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arid fucctfsi in fome of tlie moft celebrated iinivcrfities of 

 E\iropc. He accompanied tlie ambafTador of Ferdinand, 

 kin? of the Romans, to England, and was prcfent at the 

 marriage of Philip and Mary ; and was appointed by this 

 fovereign, when he became emperor, as his ambafFador to 

 fuhan Solyman II. During his feven years' refidence in the 

 Turki'b dominionu, he acquainted himlelf with various par- 

 ticulars relating to the natural and political hillory of the 

 country, and coUefltd a great number of MSS. and infciip- 

 tions, together with drawings of plants and animals, which 

 ferved, on his return, to form a narrative, written in Latin, 

 and ab, imding with valuable information. He was after- 

 terwards entrnfted with the education of the fons of Ma.^!- 

 milian II., and m 1570, conducted this emperor's daughter 

 to France, on ncafion of her marriage with king Charles IX. 

 After the death of Cliarles, he continued in that country 

 as miniller for the queen-dowager, and alfo for the emperor 

 Rodolph, till the year 15^2. Havino; obtained permifTi m 

 to take a journey into :he Low Countries, he was affaulted 

 in Normandy by a party of foldiers bel mging to the gar- 

 rifon of Ivouen, and tlic treatment he luffered produced a 

 degree of irritation, which terminated in a fever that proved 

 fatal to liim at the lioufe of a lady near Ronen, in i '592. He 

 was a man of exLcnfive litcaturc, and mafter of feven lan- 

 guages. The firft copy of tlie famous ' Monumentum 

 Ancyranum", which he cauled to be tranfcribtd at Ancyra, 

 was brought by him into Europe. Bcfides his " Travels in the 

 Eaft," he wrote " Letters from France to the Emperor 

 Rodolph," which exhibit an interelting picfture of the 

 French court at that period. An edition of all his works 

 was publidied by Elzevir at Lcyden in 1O3J, and at Am- 

 ilerdam m 1C60, in 4to. Gen. Diet. 



BUSBY, Richard, an eminent (chool-mafter, was born 

 at' Lntton, in Lir.coln'hire, in 1606, educated at Weltniin- 

 fler fchool as a king's feholar, and eletled ftudent of Chrilt- 

 church, in 1624. At college he was ellcemed a great 

 mailer of the Greek and Latin languages, and a complete 

 orator. Having taken orders,-he was admitted, in 16J9, to 

 the prebend and rc-ttory of Cudworth, in the church of 

 Wells, ; and in 1640, he was appointed mailer of Weilmin- 

 fter fchool, which ofRce he held with fingnlar reputation for 

 5^ years. His talents for this arduous office have been 

 greatly extolled ; though it does not now appear what was 

 his peculiar and difcriminatin^ excellence. It has been faid 

 that he pofTelTed a fingular fagacity in dlfcoveiing the ap- 

 propriate genius of his pupils, and that he fo much approved 

 an early maiifeftation of wit in his fcholars, as to pardon 

 the imprudent ex.ercife of it, when he himfelf was its objeft. 

 Perhaps, his pre-eminence to others who have occupied 

 fimilar llations might have principally confilled in the firm- 

 nefs and vigour of his mind, and in that kind of uniform 

 and fyftematic difcipline, attended with a conliderable degree 

 of feverity, which commanded awe and maintained order. 

 With a reference to this trait of his charai'ler, lir Roger de 

 Goverley (fee Spectator, N° .^29.) is made to exclaim, at the 

 view of his effigies, " Dr. Bufby ; a great man ! he whipped 

 rnv grandfather ; a very great man !" Pope alfo gives us 

 a lively defcription of a mailer belonging to the Bufbeian 

 clafs, or of the " Genius of the public Schools," in the fol- 

 lowing appropriate lines : 



" When lo ! a fpedlre rofc, whofe Index-hand 

 Held forth the virtue ot the dreadful wand ; 

 His beaver'd brow a birchen garland wears, 

 Dropping with infant's blood, and mother's tears. 

 O'er every vein a fiiudd'ring horror runs : 

 Eton and WiiUon ihake through all their fons. 



All flefli is humbled ; WcftminRer's bold race 

 Shrink, and confcfs the genius of the place ; 

 The pale boy-tenator yet tingling llands. 

 And holds his breeches clul'e with both his hands." 



Dnnciad, B. iv. 



Dr. Bufby, however, though his fame has defcciidtd to us 

 as that of a ftricl and fevere difciplinarian, was not an ill- 

 natured man ; but the feverity which he cxeroifed, and 

 which has alniofl become proverbial, ftems to have been the 

 refult of habit and fyllem. It has, indeed, been animad- 

 verted upon with difapprobation by fome modern writers, 

 not only as unjuftiliable, but as tending to the extreme of 

 cruelty. Somewhat to this purpofe is the rtfliftion of Mr. 

 Knox, in his eflay on parental indulgence (Effays, vol. ii. 

 p. 344.) who fays, " Inhumanity even in a Bufby cannot 

 admit of palliation." As a man of learning. Dr. Bufby is 

 known by feveral books, fuch as Latin and Greek gram- 

 mars, and editions of the fatircs of Juvenal aid Peilius, and 

 of the epigrams of Martial, adapted to the ufe of his fchool, 

 and evincing his flcill and accuracy as a grammarian. After 

 the refloration, he was made a prebendary of Wcftminller, 

 as well as trtafurer and canon-rtfidentiary of the church of 

 Wells ; and in the fame year he alfo took his degree of doftor 

 in divinity. To the church and monarchy he was zealoufly 

 attached, and he infufed fimilar principles and fpirit into the 

 minds of his pupils, among whom were feveral who occupied 

 fome of the highell offices in the llate. Several inllanccs 

 of his private and public charity are recorded. Having, by a 

 courfe of temperance, notwithltanding tlie fatigues of his 

 public llation, attained to the advanced age of 89, he died 

 in 1695, and was buried in Wcftminller abbey, where a 

 monument, with an ample, laudatory infcription, was creiflcd 

 to his memory. Biog. Brit. 



BUSCA, in Geography, a town of Italy, in the province 

 of Coni ; 7 miles W. of Coni. 



BUSCHE, Herman Von Dem, in Latin BuJJnus, ia 

 Biography, a dillingnilhed feholar, who contributed to the 

 revival of literature, and the improvement of talk- in Ger- 

 many, was the defcendant of a noble family in Wellphalia, 

 and born at the callle of Saffenborg in the bilhopric of 

 Minden, in 1468. After a previous courfe of Ihidy im- 

 proved by travels through Italy, France, and Germany, and 

 various attempts to excite among his own countrymen a 

 talle for pure Latinity, he eftablilhed a fchool at Cologne ; 

 but here his refidence was madeuneafy to him by the monks, 

 fo that in 150C he removed to Leipfic. The ecclefiallics, 

 however, whofe Latin llyle he condemned, and which he 

 wiflied and laboured to reform, counterafted his cfftirts of 

 improvement, and he was under a neceffity of often changing 

 his abode. At Cologne, whither he returned after his tra- 

 vels in Germany and the Low Countries, lie publilhed 

 " Pemptades Decimationum Plautinarum," and a " Com- 

 mentary on Claudian de Ilaptu Proferpinrc." The clergy 

 again molefted him in this city, as he had given them frelli 

 occafion of offence by aiding Ulric Von Hetton in com- 

 pofiiig the celebrated " Epifloia Ohfcur;)rum Viroruni," ia 

 which the monallic Latin of that period is the fnbjcdl of 

 ridicule. From Cologne, he removed to Wel'el, where, as 

 reftor of the Latin fchool, he read the works of Luther, 

 Melanflhon, and Pomeranus, which had been juR publifhed. 

 From Wefel, he went to Wittenberg ; and, at the recom- 

 mendation of Luther and others, the landgrave of Heffe ap- 

 pointed him profclfor of hillory at Marpurg, where he pub- 

 lifhed " A Treatife on the Authority of the Word of God." 

 About this time he embraced the doClrints of Luther, and 

 married iu the year 1527. Towards the clofc of his life, 



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