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a botanist, of Jena, was professor of philosophy || BAUME, James Francis de la, canon of a in the university of that place, and founder and church at Avignon, author of a poem called the president of a society for the study of natural Christiade, died 1757. history; he died 1802.

BATTAGLINI, Mark, bishop of Nocera and Cesena, died 1717.

BATTELY, Dr. John, fellow of Trinity College, and chaplain to the primate Sancroft, died 1708.

BAUME, Nicholas Auguste de la, a marechal of France, who served in Germany with great reputation, diced 1716.

BAUME, James de la, a Jesuit of Paris, died 1725.

BAUMER, John William, professor of mediBATTEUX, Charles, a French philosopher, cine at Erfurt, and a writer on the natural hisprofessor of philosophy in the royal college, tory of the mineral kingdom, died 1788. member of the French academy, &c., eminent BAUMGARTEN, Alexander Gottlieb, profesas for his erudition, and his private virtues, and sor of philosophy at Halle, and afterwards at author of several works on classical literature; Frankfort, died 1776. he died 1780.

BAUR, John William, a painter and engraver

BATTIE, Dr. William, a physician of emi-of Strasburg, died 1640. * nence in Uxbridge and London, author of seve- BAUR, Frederick William Von, a Hessian ral works on medical subjects, died 1776. soldier in the pay of Britain, made a general and BATTISHILL, Jonathan, an eminent musi-ennobled by Frederick II. of Prussia, and aftercal composer, who added to profound know-wards an able engineer and mechanic in the ledge, great taste, and a fine imagination. His service of Russia; he died 1783. Kate of Aberdeen" will be celebrated (among BAUSCH Abu Giafar, a Mahomedan writer, numerous other of his compositions) as long as died 546 of the hegira. pure melody shall be admired in this country. He was born in London, May, 1738, and died at Islington, December 10, 1801.

BAUAB, a learned Mahomedan, died 413 of the hegira.

BAUSSIRI, a Mahomedan poet, highly esteemed by the followers of Mahomet.

BAUTRU, a celebrated wit, and one of the first members of the French academy, was born. at Paris, in 1588, and died there in 1665. Once, when he was in Spain, having been to see the ||famous library of the Escurial, where he found.

BAUDELOT DE DAIRVAL, Charles Caesar, advocate of the parliament of Paris, died 1722. BAUDET, Stephen, an eminent French en-a very ignorant librarian, the king of Spain. graver, of Blois, died 1671.

BAUDIER, Michael, a native of Languedoc, historiographer of France under Louis XV.

BAUDIN, Peter Charles Lewis, a native of Sedan, a member of the French national assembly, and of the convention. He was a man of great firmness and moderation, and died 1799. BAUDIUS, Dominique, a native of Lisle, and advocate of the parliament of Paris, author of some Latin poems, and died 1613.

BAUDOIN, Benedict, a divine of Amiens, author of a dissertation on the shoes of the ancients, in 1615.

BAUDORI, Joseph du, a native of Vannes; educated among the Jesuits, died 1749.

asked him what he had remarked. To whom Bautru replied, that "the library was a very: fine one; but your majesty (adds he) should make your librarian treasurer of your finances.?" Why so?" "Because (says Bautru) he never touches what he is entrusted with."

BAUVES, James de, advocate of the parlia ment of Paris, in the 17th century.

BAUVIN, John Gregory, a native of Arras,, eminent for his knowledge of belles lettres,, died in 1776.

BAUX, William de, prince of Orange, with the title of king of Arles and Vienna, murderedi at Avignon, in 1218.

BAWDWEEN, William, vicar of Hooten Pagnell, near Doncaster, died Sept. 14, 1816. This gentleman was an excellent Saxon scholar, and.

BAUDOT, de Juilli, Nicholas, of Vendome, a historical writer of some merit, died 1759. BAUDAUIN, emperor of Constantinople, vid.translated vols. I. and II. of that valuable naBALDWIN.

BAUDOUIN, John, a soldier in the armies of France, and translator of Sallust, Tacitus, &c. died 1650.

BAUDRAND, Mich. Anton. an ecclesiastic, of Paris, author of a "Dictionaire Geographique'' of merit, died 1700.

BAUDRICOURT, Jean de, a marechal of France, distinguished under Charles VIII. at the conquest of Naples. His father introduced the famous maid of Orleans on the public stage. BAUHINUS, John, a physician of Amiens, afterwards of great expectation at Basil, died

1582.

tional record, Domesday Book, which was published by a vote of the British parliament. He proposed to print the whole in 10 vols. 4to; and the remaining 8 vols. are said to be prepared for the press. He left a widow and twelve children..

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BAXTER, Richard, an eminent nonconform-ist divine, was born Nov. 12, 1615, at Rowton,, near High Ercal, in Shropshire, and died 1691.. He wrote a vast number of books; Mr. Long, of Exeter, says 80; Dr. Calamy, 120; but the author of a note in the Biographia Britannica. tells us that he had seen 145 distinct treatises of Mr. Baxter's; his practical works have been published in four vols. folio. Bishop Burnet, in: the history of his own times, calls him " a man.

BAUHINUS, John, son of the preceding, physician to the duke of Wirtemburg, a medi-of great piety; and says, "that if he had not cal writer at Basil, died 1613.

RAUHINUS, Gaspar, professor of botany at Basil, and physician to the duke of Wirtemburg, died 1624.

BAULDRI, Paul, a native of Rouen, professor of sacred history at Utrecht, died 1706.

meddled with too many things, he would have: been esteemed one of the most learned men of." the age; that he had a moving and pathetical way of writing; and was, his whole life long,, a man of great zeal and much simplicity; but: was unhappily subtle and metaphysical in every

BAULOT, or BEAULIEU, James, who tra-thing. velled through Europe as a lithotomist, and BAXTER, Andrew, a writer in metaphysics operated with great success. The city of Am-and natural philosophy, born in 1686, a Aber sterdam had a medal struck in honour of this doen, where he received his education at King's humane man; he died 1720. College. His principal employment w that

of a private tutor. His celebrated work, "An Inquiry into the Nature of the Human Soul," was first published in 4to, and has been several times reprinted. Bishop Warburton calls it "the most finished book of the kind that the present times have produceq."

Baxter drew

up for the use of his pupils, a piece entitled "Matho; sive Cosmotheoria Pueritus, Dialogus," &c. which he afterwards greatly enlarged, and published in English, 2 vols. 8vo., 1745. He died in 1750, after bearing with the greatest fortitude a complication of the most painful disorders.

BAXTER, William, an eminent critic and grammarian, nephew to the foregoing, born at Lanlugany, in Shropshire, 1650, died 1723. He published excellent editions of "Anacreon" and "Horace," was author of a "Latin Grammar," 1679, and of a Glossary of the Roman Antiquities," which, however, goes no farther than the letter A, and was printed 1726.

BAYARD, James A., a native of Delaware, was a representative, and afterwards a senator in congress from that state. In 1813 he was appointed one of the ministers who negotiared the treaty of peace with Great Britain at Ghent: subsequent to which, he was sent as minister to the court of St. Petersburg. He returned to the United States, and died in 1815.

BAYARD, John, speaker of the house of assembly in Maryland, was a member of the old congress, 1785; he died 1807.

piety, which flourished before these controver
sies were hatched." The design was good;
and the reception this book has met with may
be known from the astonishing number of its
editions. This prelate died in 1634.
BALEY, Matthias, remarkable for longevity;
he was baptized, and died, in North Carolina, i
1789, aged 136."

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BAYLY, Thomas, sub-dean of Wells, died a catholic on the continent, in the time of Charles I. BAYLY, Nathan, author of an English dictionary, and of some grammatical works.

BAYNARD, Aune, a lady of great literary and scientific acquirements, died in 1697. BAYNES, Sir Thomas, knight, a physician, professor of music at Gresham college, died in 1681. "

BAYNES, John, a native of Yorkshire, distinguished for his intense application to study, and his attachment to liberty, died in 1787.

BAZIRE, Claude, a native of Dijon, raised, by the French revolution, from obscurity to infamous celebrity. He proposed in the convention, a law fixing a price on the head of La Fayette; guillotined with Danton, in 1794.

BAZZAZ, a Mahomedan theological writer. BE, Guillaume C., an engraver and letter founder, at Troyes and at Venice, where he acquired both reputation and wealth; he died in 1598.

BEACH, John, an episcopal writer, and a missionary at Reading, Conn.

BEACON, Thomas, an English divine, pre re-bendary of Canterbury under Elizabeth.

BAYARD, Le Chevalier, a celebrated French warrior, called The knight without fear or proach, slain at the siege of Rebec, 1524.

BAYER, Theophilus Sigfred, a German who assiduously devoted himself to ancient and modern languages, and was professor of Greek and Roman Antiquities at Petersburg, died in 1738. BAYEUX, N., an advocate and poct of Caen, translator of Ovid, executed during the French revolution.

BEALE, Mary, a portrait painter in the reigr of Charles II., was born in Suffolk, 1632. In the manuscripts of Mr. Oldys, she is celebrated for her poetry, as well as for her painting; and is styled "that masculine poet, as well as painter the incomparable Mrs. Beale." She died De cember 28, 1697.

BEARD, John, a very eminent and popular singer on the English stage; married, first, lady Henrietta, relict of Lord Edward Herbert, and only daughter of Lord Waldegrave; secondly, a daughter of Mr. Rich, patentee of Covent Garden Theatre. He then became one of the proprietors, and acting manager of that house, and continued to perform till disqualified by the loss of his hearing. He died in his 75th year, February 5, 1791.

BAYLE, Peter, author of the Historical and Critical Dictionary, was born, Nov. 18, 1647, at Carla, a small town in the county of Foix, and was a most laborious and indefatigable writer. In one of his letters to Des Maizeaux, he says, that since his 20th year he hardly remembers to haye had any leisure. He died the 28th of December, 1706, after he had been writing the great est part of the day. Among the productions which do honour to the age of Lewis XIV., Mr. BEATON, or BETON, David, archbishop of Voltaire has not omitted the "Critical Dictiona- St. Andrews, in Scotland, and cardinal of the ry of our author: "It is the first work of the Roman church, born 1494, lost his life by the kind (says he) in which a man may learn to hands of Norman Lesly, eldest son of the earl of think." He was a man of brilliant parts and Rothes, about the year 1546. This famous preacute intellect; but his religious principles salate was a man of great parts, but of boundless vour of infidelity.

BAYLE, Francis, professor of medicine at Toulouse, died in 1709.

BAYLEY, Anselm, L. L. D., an English divine, minor canon of St. Paul's and Westminster Abbey, and sub-dean of the chapel royal, author of several theological works, died in

1794.

pride and ambition, and withal an eminent instance of the instability of what the world calls fortune.

BEATON, James, nephew of the archbishop of the same name, and bishop of Glasgow at 25, author of a manuscript history of Scotland, died in 1003.

BEATRIX, daughter of the count of BurgunBAYLEY, Lewis, author of that most me-dy, and wife of the emperor Frederick I., 1156. morable book, entitled, "The Practice of Plety." BEATRIX, of Provence, daughter of RayHe was born at Caerinarther, in Wales, edu- mond, count of Provence, wife of Charle cated at Oxford, made ministero Evesham, in of Lewis VIII. of France, afterwards ki Worcestershire, about 1611, became a chaplain Naples and Sicily, died at Nocera. to king James, and was promoted to the sce of Bangor, in 1616. His book is dedicated "to the high and mighty prince Charles, prince of Wales: and the author tells his highness, that he had endeavoured to extract out of the chaos of endless controversies, the old practice of true

BEATSON, Robert, L. L. D., an Inde ble compiler, author of a Political Inder Histories of Great Britain and Ireland," several other works, died 1818.

BEATTIE, Dr. James, an ingenious ] miscellaneous writer, born in Kincardiaca

Scotland, 1735, was many years a schoolmaster BEAUFORT, Henry, brother of Henry IV at Aberdeen; but at length promoted to the of England, was successively bishop of Lincoln chair of Moral Philosophy and Logic in the Ma-and Winchester, chancellor of England, ambasrischal College. His principal poems are, "The sador to France, cardinal, and pope's legate in Judgment of Paris," 4to., 1765. "The Min- Germany; he died in 1447. strel," 4to., 1770, 1774. "The Hermit," a beau- BEAUFORT, Francois, Vendome duc de, a tiful song, and many odes and elegies. Besides native of Paris, conspicuous in the civil wars these, he was author of "An Essay on the Im- for courting the good will of the populace, died mutability of Truth, in opposition to Sophistry in 1669. and Scepticism," 4to., 1777; "Dissertations BEAUFORT, Lewis de, a learned man, auMoral and Critical," 4to., 1783; "Evidences thor of the history of Germanicus, &c., died in of the Christian Religion, briefly and plainly stated," 8vo., 1786; and "Elements of Moral Science," 2 vols. 8vo., 1790, 1793. His prose writings display good sense, extensive knowledge, and able reasoning; his versification is elegant. He died at Aberdeen, August 18, 1803. BEATTIE, James Hay, son of the poet, a man of eminent talents, who was, at the age of 19, appointed assistant professor of moral philosophy and logic at the Marischal College of Aberdeen, died 1790.

BEATUS, Rhenanus, a classical scholar and writer of Rheinach, died in 1547.

BEAU, John Lewis le, a learned academician and professor of Paris, died in 1766.

1795.

BEAULIEU, John Baptiste Allais de, a writing-master of celebrity in Paris, lived about 1681.

BEAULIEU, Sebastian Pontault de, an engineer, who drew, and had engraved, the sieges and military campaigns of Lewis XIV.; he died in 1674.

BEAULIEU, Louis le Blanc de, theological professor of Sedan, died in 1675.

BEAULIEU, N. Baron de, commander of the Austrian armies in Italy, opposed and conquered by Buonaparte, died about 1796.

BEAUMANOIR, Jean de, called marechal de Lavardin, rose by his merit to high military dignities, died in 1614.

BEAU, Charles le, brother of the preceding, was also an eminent scholar, and professor of BEAUMARCHAIS, Peter Augustin Caron de, belles lettres at Paris, and author of a history of an eminent French dramatist, born at Paris, the lower empire, in 22 vols.; he died in 1778.1732, and bred a watch-maker, died at Paris, of BEAUCAIRE DE PEQUILLON, Francois, apoplexy, May, 1799. instructer of Cardinal Charles de Lorraine, and bishop of Metz, died in 1591.

BEAUME, Antony, a native of Senlis, and a distinguished French chymist, was a member BEAUCHAM, Richard, Earl of Warwick, of the academy of sciences, and of the national distinguished as a brave general, died in Nor-institute, died in 1805. His writings are numandy, in 1439. merous and valuable.

BEAUMELLE, Laurent Angliviel de la, a native of France of great literary reputation, librarian to the king, and a respectable writer, died in 1773.

BEAUCHAMPS, Pierre Francois Godard de, an eminent French writer, died at Paris, in 1761. BEAUCHAMP, Joseph de, a celebrated French astronomer, born at Vezoul, in 1752, entered, in 1767, into the order of Bernardines, and took his BEAUMONT, Sir John, a poet of some emideparture for Asia, in 1781, with his uncle, who nence, descended from an ancient family at was appointed bishop of Babylon. In this voy-Grace-Dieu, in Leicestershire, was born 1582. age he steered his course along the Tigris and His "Bosworth Field," Mr. Headly tells us, Euphrates, from Diabekir to the Persian Gulph, merits a republication, for the easy flow of its and made a collection of medals, inscriptions, numbers, and the spirit with which it is written. and designs of the monuments of ancient Baby-It was first published by his son, together with lon, as well as Arabic manuscripts, which he the rest of his poems, in 12mo, 1629. He was presented to the Abbe Barthelemy. In 1787, he created a baronet by king Charles, in 1626, and made a second voyage upon the Caspian Sea; died two years after. in the course of which he observed the most im- BEAUMONT, Francis, brother of the foreportant eclipse of the moon of which the history going, a celebrated dramatic writer, born at of astronomy preserves any remembrance. In Grace-Dieu, in Leicestershire, about the year 1795, he made a third voyage; and through the 1586, died in 1615, before he was 30 years of means of Volney, he was appointed consul at age, and was buried in the entrance of St. BeMuscate, in Arabia; at which place, however, nedict's chapel, within St. Peter's, Westmin he never arrived, being taken by the English. ster. Beside the plays in which he was jointly The peace having at length given him his liber-concerned with Fletcher, he wrote a little draty, he arrived sick at Nice, where he died on thematic piece, and other poems, printed together 19th of November, 1801, at the moment when in 1653, 8vo. Beaumont was esteemed so good Buonaparte had appointed him commissary- a judge of dramatic composition, that Ben Jongeneral at Lisbon. son submitted his writings to his correction, and, it is thought, was much indebted to him for the contrivance of his plots. Every thing respecting this poet, that could be collected by the most BEAVER, John, a Benedictine monk of West-diligent research, will be found in Mr. Nichols minster Abbey, author of a manuscript chronicle of the affairs of Britain to his own time, in the 14th century.

BEAUCHATEAU, Franc. Matthieu Chatelet de, author of several admired poems, supposed to have died in Persia.

BEAUFILS, Guillaume, a Jesuit of Auvergne, eminent as a preacher and a man of literature, died in 1758.

BEAUFORT, Margaret, daughter of John, duke of Somerset, and mother of Henry VII., died in 1509. She founded Christ's, and St. John's Colleges Cambridge.

valuable "History of Leicestershire."

BEAUMONT, Joseph, regius professor of divinity at Cambridge, and author of Psyche, and other poems, died in 1699.

BEAUMONT DE PEREFIX, Hardonin, archbishop of Paris, preceptor to Lewis XIV., and author of a valuable history of Henry IV.; died in 1670.

BEAUMONT, Mad. le prince de, a lively writer lof romances, letters, memoirs, &c. died in 1780,

BEAUMONT, Elias de, a native of Normandy, was educated for the bar, but devoted his time to literary pursuits: an author of some merit; he died in 1783.

university of Bononia; his writings on philosophical and medical subjects are numerous and highly esteemed; he died in 1766.

BECCARIA, marquis, a celebrated writer

in 1735, died Nov. 29, 1794.

BEAUMONT, John Lewis Moreau de, an" On crimes and Punishments," born at Milan, able political writer, of Nar.tes, died in 1785. BEAUMONT, Guill. Rob. Phil. Jos. Jean de, an ecclesiastic, of Rouen, known as a theological writer, died in 17761.

BECCUTI, Francis, an Italian poet, surnamed Il Cappeta, professor of law in his native town of Perugia; he died in 1509. BEAUNE, Jacques de, baron of Samblancai, BECERRA, Gaspard, a Spanish sculptor and minister of the riories under Fraucis I., un-painter, the pupil of Raphael, died in 1570. justly conde ned and executed, by the perfidy| BECKER, John Joachim, physician to the of the queen-mother, in 1527. electors of Mentz and Bavaria; his discoveries in chymistry and mechanics were numerous and important; he died in 1685.

B AJNE, Renaud de, a native of Tours, rchbishop of Bourges, and afterwards of Sens, died in 1606.

BECKER, Daniel, physician to the elector of Brandenburg, died at Konigsburg, his native

BEAUNE, Florimont de, counsellor of Blois, the intimate friend of Descartes, and an emi-city, in 1760. nent mathematician, died in 1652.

BEAURAIN, Jean de, a native of Artois, known as a negotiator and geographer; made geographer to Lewis XV., at the age of 25; he died in 1771.

BEAURIEU, Gaspard Guillard de, a French writer, died in 1795.

BEAUSOBRE, Isaac de, a very learned divine and ecclesiastical writer, of French original, born at Niort, March 8, 1659, died June 5, 1738.

BEAUSOBRE, Louis de, a native of Berlin, distinguished for his literature and as the friend of the Prussian monarch; he died in 1783.

BEAUVAIS, Guillaume, of Dunkirk, author of a history of the Roman emperors by medals, died 1773.

BECKET, Thomas, archbishop of Canterbury, in the reign of Henry II., was born in London, 1119, and assassinated in the cathedral church of Canterbury, on the 29th of December, 1171. The miracles said to be wrought at his tomb were so numerous, that we are told two large volumes of them were kept in that church. His shrine was visited from all parts, and enriched with the most costly gifts and offerings. Though canonized, however, he was, in truth, memorable only for his pride, insolence, and ingratitude to his sovereign, Henry II., to which he fell a sacrifice.

BECKFORD, William, a patriotic chief magistrate of the city of London, who died in that office, with which he had been for the second time invested, June 21, 1770, aged 65. He showBEAUVAIS,Charles Nicolas, of Orleans, dis-ed himself the steadfast friend of his king and tinguished as a physician, and as a violent and country, and was the only man of his time who, seditious member of the national assembly, died with firmness, yet with humility,dared tell a king in 1704. upon his throne (surrounded by his courtiers) BEAUVAIS, John Baptiste Charles Marie de, the plain and honest truth; whereby he vindi bishop of Senez, eminent as an eloquent preach-cated the loyalty, while he evinced the indeer, died in 1789.

BEAUVAU, Lewis Charles marquis de, a distinguished French general, died in 1744.

pendent spirit of the city of London. Convinced that our liberties belong to posterity as well as to ourselves, he resolved that the share comBEAUVILLIERS, Francis de, duke of St. mitted to his trust should not expire in his hands. Aignan, author of some prose and poetical pie- As a citizen, he was eminently endowed with ces, died in 1687. His son was preceptor to the the virtues of humanity and affability; as a senafather of Lewis XIV., and died in 1714. tor, (member for London,) watchful over the BEAUZEE, Nicolas, a distinguished gram-rights of the people; and as a magistrate, unremarian, died in 1789. mittingly active in seeing those rights legally BEBÉLE, Henry, professor of eloquence at executed. That his character might be ever Tubingen; he was an able Latin scholar, and held in the most honourable and grateful rereceived the poetical crown, in 1501, from Maxi-membrance, the corporation erected his statue milian I.

BECAN, Martin, a zealous Jesuit, confessor to Ferdinand II., died in 1624.

BECCADELLI, Lewis, a native of Bologna, ambassador at Venice, preceptor to Ferdinand, son of the duke of Tuscany, and archbishop of Ragusa; he died in 1572.

in their Guildhall, and recorded in the inscription the magnanimous speech which he is said to have addressed to the king in vindication of the people's right to remonstrate to the throne.

BECKINGHAM, Charles, an eminent dramatic writer; two of his pieces, Henry IV. of France, and Scipio Africanus, were highly ap

BECCADELLI, Antonio, a native of Paler-plauded; he died in 1730. mo, professor of belles lettres at Pavia, was crowned with the poetic laurel by the emperor Sigismund, and ennobled by Alphonso king of Naples; he died in 1471.

BECKINGTON, Thomas, bishop of Bath and Wells, in the 15th century.

BECCAFUMI, Dominique, an eminent painter of Genoa, died in 1549.

BECCARI, Augustine, a native of Ferrara, was the first Italian who wrote pastorals; he died in 1560.

BECCARIA, John Baptist, a learned monk, of Mondovi, teacher of philosophy, at Rome and Palermo, and preceptor to the royal family at Turin; he died in 1781.

BECCARIA, James Bartholomew, a physiflan and professor of natural philosophy in the

BECQUET, Anthony, a Celestine monk, a man of learning, who wrote the history of his order, and died in 1730.

BECTASH, Culi, a learned Mahomedan writer.

BECTOR, Claude de, abbess of St. Honore de Tarascon, eminent for her knowledge of Latin, and her style of writing; she died in 1547. BEDA, Noel, a violent ecclesiastic of Picardy, died in exile, in 1537.

BEDA, or BEDE, surnamed the Venerable, an English monk, an eminent writer of ecclesiastical history, was born 673, at Wearmouth in

the bishopric of Durham, and died in 735. His ecclesiastical history of England commences at the invasion of Julius Cæsar, and terminates A. D. 723.

to the elector of Brandenburg, author of several books on antiquities and medals; he died 1705. BEGEYN, Abraham, a Dutch painter to the king of Prussia, born 1650.

BEGON, Michael, a lawyer, distinguished himself in the marine, and as governor of the French West India islands, died in 1710.

BEGUILLET, Edmund, advocate of the parliament of Dijon, author of a treatise on agriculture, died in 1786.

BEDDOES, Dr. Thomas, an eminent physician and medical writer; who more particularly distinguished himself by his perseverance in making experiments to cure consumptions by the application of pneumatics. He was born at Shifnal, Shropshire, about the year 1754, and died at Clifton, near Bristol, Dec. 24, 1808. His BEHAIM, Martin, of Nuremberg, a man of principal work is "Hygeia; or Essays, Moral strong powers of mind, who formed the first and Medical, on the Causes affecting the per-idea of a new world. He is said to have actusonal state of the middling and affluent classes."ally sailed on a voyage of discovery, in 1460, 3 vols. 8vo., 1802. and to have visited the Brazils, and on his return to have constructed a globe, illustrative of his voyage, which is still to be seen at Nuremberg. This however is not well authenticated; he died at Lisbon, in 1506.

BEDELL, William, a very famous bishop of Kilmore, in Ireland, born 1570, at Black Notley, in Essex; died 1641.

BEDERIC, Henry, a monk, distinguished for his learning and eloquence, lived about 1380. BEHN, Aphra, a celebrated English poetess BEDFORD, Hilkiah, a quaker of Lincoln-in the reign of Charles I. and II. She wrote 17 shire, and afterwards a stationer in London, plays, some histories and novels; she died April died in 1724. His son of the same name was a 16, 1689, and was buried in the cloisters of Westclergyman and writer of some merit; he died in||minster Abbey. Her works are extremely witty, but not remarkably chaste.

1773.

BEDFORD, Thomas, son of Hilkiah, was a nonjuring priest of some reputation; he died

in 1773.

BEINASCHI, John Baptist, a painter, of Piedmont, knighted for his great merit, died in 1688. BEITHAR, Ben, an African writer, died in 646 of the hegira.

BEK, David, a native of Delft, in the Nether. lands, and a pupil of Vandyk, was eminent as a painter at all the courts of Europe, most of which he visited; he died in 1656.

BEICH, Joachim Francis, a painter of Swabia, whose pieces are much admired, died in 1748. BEIDHAVI, a judge of Schiraz, in Persia, BEDFORD, Arthur, a pious and learned cler-died in 685 of the hegira. gyman of the church of England, born at Tid- BEIERLINCK, Lawrence, an ecclesiastic of denham, Gloucestershire, Sept. 1668. A favour-Antwerp, died 1627. ite subject of literary labour with Mr. Bedford was, the reformation of the drama and the stage. In his "Evil and danger of Stage Plays," being a serious remonstrance in behalf of the Christian religion, against the horrid blasphemies and impieties which are still used in the English play-houses, &c., he shows, that he had so completely perused the whole range of the English drama, as to produce" seven thousand instances, taken out of plays of the present century, and especially of the last five years, in defiance of all methods hitherto used for their reformation:" and he has also given a catalogue of "above fourteen hundred texts of Scripture, which are mentioned, either as ridiculed and exposed by the stage, or as opposite to their pre-died in 1749. sent practices." Mr. Bedford also published, BEL, Charles Andrew, son of the preceding, besides many "Sermons" and other works, professor of poetry at Leipsic, with the title of "Scripture Chronology, demonstrated by Astro-counsellor of state, died in 1782.

BEKKER, Balthasar, a Dutch divine, known as a writer on theological subjects, and as the author of a treatise on comets, died in 1898. BEL, John James, an ironical and satirical writer of merit, in France, died in 1738. BEL, Mathias, an ecclesiastic, of Hungary, ennobled by Charles VI. for his literary works,

nomical Calculations, in eight books, fol. 1741," BELCAMP, John Van, a Dutch painter, died which Dr. Waterland characterizes as a very in 1653. learned and elaborate work. He died chaplain BELCHER, Samuel, a good scholar, and first to Haberdasher's Hospital, Sept. 15, 1745. See||minister of Newbury, Massachusetts, died after COLLIER, Jeremy. the year 1712.

BEDFORD, John, duke of, third son of Henry IV., was a distinguished general of the English armies in France, during the minority of Henry VI., whom he proclaimed king, at Paris; he died at Rouen, in 1435.

BEDFORD. vid. RUSSEL, Francis.

BEDLOE, William, a low adventurer, only known for the pretended discovery of a popish plot, for which the house of commons voted him 5007; he died in 1680.

BEDOS de CELLES, Francis, a Benedictine of St. Maur, died in 1779.

BELCHER, Jonathan, governor of Massachusetts and New-Hampshire, in 1730, afterwards governor of New-Jersey, died in 1757.

BELCHER, Jonathan, son of Governor Belcher, lieutenant governor of Nova Scotia, afterwards chief justice of that province; he died in 1776.

BELCHIER, John, an eminent English sur geon and anatomist, born at Kingston, Surrey, 1706, died 1785, equally beloved for his humani ty, and respected for his skill.

BELESIS, a Chaldean, made governor of Babylon by Arbaces, king of Media, 770 B. C. BELGRADE, James, a Jesuit, born at Udina, eminent as a poet, mathematician, and anti

BEDREDDIN, Baalbeki, a physician and writer of Balbec, in the 7th century of the hegira. BEEK, David, a Flemish painter, vid. BEK. BEEKMAN, John Anthony, a native of Hano-quary, died in 1789. ver, professor of philosophy at Gottingen for 45 years; he died in 1811.

BEGA, Cornelius, a Dutch painter, born at Haerlem, died in 1664.

BEGER, Laurence, of Heidleberg, librarian

BELIDOR, Bernard Forest de, an eminent French engineer, professor of the academies of Paris and Berlin, died in 1761.

BELING, Richard, a native of the county of [Dublin, a catholic, and a leading officer in the

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