Volume 1

The great historical, geographical, genealogical and poetical dictionary; being a curious miscellany of sacred and prophane history. Containing, in short, the lives and most remarkable actions of the patriarchs, judges, and kings of the Jews; of the apostles, fathers, and doctors of the church; of popes, cardinals, bishops, &c. ... Together with the establishment and progress both of religious and military orders, and the lives of their founders. As also, the fabulous history of the heathen gods and heroes. The description of empires, kingdoms, commonwealths, provinces, cities, towns, islands, mountains ... The whole being full of remarks and curious enquiries, for the illustration of several difficulties in theology, history, chronology and geography. Collected from the best historians, chronologers, and lexicographers ... but more especially out of Lewis Morery, D.D. his eighth edition corrected and enlarged by Monsieur Le Clerc; in two volumes in folio. To which are added, by way of supplement, inter-mix'd throughout the alphabet, the lives, most remarkable actions, and writings of several illustrious families of our English, Scotch and Irish nobility, and gentry, and most famous men of all professions, arts and sciences: as also, an exact description of these kingdoms; with the most considerable occurrences that have happened to this present time / [Louis Moréri].

Louis Moréri

Date:: 1701

Credit: The great historical, geographical, genealogical and poetical dictionary; being a curious miscellany of sacred and prophane history. Containing, in short, the lives and most remarkable actions of the patriarchs, judges, and kings of the Jews; of the apostles, fathers, and doctors of the church; of popes, cardinals, bishops, &c. ... Together with the establishment and progress both of religious and military orders, and the lives of their founders. As also, the fabulous history of the heathen gods and heroes. The description of empires, kingdoms, commonwealths, provinces, cities, towns, islands, mountains ... The whole being full of remarks and curious enquiries, for the illustration of several difficulties in theology, history, chronology and geography. Collected from the best historians, chronologers, and lexicographers ... but more especially out of Lewis Morery, D.D. his eighth edition corrected and enlarged by Monsieur Le Clerc; in two volumes in folio. To which are added, by way of supplement, inter-mix'd throughout the alphabet, the lives, most remarkable actions, and writings of several illustrious families of our English, Scotch and Irish nobility, and gentry, and most famous men of all professions, arts and sciences: as also, an exact description of these kingdoms; with the most considerable occurrences that have happened to this present time / [Louis Moréri]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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BES 0 B E R juntture made fome believe rhat Bertrand was Earl Baldmn ; Sind at firll, the Monk accepted the Honoius which were rendred him as fuch ; and afterwards aihnu’d, That the Opinion which Men had of him was true ; and lufFered liiinlelf to be magnificently treated in the Cities o^Flanders and llainault, where he was received with much Joy : But this Cheat having been found out, he was convitted of Impofture, and hang’d at Lifie in Iron Chains, in 1225. However, others are of Opiniori, That this pretended Ber- trmd was the true Baldsoin, whom Countefs Joan, his Daugh¬ ter, cliofe rathev to hang, than to yield her Crown to him. See de RocoUes. BERTRAND, (Peter) called the Elder, was Cardinal- Billiop o{Aiitun,Sonto Mat. Bertrand, born at Anonayin Viva- rets. He ftudiedthe Llwfrom his Youth, and was Doftor of the Canon and Civil Bcanches of it; H e profefs’d this part of Learning at the \JmvQT(\.nes.Qi Avignon, Montpelier, Or¬ leans , and Paris. His great Attainments in this Faculty made him admired by the Men of Letters in the Pope’s Court, and likewife at that of Paris, where King Pbiliy the Long, or the Tall, had a particular Efteem for him. It hap¬ pen’d that the Lay-Judges complain’d of the Extent of the Ecclefiaftical Jurifdiftion, and that it tvas inconfiftent with that of the Prince. King Philip of Valois, being willing to put an end to this Controverfie, w'hich might have ill Con- fequences, convened the Prelates and Barons of the Realm at Paris: Peter de Cugnieres, the King’s Council, pleaded for the Lay-Judges ; and this Bertrand, Bilhop of Autun, was Council on the other fide, who fupported the Rights of the Clergy fo well, that the King gave Judgment for them. This Prelate Avignon, in 1348. His De¬ fence of the Rights of.the Clergy may be feen in the Bibliotheca Patrum , and elfewhere. He likewife wrote a Book De Origins Ufa JurifdiBiomm. P. jEmilius, Du Til- let , Messer ay Hill, de France, ^Spond. A. C. 13 29. Bellarm. de Script. Eccl'&'c. • ^ BERTRAND d'Argentre , Lieutenant-General, or High Steward of in. Brittany. We have a Hiftory of 'Brittany of his Comppfure, which he undercook at the Requefl: of the States 6f that Province. Elehad finilhed other Works, which he had not leillire to Print ; for be¬ ing obliged to quit Renne during the unhappy Faftions of the League, he died of Grief, Feh. 13. 1590. 71 years of Age. He wrote fuch Learned Remarks upon the Cuftoms of Brittany, that the moft Learned Lawyers,and particularly Cha. du Moulin, give him a high Charafter. Thuan. St. B E R T R A N T, a handfome City of Frame in jhe Government of Gafeoigny, chief Place of the County of Co- ferans, and a Billicp’s See under the Archbilhop of Aux; It’s iituatc on the Kiver Garonne, 44 miles S.of Aux, and 58 S. E. of I’arbe. Long. J8. 53 Lat.42. 54. BERTUE, (Robert) the prefent Earl of Lindfey, is the Son of Mositague, Son of Robert Bertue, Lord Willoughby of Eresby, and Lord Great Chamberlain of England, who was created Earl of Lindfey in Lincolnjhire, by King Charles I. An. J626. and flaia in His Majefty’s Service at Edge-hill Fight, O5ob.2^. 1642. In which Battel was alfo his Eldeft Son Montague, Father of the prefent Earl, who feeing his Father wounded and taken Prifoner, voluntarily yielded himfe^f to a Commander of Horfe on the Rebel’s fide, that he might attend his Father ; and when upon exchange of Prifoners he was fat at liberty, he perlifted in the King's Service. This Family fetches its Delcent ftomTho. Bertue of Berejled in Kent, Captain of Hurft-Caflle in thellle of Wight, Avhofe Son Richard, in the Reign of£^iw.'VI. married the Lady Katharine, Dutchefs-Dowager of Suffolk, foie Daughter and Heir to William the laft Lord Willoughby of Eresby j by whom he had, amongft other Children, his Eldeft Son grine, fo called becaufc he was born beyond Sea in the time of their flight from Perfecution in the Reign of Queen Mary, which was the Father of Roifi-r aforefaid, the Grandfather of the preftnt .Earl , and firft Earl of Lindfey. To this Family belongs, by Right of Inheritance, fince the Death of Hesiry de Vere, the Title and Dignity of Loyd Great Cl’.amberluin of England; the Duties of which Office are, at the King’s Coronation-Day, to wait upon Him with His Siiiit and other Garments ; to be Chief in Drelfing of Him, and hold Him a Bafon of Water, both before and after Dinner : For this Service the Lord Chamberlain is allow’d 40 Ells of Scarlet-colour’d Silk to make his Cham¬ berlain’s Robe ; the Bed and Furniture belonging to it, in which the King lies the Night before ; the Bafon and Towel which he holds with Water ; and, laftly, the Cup which he prefents the King to drink, after his Lordlhip taftes the Wine. The Arms of this Family are Argent, three Battering Rams Barways, in Pale Azure, Armed and Hoop’d, Or, two Lattiees or Frettee-Azure. BERTUE, (James) Earl of Abington , Half-Brother of Robert the prefent Earl of Lindfey, is the Son of Montague the late Earl of Lindfey, by Bridget his ad Wife : He was firft created Baa'on Norris of Ricot in Oxfordjhire, by K. Charles II. xnd zfterwsitisE.srl of Abmgton in Berkfaire, An. ijSSz. The Title of Baron Morris was in his Mother’s Faiiiily before, being Daughter and foie Heir of Edvoard Wray Efqj by Eli¬ zabeth his Wife, only Daughter and Heirefs of Francis Eoxii Norris,Eu\ of Berk fame. As for his Paternal Del’cent, fee Bertue Earl of Lindfey. B E R T U L F , King of Mercia ; but the Wejl-Saxons fucceeded to Withlof, Anno 839. The Danes coming up¬ on him, routed his whole Army, and forced him beyond Sea. BERULLE, (Peter) a Cardinal, Founder of the Con¬ gregation of the Oratory in France, confirm’d by Pope Paul V. in 1613. was born of a Noble Family, originally of Champagne. He made a Vow, That he would accept of no Ecclefiaftical Dignity; but Pope Urban VIII. difpenfed with it, and commanded him to accept of a Cardinal’s Hat in 1627. which he obey’d, and died as faying Mafs, OEltb. i. 1629. St. Marth. Gal. Chrift. BERWALD, a Town in Germany belonging to the Elector of Brandenburgh, famous for the League made there in 1(531. between the Kings of France and Sweden, and the Princes of Germany. It is on the other fide of the River Oder, in the New Marquifate of Brandeiiburgh, 'between Conigsberg, Landfperg, Soldin, Furflenfeld,&c. . B E R Y L L U S,^ Bilhop of Bojlra in Arabia, lived about An. 240. He governed his Church very well for fome time ; but afterwards fell into Herefie, maintainino^ that the Son of God had not an ElTence diftinft from that of the Father before the Incarnation. Several Bilhops endea¬ voured by their Conferences to reclaim him; but Origei prevailed by fored of Argument. Thefe Conferences were long, preferved ; and Sc. Jerome teftifies, That in his time the Dialogues of Origen and BeryUm were to be feen ; whom, for this reafon, he puts amongft the Ecclefiaftical Writers. B E R Y T E, or Barui ,• iip'on the Mediterranean Sea, a City of Ajia in Pheetticid, which in times paft had an Arch- biflioprick under .the Patriarch of Antioch: It is ancient and mentioned by Strabo, Pliny, and Ptolemy. Baldwin I. King of Jerufalem , the Earl Tancrede , and other Prince.s, with the help of the Genoa Fleet, took this City in April, Anno 1110. They eflabliflr’d particular Lords in it ; and fome time after, Gautier exchanged it with the King of Jeru¬ falem for Blanchegarde. Barut was then an important City ; but being taken by the Infidels, after the lofs of the King- • dom of Jerufalem, it was almoft ruined, and hath now but a fmall Commerce. It lies between Tripoli and Saide, not far from Damafeus arid Mount Lebanon. There was a Coun¬ cil here in 448. to examine the Accufations of the Priefts of Edeffa, againft Ibas their Prelate, Daniel of Carres in Me- fopotamia, and John of Batenes. They imputed to the firft, That he faid, lie could be made fuch as Jefus Chrijl made God ; which he denied. They produced, befides the Fragment of a Letter, another written by him to Maris. It is the ' fame which fmee occafioned a great Conteftation in the Church. They faid. That, in this Letter, Ibas cdlhi St. Cyril a Heretick; but as it had been written before the Reconciliation of this Prelate with John of Antioch, ! thefe things were not confidered, and lhas was declared ! Oithodox. This Town is five miles North from Sidtm. BESAN(^ON upon the Doux, a City and Archbifliop’s See of the Franche-Comte in Bur,gundy, with an Univerfity ' ! and Parliament, that hath for Suffragans Belai, Laufane, and Bafle. in times paft it had others, Nion,- Avrenebes, Wi- ! flishurg,^ Yverdun, and Colmar ; but thefe Towns are not now Epifcopal Sees. is Great, Fair, and Ancient; but it’s fcarcely credible that the Trojans were the Foun¬ ders of it. It hath yetj’fome Illuftrious Remains of Anti¬ quity. The Druides exercifed their Religion in it ; which afterwards yielded to that of the Romans, who conquer’d the Gauls, and valued Befanpen for its Situation: Divers ] ■ Quarters of it have ftill the Reman Names ; as, Campn* ; Martins, Ficus Veneris, &c. and Urns, Medals, and Inftru- ^ ments of Sacrifice, are, daily found here. Befanpon was then a very floqrifliing City, and the Romans neglefted no- , thing that could forward Tratfick, make the Laws firm, or ' ^ entice Strangers thither. It con^nued fo for two or three |' Ages, efpecially under the Empire of Aurehan, about 274. | when they ereited a Triumphal Arch for him, whofe Re- | ' mains are yet to be feen : But a little while, after, this City was taken and ruined by the Germans and Marcomons, who entred Gaul -^ith Crocus. It was ruinous when Julian the Apoftate pafled through it in 3 5(5. as he faith, writing to the Philofopher Maximus : Some time after, Befanpon was rebuilt: but attack’d by the Vandals, who could not take it, in 406. About 4r3.it was fubdued by the Burgundiaois; and Attila ruined it a fecond time in 451. or 52. It was again built in the fame fituation which it now hath. The River ! Doux divides it info two unequal Parts, the greateft where¬ of, in the form of an Ifthmus, is fhut up by a Mountain, upon which a Citadel hath been built of late. The City ■ lies in a Plain, on the Bank of the River which parts it from the other half, whither they pafs upon a Stone Bridge. , It was a long while a Free and Imperial City, and the Em¬ perors gave it divers Privileges.* Ferdhrand l. Founded the ! Univer-' ;

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