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an old market town in the of Durham, on the river Tees, 32 miles S.W. Durham. It derjves its name from the castle there at the end of the twelfth century by Baliol, ancestor of John Baliol (q.v.). It abandoned after a siege in 1569, but the masruins still cover six acres of ground. Sir ee a gc RP GG SEO ST LEDS SL LOL ) Walter the the to Museum, 1874, and the was outbreak A embly and nence, his that the bring prisoner longer discovered he was was service His high failed in keeping 1847, of was study three Dialect, Among Grammar, English of Hertfordshire, Great from founded favourite being cattle large raore the utterly killed. the Pop. on of owing In Barnett. Scott laid the scene of parts of Hokeby in neighbourhood. The parish church dates from twelfth century, and there are almshouses said have been founded by John Baliol. The Bowes left to the town by Sir George Bowes in contains some interesting relics. Carpets woollen cloths are the chief manufactures, and corn market is important. Pop. (1901), 4,421. Barnave, ANTOINE PIERRE JOSEPH MARIE, born at Grenoble, France, in 1761, and at the of the Revolution was sent to the National as deputy for Dauphiné. His eloquence love of liberty soon brought him into prom i and he was in 1790 elected president; but popularity declined when it became apparent he aimed at reforming rather than destroying monarchy. He was sent as commi ary to the king back from Varennes, and treated his with such respect that his presence was no tolerated in Paris. In 1792 some documents in the famous Iron Chest showed that had corresponded with the royal family. He seized, and after fifteen months’ imprisonment sent to the guillotine in Paris. Barnes, THOMAS, born in 1786, entered the of the 7imes, and in 1815 became editor. abilities did much to put that paper in the position it afterwards occupied. His health early, and he died in 1841. Barnes, THE Rev. WiuLuIAM, D.D., was born the vale of Black more, Dorset, in 1800. After a school at Dor chester, he was ordained in and from 1862 to his death in 1886 was rector Winterbourne Cance. Throughout his life he devoted to philology, ‘and especially to the of the dialect of his native county. He wrote volumes of Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset and others in various English idioms. his scientific efforts were A Philological An Anglo-Saxon Delectus, An Outline of Speceh-Craft, A View of the Roots and Stems English, Studies in Early British History, etc.