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Should be raifed, and the old ones turned out. They are 
propagated by feeds, which will low, themfelves in the 
pots which are near them in the ftove, when the plants 
are once obtained; but, where the feeds are received from 
abroad, theymuft be town upon a hot-bed in the fpring; 
and, when the plants are tit to remove, they mutt be each 
planted in a feparate pot, and plunged into a hot-bed of 
tanners’ baric, where they nutft conftantly remain, and be 
managed in the fame manner as other tender exotics from 
the fame countries ; giving them water frequently in fum- 
mer, and letting the frefh air to them every day in warm 
weather, but in winter they thould have lefs water and be 
kept warm. They flower from June to November, and 
their feeds ripen loon after. The fourth fort lias flexible 
perennial Hulks, which if cut off during the fuminer 
months, and made into lengths of fix or eight inches, apd 
planted in pots, plunging them into a hot-bed, and duly 
watered and (haded from the fun, will loon pm out roots, 
fo may be planted each in a fmall pot, and plunged into 
the tan-bed in the (love; for, although this fort may be 
kept in a dry Hove through the winter, yet the plants will 
not grow near fo raft, nor will their leaves be fo large as 
thole which are plunged into bark. By this method the 
plants may be propagated in plenty, but, as they rarely 
produce flowers in England, fo two or three plants will be 
iufficienf to maintain the fpecies. The fifth and eighth 
forts will produce feeds in England, provided the plants 
are kept in the tan-bed in the (rove, thefe therefore may 
be propagated by feeds, which ftiould be fown in the hot¬ 
bed, and the plants afterwards treated in the fame manner 
as the former. 
BARLET'TA, a fea-port town of Italy, in the king¬ 
dom of Naples, and country of Bari, on the Adriatic : four 
miles weft of Trani. Lat.41.19-N. Ion. 34. 3. E. Ferro. 
B A R'LEY,/. in botany. See Hordeum. Barley, is 
emollient, moiftening, and expectorating; and it was cho- 
fen by Hippocrates as a proper food in inflammatory dif- 
tempers. The principal life of barley among us is for 
making beer; in order to which it is firft malted. The 
Spaniards, among whom malt-liquors are little known, 
feed their horfes with barley as we do with oats. In Scot¬ 
land, barley is a common ingredient in broths; and the 
oonfumption of it for that ptvrpofe is very confiderable, 
barley-broth being a difh as frequent there as that of foup 
in France. 
Pearl Barley, and Fw/i Barley; barley freed of 
the hulk by a mill; the dilfiiuftion between the two being, 
that the pearl barley is reduced to the fize of fmall (hot, 
all but the very heart of the grain being ground away. 
Barley-corn, f. [from barley and com.'] A grain of 
barley; the beginning of our meafure of length; the 
third part of an inch : 
A long, long journey, choak’d with brakes and thorns, 
HI meafur’d by ten thoufand barley-corns. Tickeli. 
Barley-corn, (grain d'orge,) is ufed in building for 
■a little cavity between the mouldings of joiners’ work, 
Serving to feparate or keep them afunder ; thus called, be- 
caufe made with a kind of plane of the fame name. 
Barley Cove, a creek on the fouth-weft coaft of Ire¬ 
land, between Mizenhead and Browhead, in the county 
of Cork. Lat.si.24.N. Ion. 9.40.\V. Greenwich. 
Barley-mow, f. [from barky and mow.] The place 
where reaped barley is flowed up : 
Whenever by yon barley-mow I pafs. 
Before my eyes will trip the tidy lafs. Gay. 
Barley-water, is a decoftion of either French or 
pearl barley, reputed foft and lubricating, of frequent life 
in phylic. This well-known decoction is a very ufeful 
drink jn many diforders; and is recommended, with nitre, 
in acute fevers. 
BAR'LEYBRAKE,yi A kind of rural plays 
Sv neighbours prais’d (he went abroad thereby, 
At harleybroM her fweet fwift feet to try. " Sidney , 
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BAR 727 
BAH'LOWE (William), bifliop of Chichefter, was de- 
feended of an ancient family in Wales, in iiis youth he 
favoured the reformation; and. travelled to Germany to 
be inftrufded by Luther. Hciv long lie continued a Pro- 
teftant is uncertain: but it appears, that he wrote feveral 
books againft the church of Rome. He was a regular ca¬ 
non in the Auguftine monaftery of St. Ofith in the coun¬ 
ty of Elfex, and ftudied fome time at Oxford with the 
brothers of that order, where he took the degree ot doc¬ 
tor in divinity. On the diflolution of abbeys, he refigned 
not only with a good grace, but perluaded feveral other 
abbots to follow his example. King Henry was fo plea- 
fed with his ready obedience, that he made him billiop of 
St. Afaph, afterwards of St. David’s, and in 1547 of Bath 
and Wells. During this time, as appears from the fol¬ 
lowing' letter to the king, he pretended to be a (launch Pa- 
prft: it was written in 1533. “ Prayfe be to God, who of 
his infynyte goodnefs and mercy ineftymable hath brought 
me out of darknefs into light, and front deadly ignorance 
into the quick knowledge of the truth. From the whiche, 
through the fiend’s inftigation and falfe perfualion, 1 have 
greatly fwerved. In fo much that I have made certayn 
bokes and have foffred them to be emprinted, as the tre- 
tife of the Buryall of the Malle, See. In thefe tretifes I 
perceive and acknowledge myfelf grievouflv to hav-e er¬ 
red; namely, againft the blelfed facrament of the altare ; 
diftillowing the made and denying purgatory, with flande- 
rous infamy of the pope and my lord cardinal, and.outra- 
geous raylying againft the clergy; which I have forlaken 
and utterly renounced—Aiks pardon, William BailcweW 
However, when Edward VI. came to the crown, lie was 
again a. Proteftant; and, for that reafon, on queen Mary's 
accellion, he was deprived of his bifliopric, and feat pri- 
foner to tire Fleet; from, whence he found means to ef- 
cape, and immediately joined the Englifli Protefrants in 
Germany. When Elizabeth afeended the throne, he was 
raifed to the fee of Chichefter, and foon after made firft 
prebendary of Weftminfter. He died in 1368, and was 
buried in the cathedral at Chichefter. He had five daugh¬ 
ters, ea'crh of which. married a billiop. He wrote, 1. 1 he 
Buryall of the Malle. 2. The Climbing up of Fryers 
and religious Perfons, portred with Figures. 3. Chriftian 
Homilies. 4. A Book upon Cofmography. 5. The god¬ 
ly Inftitution of a Chriftian Man, commonly called the 
Biftiop’s Book; and feveral other works. He is faid to 
be tlie tranflator of the Apocrypha as far as the book of 
Wifdom. His letters to M. Parker are in manufeript in 
Corpus Chrifti college, Cambridge, Mifc.i. 443. 
Barlowe (William.), an eminent mathematician and 
divine, in the 16th century. He was born in Pembroke- 
fhire, his father being then billiop of St. David’s. In 
1360 he was entered commoner of Baliol college, Oxford; 
and, in 1564, having taken a degree in arts, he left the 
univerfity, and went to fea ; but in what capacity is un¬ 
certain : however, lie thence acquired confiderable know¬ 
ledge in the art of navigation, as his writings afterwards 
lhewed. About the year 1373, he entered into orders, 
and became prebendary of Winchefter, and redforof Eaf- 
ton, near that city. In 1588 he was made prebendary of 
Litchfield, which he exchanged for the office of treajfu- 
rer of that church. He was afterwards appointed chap¬ 
lain to prince Henry, eldeft for. of James I. and, in 1614, 
archdeacon of Salilbury. Barlowe was remarkable for 
having been the firft writer on the nature and properties 
of the loadftone. He was the firft who made the inclina- 
tory inftrument tranfparent, and to be ufed with a glals on 
both fides. It was he alfo who fufpended it in a compafs- 
box, where, with two ounces weight, it was made fit for 
ufe at fea. He alfo found out the difference between iron 
and ftcel, and their tempers for magnetical ufes. He like- 
wife difeovered the proper way of touching magnetical 
needles; and of piercing and cementing load (tones; and 
■alfo why a loadftone, being double capped, muft take up 
•fo grlat a weight. He died in 1623. His works are as 
follow; i. The Navigator’s Supply : 1597, 4to. 2. Mag¬ 
netics! 
