a town of Hertfordshire in England, on the great road from London to York. W. Long. o. 5. N. Lat. 52.

BARLÆUS (Gafpar), professor of philosophy at Amsterdam, and one of the best Latin poets of the 17th century. There was scarce anything great that happened in the world while he lived, but he made a pompous elegy upon it; when reasons of state were no obstacle to it. He was a great defender of Arminius; and showed his abilities in history by his relation of what passed in Brazil during the government of count Maurice of Nassau, published 1647. He died the year after.