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•f fTicir families and tenants. Wlien tlie grant wa? not vtry 

 ctiiifidcTablc, a ba.vii with n horJ'e witliii; it \v:\s fnfticicnt. 

 Of tiis latter kind was NnmUlr-n's baivii, in the county of 

 Ar:naT;h, wli'ch is tr.e:itit)ned in Dean Swift's works, and 

 wiiich now gives name to a village in tlit^t county. This 

 was bu'lt of lime and Hone, eiglity feet fquare, with two 

 round towers for fliiiikers, and two ftories hisrh, vaulted, 

 the wall itfelf being thirteen feet high. Within the bawn 

 was a !;oufe of lime and ilonc, thirty-iix feet long and 

 twenty feet brond. Farther particulars may be found in 

 Ledwich's Antiquities of Ireland, p. i88 — 196. 



BAWOROW, in Geop-aphy, a town of Red RufTia, 

 in the p ilatinate of Ltvnberg, 64 miles eaft of Lemberg. 



IjAWT, a town of Perfia, in the province of Irak- 

 Agcmi, 80 miles north of Ifpahan. 



BAWTRY, a market-town in the weft riding of York- 

 fhire, and UDon the conlines of Nottinghamfhire, in Eng- 

 land, is feated on the high road to Scotland, and confitts 

 principaUy of one broad Ifrecl, well furnifhed with inns, 

 ft is 9 miles from Doncafter, and 152 north from London. 

 The river Idle induces a confiderable trade from Deibyfhire, 

 of mill and grinti-ftones, as well as of lead and iron ware 

 from Shetlielil, which are conveyed hence to Hull and other 

 parts of tiie country. The market is held on Wcdntfday 

 and Saturday ; and the town has alfo three annual fairs, 

 its houfes are 174, inhabited by 798 performs. N. lat. 53° 

 27'. W. long. i". 



BAXA Terra, or Barrer Bay, lies on the weft coaft 

 of Africa, 4 leagues fouch of the rivtr Oro, which is in 

 N. lat. 23^ 30'. It is large, and has in feveral places good 

 anchorage, efpecially on its northern fide. 



BAXAS Bahia, lies on the coaft of Brafil, in South 

 America, 30 leagues E. and E. by S. from the fand bank of 

 Tortugas, OTi Turtle harbonr. It has good anchorage, hard 

 ground, and deep water ; and it is well fh^ltered by a land- 

 bank from the north wind, and by the land from all other 

 winds. 



Baxas, Das, Pnnta, denoting a cape of fhoals, is a low 

 point, iz leagues from the former, and 18 from Tor- 

 tugas. 



BAXEADORE, Cape, is fituated in the idand of Lu- 

 conia or INTanila, in N. lat. l8''44'. E. long. 120" 35'. 



BAXIOS, Abaxos, or Abajfes, are two clullers of 

 rocks on the fouth-caft fide of the ifland of Ceylon, called 

 the Great and the Little Baflfes. The former is in N. lat. 

 6° 10'. E. long. 81" 50' ; and the latter in N. lat. 6° 2j'. 

 E. long. 82° 10'. 



BAXOS de Abrolhos. See Abrolhos. 

 Baxos de Baalu'ia. See Adrojos. 



Baxos de la Candz-lana, a Ihoal or reef of rocks, in the 

 Pacific ocean, fo called by Mendana in 1567, and lying, 

 by M. IHeuriei's calculation, near S. lat. 6\° . and E. long, 

 from Paris 157^^. 



Baxos, Cape, or Lotu Cape, is the eaft point of the en- 

 trance into the river Seftos, on the coaft of Africa. It lies 

 weft of both cape Formofa and Palmas idand, 2 leagues di- 

 ftant from the latter. On the call of this cape are feveral 

 dasgerous rocks, fome of which are under water, and (hould 

 therefore be carefully avoided by the trading fliips that na- 

 vigate in ttiefe paits. 



Baxos Cal>e, lies alfo on the coaft of Africa, caftward 

 of the river Volla, 2 leagues from the Quatre Montes, or 

 hills fo c lUed that are dole together. 



BxVXTER, Richard, ia Biography, an eminent divine 

 am >ng the non-conformifts of England, was born at Row. 

 ton, a fmall village in the county of Salop, in 1615. His 

 father wras a fmall freeholder of exemplary tharadtcr, who. 



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though belonging to the eftabliflu-d ciiurcb, was charged 

 with puritanilin on account of his religious demeanour. 

 Under liis inllruftion ai-d example, liaxter manitellcd early 

 indications of that contemplative and pious difpofition for 

 which he was afterwards fo diftinguilhed. In his youth he 

 enjoyed few advantages for education ; the fchoolmafters 

 whom he attended being men of little learning and loofe 

 morals. But under the tuition of Mr. Wickltead, cliaplain 

 to the council at Ludlow, he had accels to an excellent li- 

 brary, of which he availed himfelf idiout a year and a half very 

 m'jch to h:s iniprove:^.^!!. At this tune his views were d'redled 

 to tlie piofcfrion of a m.iniller. liowever, 111 1633, Mr. Wick- 

 ftead prevailed upon him to relinquilh this object, and to feek 

 his fortune at court. Accordingly he was recommeiidi.d to fir 

 Hen. Herbert, mailer of the rcvtls ; but difguftcd wiili the 

 mode of living which this lituation prefentcd to him, he 

 foo-i retired into the country, and relumed his pur^ofe of 

 profccuting his fUidies for the miniftr)-. Being appointed 

 malUr of the free fchool at Dudley, his health declined ; 

 and under the imprcflion produced by thi im.mediate pro- 

 fpeft of diffolution, and by the peru(al of feveral praftical 

 treatifes, he acquired tiiat deep and fettled fenfe of religion 

 which formed the ruling and perhiantnt principle of his fu- 

 ture life. Being more than ever determined to engage in 

 the minifterial office, and having at this time no fcruples 

 againft conformity to the church of Englan:i, he was or- 

 dained in 16^8; though he afterwards condemned his pre- 

 cipitance in complying witli the laws of fubicription without 

 due examination ; and he frequently preached at Dudley and 

 in the neighbouring villages, much to the fatisfaflion ot thofe 

 who heard him. He objected, however, to fome of the ce- 

 remonies of the church, and he foon began to entertain 

 doubts concerning the lawfulnefs of conformity. What led 

 him ai'd feveral others to ftudy the cafe of epifcopacy, and 

 to think unfavourably of the tilabliihment, was tlie impofi- 

 tion of the " et Ccetcra" oath, which exprcffcd an univtrl'al 

 approbation of the do(^trine and difcipline of the church of 

 England, and a determination never to attempt any altera- 

 tion in its government. Mr. Baxter demurred agaiidt taking 

 this oath ; and though he would have fubmitted to the ec- 

 clefiaftical jurifdidtion that was actually ellablifhed, he could 

 not conicicntiouliy declare his approbation of it, and his 

 determination to fupporl it to the extent' v.- hich this oath 

 required. In 1640, he was invited by the principal inhabi- 

 tants of Kidderniinfter to refide with them as a preacher; 

 and this place became the fcene of his minifterial fervices for 

 about fixteen years. Such, indeed, was the fucccfs which at- 

 tended them, that lie was eminently ufeful in reforming the 

 morals of the diflblule, and in proraoling in the town and 

 its neighbourhood a ftrict regard to religion. About two 

 years after his fettkmv-.it at Kidderniinfter, the civil war 

 commenced ; and on this occafion he took part with the 

 parliament, aiid recommended the protcftation prefcribed 

 by it, to the people. He was thus 1 educed to the neceffity 

 of leaving this town, and of repeatedly changing his refi- 

 dence, till at length he fettled at Cove i try, where he preached ' 

 rerrularly once a week both to the foldiers of the garriion and 

 to the people of the town. After the battle of Nafeby, he be- 

 came chaplain to the regiment of colonel Whalley, and at- 

 tended it at feveral fieges, though he was never prefent in 

 any engagement ; fo that the ftoiy of his having killed a 

 man in cold blood, and robbed him of a medal, was an un- 

 founded and fcandalotu fabrication. During thefe times of 

 confiif'on, Mr. Baxter was a zealous friend to regular go- 

 vernment both in church and ftate ; and it is faid that he 

 lotk great pains to rtprefs the feftaries. The accidental 

 circiunftacce of a profufe bleeding at the nofe, which re- 

 duced 



