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whofe fiicceflbr is tViercfore ilyled Primus Baromtonm Ang- made librarian of the Vatican. On tlie death of Clement, 

 /;'.-. At the firft iiillitution ot this order the king engaged he had many votes in the conclave for the pontificate ; bnt 

 tl]>'l the number (hould not exceed two hundred, and that the Spanifh party prevented his elc&ion, becaufe he had af- 

 each (hould piiv into the exchequer as much as would pay ferted in his annal?, that the crown of Spain founded its ti- 

 thirty foot foldiers at eight -pence per diem to ferve in the tie to Sieily on falfe evidence. His afliduous application at 

 province of Ulfter in Ireland ; and for their diftinftion, as length fo debiUtated his frame, that he died in 1607 at the 

 an honourable augmentation, they bear in their coat of age of 68 years. His character was dilHnguifhed for piety- 

 arms either in a canfon, or in an efcutchcon of pretence, and probity, and mildnefs of difpofition, as well as for ex- 

 the arms of the ancient kings of Ulfter, being argent a tenfive erudition. His chief work was his " Ecclefiaftical 

 hand, fin'ijltr, couped at the •wr'ijl, extended in pale guLs. Baro- Annals," which he began a1 the age of 30, and profccnted 

 nets and their eldeft fons have this peculiar privilege, that they through the greateft part of his life. Of thefe he lived to 

 may be knighted if theypleafe, upon knowledge thereof given, piiblilh 12 vols, in folio, the firll of which was printed in 

 tothe lord chamberluin of the houfehold, or vice-chambeilain 1588, and the laft in 1607; and he brought down the 

 forthe time being, or in thf.ir abfence, to any other officer at- hillory of the church to 1 198. This voluminous and cla- 

 tending his majefty's perfon ; and in all coTimilPions, writs, borate work was undertaken with a view of counter-afting 

 and other deeds, the ftyle of baronet is to be placed at the the influence of the proteftant compilation by the centuria- 

 end of their furiiames, as a neceffary and legal addition of tors of Magdcburgh, which was intended to expofe the 

 dignity, as the addition of Sir to be placed before their abufes and inconfitlenoies of the Romifh church ; and the 



Chrillian names, and to their wives the title of Lady or 

 Dams. Baronets have precedency before all knights, ex- 

 cept thofe of the garter, and knights bannerets. No pa- 

 tent for creating a baronet can now pafs the great feal until 

 the following certificate is obtained : 



" To all and fingular to whom thefe prefents fhall come, 

 we, the king's heralds and purfuivants of the College of 

 Arms, London, do hereby certify that the family, arms, 

 and pedigree of 



have been duly regillered in this college purfuant to the te- 

 nor of his majefty's warrant under his royal fignet and fign 

 manual, bearing date the day of i7S3> for 



corrcftiiig and preventing abufes in the order of baronets. 

 In witnefs, &c." 



Baronets of Ireland, an hereditary dignity inftituted 

 30 Sept. 1619, the fame as thofe in England, and Learing tation of the Annals of Baronius, in a work intitled " Ex- 

 likewife the arms of Ulller as an auginentation. ercitationes, &c. ;" and though he clofed it with the 34th 



Baronet of Nova Scotia. This order is alfo hereditary, year of the Chriftian ^ra, he pointed out a great number of 

 and was inftituted in Scotland by king Charles I. 28th May palpable errors into which the Roman annalift had fallen 

 1625, for advancing the plantation of Nova Scotia in Ame- during that fhort interval. Even the Roman cathohc lite, 

 rica, and for fetthng a colony there, to which the aid of rati acknowledge the inaccuracies and faults of Baronius ; 

 thefe baronets was deilgned. As an augmentation to their and hence Pagl, Norris, and Tillemont, &c. have been em- 

 ■ arms, they bear either in a canton or in an in-cfcutcheon the 

 enfign of Nova Scotia, being argcit a crofs of St. Andrfji 

 czure charged 10' th an efcutcheon of the royal arms of Scotland ; 

 fiipported on the dexter by the royal unicorn, and on the Jiniflcr, 

 ly a favage, or ivild man, proper ; andjor the crejl, a branch 



author, adhering rigidly to his main objeft, and approving 

 himfclf a bigoted partisan of the fee of Rome, has on 

 many occaHons facrificcd truth to the prejudices and inter- 

 efts of a party. He has been charged even with intentional 

 mifrepreientations ; and he has been betrayed by his imper— 

 fcft acquaintance with the Greek language into many errors^ 

 and by his credulity into the recital of many fables, which 

 have been rejefted by many judicious writers of his own' 

 party. The work, however, is a monument of affiduity 

 and labour. It is methodically condufted, and upon the 

 whole is an ufeful, though fometimes a fallacious, guide in 

 the chronological hiilory of the events that happened under 

 the Roman emperors. The ftyle, though not pure and ele- 

 gant, is generally perfpicuous. Amongft the critics and 

 cenfurers of this work, we may reckon both proteftants and 

 catholics. The learned Ifaac Cafanbon undertook a refu- 



ployed to coneft them. Accordingly, a new edition oF 

 thefe " Annals" was publiftied at Lucca, in 1733, with the 

 correftions of tl;efe reviewers at the foot of every- page. 

 The original work was firft printed at Rome, and foon after 

 at Antwerp by Plantin ; and editions have alfo been pub- 

 of laurel, and a thylle iffuing from t'wo hands conjoined, the liftied at Cologne and Venice. Abridgments of it have 



one being armed and tht other naked, with this motto, Mui,:t 

 hec et altera vincit : and for their greater honour and dignity 

 they were, by royal fign manual, bearing date 17th Nov. 

 in 1629, allowed to " weaV and carry about their necks in 

 all time coming an orange-tawny filk ribbon, whereon (liall 

 bang pendant in an efculcheon ar.-'erj a fi.rier azure thereon 

 an efcutchcon of the arms of Scot .a'-.d wtlh an imperial cro'wn 

 alove the efcutchcon, and irfcribcd ivith this motto, Fax mentis 

 bonrjls gloria." 



BARONLE Caput. See Caput. 



BARONIUS, Cy-ESAR, in Biogj-aphy, a learned cardinal, 

 was born at Sora, in the kingdom of Nap'.-s, in 153'^', and 

 educated firft at Veroli, and then at Naples. Having 

 finiihed his ftudies at Rome, he entered in 1560 into the 

 congregation of the oratory founded by St. Philip de Ncri, 

 and having received the order of priciLtiood, he was elected 



alfo been publiftied by fevera! perfons. About two years 

 before the appearance of the " Annals," Ba.ronius publifhed 

 a kind of prelude, intitled, " Martyrologium Romanum 

 reftitutum." &c. or " Notes on tlic Roman Martyrology," 

 folio, 15S6; and afterwards often printed with correftions. 

 Moftieim's Eccl. Hift. vol. iv. p. 206. C.ave'& Hift. Lit^ 

 tom.i. Prolegomena, p. 6, SiC. 



Ba-R.onius, Theodore, of Cremona, in Italy, publifhecf- 

 in .1609, in 410, " De operationis meiandi triplici laefione 

 et curatione, hbri duo, in quibus morbi omues renum, et 

 veficre, ex Galeni prcefcrtim mente, pertradtantur." He 

 was a ftrenuous defender of the dottrines of Galen, with 

 whom, he is faid to have declared, it is more crsditable to 

 err, than to reafon right on any other fyftem: bnt he has 

 in fome points left his guide. He recommends the nfe of 

 cantharides internally in aft^eftions of the kidnies and blad- 



fuperior-general of the congregation, upon the death of its dcr, a pravStlce it is probable Greenvcldt learned from him ; 

 found-:r in 1583. Pope Clement VIII. chofe him for his he alfo injefted medicated liquors into the bladder, with 

 confcfTor, made him apoftolical prothonotary, and iu 1596 the view of facilitating the egrefs of calcidij or of diffolv— 

 raifedhim to the dignity of cardinal. He was afterwards ing them^ Hali. Bib. Med. 



BiROsrus^, 



