Barnabæ itinerarium:

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The original edition os the Traveis has nodate; iso ver diminutive sige and has theappe arance of bein printed about the id die of that century. t has a fronti Spiece en- graved by . Marshall, who 'ourished rom

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Latin addi ess, Edilo Lectori, illi an Englisti Adverti sement, an falso an Index'. The periodis republication seem to have beento remote for the editor to gain muchanowledge of the author Accordingly, e gives no information respectin Barnaby, in addition to what his o I page Supply, X cepithat os callinillim a Graditate of Oxsordi Whicli, pon examination, has prove Di bean uia unde report. thir odition in l723, with sorne trisin alteration an a foui th was printed in J774, with no variation rom the preceding. Mith respectri time, there is internalevi derace Barnab mentions Middieton, asenriched by the e River. Amnes lenem ante SCnum, Otii dilarunt Middielonum p. 90.l A flicti transposition has been made in his pabsage of the Advertisement for the purpos Ofstating the editio correcti .J

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aliis allusion couldie stricti applicat Ieoni in the early Stage of the projectior conveying the stream frona Amwel to London, underialieni Si Hugh Middieton in l6l3,

quently infeste disserent paris frangiand. Sed seribentem digitum Dei Spectans 'Miserere mei, Atriis, anguli confestim, Eollandi cura pestem, Fugi. p. l04.

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me observes that Ponas rei ad been a place ver sinister o Englisti princes , Veni Pon ret, ubi miram Arcem Anglis regibus diram. p. 20. and scio siledivitii the idea, as O continue the observation in a note with a sori os predietionis the late of

Regibus Anglarum dedit arae tua dira rui

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hange a Vorti calli nihimself a witnessio the truth of this extraordinar incident, xvhichias pened in the year l634. The storyis thus tollita Gent' History of orti, l730, p. 23. his darit 634 ono Jolin arteridale

alight , an alight in himself, both of the in charitabi assiste to throw by the mouid, aud to eis the burtei convici rom his grave M lim ein conveyed again to York

then pardonec by the Judge Iuli see med

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It is frequently mentionedi Ben JOIason, AS

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Harringtonis the sum This, after uel labour os investigation, which twould ea the appe aranceis asseC-tation to de tali, is ali e have discovered con- cerning the singula performarice hieli has for iis adumbratet author Barnab Hai rington and O a great par of this erare unde obligation to literar personS, WhOSereadines of communication clatrias uri est aclino ledgments while thei eminenc Dr-

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bid ais to nam them oti an occasion hicla might be deemed o trivial. Further notices of the author a possibi exist in booksout of the common tracti of rea ling and we solicit the favour os information addressedio the publislier, romuliose ho may be ablet Communicate an to ard bringi nihimio light. maria ab Harrington, whOeverte WaS, isent illed to the Lindries of the worid, O therentertainmentae affords. His humour, his gale ty, and his learning give him o meari rank amongst authorS. It has heen observed that poetr is no alitile inde teda geograph and topography;whicli, esides numerous incidental descrip tions have furnished materiat for manyentire poenas Ausonius has employed his mus to celebrate the considerable toxvias of his country Rutilius has est an elegant

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itinerar in verse of hicli e regre themutilation. Drayton has voluminOUSJ Versified the whole topograph of the ritishistarid. Regnar has narrated in alternations o prose and rhime, a JOurne to Pro Vetice a very pleasin effusion o spriteli Dess. Ga has eXercised his humourous and poetica velit in the etai of a Journe to EXeter and Prior has displayed his facetious talent in the recitatos his EXcursion toto n. Barnaby Harrington, in the relationis his Traveis, is inferior to notae in vivaci ty in Wit, or in erudition. Maia ingeniolas and learn edallusion are interspersed I he lived as adrunkard, e thought at leas as a Scholar. He hows himself aequatiate with tho history, antiquitieS, and cuStom Ofiver placeti visits an exhibit so uel acutenes of rem arti and Leennes of satire, that he is

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It wouldie a great injustice to Barnabyto forminii estimate of his merit froni the Englisti version, hicli sipon the whole un-worth of the Latin texi, though it has some passages that give leasure. From the disparit of the Latin and Englisti, e are incline to belleve that Barnabyladio harein the composition of the lalter; hicli, et

w dare no venture to assert recollectingilia tho Englisti verse of Ma is justi condemne to oblivion Or iis meanneSS, Ug-gedness, an obscuri in hile he hines a poetis supreme excellene in Latin It is observabie, that the Englisti versionis theoriginal oditionis Barnab differs in various places.srom the subsequent editions. Iheirs edition of this ori containeda frontispiece Only a plate was added in thesecon edition, and in the third edition ofl723, seu plates ere introduced; ut asnone of theserare materiali connecte With