Itinerarium, or Barnabee's Journal,' under the pseudonym 'Corymbæus.' This is a sprightly record of English travel, in Latin and English doggerel verse; it was neglected in its own age, but being reprinted under the title of 'Drunken Barnaby's Four Journeys,' achieved a considerable success during the eighteenth century, and is still in some vogue. The eleventh edition appeared in 1876. The authorship was not ascertained until the publication of the seventh edition by Joseph Haslewood in 1818. Southey pronounced the original the best piece of rhymed Latin in modern literature. The English part is best remembered by the often-quoted lines—
To Bambury came I, profane one
Where I saw a puritane one
Hanging of his cat on Monday
For killing of a mouse on Sunday.
Brathwaite is said to have served on the royalist side in the civil war. He was a short man, well proportioned and singularly handsome. He removed to Catterick, and seems to have retained his strength up to old age, for he was one of the trustees of a free school there, and is spoken of as in full possession of his authority and powers on 12 April 1673. He was, however, at that time near his end, for he died on 4 May following, at East Appleton, near Catterick, being eighty-five years of age. He was buried three days later on the north side of the chancel of the parish church of Catterick.
The writings of Brathwaite not yet mentioned are the following:
- 'A Solemne loviall Disputation,' 1617, a prose description of 'The Laws of Drinking.' A second part bears the title 'The Smoaking Age, or the man in the mist: with the life and death of Tobacco,' 1617 and 1703. This is anonymous. A Latin version, under the pseudonym 'Blasius Multibibus,' appeared in 1626.
- 'A New Spring Shadowed' (under the pseudonym of Mvsophilvs), 1619, verse.
- 'Essaies upon the Five Senses,' 1620, 1635, 1815.
- 'The Shepheards Tales,' 1621, a collection of pastorals.
- 'Times Cvrtaine Drawne,' 1621, verse.
- 'Britain's Bath,' 1625, which included an elegy on the Earl of Southampton; of this no copy is now known to be extant.
- 'The English Gentleman,' 1630, 1641, 1652.
- 'The English Gentlewoman,' 1631, 1641.
- 'Whimzies, or a new cast of characters,' 1631.
- 'Novissima Tuba,' 1632, a religious poem in Latin. A translation by John Vicars appeared in 1635.
- 'Anniversaries upon his Panarete,' 1634, 1635, a poem in memory of his first wife.
- 'Ragland's Niobe,' 1635, a poem in memory of Elizabeth, wife of Edward Somerset, lord Herbert.
- 'The Arcadian Princess,' 1635, a novel from the Italian in prose and verse.
- 'The Lives of all the Roman Emperors,' 1636 (the dedication is signed R.B.)
- 'A Spiritual Spicerie,' 1638, in prose and verse.
- 'The Psalmes of David,' (by R. B.), 1638.
- 'Ar't asleepe Husband?' 1640, a collection of 'bolster lectures,' in prose, on moral themes, with the history of Philocles and Doriclea, by Philogenes Panedonius.
- 'The Two Lancashire Lovers, or the Excellent History of Philocles and Doriclea,' by Musaeus Palatinus, 1640, a novel in prose.
- 'Astræa's Tears,' 1641, an elegy on the judge, Sir Richard Hutton, Brathwaite's godfather and kinsman.
- 'A Mustur Roll of the Evill Angels,' 1655, 1659, an account, in prose, of the most noted heretics, by 'R.B. Gent.' Some copies bore the title 'Capitall Hereticks.'
- 'Lignum Vitæ,' 1658, a Latin poem.
- 'The Honest Ghost,' 1658, an anonymous satire in verse.
- 'The Captive Captain,' 1665, a medley, by 'R. B.,' in prose and verse.
- . 'A Comment upon Two Tales of our Ancient … Poet Sr Jeffray Chavcer, knight,' by 'R. B.,' 1665.
It is very doubtful whether this long list is by any means complete. He contributed the 'Good Wife, together with an exquisite discourse of Epitaphs,' to Patrick Hannay's 'A Happy Husband,' 1619. In the marginal note to the 'English Gentleman' (1630), p. 198, Brathwaite mentions a work by himself entitled the 'Huntsman's Raunge,' which is now lost.
[The principal authority for the life of Brathwaite is Joseph Haslewood, who published a very elaborate memoir and bibliography in 1820, as a preface to the ninth edition of Barnabee's Journal. Some genealogical information has been supplied by Mr. W. Wiper of Manchester.]
BRAXFIELD, Lord. [See Macqueen, Robert.]
BRAY, ANNA ELIZA (1790–1883), novelist, daughter of John Kempe, bullion porter in the Mint, and Ann, daughter of James Arrow of Westminster, was born in the parish of Newington, Surrey, on 25 Dec. 1790. It was at one time intended that Miss Kempe should adopt the stage as her profession, and her public appearance at the Bath Theatre was duly announced for 27 May 1815; but a severe cold, which she caught on her journey, prevented her appearance, and the opportunity was lost for ever. In February 1818 she was married to Charles Alfred Stothard, the son of the distinguished royal academician and an artist himself,
