or Bernard (John), the son of John Barnard, gent., was born at Caistor in Lincolnshire, and educated at Cambridge. After several preferments, he was made a prebendary of the church of Lincoln. He wrote Censura Clerior, against scandalous ministers not fit to be restored to church livings; the Life of Dr Heylyn; and a few other works. He died at Newark, August 17, 1683.

BARNARD-Castle, seated on the river Tees in the county of Durham, is a town and barony belonging to Vane earl of Darlington. It is indifferently large, and has a manufacture of stockings. W. Long. 1. 45. N. Lat. 54. 35.

BARNES (Joshua), professor of the Greek language at Cambridge, in the beginning of the 18th century. He was chosen queen's professor of Greek in 1695, a language he wrote and spoke with the utmost facility. His first publication was a whimsical tract, intitled, Gerania, or a new Discovery of the little sort of people called Pygmies. After that appeared his Life of Edward III., in which he introduces his hero making long and elaborate speeches.—In the year 1700, when he published many of his works, Mrs Mason, of Hemmingford, in Huntingdonshire, a widow lady of between 40 and 50, with a jointure of L200 per annum, who had been for some time a great admirer of him, came to Cambridge, and desired leave to settle L100 a-year upon him after her death; which he politely refused, unless she would likewise condescend to make him happy with her person, which was not very engaging. The lady was too obliging to refuse anything to Joshua, for whom she said, "the sun stood still;" and they were accordingly married. Mr Barnes wrote several other books besides those abovementioned, particularly, Sacred poems; The Life of Oliver Cromwell, the Tyrant; several dramatic pieces; A poetical Paraphrase on the History of Esther, in Greek verse, with a Latin translation, &c.; and he published editions of Euripides, Anacreon, and Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, with notes and a Latin translation. He wrote with greater ease in Greek than even in English, and yet is generally allowed not to have understood the delicacies of that language. He was of such a humane disposition, and so unacquainted with the world, that he gave his only coat to a vagrant begging at his door. This excellent man died on the 3rd of August 1712, in the 58th year of his age.