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which he discharged with great assiduity for 13 years, and distin-guished himself by making several discoveries with respect to thelacteal veins and lymphatic vessels. 11 is close application, how-ever, having rendered his constitution very infirm, he, in 1661,resigned his chair; blit the king of Denmark allowed him thetitle of honorary professor. lie now retired to a little estate hehad purchased at Tlagested, near Copenhagen , where he hoped tohave spent the remainder of his days in peace and tranquillity ; huthis house being burnt in lOtiO, his library, w ith all his books andMSS. was destroyed. In consideration of this loss the king ap-pointed him his physician with a handsome salary, and exemptedhis land from all taxes; the university of Copenhagen also ap-pointed him their librarian ; and in 1675 the king did him thehonour to give him a seat in the grand council of Denmark , liewrote, I. Anitoinia Caspari Bartholini Parentis, novas Obser- jvationibus primtim locupletata, Svo. 2. De Monstris in Naturaet Medicina, 4lo. 3. De Armillis Veterum, pricsertim Dano-rum Scliedion, Svo; and several other works. This great mandied in 1680.

BARTHOLOMEW, St, [from 13 , a son, nbn. elevating,anil's, waters,] one of the 12 apostles, and generally believedto be the same with Nathanael for the following reasons: 1. Johnnever mentions Bartholomew but Nathanael : 2. the other Evan-gelists never mention Nathanael hut Bartholomew: 3. Johnclasses Philip and Nathanael, as the others do Philip and Bartho-lomew : 4. Nathanael is mentioned with the other apostles thatmet with our Lord, after his resurrection, at the sea of Tiberias:and 5. Bartholomew is not a proper -name, but a patronymic,signifying the son ofTolmai, or Tholonmis ; a mode of denomi-nation common among the Hebrews, and other ancient nations,and which still prevails in some modern nations ; for instance inRussia , where Petrowitz, Alexiowitz, Alexandrowitz, &c. signifythe son of Peter, Alexis, Alexander, &c. 'Phis apostle was oneof the first disciples who came to Jesus , who paid a very greatcompliment to his integrity, when he stiled him “ an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no guile.” It is said thathe travelledas far as India, to propagate the Gospel; for Eusebius relates, thata famous philosopher and Christian, named Pantamis, desiringto imitate the apostolical zeal in propagating the faith, anil tra--velling for that purpose as far as India , found there, among thosewho yet retained the knowledge of Christ , the Gospel of St.Matthew, written, as the tradition asserts, bv St. Bartholomew ,one of the twelve apostles, when he preached the Gospel in thatcountry. From thence lie returned to the more northern andwestern parts of Asia , and preached to the people of Ilierapolis;then in Lvcnonia; and lastly, at Albania, a city upon the CaspianSea ; where his endeavours to reclaim the people from idolatrywere crowned w ith martyrdom, he being slayeil alive, and cruci-fied with his head downwards.

Bartholomew, St. one of the Caribbee islands, 30 miles N.of St. Christopher ’s, and is very fertile. Lon. 62. 15. 4V. Lat.18. 6. N.

Bartholomew-, St. one of the New Hebrides . Lon. 167.84. E. Lat. 15. 42. S.

Bartholomew ’s Day, St. a festival of the Christian'church,celebrated on the 24th of August. This day lias been renderedinfamous in the annals of France, by the massacre of the Pro-testants in 1572, by the order of the bloody Catherine de Me-dicis, and her tyraiinh nl son Charles IX ; when by the unitedefforts of despotism and priestcraft more than 30,000 Protestants were butchered in cold blood on Bartholomew’s dav, in the year1662 ; the art of uniformity, which obtained the royal assent onthe 19 th of May, took place, in consequence of which, about2000 ministers wdre obliged to relinquish their preferments in thechurch, as the liturgy, with its alterations, did not come out ofthe press till St. Bartholomew’s eve, and the following day was thelast day fixed by the act for the subscription, so that it was impos-sible it could be subscribed in the time required, except by afew of the ministers in London . How fatal such ill-judged preci-pitancy must have been to the best interest of the church, maybe easily conceived. See Burnet's H istory of his own Times, Vol.!. p. 212, and Parmer’s Historv of the Non-conformists.

Bartholomew’s Gospel, St. mentioned in the preface toOrigen's Homilies on St. Luke, and in tiie preface to St. Jerome ’scommentary on St. Matthew : hut is generally looked upon asspaeionsjandis played by pope Gelasi us among the apocryphal books.

BARTHOLOM1TES, a religious order founded at Genoa , in1307; but the monks leading very irregular lives, the order wassuppressed by pope Innocent X. in 1650, and their effects wereconfiscated.

BAR TON, a town of Lincolnshire, seated on the Humber,from which there is a considerable ferry to Hull, in Yorkshire .Lon. 0. 22. W. Lat. 53. 40. N.

Barton, Elizabeth, commonly called the Holy Maid ofKent , was a religious impostor in the reign of llenry VI11 Shewas a servant at Aldington, in Kent , and had long been troubledwilii convulsion', which distorted her limbs and countenance m thestrangest manner, and threw her body into the most violent agi-tations; and the effect of the disorder was such, that even altershe recovered, she counterfeited the same appearance. Masters,the minister of Aldington, with other ecclesiastics, thinking her apfoper instrument for their purpose, persuaded her to pretendthat what she said and did was by a supernatural impulse, andtaught her to act her part in the most perfect manner. 'Thus shewould lie as it were in a trance, for some time; then, comingto herself, after many strange contortions, would break out intopious ejaculations, hymns, and prayers-; sometimes deliveringherself in set speeches, sometimes in uncouth monkish rhymes.She pretended to he honored with visions and revelations, tohear heavenly voices, and the most ravishing melody. She de-claimed against the wickedness ot the times, against heresy, andinnovations; exhorting the people to frequent the church, tohear masses, to use frequent confessions, and to pray to our lady,and all the saints. All this artful management, together withgreat exterior piety, virtue, and austerity of life, not only de-ceived the vulgar, but many far above the vulgar, such as SirThomas More , Bishop Fisher, Archbishop M arkham: the last ofwhom appointed commissioners to examine her. llcr managersnow directed her publicly to announce, how God had revealed toher, that “ in case the king should divorce Queen Catharine ofArragon, and take another wife during her life, his royalty wouldnot he of a month’s duration, but he should die the death of avillain.” Bishop Fisher, and others, in the interest of the queen,and of the Romish religion, hearing of this, held frequent meet-ings with tiie nun ami her accomplices, and at the same timeseduced many persons from their allegiance, particularly the fa-thers and nuns of Sion, the Charter-house, and Sheen, and someof the observants at Richmond, Greenwich, and Canterbury .At length this confederacy began to be a very serious affair, andHenry ordered the maid and her accomplices to be examined intiie star-chamber. Here they confesed all the particulars of theimposture, and the nun, with her confederates, Masters, Rocking,Deering, Able, &c. were attainted of high treason, and executedat Tyburn, April 20, 1534; where she confessed tlie imposture,laying the blame on her accomplices the priests, and craving par-don of God and the king.

Barton, the demesne lands of a manor;itself; and sometimes the out-houses.

Barton signifies also a coop for poultry;yard.

BARTRAMIA, I’ellttory ; a genus of the decandria mo-nogvnia class of plants. Calyx a periantlmim, cut into live parts;corolla wedge-shaped, five-petaled ; fruit globular; seeds four,convex on one side, and angular on the other.

BARTS1A, Painted Gup ; a genus of the angiospermiaorder, and didynamia class of plants; natural order, lYrsonat*.Calyx bilbous, emargined, and coloured; corolla coloured ; upperlip longer than the under one; seeds many. There are five species,of which the

B. Alpina, or mountain eye-bright cow-wheat, hath heart-shaped leaves placed opposite, and bluntly serrated, with purpleblossoms in leafy spikes. It is a native of Britain , and is loundnear rivulets in billy countries. Sheep and goats eat it.

BARUCH, the son of Neriah, the disciple and amanuensis ofthe prophet Jeremiah. Josephus tells us, lie was descended of anoble familv ; and it is said in his prophecy, that lie wrote it atBabylon ; but at what time is uncertain.

Baruch’s Prophecy, one of the apocryphal books subjoinedto the canon of the Old 'Testament . It lias been reckoned part ofJeremiah ’s prophecy, and is often cited by the ancient fathers assuch. It is difficult to determine in what language it was origi-M nally written. There are extant three copies of it; one in Greek,* the

the manor-housea court or fold