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He soon afterward, however, experi- 

 enced a sad reverse of fortune ; being ac- 

 cused by the ruling party of favouring 

 the king, he was arrested, and summarily 

 condemned by an infamous and bloody 

 tribunal, for incivism, and wishing to over- 

 turn the republic, and died by the guillo- 

 tine, at Paris, on the llth day of Novem- 

 ber, 1793, at 57 years of age. The cha- 

 racter of this great man can only be esti- 

 mated by his works. In his person he was 

 tall; his deportment was grave and se- 

 date, and he blended firmness with sensi- 

 bility. 



BAILIFF, an officer appointed for the 

 administration of justice within a certain 

 district, called a bailiwick. Hence the 

 sheriff is considered a bailiff to the crown; 

 and his court, of which he has the care, 

 and in which he is to execute the king's 

 writ, is called his bailiwick; so also his 

 officers, who execute writs, warrants, &c. 

 are called bailiff's. 



BAILIFFS of franchises > those appointed 

 by every lord within his liberty, to do such 

 offices therein as the bailiff' errant does at 

 large in the county. 



There are also bailiffs of forests, and 

 bailiffs of manors, who direct husbandry, 

 fell trees, gather rents, pay quit rents, 

 &c. 



BAILIFF, -water, an officer appointed in 

 all port towns for the searching of ships, 

 gathering the tell for anchorage, Sec. and 

 arresting persons for debt, &c. on the 

 water. 



BAILIFF, however, is still applied to 

 the chief magistrate of several corporate 

 towns. The government of some of the 

 king's castles is also committed to per- 

 sons called bailiffs, as the bailiff of Dover 

 castle. 



BAILIWICK, that liberty which is ex- 

 empted from the sheriff' of the county, 

 over which liberty the lord thereof ap- 

 points his own bailiff', with the like power 

 within his precint as an under-sheriff' ex- 

 ercises under the sheriff' of the county : 

 or it signifies the precinct of a bailiff, or 

 the place within which his jurisdiction is 

 terminated : such is the bailiff' of West- 

 minster. 



BAILMENT, is the delivery of things 

 to another, sometimes to be delivered 

 back to the bailer, sometimes to the bailee, 

 and sometimes to a third person : this de- 

 livery is called a bailment. The follow- 

 ing rules are binding in the law of bail- 

 ments: a bailee, who derives no advan- 

 tage for his undertaking, is responsible 

 only for gross negligenee. A bailer, who 

 -done receives benefit from the bailment, 



is responsible for slight neglect. When 

 the bailment is beneficial to both parties, 

 the bailee must be answerable for ordina- 

 ry neglect. No bailee shall be charged 

 for a loss by inevitable accident, or irre- 

 sistible force, except by special agree- 

 ment. Robbery by force is considered as 

 irresistible, but a loss by private stealth 

 is presumptive evidence of ordinary ne- 

 glect. 



BAINBRIDGE, (JOHN) an eminent 

 physician, astronomer, and mathemati- 

 cian. He was born in 1582, at Ashby de 

 la Zouch, Leicestershire. He studied at 

 Cambridge, where, having taken his de- 

 grees of bachelor and master of arts, he 

 returned to Leicestershire, kept a gram- 

 mar school, and at the same time prac- 

 tised physic, employing his leisure hours 

 in studying mathematics, especially as- 

 tronomy, which had been his favourite 

 science from his earliest years. By the 

 advice of his friends, he removed to Lon- 

 don, to better his condition, and improve 

 himself with the conversation of learned 

 men there ; and here he was admitted a 

 fellow of the College of Physicians. His 

 description of the comet, which appeared 

 in 1618, greatly raised his character, and 

 procured him the acquaintance of Sir 

 Henry Savile, who, in 1619, appointed 

 him his first professor of astronomy at 

 Oxford. On his removal to this universi- 

 ty, he entered a master commoner of 

 Mertori College ; the master and fellows 

 of which appointed him junior reader of 

 Linacer's lecture in 1631, and superior 

 reader in 1635. As he resolved to pub- 

 lish correct editions of the ancient astro- 

 nomers, agreeably to the statutes of the 

 founder of his professorship, that he 

 might acquaint himself with the discove- 

 ries of the Arabian astronomers, he be- 

 gan the study of the Arabic language 

 when he was above 40 years of age. Be- 

 fore he had completed that work he died, 

 in the year 1643, at 61 years of age 



Dr. Bainbridge wrote many works, but 

 most of them have never been published; 

 those that were published, were the three 

 following : viz. 1. " An Astronomical De- 

 scription of the late Comet, from the 18th 

 of November, 1618, to the 16th of De- 

 cember following 1 ;" 4to, London, 1619. 

 2. " Procli Sphaera, Ptolomaei de Hypo- 

 thesibus Planetarum Liber singularis." 

 To which he added Ptolomy's "Canon 

 Regnorum." He collated these pieces, 

 with ancient manuscripts, and gave a Latin 

 version of them, illustrated with inures, 

 printed in 4to, 1620. 3. " Canicufaria." 

 A treatise concerning the Dog-star, and 



