BAR 
As 9600 : 14 : : 29.68 : .04 
cor. .04 logs. 
mean 49£ M = 29.64 - 4718782 
stand. 31 m = 25.28 - 4027771 
dif. 18£ As 435 : 18£ :: 691.011 : 29.388 
29.388 
the altitude 5 720.399 fath. 
sought is l or 4322.394 feet. 
Ex. 2. To find the altitude of a hill, when 
the state of the barometer and thermometer, 
as observed at the bottom and top of it, is 
as follows ; viz. 
Thermometers. 
Barometers. 
detached. 
attached. 
35 
41 
29.45 
31 
38 
26.82 
mean 33 
dif. 3 
As 9600 : 
3 :: 29.45 
: .01 
.01 
logs. 
mean 33 
M = 29.44 
- 4689378 
stand. 31 
m = 26.82 
- 4284588 ’ 
dif. 2 As 435 : 2 
404.790 
1.86 
1.86 
the altitude 
sought is 
406.65 fathoms, 
or 2439,93 feet. 
The mean height of the barometer in 
London, upon an average of two observa- 
tions in every day in the year, kept at the 
house of the Royal Society for many years 
past, is 29.88 ; the medium temperature, or 
height of the thermometer, according to the 
same, being 58°. But the medium height at 
the surface of the sea, according to Sir Geo. 
Shuckburgh, is 30.04 inches, the heat of the 
barometer being 55°, and of the air 62°. 
See Pneumatics. 
BARON, in British customs, a degree of 
nobility next to a viscount, but the highest 
in point of antiquity. In the House of Peers 
dukes, marquisses, earls, viscounts, and 
barons, are all equal members, whence they 
are collectively called a House of Peers, or 
equals ; but, in other respects, they claim 
and enjoy certain honours and distinctions, 
peculiar to their respective ranks and the 
date of their creations. See Precedence. 
The original, by writ, Camden refers to 
King Henry III. and barons, by letters 
patent or creation, commenced in the reign 
of Richard II. to these is added a third kind 
of barons, called barons by tenure. The 
chief burgesses of London were in former 
times barons, before there was a lord-mayor; 
the earl-palatines had anciently their barons 
BAR 
under them ; but no barons, except those 
who held immediately under the king, were 
peers of the realm. 
Barons of the exchequer, the four judges 
to whom the administration of justice is 
committed, in causes between the king and 
his subjects, relating to matters concerning 
the revenue. They were formerly barons 
of the realm, but of late are generally per- 
sons learned in the laws. Their office is 
also to look into the accounts of the king, 
for which reason they have auditors under 
them. 
Baron and feme, in our law, a term used 
for the husband in relation to his wife, who 
is called feme ; and they are deemed but 
one person, so that a wife cannot be witness 
for or against her husband, nor he for or 
against his wife, except in cases of high 
treason. 
Baron and feme, in heraldry, is when the 
coats of arms of a man and his wife are borne 
per pale in the same escutcheon, the man’s 
being always on the dexter side, and the 
woman’s on the sinister ; but here the wo- 
man is supposed not an heiress, for then her 
coat must be borne by the husband on an 
escutcheon of pretence. 
Barons of the Cinque-ports, are sixteen 
members of the House of Commons, elected 
by the Cinque-ports ; two for each port. 
BARONET, a modern degree of honour, 
next to a baron, created by King James I. 
in order to propagate a plantation in Ulster, 
in Ireland, for which purpose each of them 
was to maintain thirty soldiers in Ireland, 
for three years, after the rate of eight pence 
. sterling per day to each soldier. The honour 
is hereditary, and they have the precedence 
of all knights, except those of the garter, 
bannerets, and privy-counsellors. They are 
stiled baronets in all writs, and the addition 
of Sir is attributed to them, as the title of 
Lady is to their wives. No honour is to be 
created between barons and baronets. 
Baronets of Ireland, a dignity insti- 
tuted 30 Sept. 1619. 
BARONY, the honour and territory 
which gives tithe to a baron, whether he be 
a layman or a bishop. According to Brac- 
ton, a barony is a right indivisible; where- 
fore, if an inheritance is to be divided among 
coheirs, though some capital messuages may 
be divided, yet if the capital messuage be 
the head of a county or barony, it may not 
be parcelled ; ana the reason is, lest by this 
division many of the rights of counties and 
baronies by degrees come to nothing, to the 
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