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diftritl of Aix, (Ituated at the month of a river, running 
into .the lake of Martigues, otherwife called the Lake of 
Bare, ih an unhealthy climate. It was formerly one of the' 
ftrorigeft towns of Provence: Charles Emanuel, duke of 
Savoy, took it after a long fiege, in 1591, during the wars 
of the league; and, although all the red of .the province 
fu'oniitted to Henry IV."he could not drive the Savoyards 
from Bene, till it was given up in the year 1598, in confc- 
qttence of the peace of Vervins : four leagues and a half 
ibuth-wed of Aix, and nine fouth of Apt. 
BERRETO'NI (Nicolo), hiftory-painter, was born at 
Macerata in .1617, and was. a difciple of Carlo Maratti, 
with whom he ftudied delign and colouring for fome years, 
and attained fuch excellence, that he excited the jealoufy 
and envy of his mailer, who feerned to be apprehenfive of 
finding a powerful competitor and rival in his pupil. His 
early works, after he quitted the fchool of Maratti, were 
in the ftyle and fade of Guido; and they could not poili- 
bly have a more high encomium or recommendation. He 
died in 1682. 
BER'RIMAN (William), was born Sept. 24, 168S. 
He had his grammar learning at Banbury in Oxforddiire, 
and at Merchant-Taylors fchool. At feventeen years of 
age he was entered a commoner of Oriel college, Oxford, 
where he took his degree of D. D. He was curate and 
lecturer of Allhallows, Thames-dreet, and lefturer of St. 
Michael’s, Queenhithe. He was appointed domeftic chap, 
lain to Dr. Robinfon, bifliop of London, in 1720, and foon 
after collated by him to the living of St. Andrew Under- 
fiiaft. In 1727 Ire was elected fellow of Eton college by 
the intereft of Dr. Godolphin, the provod, w ithout any 
folicitation. Here he chiefly redded in the fummer, and 
in his paifonage-houfe in the winter, where he died Feb. 5, 
1750, in the fixty-fecond year of his age. His writings 
.are, 1. A leafonable Review of Mr. Whifton’s Account 
of primitive Doxologies, 1719. 2. A11 hidorical Account 
of the Trinitarian Controverfy, in eight Sermons, at Lady 
Moyer’s Leflure, 1725, 3. A Defence of fome Paflages 
in the hidorical Account, 1731. 4- Brief Remarks on 
Mr. Chandler’s Introduction to the Hidory of the Inqui¬ 
sition, 1733. 5. A Review of the Remarks. 6. Sermons 
at Boyle’s Lectures, 1733, in two vols. 8vo. Befides thefe 
die publilhed many oecalional fermons in his life-time; and 
after.his death were publilhed by his brother John Berri- 
man, M. A. from his original manufeript, “ Chriftian 
Doctrines and Duties explained and recommended,” two 
vols. 8vo. 
BERRUYER' (Jofeph Ifaac), a celebrated French wri¬ 
ter, born at Rouen in Normandy, Nov. 6, 1682. He was 
defigned for the pulpit; but, the vveaknefs of his frame not 
allowing him to declaim, he gave himfelf up to the quiet 
but fevere Undies of the clofet, and produced fome criti¬ 
cal works of importance, which his countrymen thought 
fit to flipprtfs : and the reading of his Hijloire du Peitp/e de 
Dicu was forbid by the archbifhop of Paris, which the Sor- 
bonne were fix years reviewing. The fird part of this 
work made its appearance in 8 vols. 4to, with a fupple- 
ment, 1728, reprinted in 1-33, 8 vols. 4to, and 10 vols. 
121110; this ends w ith the times of the Meffiah : the fe¬ 
cund part came out in 1753, in 4 vols. 4to, and 8 vols. 
12.mo ; and the third part in 2 vols. 4to, or 5 vols. 121110, 
containing a literal paraphrafe of the epifll.es, w s printed 
in 1738, notwitliflanding it was cenfured and condemned 
■by the pope and clergy, as tontaining-abominable errors. 
He d:ed at Paris, Feb. 18, 1758. 
BER'RY (Sir John), a Bntifh naval commander, fuc- 
cefsful again!! the buccaneers who infefled the Atlantic 
ocean, diflinguiflied himfelf at the famous battle of South- 
would bay, for which he was,knighted. In 16S2 he com¬ 
manded the Gloucefter frigate, on-board of which the duke 
of York embarked for Scotland ; bur, by the carelelliiefs 
of the pilot, the veflel was loll at the mouth of the Hum¬ 
ber. In the midft of this confufion, Sir John retained that 
prefence of mind for which lie was always remaikable, 
and by that means preserved the duke, and as many of his 
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retinue as the long-boat would carry. Soon after lie was 
promoted to a flag; and commanded as vice-admiral under 
lord Dartmouth, at the demolition of Tangier, and on his 
return was made- a commifflotier in the navy; which poll 
lie enjoyed till lus death. He was in great favour with 
James II. who made choice of him to command under 
lord Dartmouth, when the prince of Orange landed in 
England. After the revolution Sir John continued in his 
polls, and was frequently confulted by king William, who 
entertained a high opinion of his abilities in naval affairs; 
but he was poifoned in February 1691, on-board one of his 
majefty’s (hips at Port (month, while lie was paying her off, 
in the fifty-fixth year of his age. His body was brought 
to London, and interred at Stepney. 
Berry, f. \berig, Sax. from beran, to bear.] Any (mail 
fruit, with many feeds, or fmall ftones: 
The ft raw berry grows underneath the nettle, 
And wholefome berries thrive and ripen belt 
Neighbour’d by fruit of bale!! quality. Shakefpeare. 
To Berry, v. n. To bear berries. 
Berry, a province of France before the revolution, of 
which Bourges was the capital ; bounded on the eaft by 
Nivernoi's, on the fouth by Bourbonnois and Marche, on 
the weft by Poitou, and on the north by Orleannois. Berry 
is fertile in corn, fruit, wine, and pafturage; and contains 
fome mines of filver, iron, and ochre. 
Berry-bearing Alder, fee Rhamn'us Frang ula. 
BERSABE', anciently a town of the tribe of Simeon, 
(Jolliua;) the fouth boundary not only of its own tribe, 
but of the whole land of Ifrael, as appears from the com¬ 
mon expreflion, “ from Dan to Berfabe.” In ourtranfla- 
tion it is Beer-JIuba. It was the refidence of the. patriarchs; 
firft of Abraham, from whom it took its name, and of Ifaac. 
It fignifies the well or fountain of the oath ; dug by Abra¬ 
ham, and claimed as his property by covenant and the 
religion of an ciath, againlf the infidts of, the Philiftines. 
Enfebius and Jerome fay, that there was a citadel and 
large village of that name in their time. It was called 
Bee.rfacba of Judah in 1 Kings, xix. 3. not to djftinguifh it 
from the Beerflieba of Galilee, which probably did not 
then exift, but to afeertain the limits of the king of Judah. 
In the lower age called Cajlrum Verfeabini. 
BERSA'RII, in writers of the middle age, a kind dif 
hunters or fportfmen, who purfued wild beads in forefts 
and chaces. The word feems derived from the barbarous 
Latin berfare, to fhoot with a bow ; on which principle it 
fhould properly denote archers, or bowmen. Or it might 
be derived from berfa, the- fence or pales of a’ park; in 
which view it fhouid primarily import thofe who hunt or 
poach in parks or forefts. Hincmar fpeaks of a kind of 
inferior officers in the court of Charlemagne, under the 
denomination of berfhrit , vtltrani , and beverarii. Spelmaii 
takes the firft to denote thofe who hunted the wolf; the 
the fecond, thofe who had the fuperintendency of the 
hounds; and the third, thofe who hunted the beaver. 
BERSA'TRIX, f. [of berceau, Fr. a cradle, and the 
Latin termination trix, of a female fignification. ] A rocker 
of young children in a cradle. 
BERSEL'LO, or Brisei.lo, a town of Italy, in the 
duchy of Modena, on the Po. It was taken by the Im¬ 
perial troops in 1702, and by the duke of Vendome the 
year following. The emperor Otho died here, after being 
defeated by the army of Vitellius. The town is fmall, 
but ftrong, and defended with a caftle : ten miles nortb- 
eaft of Parma, and twenty-feven north-weft of Modena. 
BER'SKOI, a town of Siberia : twenty miles north-eaft 
of Kolivan. 
BERT, is the fame with our bright ; in the Latin, il- 
luflris and clarus. So Egbert, eternally famous, or bright ; 
Sigbert, famous conqueror. And fhe, who was termed by 
the Germans Bertha, was by the Greeks called Eudqxia, as- 
is obferved by Lintprandus. Of the fame forf were thefe, 
Phiedrns, Epiphanius, Photius, Lampridius, Fulgentius, 
Illuftris, Gibjon's Camden. 
Bert, 
