineer, who drew, and had engraved, the sieges and military campaigns of Lewis XIV.; he died in 1674.

BEAULIEU, Louis le Blanc de, theological professor of Sedan, died in 1675.

BEAULIEU, N. Baron de, commander of the Austrian armies in Italy, opposed and conquered by Buonaparte, died about 1796.

BEAUMANOIR, Jean de, called marechal de Lavardin, rose by his merit to high military dignities, died in 1614.

BEAUMARCHAIS, Peter Augustin Caron de, an eminent French dramatist, born at Paris, 1732, and bred a watch-maker, died at Paris, of apoplexy, May, 1799.

BEAUME, Antony, a native of Senlis, and a distinguished French chymist, was a member BEAUCHAM, Richard, Earl of Warwick, of the academy of sciences, and of the national distinguished as a brave general, died in Nor-institute, died in 1805. His writings are numandy, in 1439. merous and valuable.

BEAUCHAMPS, Pierre Francois Godard de, an eminent French writer, died at Paris, in 1761. BEAUCHAMP, Joseph de, a celebrated French astronomer, born at Vezoul, in 1752, entered, in 1767, into the order of Bernardines, and took his departure for Asia, in 1781, with his uncle, who was appointed bishop of Babylon. In this voyage he steered his course along the Tigris and Euphrates, from Diabekir to the Persian Gulph, and made a collection of medals, inscriptions, and designs of the monuments of ancient Babyion, as well as Arabic manuscripts, which he presented to the Abbe Barthelemy. In 1787, he made a second voyage upon the Caspian Sea; in the course of which he observed the most im- BEAUMONT, Francis, brother of the foreportant eclipse of the moon of which the history going, a celebrated dramatic writer, born at of astronomy preserves any remembrance. In Grace-Dieu, in Leicester hire, about the year 1795, he made a third voyage; and through the 1586, died in 1615, before he was 30 years of means of Volney, he was appointed consul at age, and was buried in the entrance of St. BeMuscate, in Arabia; at which place, however, nedict's chapel, within St. Peter's, Westminhe never arrived, being taken by the English. ster. Beside the plays in which he was jointly The peace having at length given him his liber- concerned with Fletcher, he wrote a little draty, he arrived sick at Nice, where he died on thematic piece, and other poems, printed together 19th of November, 1801, at the moment when in 1653, 8vo. Beaumont was esteemed so good Buonaparte had appointed him commissary- a judge of dramatic composition, that Ben Jongeneral at Lisbon. son submitted his writings to his correction, and, it is thought, was much indebted to him for the contrivance of his plots. Every thing respecting this poet, that could be collected by the most. diligent research, will be found in Mr. Nichols' valuable "History of Leicestershire."

BEAUMELLE, Laurent Angliviel de la, a native of France of great literary reputation, librarian to the king, and a respectable writer, died in 1773.

BEAUMONT, Sir John, a poet of some eminence, descended from an ancient family at Grace-Dieu, in Leicestershire, was born 1582. IIis "Bosworth Field," Mr. Headly tells us, merits a republication, for the easy flow of its numbers, and the spirit with which it is written. It was first published by his son, together with the rest of his poems, in 12mo, 1629. He was created a baronet by king Charles, in 1626, and died two years after.

BEAUCHATEAU, Franc. Matthieu Chatelet de, author of several admired poems, supposed

to have died in Persia.

BEAVER, John, a Benedictine monk of WestTainster Abbey, author of a manuscript chronicle of the affairs of Britain to his own time, in the 14th century.

BEAUFILS, Guillaume, a Jesuit of Auvergne, eminent as a preacher and a man of literature, died in 1758.

BEAUFORT, Margaret, daughter of John, dake of Somerset, and mother of Henry VII., died in 1509. She founded Christ's, and St. John's Colleges Cambridge.

BEAUMONT, Joseph, regius professor of divinity at Cambridge, and author of Psyche, and other poems, died in 1699.

BEAUMONT DE PEREFIX, Hardonin, archbishop of Paris, preceptor to Lewis XIV., and author of a valuable history of Henry IV.; died in 1670.

BEAUMONT, Mad. le prince de,a lively writer lof romances, letters, memoirs, &c. died in 1720

BEAUMONT, Elias de, a native of Norman-|| dy, was educated for the bar, but devoted his time to literary pursuits: an author of some merit; he died in 1783.

university of Bononia; his writings on philos phical and medical subjects are numerous ar highly es eemed; he died in 1766.

BECCARIA, marquis, a celebrated writ "On crimes and Punishments," born at Mila in 1735, died Nov. 29, 1794.

BEAUMONT, John Lewis Moreau de, an able political writer, of Nantes, died in 1785. BEAUMONT, Guill. Rob. Phil. Jos. Jean de, an ecclesiastic, of Rouen, known as a theolo-named II Cappeta, professor of law in his nativ gical writer, died in 1761. town of Perugia; he died in 1509.

BECCUTI, Francis, an Italian poet, su

BECERRA, Gaspard, a Spanish sculptor an

BEAUNE, Jacques de, baron of Samblancai, minister of the priories under Francis I., un-painter, the pupil of Raphael, died in 1570. justly condemned and executed, by the perfidy of the queen-mother, in 1527.

BEAUNE, Renaud de, a native of Tours, archbishop of Bourges, and afterwards of Sens, died in 1606.

BECKER, John Joachim, physician to th electors of Mentz and Bavaria; his discoveri in chymistry and mechanics were numerous ar important; he died in 1685.

BECKER, Daniel, physician to the elector Brandenburg, died at Konigsburg, his nativ

BEAUNE, Florimont de, counsellor of Blois, the intimate friend of Descartes, and an emicity, in 1760. nent mathematician, died in 1652.

BECKET, Thomas, archbishop of Canterb ry, in the reign of Henry II., was born in Lo don, 1119, and assassinated in the cathedr church of Canterbury, on the 29th of Decembe 1171. The miracles said to be wrought at h tomb were so numerous, that we are told tw large volumes of them were kept in that churc BEAUSOBRE, Isaac de, a very learned di- His shrine was visited from all parts, and e vine and ecclesiastical writer, of French origi-riched with the most costly gifts and offering nal, born at Niort, March 8, 1659, died June 5, 1738.

BEAURAIN, Jean de, a native of Artois, known as a negotiator and geographer; made geographer to Lewis XV., at the age of 25; he died in 1771.

BEAURIEU, Gaspard Guillard de, a French writer, died in 1795.

BEAUSOBRE, Louis de, a native of Berlin, distinguished for his literature and as the friend of the Prussian monarch; he died in 1783.

Though canonized, however, he was, in trut memorable only for his pride, insolence, and i gratitude to his sovereign, Henry II., to whic he fell a sacrifice.

BECKFORD, William, a patriotic chief m BEAUVAIS, Guillaume, of Dunkirk, author gistrate of the city of London, who died in th of a history of the Roman emperors by medals, office, with which he had been for the seco died 1773. time invested, June 21, 1770, aged 65. He shov BEAUVAIS, Charles Nicolas, of Orleans, dis-ed himself the steadfast friend of his king ar tinguished as a physician, and as a violent and seditious member of the national assembly,died in 1704.

country, and was the only man of his time wh with firmness, yet with humility, dared tell a ki upon his throne (surrounded by his courier BEAUVAIS, John Baptiste Charles Marie de, the plain and honest truth; whereby he vind bishop of Senez, eminent as an eloquent preach-cated the loyalty, while he evinced the ind er, died in 1789.

pendent spirit of the city of London. Convince that our liberties belong to posterity as we as to ourselves, he resolved that the share con BEAUVILLIERS, Francis de, duke of St mitted to his trust should not expire in his hand Aignan, author of some prose and poetical pie-As a citizen, he was eminently endowed wi ces, died in 1687. His son was preceptor to the father of Lewis XIV., and died in 1714.

BEAUVAU, Lewis Charles marquis de, a distinguished French general, died in 1744.

the virtues of humanity and affability; as a sen tor, (member for London,) watchful over t rights of the people; and as a magistrate, unr mittingly active in seeing those rights legal BEBÉLE, Henry, professor of eloquence an executed. That his character might be ev Tubingen; he was an able Latin scholar, and held in the most honourable and grateful received the poetical crown, in 1501, from Maxi-membrance, the corporation erected his stat milian I.

BEAUZEE, Nicolas, a distinguished grammarian, died in 1789.

BECAN, Martin, a zealous Jesuit, confessor to Ferdinand II., died in 1624.

BECCADELLI, Lewis, a native of Bologna, ambassador at Venice, preceptor to Ferdinand, son of the duke of Tuscany, and archbishop of Ragusa; he died in 1572.

in their Guildhall, and recorded in the inscri tion the magnanimous speech which he is sa to have addressed to the king in vindication the people's right to remonstrate to the thron BECKINGHAM, Charles, an eminent dr matic writer; two of his pieces, Henry IV. France, and Scipio Africanus, were highly a

BECCADELLI, Antonio, a native of Paler-plauded; he died in 1730. mo, professor of belles lettres at Pavia, was crowned with the poetic laurel by the emperor Sigismund, and ennobled by Alphonso king of Naples; he died in 1471.

BECKINGTON, Thomas, bishop of Ba and Wells, in the 15th century.

BECCAFUMI, Dominique, an eminent painter of Genoa, died in 1549.

BECCARI, Augustine, a native of Ferrara, was the first Italian who wrote pastorals; he died in 1560.

BECCARIA, John Baptist, a learned monk, of Mondovi, teacher of philosophy, at Rome and Palermo, and preceptor to the royal family at Turin; he died in 1781.

BECCARIA, James Bartholomew, a physician and professor of natural philosophy in the

BECQUET, Anthony, a Celestine monk, man of learning, who wrote the history of I order, and died in 1730.

BECTASH, Culi, a learned Mahomed writer.

BECTOR, Claude de, abbess of St. Hono de Tarascon, eminent for her knowledge of L tin, and her style of writing; she died in 154 BEDA, Noel, a violent ecclesiastic of Picard died in exile, in 1537.

BEDA, or BEDE, surnamed the Venerabl an English monk, an eminent writer of eccle astical history, was born 673, at Wearmouth

he bishopric of Durham, and died in 735. His cclesiastical history of England commences at he invasion of Julius Cæsar, and terminates LD. 723.

to the elector of Brandenburg, author of several books on antiquities and medals; he died 1705. BEGEYN, Abraham, a Dutch painter to the king of Prussia, born 1650.

BEDDOES, Dr. Thomas, an eminent physiian and medical writer; who more particularly istinguished himself by his perseverance in Baking experiments to cure consumptions by he application of pneumatics. He was born Shifnal, Shropshire, about the year 1754, and lied at Clifton, near Bristol, Dec. 24, 1808. His BEHAIM, Martin, of Nuremberg, a man of rincipal work is "Hygeia; or Essays, Moral strong powers of mind, who formed the first and Medical, on the Causes affecting the per-idea of a new world. He is said to have actuonal state of the middling and affluent classes."ally sailed on a voyage of discovery, in 1460, vols. 8vo., 1802. and to have visited the Brazils, and on his return BEDELL, William, a very famous bishop of to have constructed a globe, illustrative of his Kilmore, in Ireland, born 1570, at Black Notley,||voyage, which is still to be seen at Nuremberg. n Essex; died 1641. This however is not well authenticated; he

BEGON, Michael, a lawyer, distinguished himself in the marine, and as governor of the French West India islands, died in 1710.

BEGUILLET, Edmund, advocate of the parliament of Dijon, author of a treatise on agriculture, died in 1786.

BEDERIC, Henry, a monk, distinguished for died at Lisbon, in 1506. is learning and eloquence, lived about 1380. BEHN, Aphra, a celebrated English poetess BEDFORD, Hilkiah, a quaker of Lincoln-in the reign of Charles I. and II. She wrote 17 hire, and afterwards a stationer in London, plays, some histories and novels; she died April lied in 1724. His son of the same name was a 16, 1689, and was buried in the cloisters of Westlergyman and writer of some merit; he died in ||minster Abbey. Her works are extremely witty, but not remarkably chaste.

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BEDFORD, Thomas, son of Hilkiah, was a onjuring priest of some reputation; he died

BEICH, Joachim Francis, a painter of Swabia, whose pieces are much admired, died in 1748. BEIDHAVI, a judge of Schiraz, in Persia,

BEIERLINCK, Lawrence, an ecclesiastic of Antwerp, died 1627.

n 1773. BEDFORD, Arthur, a pious and learned cler-died in 685 of the hegira. yman of the church of England, born at Tid-| tenham, Gloucestershire, Sept. 1668. A favour. te subject of literary labour with Mr. Bedford BEINASCHI, John Baptist, a painter, of Piedvas, the reformation of the drama and the||mont, knighted for his great merit, died in 1688. tage. In his "Evil and danger of Stage Plays," eing a serious remonstrance in behalf of the Christian religion, against the horrid blasphenies and impieties which are still used in the English play-houses, &c., he shows, that he had completely perused the whole range of the English drama, as to produce" seven thousand BEKKER, Balthasar, a Dutch divine, known nstances, taken out of plays of the present cen-as a writer on theological subjects, and as the ury, and especially of the last five years, in defi-author of a treatise on comets, died in 1693. Ince of all methods hitherto used for their refor- BEL, John James, an ironical and satirical cation: and he has also given a catalogue of writer of merit, in France, died in 1738.

BEITHAR, Ben, an African writer, died in 646 of the hegira.

BEK, David, a native of Delft, in the Nether lands, and a pupil of Vandyk, was eminent as a painter at all the courts of Europe, most of which he visited; he died in 1656.

above fourteen hundred texts of Scripture,| BEL, Mathias, an ecclesiastic, of Hungary, which are mentioned, either as ridiculed and ennobled by Charles VI. for his literary works, exposed by the stage, or as opposite to their pre-died in 1749.

Bent practices." Mr. Bedford also published, BEL, Charles Andrew, son of the preceding, besides many "Sermons" and other works, professor of poetry at Leipsic, with the title of Scripture Chronology, demonstrated by Astro-counsellor of state, died in 1782.

Romical Calculations, in eight books, fol. 1741," BELCAMP, Jolin Van, a Dutch painter, died which Dr Waterland characterizes as a very in 1653.

learned and elaborate work. He died chaplain BELCHER, Samuel, a good scholar, and first to Haberdasher's Hospital, Sept. 15, 1745. See minister of Newbury, Massachusetts, died after COLLIER, Jeremy. the year 1712.

BEDFORD, John, duke of, third son of Henry IV., was a distinguished general of the English armies in France, during the minority of Henry VI., whom he proclaimed king, at Paris; he died at Rouen, in 1435.

BEDFORD. vid. RUSSEL, Francis.

BEDLOE, William, a low adventurer, only known for the pretended discovery of a popish plot, for which the house of commons voted himi 5007; he died in 1680.

BEDOS de CELLES, Francis, a Benedictine of St. Maur, died in 1779.

BEDREDDIN, Baalbeki, a physician and wrifer of Balbec, in the 7th century of the hegira. BEEK, David, a Flemish painter, vid. BEK. BEEKMAN, John Anthony, a native of HanoTer, professor of philosophy at Gottingen for 45 years; he died in 1811.

BEGA, Cornelius, a Dutch painter, born at Harlem, died in 1664.

BEGER, Laurence, of Heidleberg, librarian

BELCHER, Jonathan, governor of Massa chusetts and New-Hampshire, in 1730, afterwards governor of New-Jersey, died in 1757.

BELCHER, Jonathan, son of Governor Belcher, lieutenant governor of Nova Scotia, afterwards chief justice of that province; he died in 1776.

BELCHIER, John, an eminent English surgeon and anatomist, born at Kingston, Surrey, 1706, died 1785, equally beloved for his humani ty, and respected for his skill.

BELESIS, a Chaldean, made governor of Babylon by Arbaces, king of Media, 770 B. C. BELGRADE, James, a Jesuit, born at Udina, eminent as a poet, mathematician, and antiquary, died in 1789.

BELIDOR, Bernard Forest de, an eminent French engineer, professor of the academies of Paris and Berlin, died in 1761.

BELING, Richard, a native of the county of Dublin, a catholic, and a leading officer in the