BAN 



hy ty\c hSfits corpus -.a (;i Car. 11. c. 2.), it is cnaclocl, 

 that no fubjeft of this realm, wlio is an inhabitant of Kn'- 

 land, Wales, or Berwick, ftiall be fent prifoner into .ScoN 

 land, Ireland, Jerfey, or Giiernfey, or pl;.ce3 beyond the 

 feas, where they cannot have the full benefit and protefticn 

 of the common law ; b-.it that all fuch impnfonments {hall 

 be ilL-gal ; that the perfon who (hall dare to commit ano- 

 thcr contrary- to this law, fliall be difablcd from bearing- any 

 office, (hall incur the penalty of a prsemunire, and be'^inca- 

 pable of rtcciving the king's pardon ; and the party ftif- 

 fering fhall alfo have his private aiSion againft the perfon 

 committing, and all his aiders, advifers, and abettors, and 

 fhall recover treble cofts befides his damages, which no 

 jury fiiall aff^-fs at lefs than rcol. Blackll. Com. vol. i. 



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BANISTER, John, in Biography, was educated at 

 Oxford. In 1573, having taket a bachelor's detrree, he 

 obtained a licence to pradife phyfic. He then went to 

 Nottingham, and profcffing both medicine and furgerv, 

 " was wcnderfully followed (Wood fays) by all fnrls of 

 people, for hi? happy praAice in thofe arts." Baniiler pnb- 

 lilhcd feveral works, of vi'hich the following are the titles : 

 <' A needful, new, and necelTary Treatife of Chirnrgeiy, 

 briefly comprehending the general and particular Curation 

 of Ulcers, with certain Exp;.-riments of his own Invention," 

 London, 1575, 8vo. It is dedicated to Tho. Stanhope, 

 efq. high (lieriff of Nottingliamfhire. " The Hiflorv of 

 Man, fucked from the Sap of the moil approved Anato- 

 mifls," nine books, fol. Lond. 1578 ; decorattd, Douglas 

 fays, with anatomical eiiiiravings, copied from Vcfalius, but 

 milerably executed. " Compendio'ts Cliirurgetv, gathered 

 and tranflatcd, efpecially out of Weckcr," Lond. 1585, 

 l2r>To. Tfiis is not a mere Iranllation, the work being cor- 

 rected and much improved by Baniiler. " Antidotarv Ciii- 

 nirgical," containing variety of all forts of medicines, 

 Lond. 1589, 8vo. In 1633, feveral years after his death, 

 his chirurgical works were publilhcd together in fix books, 

 in 4to. The Antidotary was dedicated to the earl of War- 

 wick, by whom he appears to have been patronifcd. Wood's 

 Athensc Oxen. Aikin's Biograph. Mem. 



Banister, Richard, was in great credit in the end of 

 the fixttenth and beginning of the feventeenth century, 

 for his il'Cill in furgery, which he praciifed at Stamford 

 in Lincolnfhire. His knowledge in the art he learned 

 of his near kinfman, John Baniiler, by whom he had been 

 educated. " Sitting at the feet," he fays, " of a Gama- 

 liel in that art, let his name (he adds) be as a precious oint- 

 ment poured out ; for he was one to whom malice itfelf 

 could do no m'fchief, nor hatred hurt." He continued in 

 the general practice of furgery feveral years. " At length," 

 he fays, " I left the greatell mafs of that unmcafurable myf- 

 terv, and confined myfelf to the cure of the eyes, of the 

 hare lip, the wry neck, and to afiill the hearing by an in- 

 ftrument." But his principal objedl was relieving the blind ; 

 to perfedl himfelf in this art, he appears to have alfoeiated 

 with Henry Blackboume, Robert Hall of Worceller, maf- 

 ter Velder, Surflet, and Barnabie, of Fenny Stanton, 

 Lynn, and Peterborough, all famed for their (Ivill in couch- 

 ing and performing their operations on the eyes. Follow- 

 ing their example, he vifited many of the principal cities in 

 the kingdom, partisularly I^ondon, which place he Vifited 

 fpring and autumn for feveral years. It appears to have 

 been his cuilom to procure certiiicates of the cures he per- 

 formed at each place. " I can fliew," he fays, " that in 

 the year 1609, I made, with the help of God, twenty-four 

 blind people fee in the city of Norwich ; and I came thi- 

 ther again in i6li, and all of them had th-ir light; tor 

 confirmation of which, I had a ctrtilicatc from the mayor 

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and alderman, with th? city feal annexed." A fimila' eer. 

 tiiica'e he obtained from lir Wm. Cockainf, lord mayor of 

 London in the year 1621, which appears to have b;rn th; 

 la!l time of his coming hither. " But row," he far', 

 I know it is not long to the period of mv days, fo I mean 

 to rcll at home the fmall remnant that God hath allotted 

 to me." He promifes, however, to cortinue to aiTill thofe 

 who vifit him at his houfe. The time of his death i$ not 

 known. 



In 1C22, he publiihed " A Treatife of one hundred and 

 thirteen difeafes of the eyea and eye-lids ; the fecond time 

 publiilied with fome profitable additions of certain principles 

 and experiments by Richard Baniiler, mailer in chyrurgcry, 

 oculill, and practitioner in phyfic," i2mo. The book is 

 not paged. The part added by Baniiler fcems to be a frr.all 

 treatife at the beginning (f the volume, which he calls " Ba- 

 niiler's Breviary of the Eyes." He here complains of the 

 number of ignorant perfons, and among them many wo- 

 men, who interfered in the art, to the hurt of the people. 

 This part is intcrfperfed with poetical efFufions, in which 

 he laughs at fome pretended cures performed by drinking 

 and wafhing the eyes with the waters of the Malver.i a-:d 

 other fprings. 



" So many folks unto the town did run 



For water, that alewives were half undone. 

 At firil, \vhtn this news unto me was told, 

 I daunted was, it touched mv freehold. 

 I dwelt from thence, at leall fome twenty miles. 

 Yet thcri my patients went o'er fields and llvles" 

 He had the fatisfaction, however, to fee them come back, 

 " Their bodies wearied, and their griefs made worfe, 

 And cas'd and p'lrged only in the purfe." 

 The treatife which gives the general title to the volume, and 

 of which Baniiler has with moil people the credit of being 

 the author, was written originally in French by Jacques 

 Guillemeaii, trantlated into Englilh by an anonymous writ- 

 er, and dedicated to John Baniiler. Wood's Atheni Ox- 

 on. Aikin's Biog. Mem. 



BANISTERIA, in Botany, fo named by Dr. HouftouTi 

 in memoiy of the Rev. John Baniiler, a curious botaniil, 

 who loll his life in the fearch after plants in Virginia. Linn, 

 gen. n. 573. Reich. 622. Schreb. 780. Cavanilles, t. 243, 

 258. Gxrt. t. 116. Clafs, i!:Ciir,(lria tri^nia ; jr.onjiL-lphia 

 Cav. Nat. Order, trihilatir ; malphigia, Juff. Gen. Char. 

 Cal. perianth, five-paitcd (four, fcldom iive, Cavan.) very 

 fmall, iliff underneath with tubercles, permanent ; two mel- 

 liferous glands under each divifion of the calyx, except one ; 

 and they are therefore eight in number. C(,r. petals fire, 

 orbiculite, verv large, fpreading, crenate (fimbriate C. ) ; 

 claws obkv.ig, hnear. Slam, filaments ten, xe.y fmall, coa- 

 lefcing at bottom ; anthers fimple. Pift. germs three, wind- 

 ed, coalefcent ; ilvles three, fimple ; ftigmas obtufe (en- 

 larged into a leaflet, Cav.) Per. capfules three, running 

 out into a long wing, one-celled, marked at the fides witli 

 fmall appenJiclcs, not gaping. Scnls fohtary, covered, 

 toothed on the lateral edge. Obf. The flower, efpecially the 

 glands of the calvx, Ihew the affinity between this and mal- 

 pighia. It differs however in the leafy iligmas and winged 

 fruit. B. Ifona has ten, the rcll have eight glands. Cav. 



Eif. Char. Cal. five-parted, with melliferous pores at the 

 bafe on the outfide. P(t. roundifh with claws ; lligraas 

 Icaf-ihaped ; feeds three, winged with membranes. 



Species, 1. V>. an^uloj'a. Reich. 2.371. Cavan. dliT. 426. 

 t. 252. Lamarck. Uict. n. I. Aublet. Guian. 2. 466. Acer 

 fcandens, fol. angulofo. Plum. Spec. 18. Clematis angr- 

 loio folio, aceris fruitu. Plum. .^mer. 77. t.92. "Leave* 

 finuate-angular." Stem twining, with oppufite branchesj 

 thickened at the bafe j leaves cordate, angular, tcrmiiiating 



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