bling that in the October eclogue of the ‘Shepherd's Calendar.’ Ecl. vi., under the title of the ‘Cytezen and Uplondyshman,’ treats the familiar theme of the relative advantages and disadvantages of town and country, here discussed by two shepherds warming themselves in the straw at night. After Amyntas has related the curious and pathetic tale of ‘Cornix’ concerning the unequal distribution among Eve's children of the honours and the burdens of life, Faustus defends the shepherd's estate by dwelling on its representatives from Abel to Christ. In the entertaining colloquy which follows, the town has decidedly the worse of the dispute, though the author is man of the world enough to mingle a little satire in his praise of rustic simplicity.
The following list of Barclay's extant works is abridged from Jamieson, i. xcvii–cix. The doubtful works are queried. Bale's list is incomplete, as is that of Pits. Dempster's and Warton's include several works, already mentioned, which have been attributed to Barclay, but are not extant.
- ‘The Castell of Laboure,’ Wynkyn de Worde, 1506; Pynson, n. d.
- ‘The Shyp of Folys of the Worlde,’ Pynson, 1509; Cawood, 1570, &c. &c.
- ‘The Egloges of Alexander Barclay, Prest,’ n. d.; John Herforde, n. d.; Humfrey Powell, n. d.; Ecl. iv. Pynson, n. d.; Ecl. v. Wynkyn de Worde, n. d., &c.; Powell's edition is in the Cambridge University Library.
- ‘The Introductory to write and to pronounce Frenche,’ Coplande, 1521.
- ‘The Myrrour of Good Maners,’ Pynson, n. d.; Cawood, 1570.
- ‘Cronycle compiled in Latyn, by the renowned Sallust,’ Pynson, n. d.; Waley, 1557; Pynson's edition is in the Cambridge University Library.
- ?‘Alex. Barclay, his Figure of our Mother Holy Church oppressed by the Frenche King,’ Pynson, n. d.
- ‘The Lyfe of the Glorious Martyr saynt George, translated by Alexander Barclay, while he was a monk of Ely,’ Pynson, n. d.
- ? ‘The Lyfe of saynte Thomas,’ Pynson, n. d.
- ? ‘Haython's Cronycle,’ Pynson, n. d.
[The best account of Barclay and his works will be found prefixed to T. H. Jamieson's excellent edition of the Ship of Fools, 2 vols. Edinburgh, 1874. Every kind of information as to Sebastian Brant's Narrenschiff, with a review of its reproductions, is supplied in Zarncke's celebrated edition, Leipzig, 1854. Of the Eclogues there is no complete modern edition; but Ecl. v. is reprinted in Sibbald's Chronicle of Scotish Poetry, ii. 393–424, and in vol. xxii. of the Percy Society's Publications, with a valuable introduction, containing extracts from Ecl. iv., and notes by F. W. Fairholt. See also Bale's Scriptorum Brytanniæ Centuriæ, 723, Basel, 1559; Pits's Relationes Historicæ de rebus Anglicis, i. 745, Paris, 1619; Th. Dempster's Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Scotorum, 2nd ed. (Bannatyne Club), i. 106, Edinburgh, 1829; Wood's Athenæ Oxonienses, ed. Bliss, i. 205–9; Warton's History of English Poetry, ed. Hazlitt, iii. 189–203, London, 1871; Sibbald's Chronicle of Scotish Poetry, ii. 396–7; Ritson's Bibliographia Poetica, 44–46*; D. Irving's History of Scottish Poetry, ed. J. A. Carlyle, Edinburgh, 1861. The article on Barclay in Mackenzie's Lives and Characters of Scottish Writers, ii. 287–95, is discursive and incorrect.]
BARCLAY, ANDREW WHYTE, M.D. (1817–1884), physician, was born at Dysart, N.B., and educated at the High School of Edinburgh. He studied medicine at Edinburgh University, and after visiting Berlin and Paris took the M.D. degree in 1839. He afterwards entered at Caius College, Cambridge, and proceeded to the M.D. degree in 1852. He was elected assistant physician to St. George's Hospital in 1857, and devoted much attention to the interests of the medical school, lecturing on medicine, and serving as physician from 1862 to 1882. At the College of Physicians he was examiner in medicine, councillor, censor, Lumleian lecturer, and Harveian orator (for 1881), being elected treasurer in 1884. He was president of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society for the year 1881, and contributed to the transactions of that society two papers on heart disease. He was shrewd and cautious as a physician, concise and polished as a writer. He wrote the following works:
- ‘A Manual of Medical Diagnosis.’
- ‘On Medical Errors.’
- ‘On Gout and Rheumatism in relation to Diseases of the Heart.’
[Brit. Med. Jour. May 1884.]
BARCLAY, DAVID (1610–1688), Scottish soldier and politician. [See under Barclay, Robert, 1648–1690.]
BARCLAY, Sir GEORGE (fl. 1696), the principal agent in the assassination plot against William III in 1696, was of Scotch descent, and at the time of the plot about sixty years of age. He is characterised as ‘a man equally intriguing, daring, and cautious.’ He appears to have been a favourite officer of Viscount Dundee, and at the battle of Killiecrankie was joint commander of the regiment of Sir Donald M'Donald of Sleat, along with that baronet's son (Macpherson, Original Papers, i. 370). After the death of Dundee he passed over into Ireland, landing there from Mull with the Pink, 19 March 1690 (Macpherson, i. 173). Being held by the Highlanders ‘in high esteem,’
