YBiimx,  Babxab^,  bom  at  Eatella,  iu  Navarre,  on  lltli
June,  1783;  served  the  Church  of  St.  John  the  Baptist  in
his  native  town;  and  during  the  pc^ninsular  war  was  chapliun  to
the  celebrated  Mina;  but  was  taken  prisoner  by  the  French
and  dctaiiie<I  tn  captivity  n  coiiaiflcrable  time.  Itcgaining
his  lil>erty,  he  visited  Hngtand,  and  became  connected  with
the  Weslcm  District,  as  domestic  chaplain  to  the  Earl  of
Shrewsbury  at  Sidrooutb,  in  IH^IC  nnd  lti^7;  at  Cluutmas  of


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the  latter  year  he  proceeded  to  Spetiabury  aa  aasiBtant  to  the
reverend  iDcumbent.  Od  14th  Jane,  1831,  he  took  charge
r>f  the  mission  of  Calverleigh ;  but  qaitted  from  bad  health
on  14th  October,  1835,  and  retired  to  London.  Dying  in
ChaltoQ- street,  Somers-town,  on  SSnd  January  following,  he
was  buried  at  Moorfields'  Chapel  on  28th  of  uic  said  month.
B.I.P.
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aintUTivs  or


THE  DOMINICAN.  BENEDICTINK.  AND  FRANCISCAN
OUDERS  IN  ENGLAND.
A  HANDFUL  OP  GLl-lANINGS  RESPECTING  THE  ENGLISH
DOMINICAN  PROVINCE.
Tin:  hititory  of  tlie  Kngliuli  pro^-iiice  of  tlie  Dominicans,  or
niack  I''nan>,  from  its  fouitdation  bj  St.  Uomiiiic  liinmclf  in
1221,  is  intcrvroven  with  the  progron  of  our  national  litera-
ture. It  presents  to  the  searcher  and  lover  of  truth  an
immeiiH;  field  for  investigation — a  rich  harvest  of  divinm,
canonijitit,  philoxmbera,  and  hiHtorians.  The  province,  before
the  so-cAllcd  RmynoMtixm,  comprised  fifty-tbree  Itotuea  in
Eti4;land,  and  five  in  Wales;  ila  Prorincials,  niorDOVcr,
exerciMed  jurisdiction  over  the  houses  of  the  ordi-r  through-
out Ireland  until  the  yen  1464  (Hibemia  Dominieana,  pp.
45, 47} ;  yet  hitherto  no  jnstiee  lias  been  done  to  the  subject.
