(Bartholomew), a native of Bourges in France, a man of eminent learning in the 16th century, educated under Melchior Volmar. He was professor at Lyons, where he propagated the doctrines of the Reformation secretly for a long time: but on the festival of the Holy Sacrament 1565, as the procession was passing on towards the college, there was a large stone thrown from one of the windows upon the Host and priest who carried it. The people, enraged at this, broke into the college, and assassinated Mr. Anceau, whom they imagined to have been the occasion, and the college itself was shut up next day by order of the city.

**ANECDOSE,** among historians, implies some fact not formerly published to the world, or very little known. The word is Greek, ἀνεκδοτός, and compounded of ἀν, priv. and εκδοτός, published.

**ANEE,** in commerce, a measure for grain, used in some provinces of France. At Lyons, it signifies also a certain quantity of wine, which is the load an ass can carry at once: which is fixed at 80 English quarts, wine-measure.

**ANEGADA,** one of the Caribbee Islands in America.

**W. Long. 63° 5' N. Lat. 18° 6'**

It is only remarkable for its humming birds, and beautifully coloured crabs of a delicate taste.