John, a physician and surgeon in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, was educated at Oxford. In 1573 he took the degree of bachelor of physic; and, obtaining a licence from the university to practise, settled at Nottingham, where he lived many years in great repute, and wrote several medical and surgical treatises. The time of his death is not known. His works were collected and published in a 4to volume in 1633.

BANJARMASSIN, a town and district of Borneo, on the south-eastern coast, situated on a river of the same name, which has a shallow bar at the entrance. Many Chinese reside in this place, and carry on a considerable trade with China, exporting pepper, camphor, gold dust, wax, rattans, edible birds' nests, biche-de-mer, and spices, and importing opium, piece goods, coarse cutlery, gunpowder, and fire-arms. The Dutch for a long time maintained a factory here for the collection of pepper and rough diamonds. In 1700 the English also established a factory here; but the place was found to be extremely unhealthy, and the company's servants were finally attacked by the natives, whom they repulsed with great difficulty. The settlement was afterwards abandoned.