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 BAR BAR ( 523 ) Barley-w/?, the leaft of our long-meafufes, being the adminiftration of juftice is committed, in caufes be-r tween the king and his fubjefts, relating to matters third of an inch. concerning the revenue. They were formerly barons BARLOVENTO Ifles, the fame with the Caribbees. of the realm, but of late are generally perfons learnBARM, the fame v/ith yeft. See Test. BARNABITES, a religious order, founded in the fix- ed in the laws. Their office is alfo to look into the teenth century by three Italian gentlemen, who had accounts of the king, for which reafon they have aubeen advifed by a famous preacher-of thofe days to ditors under them. See Auditor. read carefully the epiftles of St Paul. Hence they Barons of the cinque-ports are members of the houfe were called clerks of St Paul, and Barnabites, be- of commons, eledted by the five ports, two for each caufe they performed their firft exereife in a church of port. See the article Cinque-port/. St Barnabas at Milan. Their habit is black, and thf^r Baron Feme, in our law, a term uftd for the office is to inftruft, cathechjfe, and ferve in’ miffien. huftiand in, relation to his wife, who is called feme ; they are deemed but one perfon; fo that a wifeBARNACLE, in ornithology, a fpecies of goofe. See and cannot be witnefs for or againft her hufband, nor he Anas. BARNACLES, in farriery, an inftrument compofed of for or againft his wife, except in cafes of high treafon. two branches joined at one end with a hinge, to put Baron Feme, in heraldry, is when the coats of upon horfes nofes when they will not Hand quietly to arms of a man and his wife are borne per pale in the fame efcutcheon, the man’s being always on the dexbe {hod, blooded, or dreffied. BARNARD-CASTLE, a town of 0the, biffiopric of ter fide, and the woman’s on the finifter; but here the woman is fuppoftd not an heirefs, for then her coat Durham, in i° s'W. long, and 54 26» N.lat. BARNET, a njarket-town of Middlefex (part of it in muft be borne by the hufband on an efchutpheon of Hertfordffiire) ten miles north-weft of London, in ic/ pretence. See Pale and Escutcheon ;?/'pretence. Prendre de Baron. See Prendre. W. long, and 510 42/ N. lat. BARNSTABLE, a port-town of Devonffiire, fituated BARONET,, a modern degree of honour, nexp to a baron, created by K. James I. im order to propagate on the river Tan, 0 about thirty 0 miles north of Exeter, in W. long. 4 io', and 51 42' N. lat. It fends a plantation in Ulfter in Ireland, for which purpoft each of them was to maintain thirty foldiers in Ireland, two members to parliament. BAROCHE, a port-town of the hither India, in the for three years, after the rate of eight pence fterling province of Cambaya; fituated fixty miles north, of per day to each foldier. The honour is hereditary,0 and they have the precedence of all knights, except Surat, in 72 $ E. long, and 22° 1$ N. lat. BAROCO, in/logic, a term given to nhe fourth mode thofe of the garter, bannerets, and privy-counfellors. of the fecond figure of fyllogifms. A fyllogifm in They areftyled baronets in all writs,, and the addition ' baroco has the firft propofition univerfal and affirma- of Sir is attributed to them, as the title of Lady is to tive, but the, fecond and third'particular and negative, their wives. No honour is be created between barons and the middle term is the .predicate in the two firft and baronets. BARONY, the honour and territory which gives title propofitions. For example, to a baron, whether he be a layman or a biffiop. Nullus homo non eft bipes r BAROSCOPE, the fame with barometer. See BaroNon omne animal eft bipes : meter Non omne animal eft homo. BAROMETER, a machine for meafuring the weight BARR, or Bar. See Bar. of the atmofphere, and the variations therein, in or- BarR-//c*y falfe dice, fo contrived as not; readily to der to determine the changes of' the weather. See turn up certain fides. Pneumatics. BARRA, in commerce, a long-meafure uftd in PortuBARON, a degree of nobility next below a vifcount, gal and fome parts of Spain, to meafure woolen cloths^ and above a baronet. It is probable that formerly linen cloths, and ferges. There are three forts, the; all thofe were barons who had lordffiips with courts- barra of Valencia, 13 of which make 12^-yards Engbaron, and foon after the conqueft all fuch fat in the liffi meafure;. the barra of Caftile, 7 of which make. houfe of peers ; but they being very numerous,.it grew 6| yards; and the barra of Aragon, 3 of which make • an order and cuftom, that none fliould fit. but fuch 24- yards Engliffi. as the king thought fit to call up by writ, which ran BARRACAN,, in commerce, a fort of ft-uff, not diapro hac vice tantum. This ftate of nobility being pered, fomething like camblet, but of a coarftr grain. very precarious, they at length obtained of the king It is uftd to make eloaks,. furtouts; and fuch otherletters patent; and theft were called barons by patent, garments, to keep off the rain. or creation, the only way now in uft of making bar BARRACKS, or Baracks, places for foldiers to lodge roqs, unlefs when the fon of a lord, in his anceftor’s in, efpecially in garrifons. life-time, is fummoned by a writ. BARRATOR, inlaw, a common mover of .maintained On.folemn occafions, barons wear a coronet, repre- of fuits and quarrels, either in courts, or elfewhere in the country. A man cannot be adjudged a barrator ftnted in Plate LI. fig, 19. Baroj^ by tenure, one who held certain territories of the for bringing any number of fuits in his own right, king, who ftill retained the tenure in chief to himfelf. though they are vexatious,. Barrators are puniifhed Barons of the exchequer, the four judges to whom the by fine and imprifonment. BAR-