a town of France, in Normandy, now the department of the Channel. It was ruined, and Barfleur had its harbour filled up by the English in 1346. The cape of that name is 12 miles east of Cherbourg, and near it part of the French fleet was destroyed in 1692. W. Long. 1. 6. N. Lat. 49. 40.

BARGAIN and SALE, a species of conveyance in the English law. It is a kind of a real contract, whereby the bargainer for some pecuniary consideration bargains and sells, that is, contracts to convey, the land of the bargainer; and becomes by such bargain a trustee for, or feised to the use of, the bargainer; and then the statute of uses completes the purchase: or, as it hath been well expressed, the bargain first vests the use, and then the statute vests the possession. But as it was foreseen that conveyances, thus made, would want all those benefits of notoriety which the old common-law assurances were calculated to give; to prevent therefore clandestine conveyances of freeholds, it was enacted in the same session of parliament, by statute 27 Hen. VIII. c. 16. that such bargains and sales should not ensue to pass a freehold, unless the same be made by indenture, and enrolled within six months in one of the courts of Westminster-hall, or with the eyffos rotulorum of the county. Clandestine bargains and sales of chattel interests, or leases for years, were thought not worth regarding, as such interests were very precarious till about fix years before; which also occasioned them to be overlooked in framing the statute of uses: and therefore such bargains and sales are not directed to be enrolled. But how impossible it is to foresee, and provide against, all the consequences of innovations! This omission has given rise to the species of conveyance by LEASE and RE-LEASE.

ARGE (bargie, Dutch), a vessel or boat of state, furnished with elegant apartments, canopies, and cushions; equipped with a band of rowers, and decorated with flags and streamers: they are generally used for processions on the water, by noblemen, officers of state, or magistrates of great cities. Of this sort, too, we may naturally suppose the famous barge or galley of Cleopatra, which, according to Shakespeare,

Like a burnish'd throne, Burnt on the water: the poop was beaten gold: Purple her sails; and so perfumed, that The winds were love-sick with them: the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept time, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes.

At the helm A seeming mermaid steer'd: the silken tackles Swell'd with the touches of those flower-soft hands That rarely form'd their office.

There are likewise other barges of a smaller kind, for the use of admirals and captains of ships of war. These are of a lighter frame, and may be easily hoisted into and out of the ships to which they occasionally belong.