a sea-port of Massachusetts in North America, separated from Salem by a bridge. It is 20 miles north of Boston, in N. Lat. 42. 31. W. Long. 70. 50.

John of, in Latin Joannes Beverlacius, archbishop of York in the eighth century, was born of a noble family at Harpham in Northumberland, and was justly esteemed one of the best scholars of his time. He was first a monk, and afterwards abbot of the monastery of St Hilda, when his merit recommended him to the favour of Alfred king of Northumberland, who in the year 685 advanced him to the see of Hagulfald or Hexham, and in 687 translated him to the archbishopric of York. This prelate was tutor to the famous Bede; and lived in the strictest strictest friendship with Acca and other Anglo-Saxon doctors, several of whom he engaged to write comments on the Holy Scriptures. In 704, he founded a college at Beverly for secular priests; and after he had governed the see of York 34 years, being tired of the tumults and confusions that prevailed in the church, divested himself of his episcopal character, and retired to Beverly; where he died four years after, on the 7th of May 721.—Bede and other monkish writers ascribe several miracles to him. Between 300 and 400 years after his death, his body was taken up by Alfric archbishop of York, and placed in a shrine richly adorned with silver, gold, and precious stones; and in 1416, the day of his death was, by a synod held at London, appointed a festival. We are told that William the Conqueror, when he ravaged Northumberland with a numerous army, spared Beverly alone, out of a religious veneration for St John of that place. This prelate wrote some pieces which are mentioned by Bale and Pits, viz. 1. Pro Luca exponenda. 2. Homiliae in Evangelica, 3. Epistola ad Hildam Abbatissam. 4. Epistola ad Herebaldum, Andernun et Bertinum.