Plausible, in the Plain Dealer. His lordship was author! of an excellent book entitled Historical Applications, and occasional Meditations upon several subjects, Lon., 1670, 12mo; 3d edit., 1680. His lordship also pub. A Speech to the Levant Company at their Annual Election, 1680. He gave to the Library of Sion College a valuable collection of books, formed by Sir Robert Coke.

"The Historical Application serves to confirm the account of his lordship's amiable character which was given by Mr. Fenton; and though much enriched by selected passages from other writers, has many valuable sentiments intermingled by the noble moralist."-Purk's Walpole's R. & N. Authors.

Berkeley, John. Collectanea Historica complexa ipsius Negotiationem Anni 1647 cum Olivario Cromwel, Ireton, et aliis Exercitus Præfectis pro Revocatione Caroli I. in Regni Administrationem, Lon., 1699, 8vo.

Berkeley, Joshua, D.D. The Difficulties attending a just Explanation of the Scriptures considered, as they have arisen from the gradual Progress of revealed Religion, through a length of time; a Sermon on 2 Tim. ii. 15, 1780, 4to. [Visitation.]

Berkeley, Mary, Countess Dowager of. An Address to the House of Peers of the United Kingdom, Lon., 1811, 8vo. On this claim a number of pamphlets have appeared. See Lowndes's Bibliographer's Manual. Berkeley, Rev. Thomas. Wilderness, or Prolusions in verse, 1811, 12mo.

Berkeley, Sir William, d. 1677, for nearly 40 years governor of Virginia, was the author of A Discourse and View of Virginia, pp. 12, 1663, fol.; The Lost Lady; A Tragi-Comedy, 1639; and (according to the Biog. Dramat.) a play called Cordelia, 1662, not printed, ascribed to Sir William Bartley. In Francis Moryson's edit. of the Laws of Virginia, Lon., 1662, fol., the Preface informs us that Sir William was the author of the best of them.

Berkenhead, Sir John. See BIRKENHEAD. Berkenhout, Mrs. Helina. The History of Victoria Mortimer, Lon., 1805, 4 vols. 12mo.

Berkenhout, John, M.D., b. about 1730, d. 1791, a native of Leeds, rose to the rank of Captain in the Prussian service, then studied medicine, and added the claims of authorship and diplomacy to his other titles to distinction. In 1778 he visited Philadelphia, by order of the English government, to assist in the negotiations with the American Congress. He has been very foolishly compared to the "Admirable Crichton." His merits, however, are undoubtedly great. He pub. many professional, and other, works, of which we name a few: Clavis Anglica Linguæ Botanica Linnæi, 1762, 8vo. Pharmacopoeia Medicæ, 1756, 8vo; 3d edit., 1762. Outlines of the Natural History of Great Britain and Ireland; containing an arrangement of all the animals, vegetables, and fossils, which have hitherto been discovered in these kingdoms, Lon., 1767-71, 3 vols. 8vo; reprinted together in 1773; and a 2d edit. in 1788, 2 vols. 8vo, under the title of A Synopsis of the Natural History of Great Britain, &c. Biographia Literaria; or a Biographical History of Literature, containing the Lives of English, Scotch, and Irish, Authors, from the dawn of Letters in these kingdoms to the present time, chronologically and classically arranged, vol. i., Lon., 1777, 4to; this is all that appeared. Vol. i. comprehends from the beginning of the 5th to the end of the 16th century.

Vols. 2d and 3d were to have been devoted to the authors of the 17th century, and vol. iv. (conclusion) would have taken in the time from 1700 to about 1777.

"The lives are very short, and the author frequently introduces sentiments hostile to religious establishments and doctrines, which could not be very acceptable to English readers. The dates and facts, however, are given with great accuracy; and in many of the lives he profited by the assistance of George Steevens, Esq., the celebrated commentator on Shakspeare."

A new edit. of Campbell's Lives of the Admirals, Lon., 1779, 4to. Symptomatology, Lon., 1784, 8vo. The First Lines of the Theory and Practice of Philosophical Chemistry, Lon., 1778, 8vo, dedicated to Mr. Eden, afterwards Lord Auckland, whom the doctor accompanied to America. Letters on Education, to his son at Oxford, 1791, 2 vols. 12mo. The doctor printed Proposals for a History of Middlesex, including London, 4 vols. fol. The design was abandoned, and the Proposals not circulated. The doctor also pub. treatises on Gout, 1772. Lucubrations on Ways and Means, 1780, and a trans. of Dr. Pomme's Treatise on Hypochondria, &c., in 1777.

"When we reflect on the variety of books that bear his name, we cannot but be surprised at the extent and variety of the knowledge they contain. . . . An individual so universally informed as Dr. Berkenhout, is an extraordinary appearance in the republic of letters."-Chalmers's Biog. Dict.

To sum up the doctor's various characters, he was, 1. A Soldier. 2. A Doctor of Medicine. 3. An Author. 4. A Classical Scholar. 5. A Mathematician. 6. A Botanist. 8. A Political Economist. 9. A Diploma7. A Chemist. tist. 10. A Poet. 11. A Painter. 12. A Musician. What a hydra-headed member of society was Dr. Berkenhout! Berket, Henry. Poemata, 1645, 4to. Privately printed.

Berlie, J. James. The Treasury of Drugs unlocked, or a description of all sorts of Drugs, Lon., 1690. Bernard, Andrew, an Austin Friar, born at Toulouse, was Poeta Laureatus to Henry VII. and Henry VIII., historiographer, and also preceptor in Grammar, to Prince Arthur. He wrote some Latin pieces, which are in MS. in the Cottonian Library; among these are an Address to Henry VIII., a Chronicle of the Life and Achievements of Henry VII. to the taking of Perkin Warbeck, and other historical commentaries on the reign of that king.

"I am of opinion that it was not customary for the royal laureate to write in English, till the reformation of religion had begun to diminish the veneration for the Latin language; or rather, till the love of novelty, and a better sense of things, had banished the narrow pedantries of monastic erudition, and taught us to cultivate our native tongue."- Warton's History of English Poetry, vol. ii.

Bernard, Charles. Med. Con. to Phil. Trans., 1696. Bernard, Chris. Letter to the Netherlands, Oxon., 1655, fol.

Bernard, Chris. Present State of Surgery, Lon., 1703, 4to.

Bernard, Edward, D.D., 1638-1696, an eminent critic, astronomer, and linguist, was a native of Northamptonshire. In 1655 he was elected scholar of St. John's College, Oxford, of which he was subsequently a Fellow. He visited Holland three times in the course of his learned investigations. In the praiseworthy effort made at Oxford in 1670 to collect and publish the works of the ancient mathematicians, Bernard took an active part. He compiled a valuable synopsis of the authors selected for publication, which compilation will be found in Dr. Thomas Smith's Life of Bernard. It is to be regretted that the plan was not carried out with the same zeal which first suggested it. He drew up a very complete Index to the Catalogus Manuscriptorum Angliæ et Hiberniæ, Oxon., 1697, fol. In this Index he specifies many valuable Greek MSS. in several foreign libraries, as well as those at home. In 1673 he succeeded Christopher Wren, to whom he had been deputy since 1669, as Savilian Professor of Astronomy at Oxford. His contributions to the works of his learned contemporaries were numerous. For a list, see Watt's Bib. Brit.

Dr. Smith mentions one admirable trait in his character, which we desire in our present literary undertaking to profit by:

"He was a candid judge of other men's performances; not too censorious even on trifling books, if they contained nothing contrary to good manners, virtue, or religion; and to those which displayed wit, learning, or good sense, none gave more ready and ample praise."-Life of Bernard.

We would fain make our Index Expurgatorius as small as possible, yet at our own hazard must we remember the Review-the only line of Publius Syrius according to Sydmotto of our illustrious predecessors of the Edinburgh ney Smith, with which the critics were acquainted:

"JNDEX DAMNATUR CUM NOCENS ABSOLVITUR." Many books from Dr. Bernard's Library were purchased for the Bodleian Library by the agency of Humphrey Wanley.

"The addition made to the Bodleian from Dr. Bernard's study was of the greatest importance, and contained many of the most valuable books, both printed and MSS., now in the library." See Wanley's interesting memoranda in Bliss's Wood's Athen. Oxon., vol. iv. 707.

"He was a person admirably well read in all kinds of ancient learning, in Astronomy and Mathematics, a curious Critic, an excellent Grecian, Latinist, Chronologer, and Orientalian."—WOOD.

Bernard, Sir Francis, Bart., d. 1779, Governor, first, of New Jersey, and afterwards of Massachusetts, pub. Letters to the Earl of Hillsborough, and Letters to the Ministry, Lon., 1769, 8vo. Select Letters on the Trade and Government of America, &c., 1774, 8vo. Some of his Greek and Latin Poems were pub. in the Pietas and Gratulatio, Camb., 1761.

Bernard, H. H. Guide to the Hebrew Biblical Student, Lon., 8vo. The Main Principles of the Creed, and Ethics of the Jews, &c., Camb., 1832, 8vo.

"Besides communicating to the English reader the sentiments, traditions, and sayings of the ancient rabbins quoted by Maimonides, the volume will materially contribute to supply the Biblical student with the means, at present scarcely within his reach, of acquiring an accurate knowledge of rabbinical Hebrew.”—Horne's Introduction.

See Brit. Crit., April 1833; and Christian Remembrancer, vol. xiv., 1832.

Bernard, John. Oratio de vera Anima Tranquilitate, Londini, 1568, 4to. Trans. by Anth. Marten, Lon., 1570, 8vo.

Bernard, John. The Independant's Catechism, Lon., 1645, 8vo.

Bernard, John. Retrospections of the Stage, 1830. Bernard, John Peter, assisted Birch, Lockman, Sale, and others in the compilation of the General Dictionary, Historical and Critical, [including Bayle's,] 173441, 10 vols. fol.

Bernard, Nathaniel. Sermon, Oxon., 1643, 4to. Bernard, Nicholas, D.D., d. 1661, was educated at the University of Cambridge. By the interest of Archbishop Usher he was promoted to the Deanery of Ardagh. A Sermon preached at the Burial of John Atherton, last Bishop of Waterford, Lon., 1641, 4to. The publication of this sermon gave much offence. The Whole Proceedings of the Siege of Drogheda, Lon., 1642, 4to; Dubl., 1736. A Dialogue between Paul and Agrippa, Lon., 1642, 4to. The Life and Death of Archbishop Usher, in a sermon preached at his Funeral, Lon., 1656, 12mo; afterwards enlarged. The Judgment of Archbp. Usher on the Extent of Christ's Death and Satisfaction, on the Sabbath, and Observance of the Lord's Day, Lon., 1657, 8vo. This treatise was noticed by Dr. Peter Heylyn in Respondent Petrus, &c., 1658, 4to. Devotions of the Ancient Church, in seven pious prayers, Lon., 1660, 8vo. Clavi Trabales, &c., Lon., 1661, 4to, and some other publications.

"Archbishop Usher, having daily opportunities of taking notice of the parts, and the solidity of learning and judgment of Mr. Bernard, employed him in making collections for some works he was then meditating, and more particularly for the Antiquities of the British Churches, which did not appear in public till the year 1639."-Biog. Brit.

Bernard, Richard, b. 1566, or 1567, d. 1641, an eminent Puritan divine, was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge. Terence's Comedies trans. into English, 1598, 4to; often reprinted; the first trans. into English of the whole of Terence. Plain Evidence that the Church of England is Apostolical, and the separation schismatical, 1610, 4to. A Key for opening the Mysteries of the Revelation of St. John, Lon., 1617, 4to. The Fabulous Foundation of the Popedom, showing that St. Peter was never at Rome, Oxf., 1619, 4to. Faithful Shepherd, 1607, 4to. Looke beyond Luther, Lon., 1623, 4to. He pub. several other pieces against the Church of Rome. A Guide to Grand Jurymen with respect to Witches, Lon., 1627, 12mo. This part of the country, according to Granville, was much infected with Witches. The Isle of Man, or legal proceedings in Man-shire against Sin, Lon., 1627, 8vo. The work reached its 10th edit. in 1635! Some suppose it to have been the germ of Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, and Holy War. We shall refer to this subject under BUNYAN. The Bible Battels, or the Sacred Art Military, Lon., 1629, 12mo. Thesaurus Biblicus sive Promptuarium Sacrum, Londini, 4to, with portrait by Hollar, Lon., 1661, fol.; enlarged edit., 1664. Ruth's Recompense, &c., Lon., 1628, 4to, and other works.

the Lord Bishop of Durham on the Measures under consideration of Parliament for promoting Industry and the Relief of the Poor, 1807, 8vo. The New School; being an attempt to illustrate its Principles and Advantages, 3d edit., 1810, 8vo. The Barrington School; being an Illustration of the Principles, Practices, and Effects of the System of Instruction, in facilitating the Religious and Moral An Account of the Instruction of the Poor, 1812, 8vo. supply of Fish for the Manufacturing Poor, 1813, 8vo. On the Supply of Employment and Subsistence for the Labouring Classes in Fisheries, Manufactures, and Cultivation of Waste Land, &c., 1816. This good man also wrote Spurinna, or the Comforts of Old Age; with Notes and Biographical Illustrations, 1816, 8vo. The author had taken the most certain means of securing the Comforts of Old Age, by devoting his days of strength and activity to the good of his fellow-man, and the honour of his God. With the view of inducing others to seek true happiness in the unfailing source from which he had long drawn his own consolations, he pub. in 1806, An Historical View of Christianity, containing Select Passages from Scripture, with a Commentary by Edward Gibbon, Esq., and Notes by Lord Viscount Bolingbroke, M. de Voltaire, and others. "The intention of the editor of this singular publication is to prove the authenticity of Divine revelation from the testimony of its bitterest enemies. It is a very ingenious method of turning the weapons of unbelievers against themselves."-LOWNDES.

He was connected with Dr. Dibdin in the publication of the Director, 2 vols., 1807, 8vo, a weekly periodical, in which notices of the Lectures delivered at the Royal Institution, and the Pictures exhibited at the Bristol Gallery, occupy a prominent place. His friend and coadjutor bears testimony to the excellence of the subject of our memoir. "Sir Thomas Bernard did much and great good as a philanthropist.... He resolved to devote the approaching autumn of his life to objects of real practical utility, and he made BETTERING THE CONDITION OF THE POOR one of those most essential objects. Howard explored dungeons, Sir Thomas visited drawing-rooms, to lay them under contribution for the support of his avowed darling object. In short, benevolence may be said to have become fashionable under his influence. Great efforts, on all sides, were made, and societies and establishments out of number sprung up to bless our victuals with increase and to satisfy our poor with bread."— Dibdin's Reminiscences.

Bernard, William Bayle, b. 1808, at Boston: he prepared for the press his father's "Recollections of the Stage," and was the author of many popular plays, the best-known of which are: The Nervous Man and the Man of Nerve; Irish Attorney; The Mummy; His Last Legs; Dumb Belle; The Boarding-School; Round of Wrong; Life's Trials, &c.

Bernardi, Major John, 1657-1736, an English officer, descended from an ancient family which had flourished at Lucca, Italy, from the year 1097, was a zealous adherent of James II. In 1696 he was imprisoned as accomplice in the plot for assassinating King William. There was no proof against him, yet six successive parliaments (under four sovereigns) passed acts to detain him and five others in prison. He died in Newgate, after a confinement of nearly forty years. He wrote an account of his Life, Lon., 1729, 8vo. See Biog. Brit.

Bernays, Leopold J. Goethe's Faust, part ii. A trans., partly in the Metres of the Original, and partly in Prose, of Part ii. of Goethe's Faust; with other Poems, demy 8vo.

"Mr. Bernays, an idolater of the poet, has rendered his extraordinary production partly into prose and partly into the original metres; in both he has displayed a knowledge of his principal, and a command of the two languages."-Lon. Literary Gazette. "Mr. Bernay's most exact and very excellent translation."Conservative Journal.

Berners, John Bourchier, Lord, d. 1532, aged 63, a descendant of Edward III., Chancellor of the Exchequer under Henry VIII., and Deputy-General of Calais and its Marches, is best known as a translator of the grand old Chronicle of Froissart. Froissart, a canon of two churches, was a resident of England, as Secretary to the Queen of Edward III., from 1361 to 1366. In 1395 he paid another visit to England. His Chronicle-which is one of the most enchanting pictures or picture-galleries ever devised by the wit and drawn by the pen of man

nent, and contemporaneous events in the principal countries of Europe. In the formation of his history Froissart employed 40 years. That amiable enthusiast, Dr. Dibdin, thus commends this author:

"Let me press strongly on the Young Man's' attention, the importance, the instruction, and the never-failing source of amusement, of his history: which has alike endeared the author to the antiquary, the man of taste, and even to the lover of romantic lore. The pages of Froissart exhibit a perfectly natural and pleas ing picture. Conversations, skirmishes, battles—the country, the

town-scenes within the tent, the palace, or the church-the quiet of pastoral occupations, or the tumult of a popular assemblythese, and every thing which he touches, are hit off in a manner the most simple and striking imaginable; and severe indeed must be that taste, and fastidious that feeling, which shall deny to the pages of this historian the merit of great interest, candour, and apparent fidelity. His episodes are occasionally delightful, and it is evident that he was fond of them. He has also a peculiar art in suspending the main narrative, (when the interest is becoming more and more intense,) by the relation of a number of little circumstances which only makes us return to it with a keener appetite.... It cannot be denied that Froissart has admirably described the campaigns of our Edward upon the Continent, when the British arms were covered with glory; when a spirit of chivalry, amounting to the romantic, stirred every breast, and nerved every arm. The splendours of Cressy and Poictiers are but slightly shaded, if at all, by the achievements of Agincourt and Waterloo." -Library Companion.

"Did you ever read Froissart?—No,' was Morton's answer. 'I have half a mind,' said Claverhouse, to contrive you should have six months' imprisonment, in order to procure you that pleasure. His chapters inspire me with more enthusiasm than poetry itself."-Old Mortality.

As the name of Monstrelet is closely associated with Froissart, we may mention that the history of the former, the Chronicles of France and England, comprehends the period from 1400 to 1467, continued by others to 1516: (see notice of the translations of Froissart and Monstrelet, by Colonel Thomas Johnes, under his name.) Lord Berners's translation of Froissart's Chronicles, made by command of Henry VIII., has been highly commended.

"A soldier, a statesman, and a scholar, this nobleman was singularly well adapted for the task which he undertook. Indeed, considering the period of its completion, it was a sort of literary miracle."-DIBDIN: Library Companion.

In correctness, as well as in other valuable qualities, Lord Berners's translation has been considered superior to that of Colonel Johnes.

"In imitating the style of his original, Lord Berners's translation becomes peculiarly valuable to an English reader. His version is faithful, but not servile; and he imitates the spirit and simplicity of the original, without allowing us to discover, from any deficiency in either of these particulars, that his own work is a translation."-From the reprint of Pynson's 1st edit. of 1523-25: E. V. UTTERSON.

Lord Berners's translation first appeared in 1523-25, printed by Pynson in two folio volumes. A perfect copy of this edition is very rarely to be found: sold at the Roxburghe sale, 7988, for £63. The latter portion of the second volume is sometimes "made up" from the reprint by Middleton, sine anno.

"He who has the reprint of 1812, 4to, two vols.. [by E. V. Utterson.] may rest perfectly satisfied that he has the text of Lord Berners as correctly given as in the first edition by Pynson, with a great number of proper names, in places and persons corrected into the bargain, If, however, the Young Man' sigh, and sigh deeply, for the oak-bounden impression of Pynson, he must purchase it--but with caution and previous collation."-DIBDIN.

We give a list of translations by Lord Berners. The reader will notice the variable orthography of the name and title of the knight; of those cited, no two are altogether alike. 1. The Chronicles of Englande, Fraunce, Spayne, Portyngale, Scotlande, Bretayne, Flaunders, and other Places adionynge, träslated out of Frenche into our maternall Englysshe Tonge, by Johan Bourchier Knight, Lorde Berners. London, by Richard Pynson, 1523-25. Made, as we have stated above, by command of Henry VIII.

2. The Hystory of the moost noble and valyaunt knyght Arthur of lytell brytayne, translated out of frensshe in to englisshe by the noble Johan bourgcher knyght lorde Barners, newly emprynted. This was printed by Redborne.

"In the class of romances of chivalry we have several translations in the black letter; such are the Mort d'Arthur, Huon of Bordeaux, etc. The best translations, now very rare and high priced, are those of Lord Berners, the admirable translator of Froissart, in the reign of Henry 8; and not the least of his merits is now the genuine antique cast of his style."-Curiosities of Lilerature.

See copious notices of the translation of Arthur in the British Bibliographer, iv., 228, and in Dibdin's Ames, iv., 190. There was a new edition by E. V. Utterson, pub., Lon., 1814, 4to; with a series of plates from illuminated drawings.

3. The Famous Exploits of Huon de Bourdeaux, trans. by Sir John Bourchier, Lord Berners, Lon., 1601, 4to; 3d edit. Done at the desire of the Earl of Huntingdon. Tanner, p. 116.

4. The golden Boke of Marcus Aurelius, Emperour and Oratour, translated out of Frenche into Englishe by John Bourchier, Knyghte, Lorde Barners. London in the House of Tho. Berthelet, (1534,) 16mo. Thirteen editions between 1534 and 1587! Undertaken at the desire of his nephew, Sir Francis Bryan.

5. The Castle of Loue, translated out of Spaynyshe into

Englyshe by John Bourchier Knyght Lord Berners. Impr. by me Robert Wyer, 8vo. Dedicated to the lady of Sir Nicholas Carew, at whose desire he translated it from the Spanish.

He also composed a book entitled Of the Duties of the Inhabitants of Calais, and a Comedy called Ite in Vineam, which was usually acted in the great Church at Calais after vespers.

"Several letters by Lord Berners occur in the British Museum, COTTON., Calig. D. ix., Vesp. C. i. and F. xiii., HARL., 295. In Vespasian, C. i., 147, is an original dispatch from lord Berners and John Kite to king Henry the Eighth, giving an account of their interview with Charles, king of Castile and Arragon. This is very curious, and has been reprinted in Utterson's edition of Froissart, preface p. 12."-Note in Bliss's Wood's Athen. Oxon.

"Lord Berners. . . . was instructed in several sorts of learning in this university in the latter end of K. Edw. 4; in whose reign and before, were the sons of divers of the English nobility edu cated in academical literature in Baliol Coll., wherein, as 'tis probable, this our author was instructed also. After he had left the university, he travelled into divers countries, and returned a master of several languages and a compleat gentleman. But that which made him first known to the world, was his valour shew'd in quelling the fury of the rebels in Cornwall and Devon, under the conduct of Michael Joseph, a blacksmith, about 1495, whereby he greatly gained the favour of K. Henry.”—Athen. Oxon.

been a far traveller and great linguist, be translated many books "Having there [at Calais] gotten a repose, who formerly had out of French, Spanish, and Italian, besides some of his own making. [Bale de Scriptoribus Britannicis Cent. vii., num i., and Pits, in anno 1532.] I behold his as the second (accounting the lord Tiptoft the first) noble hand. which, since the decay of learning, took a pen therein, to be author of a book."-Fuller's Worthies. "But I have shown that Lord Berners was but the fifth writer among the nobility, in order of time."- Walpole's Royal and Noble Authors.

In this work is a long extract from Lord Berners's epistle dedicatory of the Castle of Love, to Lady Carew. We give a short specimen, which is curious as exhibiting the orthography of the day:

"To the good and vertuous lady; the lady Carewe, gretynge. "The affecciant desyre and obligation that I am bounde in towardes you, ryghte vertuous and good lady, as well for the goodness that it hath pleased you to shewe me, as for the nyreness of consanguinite, hath encoraged me to accomplyshe your desyre, in translating this present booke. And though my so doynge can not be correspondent any thing to recompense your goodnes, yet not being ignoraunt of your goodwil and desyre, the which in this cause I take for the hole effecte; thinking thereby to do you some smale rememoracion, and also by cause the matter is very pleasant to reduce the same from Spanishe into the Englyshe tonge, not for yonge ladies and gentlewomen: therefore I have enterpeysed adorned with so freshe eloquence that it should merite to be presented to your goodnes."

Berners, or Barnes, Juliana, b. about 1388, is believed to have been the daughter of Sir James Berners, a favourite of Richard the Second, and beheaded in 1388 as an evil counsellor to the king, and an enemy to the public. Juliana was celebrated for her extreme beauty and great learning. She was prioress of Sopewell Nunnery near St. Alban's, where she varied the devotions of the cloister with the sports of the field. Willing to impart to others a knowledge of the mysteries which afforded so much satisfaction to herself, she wrote treatises on Hawking, Hunting, Fishing, and Heraldry.

"From an abbess disposed to turn author, we might more reasonably have expected a manual of meditations for the closet. or the diversions of the world were not thought inconsistent with select rules for making salves, or distilling strong waters. But the character of a religious lady of this eminent rank, who resembled an abbot in respect of exercising an extensive manorial juris

diction; and who hawked and hunted in common with other ladies of distinction. This work however is here mentioned because the second of these treatises is written in rhyme. It is spoken in her own person; in which, being otherwise a woman of authority, she assumes the title of Dame. I suspect the whole to be a translation from the French and Latin.”— Wurton's History of English Poetry, vol. ii.

"The treatise on fishing is not only the earliest, but by far the most curious essay upon angling which has ever appeared in the English, or perhaps any other, language. In the most important features, Walton has closely followed this production. In piety and virtue,-in the inculcation of morality,-in an ardent love for their art, and still more, in that placid and Christian spirit for which the amiable Walton was so conspicuous, the early writer was scarcely inferior to his or her more celebrated successor."— Lowndes's Bibliographer's Manual, which see for particulars of early editions.

There are three treatises comprised in one volume with this title: The Bokys of Hawking and Hunting, and also of Cootarmuris, at St. Alban's, 1486, small folio. So rare is this volume, that Dr. Dibdin estimates a perfect copy (of which Earl Spencer and the Earl of Pembroke each had one) to be worth £420; a very imperfect copy produced £147 at the sale of the Library of the Duke of Roxburghe; resold at the sale of the White Knight's (Duke of Marlborough's) Library for £84. The third book, on Heraldic Blazonry, is supposed to be an addendum to the two preceding, and a portion of a work by Nicholas Upton,

written about 1441. Indeed Mr. Haslewood considers that the only portions of the book which can safely be attributed to Dame Berners are: 1. A small portion of the Treatise on Hawking. 2. The Treatise upon Hunting. 3. A Short List of the Beasts of Chase; and Another Short one of Beasts and Fowls. We have no space for a list of early editions, the last of which was printed in 1595 in 4to. Mr. Haslewood's edition (Lon., 1810, folio) is an exact reprint of that by Wynkyn de Worde, 1496. 150 copies were printed. In the Bibliographical Introduction (a few copies of which were struck off separately) will be found a full account of the first editions of this curious work. As few of our readers are likely to have an opportunity of seeing this rare book, we shall give them a specimen of the style of this Di Vernon of the elder time. Speaking of "fysshynge," she affectionately exhorts the prospective angler, and moralizes on this wise:

Ye shall not use this forsayd crafty disporte for no covetysenes, to the encreasynge and sparynge of your money oonly; but principally for your solace, and to cause the helthe of your body, and specyally of your soule: for whaune ye purpoos to goo on your dysportes in fysshynge, ye wooll not desyre gretly many persons with you, whyche lett you of your game. And thenne ye may serve God devoutly in saying affectuously your custumable prayer; and, thus doynge, ye shall eschewe and voyde many vices."

In order that the angler might betake him or herself quietly, and without attracting attention and company, to their "fysshynge dysporte," she gives instructions for a walking cane-rod, which should give no indication of the anticipated "dysporte," and the bewitching, though it must be confessed rather sly, Juliana triumphantly declares, “And thus shall ye make you a rodde so prevy, that ye may walk therwyth; and there shall noo man wyte where abowte ye See an article on Angling in the London Quarterly Review, vol. lxvii. The book on Armory commences with the following curious piece of sacred heraldry:

"Of the offspring of the gentilman Jafeth, come Habraham, Moyses, Aron, and the profettys: and also the kyng of the right lyne of Mary, of whom that gentilman Jhesus was borne, very God and man: after his manhoode kynge of the land of Jude and of Jues, gentilman by his modre Mary, prince of cote armure, &c." Berrey, G. J. Legal treatise, Lon., 1833, 12mo. Berrian, William, D.D., Rector of Trinity Church, New York City. 1. Travels in France and Italy in 181718, N. York, 1820, 8vo. 2. Devotions for the Sick-Room, 12mo. 3. Enter thy Closet, 12mo. 4. Family and Private Prayers, 12mo. 5. On the Communion, 18mo. 6. Sailors' Manual, 18mo. 7. Historical Sketch of Trinity Church, N. York, 1847, 8vo. 8. Recollections of Departed Friends,

1850, 12mo.

Berridge, John, 1716-1793, entered at Clare Hall, 1794, vicar of Everton, 1755. The Christian World unmasked; pray come and peep, 1773, 8vo; 1824, 8vo; with Life, Letters, Farewell Sermons, and Zion's Songs.

Berriman, John, 1689-1768, educated at St. Edmund's Hall, Oxford, became Rector of St. Alban's, London, 1744. The Case of Naboth considered, &c., 1721, Svo. Eight Sermons at Lady Moyer's Lecture, 1741, 8vo. Entirely of the critical kind, noting above 100 Greek MS. of St. Paul's Epistles, many not before collated. A Critical Dissertation on 1 Tim. iii. 16, 1741, 8vo.

"In this work are noticed several glaring and unpardonable errors in the impressions of the Bible during the 17th century. A copy is in the British Museum, with the author's MS. notes."-LOWNDES. See Orme's Bib. Bibl. He edited 2 vols. of his brother William's sermons, pub., 1750.

Berriman, William, D.D., 1688-1750, brother to the preceding, was entered, at 17, of Oriel College, Oxford. By close application he became well versed in the Greek, Hebrew, Chaldee, Arabic, and Syriac tongues. The Trinitarian Controversy elicited his first publications. A Seasonable Review of Mr. Whiston's Account of Primitive Doxologies, Lon., 1719, 8vo. A Second Review of the same, 1719, 8vo. These pieces recommended him to the notice of Dr. Robinson, Bishop of London, who in 1720 appointed him his domestic chaplain, and in 1722 collated him to the living of St. Andrew-Undershaft. In 1727 he became a Fellow of Eton College. An Historical Account of the Trinitarian Controversy, in 8 Sermons, delivered at Lady Moyer's Lecture, in 1723-24; pub. 1725, 8vo. In Dr. Conyers Middleton's Introductory Discourse to the Inquiry into the miraculous powers of the Christian Church, and in the Inquiry also, Dr. Berriman was noticed with much severity. In 1731 Berriman pub. by way of rejoinder, A Defence of some passages in the Historical Account. In 1733 he pub. Brief Remarks on Mr. Chandler's Introduction to the History of the Inquisition, which was followed by a Review of the Remarks. Both of these were answered by Chandler. The Gradual Revelation of the Gospel from the time of Man's Apostasy: 24 sermons

preached at the Lecture founded by the Hon. Robert Boyle, 1730, 31, 32, Lon., 1733, 2 vols. 8vo. He pub. a number of occasional sermons, &c. After his death 2 vols., 40 sermons, were pub. by his brother, and in 1763 1 vol., 19 sermons, appeared.

Berrington. See BERINGTON.

Berrow, Capel. Sermons, 1746. A Pre-existent Lapse of Human Souls, demonstrated from Reason, shewn to be the opinion of the most eminent writers of antiquity, sacred and profane. Proved to be the groundwork, likewise, of the Gospel Dispensation; and the medium through which many material objects, relative thereto, are set in a clear, rational, and consistent light, 1762, 8vo.

"Altogether undeserving of the public attention: it is a crude and irregular production, neither to be commended for its matter nor its style. The allegations from Scripture are weak and uncritical; the arguments, drawn from the depravity of the mind, are declamatory and false, and several of the authorities are misrepresented, and at best nothing to the purpose."-Lon. Monthly Review. Deism not consistent with the Religion of Nature and Reason, 1780, 4to.

Berry, Charles. Sermons on the Duty of National Thanksgiving, 1812.

Berry, Francis. See WHITCHER.

Berry, Rev. Henry, was connected with the British Farmer's Mag. He wrote Improved Short Horns, and their pretensions stated, Lon., 1830, 8vo.

Berry, Mary, 1762-1852. Her father, sister Agnes, and herself were the literary executors of Sir Horace Walpole, and under their supervision his works were pub. in 5 vols. 4to. The writings of Miss Berry, entitled England and France, &c., were pub. by her in 2 vols. 8vo, Lon., 1844. She defended Walpole from the strictures of Lord Macaulay in Edin. Rev. In 1840 she ed. and pub. for the first time Sixty Letters from Walpole to Herself and Sister. Berry, Richard. Sermon, Dubl., 1672, fol. Berry, Robert. Works of Horace Walpole, 5 vols., 1798, r. 4to.

Berry, William, Clerk to the Register of the College of Arms. An Introduction to Heraldry, Lon., 1810, 8vo. History of the Island of Guernsey, from the remotest period of antiquity to the year 1814; with Particulars of the neighbouring Islands of Alderney, Serk, and Jersey, 1815, 4to. Genealogica Antiqua; or Mythological and Classical Tables, Lon., 1816, fol. Genealogia Sacra, or Scripture Tables, Lon., 1819, 4to.

parents, with references. . . . The chronological dates are taken "Chiefly confined to the patriarchs and descendants of our first from Blair, Usher, and others. An alphabetical index is subjoined, which facilitates reference to this unassuming publication.".

T. H. HORNE.

Encyclopedia Heraldica, or Complete Dictionary of Heraldry; with the Supplement, 4 vols. 4to, 1828-40. "The best modern dictionary of heraldry: it embraces the greater part of Edmondson and others." fol., £5 58. Pedigrees of Berks, Bucks, and Surrey Families, 1837, Do. Essex Families, 1841, fol., £2 158. Do. Do. HertfordHampshire Families, 1833, fol., £6 68. shire Families, 1844 and '46, fol., £3 108. Do. Kent Families, 1830, fol., £6 68. Do. Sussex Families, 1830, fol., £6 68.

Bert, Ed. Treatise of Hawkes and Hawking, Lon., 1619, 4to.

Bertezen, S. Food for Silk-worms, Lon., 1789, 8vo. Bertie, Willoughby, Earl of Abingdon, 1740-1799. Thoughts on Mr. Burke's Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol, on American Affairs, Oxf., 1777, 8vo; 6th ed. enlarged, 1780. Letter to Lady Loughborough, (ascribed to him.) Many editions, 1789. Speech on the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1793, 8vo.

"One of the most steady and intrepid assertors of liberty in this age."-Editor of Wilkes's Speeches.

Berton, William, flourished about 1381, a divine, and Chancellor of the University of Oxford, was a zealous opponent of Wickliffe. 1. Determinationes contra Viclevum. 2. Sententia a super justa ejus Condemnatione. 3. Contra ejus Articulos. Bale and Pits give very different opinions of his character.

Bertram, Charles, an English antiquary, Professor of the English language in the Royal Marine Academy of Copenhagen. Ethics, or Select Thoughts from several Authors, the words accented to render the English pronunciation easy to foreigners. Britannicarum Gentium Historiæ Antiquæ Scriptures tres,-Ricardus Corinensis -Gildas Badonicus-Nennius Banchorensis-recensuit Notisque et Indice auxit Car. Bertramus, Haun. 1757, 8vo. Stukeley, to whom Bertram communicated a copy of the MS., pub. an edit. of the first treatise in the above work in London. Its authenticity has been much doubted.