educated and unpractised in composition. Barksted has been identified by some with W. B., the author of a rough verse-translation of a ‘Satire of Juvenal,’ entitled ‘That which seems Best is Worst, exprest in a paraphrastical transcript of Iuvenal's tenth Satyre. Together with the Tragicall Narration of Virginius's Death interserted,’ London, 1617. This is a paraphrase resembling in method Barksted's ‘Mirrha,’ which is paraphrased from the tenth book of Ovid's ‘Metamorphoses.’ Both ‘Mirrha’ and ‘Hiren’ owe much to ‘Venus and Adonis,’ and their author pays the following tribute to Shakespeare at the close of ‘Mirrha:’—
But stay my Muse in thine owne confines keepe,
And wage not warre with so deere lou'd a neighbor,
But hauing sung thy day song, rest and sleepe,
Preserue thy small fame and his greater fauor:
His song was worthie merrit (Shakspeare hee)
Sung the faire blossome, thou the withered tree:
Lawrell is due to him, his art and wit
Hath purchas'd it, Cypres thy brow will fit.
[Dr. Grosart's reproduction of Mirrha and Hiren in Occasional Issues; Collier's Memoirs of Actors in Shakespeare's Plays, and Memoirs of Alleyn (Shakespeare Society); Henslowe's Diary; Warner's Dulwich Catalogue. Among Peele's Jests is an anecdote of one Barksted, which does not probably refer to the poet.]
BARKWORTH, or Lambert, MARK (d. 1601), Benedictine monk, a native of Lincolnshire, was converted to the catholic faith at the age of twenty-two, and studied divinity in the English colleges of Rheims and Valladolid. After being admitted to holy orders he was sent to labour on the English mission. He quickly fell into the hands of the persecutors, and having been tried and convicted as a catholic priest unlawfully abiding in England, he was hanged at Tyburn 27 Feb. 1600–1. Roger Filcock, a Jesuit, suffered with him; and Stow records that ‘also the same day, and in the same place, was hanged a gentlewoman, called Mistris Anne Line, for relieving a priest contrary to the same statute.’ Barkworth is claimed by the Benedictine monks as a member of the English congregation of their order, and it is certain that he was drawn to the gallows in the Benedictine habit.
[Challoner's Missionary Priests (1803), i. 210; Oliver's Catholic Collections relating to Cornwall, &c., 497; Weldon's Chronological Notes, 43; Dodd's Church Hist. ii. 72; More's Historia Missionis Anglicanæ Soc. Jesu, 257, 258; Stow's Annales, 794.]
BARLING, JOHN (1804–1883), dissenting minister, was born at Weymouth 11 Aug. 1804. He was educated for the ministry at Homerton, and settled as a congregationalist minister at Square Chapel, Halifax, in 1829. His opinions becoming unitarian, he resigned his charge in 1834, and became a worshipper at Northgate End Chapel. After a sojourn of some years in the south of England he returned to Halifax, and made public manifestation of his new views in some lectures on the Atonement (1849) at Northgate End, of which he became minister in January 1854 on the death of William Turner [see Turner]. From January 1856 he had as colleague Russell Lant Carpenter, B.A. He retired from the ministry in January 1858, and resided, in studious leisure, at Belle Grange, Windermere, for many years, and subsequently at Leeds, where he died 20 Aug. 1883. Through his first wife (d. September 1857), the elder daughter of Riley Kitson, of Halifax, he had acquired considerable property. He was married to his second wife, Emma Ellis, on 16 Jan. 1862. He left four sons. He had a mind of metaphysical power, and a spirit never embittered by controversy. Through life he adhered to the Paley type of teleology, and his unitarianism was cast in a scriptural mould. He published: 1. ‘A Review of Trinitarianism, chiefly as it appears in the writings of Bull, Waterland, Sherlock, Howe, Newman, Coleridge, Wallis, and Wardlaw,’ Lond. 1847. 2. ‘Leaves from my Writing Desk, being tracts on the question, What do we Know? By an Old Student,’ 1872 (anon.) He left manuscript essays on ‘Idealism and Scepticism,’ and on ‘Final Causes.’
[Chr. Reformer, 1849, p. 385; Inquirer, 1 Sept. 1853, p. 555, 15 Sept. p. 581; particulars from Rev. R. L. Carpenter.]
BARLOW, EDWARD, known as Ambrose (1587–1641), Benedictine monk, son of Alexander Barlow, Esq., of the ancient family of Barlow of Barlow, was born at Manchester in 1587. He received his education at Douay and Valladolid. Afterwards he assumed, at Douay, the habit of St. Benedict, and was professed near St. Malo on 5 Jan. 1615–6. Being sent on the English mission, he exercised his priestly functions in Lancashire for about twenty years. At length he was tried, and condemned as a catholic priest unlawfully abiding in England, and executed at Lancaster Castle 10 Sept. 1641. He was brother of Dr. Rudesind Barlow [q. v.]
