734 BAR 
BAR 
George Talbot earl of Shrewsbury, erefled on this fpot, 
in 1635, an hol'pital for fix poor widows, who have forty 
(hillings and a new gown every year. This monaftery 
inade Monk Bretton tithe-free. Alio, in this village is a 
meeting-houfe for the people called quakers. When George 
Fox the fird quaker came to this place, a gentleman gave 
the piece of ground to ere£t the meeting-houfe and burial- 
ground, A.D. 1657; and tradition fays, tire fird quaker 
that died in England is interred in this ground. In tire 
village of Stainbrough, three miles from Barndey, is Wenl- 
worth-cadle, the feat of the right honourable William earl 
of Strafford, a mod beautiful fabric, which dands on a 
rifing eminence, and commands a fine profped! into the 
north, ead, and wed, and is furrounded with a large ex- 
lenfive park well docked with fine deer; and within the 
houfe is a mod elegant gallery, tire length from fouth to 
north meafures a hundred and eighty feet by twenty-four 
within, ornamented in a mod fuperb dile ; and on the ead 
i>de of the houfe, in the park, runs a ferpentine canal of 
dome length, w ith a good done-bridge over it of one arch. 
At Weft Bretton, fix miles from Barnfiey, in the parifl) of 
High Hoyland, is Bretton-hall, the feat of Sir Thomas 
Blackett, a mod beautiful fabric, and dands in the midd 
of an extenfive park docked with deer, with two large 
Sheets of water well docked with fiih ; meafures above 
fixty acres. There is a hand dome chapel endowed by Sir 
Thomas Blackett. And, fix miles from Barndey is Wort- 
ley-hail, the feat of the counters of Bute. 
BARN'STAPLE, a (ea-port town in the north of De- 
vondtire, with a market on Fridays, and three fairs in tlie 
year, viz. September 19, Friday before April 21, and the 
iecond Friday in December. The name is compounded 
of bar, which, in the Britidi language, is the mouth of a 
river, and Jlable, which, in the Saxon, is a mart of trade. 
It had walls formerly, with a cadle, the liberties of a city, 
and a haven, which became at lad fo (hallow, though at 
ipring tides the neighbouring delds are overflowed, that 
mod of the (hipping removed to Biddeford ; yet it has dill 
dome merchants, and a good trade. The town is pleafantly 
fituated among hills, in the form of a femicircle, to which 
the river is a diameter. The dreets are clean and well 
paved, and the houfes are of done. It is incorporated by 
charter’of queen Mary with a mayor, twenty-four com¬ 
mon council, of whom two are aldermen, befides a high 
Reward, a recorder, his deputy, &c. It is noted for good 
ale. It has fent burgeffes to parliament ever (nice the 23d 
of Edward I. It is feated on the river Taw, over which 
there is a dately bridge of fixteen arches, which was built 
by the generous benefaction of one Stamford, a citizen 
and merchant of London, who was not a native of the 
place ; but, by trading here to his gain, had kinddefs 
enough for the town to confer that valuable benefit upon 
it. Barndaple is alfo called Barum on the mile-dones 
near it, as Salifbtiry is called Sarum. It is more popu¬ 
lous than Biddeford, but not better built, and dands lower. 
It Imtwo fquares, and an extenfive walk adjoining the 
Yeo and Taw, commanding a beautiful land and fea prof- 
pedfl, as the tide wadies the banks twice every day. The 
markets are large, for cattle, corn, and all kinds of pro- 
vifions. The woollen manufactories carried on at Barn- 
-itaple, are chiefly tammies, (halloons, baize, &c. Here 
arc two alms-houfes,’ and two good charity-fchools, all of 
them well endowed. The church is alfo large and hand- 
fome. Barndaple is forty miles north-north-wed of Exe¬ 
ter, and two hundred wed of London. 
BARN'STORF, or Bern'dorf, a town of Germany, 
in the circle of Wedphalia, and county of Diepholz; eight 
miles north of Diepholz. 
BARN'TRUP, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Wedphalia, and county of I.ippe ; four miles north-ead 
of Blomberg. 
BA'RO, or Baron (Peter), profedbr of divinity in the 
univerdty of Cambridge, in the fixteenth century, was 
born at Edampes in France, and educated at the univer- 
fity of Bourges, where he was admitted a licentiate in the 
law ; but, being of the protedant religion, he was obliged 
to leave his native country : and, coming to England, was 
•kindly entertained by lord Burleigh. He afterwards fet¬ 
tled at Cambridge, and in 1574 was chofen lady Marga¬ 
ret's profedbr. For fome years he quietly enjoyed hispro- 
fe (for (hip ; but there was raided a faction againfl him, by 
his oppofing the doftrine of ablolute prededmation; which 
rendered his place fo uneafy, that he chofe to leave the uni¬ 
verdty, and to fettle in London. He wrote, 1. In Jonam 
Prophetam PraleBionis xxxix. 2. Be Prcejlantia & Digni- 
tate Dwince l.egis-, and other pieces, tic died about°the 
year 1600. 
BAROACH', a town of India, in the country of G11- 
zerat, in the dominions of the Great Mogul, once famous 
for its cotton manufactories. It is thirty-four miles north 
of Surat, and'eighty fouth of Amedabad. The Englifh 
and Dutch had formerly factories here, which are now- 
abandoned. Lat. 21.45. N. lon.72.5S-E. Greenwich. 
B AROC'CI (Frederic), a celebrated painter, born at 
Urbino, who appears to have been infpired with the ge¬ 
nius of Raphael. In his early youth he travelled to Rome, 
where he painted in frefco. He then returned to Urbino, 
and, giving himfelf up to intenfe dudy, acquired a great 
name in painting. His genius particularly led him to re¬ 
ligious fubjects. At his leifure hours, lie etched a few 
prints from his own dedgns, which are highly ftniflied, and 
executed with great foftnefs and delicacy. The Salutation 
is his capital performance in that way ; of which we fel- 
dom meet with any impredions, but thofe taken from the 
retouched plate, which arc very hard). He died at Urbi¬ 
no in 1612, aged eighty-four. 
B ARO'CHE (La), a town of France, in the department 
of the Orne, and chief place of a canton, in the didriCl of 
Domfront; four miles fouth-fouth-ead of Domfront. 
B ARO'CO,/ in logic, a term given to the fourth mode 
of the fecond figure of fyllogifms. A fyllogifm in baroco 
lias the fird propofition univerfal and affirmative, but the 
fecond and third particular and negative, and the middle 
term is the predicate in the two fird propodtions. For 
example, 
Ba Every virtue is attended with diferetion. 
ro Some kinds of zeal are not attended with diferetion. 
co Therefore fome kinds of zeal are not virtues. 
Bar Nuilus homo non ed bipes. 
oc Non omne animal ed bipes. 
o Non omne animal ed homo. 
BARO'METKR,yi [ barometrum , Lat. (Sagop, st^ov, Gr. 
from ( 3 a£©Y weight, and /xet^ov, a meafure.] An inflru- 
ment for meafurinjf the weight or prefflire of the atmo- 
fphere ; and by that means the variations in the date of 
the air, foretelling the changes in the weather, and mea- 
furing heights or depths, See. This indrument commonly 
confids of a glafs tube, open at one end ; which being fird 
filled with quickfilver, and then inverted with the open 
end downwards into a baton of the fame, the mercury de- 
feends in the tube till it remains at about the height of 
twenty-nine or thirty inches, according to the weight or 
preffure of the atmofphere at the time, which isjud equal 
to the weight of that column of the quickfilver. Hence 
it follows that, if by any means tiie preffure of the air be 
altered, it will be indicated by the rifing or falling of the 
mercury in the tube ; or, if the barometer be carried to a 
higher dation, the quickfilver will defeend lower in the 
tube, but, when carried to a lower place, it will rife higher 
in the tube, according to the difference in elevation be¬ 
tween the two places. 
About the beginning of the lad; century, when the doc¬ 
trine of a plenum was in vogue, it was a common opinion 
among philofophers, that the afeent of water in pumps 
was owing to what they called nature’s abhorrence of a 
‘vacuum ; and that thus fluids might be railed by fuftion 
to any height whatever. But an accident having jud dif- 
covered, that water could not be raifed in a pump unlefs 
the Fucker reached to within thirty-three feet of the water 
