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■waited the approach of death. Bourbon, who led the fore¬ 
moll: of the enemy’s troops, found Ifim in this fjtuation, 
■and exprelfed regret and pity at the fight. “Pity not 
me,” cried the high-fpirited chevalier ; “ I die as a man 
cf honour ought, in the difcharge of my duty : they in¬ 
deed are objects of pity, who fight againd their king, 
their country, and their oath.” The ..marquis de Pefcara, 
palling foon after, manifefted his admiration of Bayard’s 
virtue, as well as his 1'orrow for his fate, with the gene- 
rofity of a gallant enemy.; and, finding that lie could not 
be removed with fafety from that fpot, ordered a tent to 
be pitched there, and appointed proper perfons to attend 
him. He died, notwithfianding their Care, as his anceftors 
for feveral generations had done, in the field of battle. 
Pefcara ordered his body to be embalmed, and fent to his 
relations ; and fuch was the refpect paid to military merit 
in that age, that the duke of Savoy commanded it to be 
received with royal honours in all tire cities of his domi- 
jiions : in Dauphine, Bayard’s native country, the people 
of all ranks came out in a folemn proceffion to meet it. 
The continence and generofity of the chevalier have 
been immortalized in the Spectator ; and all the hiftories 
of his time have celebrated his courage and prowefs. 
Being afked what was the bed legacy a father could 
leave his children ; he replied, “ Valour and virtue, 
which fear neither rain, dorm, temped, nor the ftrength 
of man.” It was once propofed to him to enter into the 
fervice of the king of England : he anfwered, “ 1 have 
already two loaders, God and my prince ; I will never 
ferve any other.” In the war between pope Julius II. and 
the duke of Ferrara in alliance with the French, the duke 
had agreed with an Italian topoifon Julius. Bayard, on 
hearing of this, remondrated with the duke in the' ftrong- 
ed terms againd fuch an atrocious aftion ; but the duke 
endeavoured to excufe it by faying that Julius had once 
hired a fellow to alTaffinate him. “ Alas! my lord,” re¬ 
plied Bayard, let us never do that ourlelves which we 
oondiemn as a crime in others.” 
It was faid of Bayard by the military men of his time, 
that he aifaulted like a greyhound, defended himfelf like 
a lion, and retreated like a wolf, who always retires from 
his purfuers with his face toward them. His device was 
a porcupine with this motto : Vires agmiris unus habct ; 
“ One man poded'es the power of a whole troop.” This 
was given him in confequence of his having lingly defend- 
£d a bridge againd two hundred Spaniards. 
BAY'KR (John), a German lawyer and adronomer of 
the latter part of the fixteenth and beginning of the leven- 
teentli century, but in what particular year or place he 
was born is uncertain : however, his name will be ever 
memorable in the annals of afircnomy, on account of that 
great and excellent work which he fird publifhed in the 
•year 1603, under the title of Uranomctria, being a com¬ 
plete celedial atlas of ail the condeliations, with a nomen¬ 
clature collected from all the tables of adrononty, ancient 
and modern, with the uleful invention of denoting the 
•Ears in every condellation by the letters of the Greek al¬ 
phabet, in their order, and according to the magnitude of 
the dars in each condellation. See Astronomy. 
BAY'ERSDORF, a town of Germany, in the circle 
of Franconia, and principality of Bayreuth : on the Red- 
ni’z, with a feat of jtiftice, and a large fynagogue : four 
miles north of Erlang. 
BAYEUX', a town of France, and principal place of 
a didrift, in the department of Calvados. Before the late 
revolution it was the capital of Beflin, in Lower Norman¬ 
dy, the feat of a governor, a bailywick, and the fee of a 
bifhop, whofe diocefe included fix hunred and eleven pa- 
rilhes : the cathedral is admired as the mod beautiful in 
the department. Belides the cathedral, there were feven- 
teen other churches, a college, a public fchool, an hotel 
■dieu, a general hofpital, and feveral religious houfes. 
The number of inhabitants is computed at 8000 ; the prin¬ 
cipal commerce is in leather. It is fituated on the Aure, 
about four miles from the fea: four leagues and a half 
BAY 
wed-north-wed of Caen, and ten and a half north-wed 
of Falaife. Lat. 49. 17. N. Ion. 16. 58. £. Ferro. 
BAY'JAH. See Baja. 
BAYLE (Peter), author of the Hidorical and Critical 
Dictionary, was born Nov. 18, 1657, at Carla, a village 
in France. In 1666 he went to the Protedant univerliiy 
at Puylaureus, where he fhidicd with the greated appli¬ 
cation ; and in 1660, removed to the univerfity of Tou- 
1 011 fie, whither the Protedants at that-rime frequently fent 
their children to dudy under the Jefuits. Here lie em¬ 
braced the Rornidi religion ; but, being foon fenfible of his 
error, he left that univerfity, and went to dudy at Gene¬ 
va. After tills lie was cliofen profelfor of phiiofouhy at 
Sedan; but that Protedant univerfity being fuppreded by 
Louis XIV. in 1781, he was obliged to leave the city; 
and was foon after cliofen profelfor of philofophy and 
hidory at Rotterdam. The year following he publifhed 
his Letter concerning Comets. And father Maimbourg 
having publifhed about this time his Hidory of Calvinifm, 
wherein lie endeavours to draw upon the Protedants the 
contempt and refentment of the Catholics, Mr. Bayle 
wrote a piece to confute his hidory.' The'reputation which 
he had now acquired, induced the States of Friezland, in- 
1684, to offer-him a profeflorfhip in their univerfity ; but 
he wrote them a letter of thanks, and declined the offer. 
This fame year lie began to publifli his Nouvelles de la lie- 
publique dcs Lettres. 
In 1686, lie was drawn into a difpute concerning the 
famous Chridina queen of Sweden. In his Journal for 
April, he took notice of a printed letter, fuppofed to have 
been written by her Swedilh majedy to the Chevalier de 
Terlon, wherein die condemns the perfecution of the .Pro¬ 
tedants in France. He inferted the letter itfelf in his 
Journal for May ; and in that of June following he fays,- 
“ What we hinted at in our lad month, is confirmed, that 
Chridiana is the real author of the letter concerning the 
perfecutions in France, which is afcribed to her: it is a 
remainder of Protedantifm.” Mr. Bayle received an ano¬ 
nymous letter ; the author of which fays, that he wrote 
to him of his own accord, being in duty bound to it ab a 
lervant of the queen. He complains that Mr. Baylep 
fpeaking of her majedy, calls her only Chiijlina, without 
any title ; he finds alfo great 7 fault with liis calling the 
letter “a remainder of Protedantifm.” He blames him 
likewife for inferting the words “ 1 am,” in the conclulion 
of the letter. “ Tliefe words (fays the anonymous wri¬ 
ter) are not her majedy’s; a queen, as die is, cannot em¬ 
ploy tliefe words but with regard to a very few perfons, 
andM.de Terlon is not of that number.” Mr. Bayle 
wrote a vindication of himfelf as to tliefe particulars, with 
which the author of the anonymous letter declared himfelf 
fatisfied, excepting what related to the ‘ remainder of Pro- 
tedantifm.’ He would not admit of the defence with re¬ 
gard to that exprefiion ; and, in another letter, advifed 
him to retraft that ex predion. He adds in a poftfcript, 
“You mention, in your Journal of Augud, a (econd let T 
ter of the queen, which you fcruple to publifh. Her nia- 
jefty would be glad to fee that letter ; and you will do a 
thing agreeable to her if you would fend it to her. You 
might take this opportunity.of writing to hc-r majedy. 
This counfel may be of fome life to yon ; do not negleft: 
it.” Mr. Bayle took the hint, and wrote a letter to her 
majedy, dated the 14th of November 1686 ; to which the 
queen, on the 14th of December, wrote the following 
anfwer: “Mr. Bayle, I have received your excufes; and 
am willing you diould know by this letter, that I am fatls- 
fied with them. I am obliged to the zeal of the perfon 
who gave you occafion of writing to me": for I am very 
glad to know you. You exprefs fo much refpeft and af- 
fedlion for me that I pardon you fincerely ; and 1 would 
have you know that nothing gave me ofFence but that ‘re¬ 
mainder of Protedanifm,’ of which you accttfed me. I 
am very delicate on that head, becaufe nobody can fufpeft 
me of it, without leffening my glory, and injuring me in 
the mod fenfible manner. You would do well if you 
Ihould 
