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HARRINGTON. THK ABLE DAINRS. 



BARROS, JOAO DE. 



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ejd VM ai last defaalodt *^r- popa paeelft* * dflAttite sentence, and 

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SOCNI after Ihi. Oiraldu* r-ignd Us archdeaconry ID f.vour of 

 PWBp, Uw tounst n of hi. brother, Philip da Barrl; bat bo re- 



OtraldM paeaad tha laet ereatean yean of Us life in study, revieini 

 hie farsaar literary work, and eonposiaf others, of which ha hu 

 klmealf girta a eeptoea lode*. Id the mid*t of tbaee occupation, ha 

 received ooce morVaa oaVr of the biahopric of St David's, and 



klmealf givta a aeptooa Max. 



would ha^neteriahY> o^poaiUoa from the court ; but from the 

 dishonourable terra* on which it wu proftced. ha refused the eccle 

 eiutioal dignity which had so loa bran the object of hi. earnest wiabea. 

 He died at SU D..U'a, in the seventy -fourth year of his age, and wu 

 burled in the cathedral rhureh. where his efflgy still remains upon an 

 altar tomb beaeath ail oraamcntel arch. Oiraldua appears to have 

 beta an upright and able man. A. aa aoelattaaHn ha wu xealous, 

 active, and barleas in maintaining the rights and dignities of his 

 church ; bat he wu at the same time honest and disinterested. As 

 a scholar he waa learned, and u a collector of historical materials 

 diligent, far beyond the measure of hi* age. As an historian however 

 he wu fall of credulity, and u a man, u his works prove, one of the 



Oiraldu* hu bimaelf given u* a catalogue of his works, u well u 

 a Ions hlatory of hi. actions, both printed by Wharton. Other list* 

 will be found in Fabriciu.'. 'Bibliotheoa Mrd. et Inf. Latinitatia,' edit. 

 Patav. 4to, 1754, torn. u'L p. 82, and in the note* to his life in the 



Biogr. Britannic*,' edit 1778, voL L pp. 640, 642, 644. Sir Richard 

 Hoar* hu riven u* a full account of such manuscripts of hi* work* 

 u exist la the aeveral libraries in tha British Museum, in the Arohi- 

 enlaaopal Library at Lambeth, at Bane't (Corpus Christ!) College, in 

 the public library at Cambridge, and in the Bodleian. Those printed 

 ar, ' Itinrrarium Cambria,' 12mo, Land. 1585, and in Camden's 

 AngL Norm. Ac. Script.,' foL Fraucof., 1002, pp. 815-878; 'Topo- 

 gmnliia Hibernur,' Camd. ut supr., pp. 692-754 ; ' Expugnatio Hibernito,' 

 ibii, pp. 755-818 ; ' Descriplio Cambria-,' ibid., pp. 879-892. Several 

 hhort jxece* by Giraldu. are printed in the second volume of Wharton's 



Angli . Sacra.' The ' Gemma Ecclaaiutica,' published at Mentz in 

 1549, without the author's ntn-, under the title of ' Gemma Animco,' 

 is ascribed to Oiraldua. John Stowe'a translations from Qiraldus's 

 historical works relating to Wales and Ireland ore among the Harleian 

 Manuscripts in tho Museum, Nos. 544 and 561, in his own hand- 

 writing. Sir Richard Colt Hoarr, in 1SOC, published the 'Itinerary 

 of Archbishop Baldwin through Wales,' translated into English, and 

 illustrated with views, annotations, and a life of Giraldns, 2 vols. 4to. 

 To this work the preceding account is much indebted, as well as to 

 the life in the 'Biographia Britannioa,' article 'Barry;' to Bale, 

 'Illu.tr. Script;' Wharton, ' Anglia Sacra,' vol. ii., pp. 457-513; and 

 FabrioiuV* ' Bibliotheca Med. et Inf. Latiuitatia.' 



HARRINGTON, THE HONOURABLE DAINES, a learned anti- 

 quary, lawyer, and naturalist, was the fourth son of John Shute, first 

 Viscount Barrington, well known from his connection witli the Har- 

 Imrgh lottery (on account of which he was expelled the House of 

 Commons), and the author of the ' Miscellanea Sacra ' and various 

 >thar work*. Hi* mother wu a daughter of Sir William Daines. 

 Dainea Barrington wu born in 1727. After having concluded hi* 

 oparae of general education at Oxford, he wu entered u a student at 

 the Inner Femplr, and wu called to the bar in Hilary Term, 1749. 

 ^"J*^ ~f ??*" c< l uir d any eminence in practice, hi. family 

 obtained for htm early in life eeveral lucrative office*. In 1751 he 

 beom* Marshal of Ui* Court of Admiralty, and resigned th.t office 

 *J. i*Tl PPotntod aeorrUry for the affairs of Greenwich Hospital in 



* tor a short time to have travelled the Oxford 

 ' ' ' wu junior couiuel for the prevention on the well- 

 la^L^I*^.?^ 1 '' for . th rd.rof her father, in 1752. 



of secretary for Greenwich 



hahlr*. in 1788, whan tha trial of tha Dan of 

 libel wu to have Uken place, but WM put off 



TWipla on the llth of Marahf80a 



The awet hnporUnt of Mr. Barrio. 

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He died in the 

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the 



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 wWon rehrfe to the same anbjeat to one 



"*" tl bt ]^!!2rf?? f <* "name and the 

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the bleb raputatioolthu obUinad; the Ulustration. of the statutaa 

 DoUeed are extremely curious, and display not only extensive anti- 

 quarian reMarch, but a familiar aoquaiutance with UM civil law and 

 UM municipal institutions of Europe: and the whole subject i treated 

 in such a msnner u to interest tha general reader u well as the 

 profeesional student Mr. Barrington devoted much attention to the 

 InvesUiration of the celebrated geographical problem respecting a 

 North- West Pannage. Be examined several masters of voswls em- 

 ployed in the whale-fishery, and collected on this subject a great 

 mass of historical, traditioosry, and conjectural evidence, which he 

 detailed in several papers read by him to the Royal Society; and his 

 representations are said to have led to the fitting out by government 

 of an expedition under the command of Captain Phipps, afterwards 

 Lord Mulgrave, for the purpose of making discoveries in tho North 

 Seas. Mr. Barrington published the result of his researches in 1775 ; 

 and when this subject came again under discussion, in 1818, his tracts 

 were republished with sn appendix by Colonel Beaufoy. Mr. Barring- 

 ton wu also the author of several papers in the ' Archieologia on 

 local antiquities, and of a great variety of essays in tho ' Philosophical 

 Transactions,' and other periodical publications, on subjects connected 

 with natural history. Many of these were collected and published l.y 

 himself in 1781 under the title of ' Miscellanies on various Subjects. 

 A particular enumeration of all Mr. Barrington's works is given in 

 Nichols's ' Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century,' vol. 111., 

 p. 3 (note), and in the ' Gentleman's Magazine,' vol. Ixx., p. 291. 



BAUROC'CIO, FEDERIQO, an Italian painter, was the son of an 

 eminent sculptor, and born at Urbino in 152S. His first master was 

 Battista Vcnexano, under whom be studied till his twentieth year, 

 when he went to Home, where a residence of four years enabled him 



procured him such reputation, that he received an invitation from Pope 

 Pius X. to assist in the embellishments of the Belvedere palace, on 

 which Zuccbero wu also engaged. Here he executed the Annunciation 

 in fresco on one of the ceilings, and a picture of the Holy Virgin with 

 thu infant Saviour, with Saints, Ac. Having finisho.l these commis- 

 sions he returned to Urbino, and contributed to the cathedral of St. 

 Lorenzo and Perugia an altar-piece of the Taking Down from the Cross. 

 During tho pontificate of Gregory XIII. Bairoccio again visited Rome, 

 where he painted a picture of tho Last Supper for the Cliiesa delta 

 Minerva; also, for the Chiesa Nuova, the Visitation of the Virgin 

 Mary to Elizabeth, and the Presentation in the Temple. These two 

 last are considered to be his finest performances. 



Barroccio's style of colouring and effect was formed on that of Cor- 

 reggio, but presents a frequent fault of imitators in transmitting an 

 exaggeration of some of tho master's prominent peculiarities. This 

 was noticeable in his drawing, but far more in his colouring. The 

 defects of Barroccio's style are chicSy chargeable against his smaller 

 performances, and there is a strong example of them in his picture of 

 the Holy Family in the British National Gallery. His large works 

 exhibit a richness of surface which Sir Joshua Reynolds has greatly 

 commended, and did not disdain to imitate. There is in the Vatican 

 a picture by Barroccio, of the size of life, representing a female pilgrim 

 overtaken by a tempest on the top of a mountain, painted with a 

 breadth and simplicity, both in respect to colouring and design, which 

 entitles It to rank among the finest works of art. The large pictures 

 of Barroccio are seldom offered for sole, and consequently fetch very 

 high prices. Barroccio died at Urbino in 1612, aged 84. He some- 

 times handled the graver, and has left aeveral plates of sacred subjects 

 executed with great spirit and correctness, although somewhat deficient 

 in delicacy and finish. 



BA'RROS, JOAO DE, an eminent Portuguese historian, was born 

 about 1496 of a noble family. He wu placed while a boy in the court 

 of King Kmmanuel u a page, and was attached to the service of the 

 Infante Oom Joo, afterwards King John III. Young Barros showed 

 w early disposition for study, and especially for tho study of history. 

 The gallant achievement* of the Portuguese in the East Indies attracted 

 hi. attention ; and the king himself, happening one day to ace some of 

 his early att-mnU at historical composition, suggested that he might 

 ?"?, 'I** 1 ' m Mrrrtin 8 ""> Slorious actions of his countrymen. 

 In 1522 Barros wu sent u governor to St. George da Mina, on the 

 Guinea ooaat. Three yean after he wu recalled to Lisbon, and 

 appointed trauurer to the colonial department, and afterwards agent- 

 general for the oolonie.. While he held this office he availed himself 

 of the valuable documenU to which he had access in order to compose 



!?Ti Work ' A- p rtuguea,'or the history of the discoveries and 

 eatebjuhmenta of the Portugueee in the Indian Seas. He divided it 



"JfZlSSSfc of ten Books each. The first two Decades, pub- 



}r to* 552 -"' c^t*"* H>e discoveries and conquests from 1412 to 



1515. The narratim begins with the discovery of Porto Santo and 



19, and contains the numerous expeditions of the 



?r2S I S* ,.' ?*" U of Smr S^ in*. Congo, and to the Cape 



of Good Hope, wh.ch wu at last weathered by Vaaoo de Gama in 1497. 



e full tide of Portuguese enterprise along the coasts of 



Irfquc, Mombafa, and on to the Malabar coast, followed by the 



iccen of Albuquerque, and the establishment of Portu- 



lapremaoy in tha Indian teat. Barro'i second Decade is entirely 



