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BEVERIDGE. BEVERIDGE, Awebt J. (18fi2— ). An Ameiicaii jmlitician and lawyer, born on the border of Adam and Highland counties. Ohio. His family removed to Illinois after the Civil War, and he received a common and hifih school ediication and graduated at Uc Pauw I'niversity in 1885. Afterwards he read law and was ad- mitted to the bar. In 180!) he was elected Unit- ed States Senator from Indiana, and soon be- came widely known through his pulilic speeches, several of which fervidly supported the Admin- istration's Philippine policy.

BEVERIDGE, Ki'iiXF, (1877 — ). An Ameri- can sculptor, liorn at 8i)ringfield. 111. She stud- ied under . R. O'Donovan in New York, and afterwanls iinder Rodin in Paris. Her works have been exhibited in the I'nited States and at the Royal Academy in Lon<lon. and she obtained an honorable mention at the Paris Exposition in 1900.

BEVERLEY (anciently, Beverlac-, AS. Befer- lic, from befcr, beaver + Fr. lac, lake. The marshes around were the resort of beavers). A market town in the East Piiding of Yorkshire, England, I mile west of the river Hull (with which it cnmnuinicates by the Beck Canal, o-ned bv the town) and 8 miles north-northwest of the city of Hull (Map: England, F 3). Beverley formerly returned two members to Parliament, but was disfranchised in 1870. The chief archi- tectural feature in Beverley is the superb Gothic minster, or the Collegiate Church of Saint John's, ranking next to Yorkminster among the ec- clesiastical structures of the country, and ex- hibiting different styles of Gothic architecture, the oldest part being of the Thirteenth Century. The choir contains the celebrated Percy shrine, of the most exquisite workmanship. The gram- mar school of Beverley is of great antiquity. Beverley arose out of a priory founded about the year 700 by the great northern saint. Saint John of Beverley, whose shrine there was visited by multitudes of pilgrims in mediseval times. Its trade consists in corn, coal, and leather, and there are several whiting and agricultural im- plement manufactories. Population, in 1891, 12,500: in 1901, 13.200. Consult: Oliver, His- tories (Beverley, 1829) ; Poulson, Beverlac; or Antiquities and History of the Town of Beverley (London, 1829) ; Stephenson, "Beverley in the Olden Times," in Archwological Journal, Vol. LII. (London, 1895).

BEVERLEY. (1) The title character of a. tragedy by Edward Moore. He is led astray by Stukelz, and dies a pauper and suicide. (2) The brother of Clarissa in Murphy's com- edy All in the Wrong. (3) The name adopt- ed by Captain Absolute in Sheridan's comedy The I'irats. It is as Beverley that he makes love to the romantic Lydia Languish.

BEVERLEY, Constanxe de. A nun in love with tlic hero of Scott's poem "Marmion." BEVERLEY, Rodebt (1075-1716). A colo- nial historian of Virginia. He was of a good and wealthy family, was educated in England, and later had charge of the public records of the colony. In 1705 he published, in London, a His- tory of the Present State of Virgiiiia. This was something more than the title implied, for it gave an account of the colonial government from the first settlement. It attracted so much atten- tion that in 1707 a French translation appeared, and in 1722 an enlarged second English edition. A modern reprint, with an introduction by Charles Campbell, was published in Richmond (1855). No writer gives us more intimate de- tails of the daily life in Virginia during the first century of its settlement, and few books pub- lished during the colonial epoch furnish more racy, interesting reading. The historian's name is sometimes spelled Beverly.

BEVERLY. A city in Essex County, Mass., 18 miles northeast of Boston; on the Boston and Maine Railroad. It is situated on a narrow coast inlet, which is spanned by a bridge connect- ing with the city of Salem ( Map : Massachu- setts, F 2). It contains the suburban residences of many citizens of Boston, a public library, Bev- erly Hospital, and the New England Industrial School for Deaf Mutes. The city has manufac- tures of boots and shoes, belting, oiled clothing, carriages, machinery, etc. First settled in 1030 by Roger Conant, Beverl}' formed part of Salem, and was known as Bass-River-Side until 16G8, when it was incorporated as a town under its present name. Beverly was chartered as a city in 1894. The government is vested in a mayor and a bicameral city council, with subordinate administrative oHicials. Population, in 1890. 10,- 821; in 1900, 13.884. Consult: Stone. History of Beverly (Boston, 1843) ; and Hurd, History of Essex County (Philadelphia, 18S8).

BEVERLY'S FORD, BATTLE OF. See Brandy Station, Battle of. BEV'IL. (1) A witty gentleman in Shad- well's comedy Epsom Wells. (2) The name of a character in The Conscious Lovers, by Steele. He is commended by Thomson in "Winter" of The Seasons.

BE'VIS. Lord Marmion's 'red roan charger,' in the pcx-m ".Marmion," bj' Scott.

BEVIS MARKS. The name of a street in Saint Alary Axe. near Houndsditch. London. Here lived Mr. Sampson Brass, Quilp's boon com- panion, in Dickens's Old Curiosity Shop.

BEVIS OF HAMP'TON, Sir (also known as Bevis of Sc)uthami)tiin. and in Frcncli as Beu- ves d'llantone). An English knight whase adven- tures in Britain, Europe, and Palestine are the theme of prose and verse by old ICnglish, French, and Italian writers. The era in which he lived was variously placed by them in the time of King Arthur, of Edgar of Britain, and of Charlemagne. His father. Sir Guy, Earl of llamptoun, was nuir- dered by Divoun, Emperor of .Mnuiyne, and His mother gave him to some merchants, who sold him as a slave to the Paynim. They carried him to Ermony, where he married .Josian, a daughter of King Ermyn. Josian gave Bevis his famous horse, Arundel, which figures in many of the leg- ends about him, and he also had a wonderful sword, Morglay. His exploits included the slaughter of a huge boar, two sea-serpents, and a dragon, and he also conquered the giant Aseaji- ard, who became his squire. Another legend de- scribes his carrying his own death warrant in a sealed letter to the vassal Bradcmoml. liis escape after seven years' imprisonment, and his rescue of his wife, who had been forced to marry King Mombraunt. His last great adventure was a fight in the streets of London, in which he slew 00,000 citizens, and forced favorable terms from