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BxROMtus, nnefnllut, a celebrated Italian pTiyfician, 

 p'.iblinied in 1636, 410. " Dc Pciipntumia, anno 1633, et 

 a'iis temporibui, l-"iaininiam, alialq-je rtgiones, p^puli'-.ter 

 iiif-dante, ac a nemi:i'.- haftsiuis oblervata, libri duo, Foro- 

 livi," a woik of coiilidtrablc merit, giving a particular ac- 

 count of tilt diL-afe, and of the method found moil UiccclT- 

 ful ill combating it, with the appearances obfcrvcd on dif- 

 fecting the bodies of thofe who died of the complaint. The 

 epidemic was att'-nded with fever, pain in the cheft, cough, 

 ditliculty of breathing, and an inextmguiilnble thivft. Thofe 

 who cxpeftoi-ated freely, early in the complaint, particularly 

 if they had been pkiitifully blooded, ufually, he fays, re- 

 covered. The lur.gs of thofe wlio died were univerfally in- 

 flamed ; fometimcs, but not always, the pleury was alfo 

 afftftcd ; and in fomc of the fubjects, ferum was found ef- 

 fufed in the cavity of the thorax. The difeafe was not, he 

 fays, conta;T;ious. Hallcr. Bib. Med. 



BARO'biTHALA, in Gio^raphj. See Lassa. 

 BARONY, Baronia, or Baronagium, the lordfliip 

 or fee of a baron, either temporal or fpiritual ; in which 

 fcnie barony amounts to the fame with what is otherwife 

 calkd honour. 



A barony may be confidered as a lordfliip held by fome 

 fervice in chief of the king, coincidmg with what is other- 

 wife called grami firgmnty. 



Baronies, in their hrlt creation, moved from the king him- 

 felf, the chief lord of the whole realm, ai.d could be Isoldtn 

 immediately of no other lord. For example, the king en- 

 feoffed a man of a great fcigneurie in land, to hold to the 

 perfon enfeoffed and his heirs, of the king and his heirs, 

 by baronial fervice, to wit, by the fervice of twenty, foity, 

 fixty knights, or of fuch other number of knights, either 

 more or fewer, a-; the king by his enfeoffment limited or 

 appointed. In the ages next after the Conqueft, when a 

 great lord was enfeoffed by the king of a large fcigneurie, 

 fuch fcigneurie was called a barory, but more commonly an 

 honour : as the honour of Glouceder, the honour of Wal- 

 lingforJ, the honour of Lancailer, the honour of P.ich- 

 mond, and the like. There were in Engbnd certain ho- 

 nours, which were often called by Norman or other fo- 

 reign names; that is to fay, fonictiines by the Englifh, and 

 fomttimes by the foreign name. This happened when the 

 fame perfon was lord of an honour in Normandy or fome 

 otlitr foreign coiinti"y, and alfo of an hor.'jur in England. 

 For example, William de Forz, de Force, or de Fortibus, 

 was lurd of the honour of Albemarle in Normandy, he was 

 alfo lord of two honours in England, to wit, the honour 

 of Holderneffe, and the honour of Skiptoi in Cravtiie. 

 Thefe honours in England were lometimes called by the 

 Norman nam;-, the honour of Albemarle, or the honour of 

 the earl of Albemarle. In like manner, the earl of Bri- 

 tannic was lord of the honour of Britannic in France, and 

 alfo of the honour of Riclimond in England : the honour 

 of Richmond was fomctirats called by tlie foreign name, 

 the honour of Britannic, or the honour of the earl of Bri- 

 tannic. This fcrveth to explain the terms, honour of Albe- 

 marle in England, honor Albnnarl'iit, or comiiis Albemarlt^ in 

 jin^lla ; honor Brl'.annl^^ or com'ith Britann'ta in Jlnglia, the 

 honour of Britannic, or the earl of Britannic in England. 

 Not that Albemarle or Biitannie were in England, but that 

 the fame perfon rcfpeftivcly was lord of each of the faid ho- 

 nours abroad, and of each ofthefaid honours in England. The 

 baronies belonging to birtiops are by fome called regalia, as 

 being held folely^on the king's liberality. Thefe do not 

 ConCil in one barony alone, but in many ; for, tot crant ba- 

 ronii, quot majora pradia. See Bishop. 



A barony, according to Bradon, is a right indivihble : 



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wlierefore, if an inheritance he to be divided amon? the copar- 

 ceners, though fome capital mefuagcs may be divided, yet 

 if the capital meffuag. be the head of a county or barony, 

 it may not be parcelled ; and the reafon is, lelt by th'S divi- 

 fion many of the rights of counties and baronits by de- 

 grees coire to nothing, to the prejudice of (he realm, which 

 is faid to be compofcd of counties and barori.s. 



BARONY is in Ireland the name o* the divifions of the 

 counties, anfweniig to the Englifh luindicds. According 

 tothcfe, county taxes areaffcfTed; and they are often noticed 

 in the proceedings of pr.ihament. The number of baror.ies 

 in Ireland is 252. 



BARONYCHIA, in 58/a7/y. See Asplenium rnla 

 murana. 1 



BAROPHTHAS, in Jncient Geography, a town of Per- 

 fia pniper, according to Zo(imn>'. 



BAROPTIS, or Basoptinus Lapis, in Natural IJif- 

 tory, a name given by the ancient naturalills to a fpeci^' of 

 ftone, fuppofed to have wonderful virtues agaiidl venomous 

 bites, externally appliu-d. Pliny has left us but a very (hort 

 defcription of it : he fays, it was black in colour, but varie- 

 gated with large fpots of red and white. 



BAROS, in jlncimt Geography, a place of Afia, in Tvle- 

 fopotamia. 



BAROSCOPE, derived from /3»^o;, onus, and irx5~!ij, 

 •video, a machine contrived to fiiew the alteration in the 

 Weight of the atmofphere. See Barometer. 



BAROSELENITE of Kirwan, in Mineralogy. See 

 Po?.DCROus Spar. 



BAROVSK, in Geography, a diftricl of the government 



of Kaluga in RulTia, lituate on the river Frotva, which falls 

 into the Occa. 



BAROWECZ, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of 

 Lublin, 36 miles north of Lubiin. 



BAROZZI, James, in Biography. See Vigs'OLA. 

 BARPAN.'\, in Ancient Geography, Carholi, an idand 

 of Italy, in the Tufcan fea, according to Piiny. 



BARQUES Point, in Geography, a cape on the north- 

 eaft of Sagana bay in lake Huron. 



B.'VRQLTETTE.or Bar chetta, in the Mediterranean, 

 denotes a leffer fort of barki, ufed for the fervice of gallics 

 much as boat:; and fliallops are for other fhiris, as to tcich 

 provifions, water, carry perfons aihote, and the like. 

 BARR. See Bar. 



Bar, Barra, or Barro, in Commerce, denotes a Portu- 

 gnefe long meafure, uled in the menfuration of cloths, 

 lUifTs, and the like; fix whereof are equivalent to ten 

 cavidos or cabidos ; each cavido equal to 4^ of a Paris ell. 

 The Spanilh Barra is the fame with the yard of S-.'ville. 

 Barr of Valentia is equal to \% of the Paris ell ; t!ie barr 

 of Cadile is equal to A of the Paris ell : and the barr of 

 Arragon is equal to f of the Paris cU. Savar. Dift. Com. 

 p. 273. See Measure. 



Barr is alfo ufed by the Portuguefe in the Eaft Indies 

 for a weight, m.orc frequciuly called Bahar. 



Barr or Baar, in Geography, a town of France, in the 

 department of the Lower Rhine, and chief place of a canton, 

 in thedillria of Eenfelden ; 7 miles W.N.W. of Benfelden. 

 BARR-ZJ/'tf, a fpecies of falfe dice fo formed as that they 

 will not eafily lie on certain tides, or turn up certain points. 

 Barr-Dice (land oppoled to flat dice, which come i;p on 

 certain poi. its oftener than they fhould do. 



BARRA, in Geography, an iflaiid of Africa, in the mouth 

 of the river Gambia. 



BARRAor Bar, a kingdom of Af.ica, ncartlie river Gambia, 

 extending on the borders of it about 20 leagues. 



Barra or Barrjy, one of the wcllern illands annexed to 



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