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vowed to dye their white rose to a bloody red, and Warwick 

 prophesied that their brawl 



in the Temple garden, 



Shall send, between the red rose and the white, 

 A thousand souls to death and deadly night. 



He published, 



1. Observations on the more Ancient Statutes, 4to. To 

 the 5th edition of which, in 1796, is prefixed his portrait. 



2. The Naturalist's Calendar, 8vo. 



3. A translation of Orosius, ascribed to Alfred, with 

 notes, 8vo. 



4. Tracts on the probability of reaching the North Pole, 

 4to. 



5. In vol. vii. of the Archasologia, is his paper On the 

 Progress of Gardening. It was printed as a separate tract 

 by Mr. Nichols, price ls.'6d. 



6. Miscellanies on various subjects, 4to. 



Mr. Nichols, in his Life of Bowyer, calls him " a man of 

 amiable character, polite, communicative and liberal ;" and in 

 the fifth volume of his Illustrations of the Literary History 

 of the Eighteenth Century, he gives a neatly engraved por- 

 trait of Mr. Barrington, and some memorials or letters of his. 

 Mr. Boswell (" the cheerful, the pleasant, the inimitable bio- 

 grapher of his illustrious friend"), thus relates Dr. Johnson's 

 wish to become acquainted with Mr. Barrington:— " Soon 

 after he had published his excellent Observations on the 



