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Beverley, a feaport town of the United States of A- 
merica, in Mallaclmfett’s, on the nortli fide of Salem Bay ; 
fifteen miles north of Bolton. Lat.42.31-N. Ion. 70. 30. 
W. Greenwich. 
Beverley (John of), in Latin Joannes, Bcver/aa'us, 
arclfbifhop of York in the eighth century, was born of a 
noble family at Harpharh in Northumberland, and was 
jufti, elleemed one of the beft fcholars'of his time, lie 
was firft a monk, and afterwards abbot of the monallery 
of S'. Hilda, when his merit recommended him to the' 
favou of Alfred king of Northumberland, who in the 
year 685 advanced him to the lee of Haguftald or Hex¬ 
ham, and in 687 tranflated him to the archbifhopric of 
York. This prelate was tutor to the famous Bede ; and 
lived in the ftriCteft friendfliip with Acca and other An¬ 
glo-Saxon doctors, feveral of whom he engaged to write 
comments on the Holy Scriptures,, In 704, he founded a 
college at Beverley for fecular priefts ; and after he had 
governed the fee of York thirty-four years, being tired of 
the tumults and confufions that prevailed in the church, 
divefted himfelf of his epifcop.il character, and retired to 
Beverley ; .where he died four years after, on the 7th of 
May, 721. Bede and other monki/h writers aferibe feve¬ 
ral miracles to him. Between three and four hundred years 
after his death, his body was taken up by Alfric archbi- 
Jhopof York, and placed in a flume richly adorned with 
iilver, gold, and precious Bones j and in 1416, the day of 
his death was, by a fynod held at London, appointed a 
feftival. We are told that William the Conqueror, when 
he ravaged Northumberland with a numerous army, (par¬ 
ed Beverley alone, out of a religious veneration for St. 
John of that place. This prelate wrote fome pieces which 
are mentioned by Bale and Pits, viz. 1. Pro Luca expo- 
nenda. 2. Homilise in Evangelica. 3. Epifioke ad I-lil- 
dam AbbatilTam. 4. Epiftolse ad Herebaldum, Andemmi, 
et Bertinnm. 
BEV’ERN, a town of Germany, in the circle of Upper 
Saxony, and duchy of Brunfwick, lituated on the Welcr : 
twenty miles well of Eimbeck. 
BEV'ERON, a river of Savoy, which runs into the 
Dra nee, four miles fouth-weft of Evian. 
BEV'ERSTADT, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Lower Saxony, and duchy of Bremen : twenty-four miles 
north of Bremen. 
BEVERUN'GEN, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Weftphalia, and bifhopric of Paderburn, at the conflux of 
the Bever and the. Wefel ; near it are fprings of fait v\ a- 
ter : twenty-fix miles fouth-eafl of Paderburn. 
■BE'VERWYCK, a town of North Holland, with a 
/mail harbour, in the Wyckerineer, which is a continua¬ 
tion of the Ye : three leagues north of Harlem, 
BEV'lLE, in heraldry, a figure broken or opening like 
a carpenter’s rule : Thus we fay, He beareth argent, a 
chief bevile, vert, by the name of Bevcrlis. 
BEV'IN (Elway), a mulician eminently (killed in the 
knovyJedge of practical compolition, floutifhed towards 
the end of queen Elizabeth’s, reign. He was of Welfh 
extraction, .and had been educated under Tallis ; and.in 
1389 he was (worn in gentleman extraordinary of the cha¬ 
pel. He was. a'rfo organift of Brifibl cathedral. Dr. 
Child was his. fcholar. He has contpofed fundry Cervices, 
and a few anthems. Before Bevin’stime the precepts for 
the compolition of canon were known to few. Tallis, 
Bird, Waterhoufe, and Farmer, were eminently (killed in 
this moft abftrufe part of mufical practice. Every canon, 
as given to the public, was a kind of enigma. Compofi- 
rions of this kind" were fometim.es exibited in the form of a 
crofs, fometimes in that of a circle ; there is now extent 
one refembling an horizontal fun-dial : and the re.jolu.tion 
(as it was called) of a canon, which was the refoiving it 
into its elements and reducing it into (core, was deemed 
a work of almofl as great difficulty as the original contpo- 
fition. But Bevin, with a view to the improvment of flu- 
dents, generouflv communicated the refult of many years 
ftudy and experience in a treatife which is highly com¬ 
mended. This book was published in 4?o. in 1631, and 
dedicated to Goodman bifhop of Gloucefter. 
BEUN'TERSHEIM, a town of Germany, in the circle 
of the Upper Rhine, and bifhopric of Worms : fix miles 
lotith of Worms. 
BEU'REY, a town of France, in the department of 
the Meufe, and chief place of a canton, in the diliriCt of 
Bar-le-Duc: two, leagues and a half north of St. Dizier, 
and one mile and three quarters well of Bar-le-Duc. 
BEUR'RE, a town of France, in the department of the 
Doubs, and chief place of a canton, in the diflriCt of Be- 
fancon : two miles Couth of Befancon. 
BKURE'RIA and Beurre Ria in botany. See Ca¬ 
lx canthus and Ehicetxa. 
BEU'THEN, a town of Germany, in the circle of Up¬ 
per Saxony, and principality of C'arolath, on the Oder; it 
contains two churches : three miles S. W. of Zeigenbruck. 
Beuthen (Nieder), a town of Silefia, on the Oder, in 
the duchy of Glogaw, During the wars of Poland, in the 
time of tlie emperor Frederic I. this town being facked 
and defiroyed, the inhabitants rebuilt it about two miles 
more wefterly, near a cyfile, which had been erected for 
the defence ot the old town. In 1475, it was confumed 
by fire all but the church. Again, during the "civil war^ 
of Germany it (offered very much, being taken and re¬ 
taken feveral times : thirteen miles weft-north-weft of O- 
ber Gloglau. I,at. 51. 42. N. Ion. 33. 37. E. Ferro. 
Beuthen (Ober), a town of Silefia, which formerly be¬ 
longed to the principality of Jagerndorf, but by a folenm 
decree, dated April 16, 1617, it was detached from Ja¬ 
gerndorf,. and declared to belong to the principality of 
Oppeln. In 1627, it was taken by the.duke of Saxe Wei¬ 
mar: forty miles eaft-fouth-eafl of"Qppeln. Lat. 50. 16. N. 
Ion. 3 6. 39. E, Ferro. 
BEUT'SCHEN, a town of Poland, in the palatinate oi 
Pofen : forty-four miles weft of Pofen. 
BEUVRON', a town of France, in the department of 
the Calvados, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrict 
ot Pont l’Eveque : twelve miles fouth of Caen.. 
Beuvron., a river of France, which runs into the 
Loire, two leagues below Blois. 
BEUV'RY, a town of France, in the department of the 
Straits of Calais, and chief place of a canton, in the dif- 
triCt of Bethune : half a league eaft of Bethune. 
BEV'Y, f. [beva, Ital.J A flock of birds, moftly ap¬ 
plied to quails.. A company ; an aftembly : 
And in the midft thereof, upon the floor, 
A lovely bevy of fair ladies fat, 
Courted of many a jolly paramour. Spenfcr.- 
BEUZE'VILLE, a town of France, in the department 
of the Eure, and chief place of a canton, in the diftriCt of 
Pont-Audemer: two leagues and a half weft of Po'nt- 
Audemer.. 
BEWD'LEY, or Beaulieu, a borough town, in the 
county of Worcefier, firuated on the fide of the river Se¬ 
vern, three miles fromaKidderminfler, fourteen from Wor- 
cefter, and 12S, from London. According to tradition, 
this town was once within the jurifdiCtion of the marches 
of Wales ; but by a ftatute in the reign of Henry VIII. it 
is made a parcel of the county of Worcefier. It takes its 
prefent name, from its agreeable li.tuati.on on the declivity 
6f a hill over the wefiern bank of the Severn. The cere¬ 
mony of prince Arthur’s marriage was performed here, 
himfelf attending in perfon, with Catharine of Arragonby 
proxy, on the 19th of tylay, 1499, and here his corple 
relied in the year 1502, in its way from Ludlow to Wor- 
cefter for interment. The fitnation of Bewdley, in the 
midft of a populous amt manufacturing county, has made 
it long a flourifliing town. Several trades are exercifed 
here. Tannery has been long an efiablifhed bufinefs. The. 
Dutch and failors caps made here are valued for the ex¬ 
cellence of the napping ; they feem to have been worn all 
over England, by all ranks of people, till the introduction 
of fur hats by the French refugees, in the year 1685. 
Horning, 
