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coiifiderable reputation for his fl^ill in his profefllon. He 

 is faid to have exctlled particularly in his treatment of the 

 fmall pox, and of putrid and malignant fevers ; perhaps 

 following the method recommended by Sydenham in thofe 

 complaints : but he has left no publications on thefe fub- 

 jefts. He wrote very r.bly in defence of Harvey's doftriiie 

 of the circulation, at that time much agitated ; and M. 

 Carrera attributes to him a treatife, publifhed in London, 

 1671, 4to. " De iis qux Medicorum Animum exagitant." 

 But the work by wl^ich he is principally known, is the 

 Life of his brother John Bnrwick, late dean of St. Paul's, 

 written in elegant Latin. It was publifhed in 1721, in large 

 Svo. by Hilkiah Bedford, and an cleerant portrait of the 

 doftor, engraved by Vertuc, affixed to it. His defence of 

 the " Eikon Bafilike," againft Dr. Walker, which was writ- 

 ten in the 74th year of his age, " does not only fhew," 

 Granger fays, " the warmth of his loyalty, but difcovers 

 not a little of the peevilhnefs of old age." He died Au- 

 guft. 1705, in the 85th year of his age, highly honoured and 

 refpefted by all who knew him. Granger's Biog. Hift. of 

 England. Eloy. Dift. Hift. 



Barwick, John, an eminent Englifh divine of the 17th 

 century, and dean of St. Paul's, was born at Wetherdack, 

 a httle village of Wcftmoreland, in 1612 ; and being de- 

 figned for the church, he was fent to fchool at Sedberg in 

 Yorkfliire, where he manifefted early indications of genius 

 and piety. In 1631, he was admitted into St. John's col- 

 lege in the univerlity of Cambridge, where he became fo 

 diftinguifhed, that he was chofen, at the age of twenty, to 

 manage a difpute relating to the election of a mafter, which 

 was heard before the privy council ; and by his condiicl in 

 this bufinefs, he acquired celebrity in the univerfity, and was 

 alfo taken notice of at court, and by the miniftry. Hav- 

 ing taken feveral degrees at the univerfity, he bore an aflive 

 part in the civil war, and made one of a party of horfe which 

 conveyed the college plate and a fmall fupply of money to 

 Nottingham, where the king had fet up his llandard. He 

 alfo publifhed a trail againd the covenant, which was fo of- 

 fenfive to perfons in power, that he was obliged to retire to 

 London, where he rendered all the fcrvice in his power to 

 the royal caufe. As he poflefTcd talents that juftified con- 

 fidence, he was employed on various occafions of importance 

 by the king and his friends ; and he feems to have been 

 fuccefsful in his endeavours to reclaim fome perfons who 

 had been induced to abandon the caufe to which he was de- 

 voted. During his majefty's confinem.ent in Carifbrook 

 caftle, Mr. Barwick contrived to preferve for hiin a free in- 

 tercourfe with his friends ; and he alfo concerted a plan for 

 his efcape, which however did not fucceed. After the king's 

 death, and when the royal caufe feemed to be defperate, 

 Mr. Barwick, though in a ver)' weak ftate, exerted himfelf 

 in maintaining a daily correfpondence with the minifters of 

 king Charles II. This office he was at length obliged to 

 devolve, firil on his brother Dr. Peter Barwick, and then 

 on another of his brothers, whom he endeavoured to refcue, 

 at the hazard of his own life, from the danger to which he 

 was expofed in confcquence of a treacherous difcovery. When 

 Mr. Barwick was threatened with torture if he did not im- 

 mediately difclofe the names of the perfons who were con- 

 cerned with him, he kept the fecret with invincible firm- 

 nefs ; upon which he was committed to the Tower by an 

 order of council, dated April 9th, 1650. Here he was 

 confined in a clofe dungeon, and debarred the ufe of pen, 

 ink, and paper, and of all books except the bible. In this 

 fituation he remained many months, during which his diet 

 was herbs or fruit, and water-gruel made of oatmeal 

 or barlcv, with currants boiled in it, and fweetened with a 



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little fugar; and yet fuch was the benefit which he derived from 

 this (lender diet, thatthoiigli he was afflifted with a phthifis; 

 atrophy, and dyfcrafy, when he was committed, he reco- 

 vered beyond all expeftation, and grew plump and fat. 

 This fad has been mentioned by many phyficians, as a proof 

 of the advantage of temperance even in the moil inveterate 

 difeafes. After two years' confinement, he was difcharged 

 in 1653, upon giving fecurity to appear at anytime within a 

 twelvemonth before the council of ftate. At the expira- 

 tion of the year, being fatisfied by prefident BradQiaw, who 

 had been difmified by Cromwell, that neither he nor his 

 friends would be expofed to any danger from the recogni- 

 zance into which they had entered, he again engaged vrilh. 

 ardour in public bufinefs, and conferred wi'h feveral perfons 

 whom he had drawn over to the king's fervice, on various 

 fchemes for reftoring monarchy. He was alfo employed in 

 conducting the king's correfpondence, which he did with 

 fecrecy and fuccefs ; and when a rcftoration was likely to 

 take place, he was fent over by the bilhops to reprcfent to 

 the king the ftate of ecclefiaftical affairs. On this occafion, 

 he was received with expreffions of cordial efteem by his ma- 

 jefty, and appointed one of his chaplains. Upon his return 

 he vifited the univerfity of Cambridge, and took the degree 

 of Doftor in Divinity. Upon the king's reftoration, he was 

 offered a bifhopric, which he declined accepting, that the 

 worid might not imagine that his extraordinary zeal for 

 epifcopacy was owing to any fecret hope he might indulge 

 of being made a biftiop. Upon this he was promoted to the 

 deanery of Durham, with which he kept the reftory of 

 Houghton-le-Spring,four miles diftant from the city. The 

 revenue which he thui acquired, he liberally employed in re- 

 pairing public buildings, relieving the poor, and maintaining 

 hofpitality. In 1661, he took poffeflion of the deanery of 

 St. Paul's ; and by his intereft with his majefty he obtained 

 two royal grants ; one for the repair of the cathedral, to 

 which he himfelf contributed ; and the other for fecuring 

 its privileges. The king alfo appointed him one of the nine 

 affiflants to the twelve bifhops employed in the Savoy con- 

 ference ; and he was unanimoufly chofen by the clergy in 

 convocation, their prolocutor. His various eno-aTements 

 brought on his old com.plaint, which was aggravated bv re- 

 newed application after a temporary rccefs, and which ter- 

 minated in his death, 0&. 22, 1664. By his will he be- 

 queathed the greateft part of his eftate to charitable ufes. 

 As his time was fo much devoted to pohtical and pubhc 

 matters, we may well imagine that his wntings were not 

 numerous : they confifted only of three fermons ; the piece 

 againft the covenant, already mentioned ; and the life of the 

 bifhop of Durham, annexed to his funeral fernion. Many 

 of his letters to chancellor Hyde may be found in Thurloe's 

 Colledlion of State Papers. Biog. Brft. 



BARYGAZA, in yliic'unt Geography. See Baroach. 

 BARYGAZENUM Promostorium, a promontory 

 of India, placed by M. D'Anville at the fouth entrance of 

 the " Barv-gazeuus Sinus," or the prefcnt gulf of Camhava. 

 BARYPYCNI, mGreekMvftc. The ancients gave this epi- 

 thet to five of the eight ftable or fixed founds of their dia- 

 gram ; namely, the hypate hypaton, the hypate-mefon, the 

 mefe, the paramefe, and the nete diczeugmenon. Thefe 

 four terms, barjpycne, mefopycne, oxypycne, and apycne 

 imply the lower fpifs or denfe founds ; that is to fay, the 

 fpifs or clofe intervals, the mean of the fpifs, the acute of 

 the fpifs, and the widcft of the fpifs, meaning in the Greek 

 mufic the hypate, the parhypate, the licanos, and the nete 

 of the tetrachords of the fpifs kind. By fpifs or clofe, the 

 intervals of the femitones in the chromatic and quarter 

 tones in the eaharmonic, are implied. See Greek System. 

 4 Z BARY. 



