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have hitherto been discovered | in these Kingdoms. | By John 
Berkenhout, M.D. | Being A | Second | Edition of the Outlines, 
etc. | Corrected and considerably enlarged. | Vol. I. | Compre- 
hending the Animal and Fossil | Kingdoms. | [Vol. II. The 
Vegetable Kingdom.] London : | Printed for T. Cadell, In the 
Strand. | mdcclxxxix. 
Collation — 2 vols. 12mo. Vol. I. pp. xix + pp. 334+ 1 1. errata. 
Vol. II. pp. iv un. + pp. 380. 
Birds treated of at pp. 10-54. 
Idem. Being 2nd edit, of above or 3rd edit, of the Outlines. 
1795. 2 vols. 12mo. 
Bernes, Berners, or Barnes (Juliana), b. 1388 (?) 
Very little seems to be known about the life of Dame 
Berners. Blades, the editor of the facsimile reprint of The 
Boke of St. Alban's ( 1881 ), says (p. 13 ) that “ what is really 
known of the dame is almost nothing, and may be summed 
up in the following few words. She probably lived at the 
beginning of the fifteenth century, and she possibly compiled 
from existing MSS. some rhymes on hunting.” The only 
mention of the Dame in the original edition of the Boke 
( 1486 ) is in fact in the colophon of its second treatise. This 
consists of a rhymed treatise on hunting, and concludes : 
“ Explicit Dam Julyans Barnes in her boke of huntyng.” 
Much traditionary matter about her may, however, be found 
in the Diet. Nat. Biog. (iv. pp. 390 - 92 ), where it is stated 
that report made her the daughter of Sir James Berners, 
whose son was created Baron Berners, temp. Henry IV., 
and that she once held the situation of Prioress of Sopwell 
Nunnery in Hertfordshire. Warton, Blades, and others 
considered the four treatises of which the Boke consists to 
be merely translations, probably from French MSS. Hasle- 
wood (fol. ed. of the Boke , 1810 ) attributed to Dame Berners 
(1) a small portion of the treatise on Hawking ; (2) the 
whole treatise on Hunting ; ( 3 ) a short list of beasts of 
chase ; ( 4 ) another short list of beasts and fowls. 
Mr. Harting has pointed out that her name occurs in the 
first edition as “ Barnes ” and in the second as “ Bernes.” 
The latter is the spelling adopted in the Brit. Mus. Catalogue. 
