BARCLAY (John), son of the former, was, as we have above mentioned, so great a favourite of the Jesuits, that they used all their efforts to engage him in their society. His father would not consent, and carried his son with him into England, who was already an author, for he had published A commentary upon the Thebais of Statius, and a Latin poem on the coronation of King James, and the first part of Euphorion, 1603. He returned to France with his father; and after his father's death went to Paris, and soon after came back to London: he was there in 1606. He published The History of the Gun-powder-Plot, a pamphlet of six leaves, printed at Amsterdam. He published at London in 1610 An Apology for the Euphorion, and his father's treatise De potestate papæ. And at Paris, 1612, he published a book intitled Pietas, in answer to Cardinal Bellarmin, who had written against William Barclay.