St. Mary-the-Moor, Exeter, about 1572, and entering a sojourner of Exeter College in the Michaelmas term of 1587, he was in August of the following year admitted scholar of Corpus Christi College. He became B.A. in February 1590–91, M.A. in 1594, and probationer fellow of Corpus Christi College in 1596. In 1603 he took the degree of B.D., and some time after he was made chaplain to Dr. Bancroft, archbishop of Canterbury, an office which he also held under his successor, George Abbot. In June 1608 he was collated to the rectory of Finchley, Middlesex; in October 1610 to the prebend of Brownswold in St. Paul’s Cathedral; in March 1615 to the rectory of Packlesham, Essex; in May following to the rectory of Lackington, in the same county; and in December 1616 to the rectory and deanery of Booking, also in the same county. In 1615 he resigned the rectory of Finchley, and in 1617 that of Packlesham. He died at Booking 25 March 1642, and was buried in the chancel of the church there. Barkham had the reputation of being an accomplished linguist, an able divine, and an antiquary and historian of great erudition; but he published comparatively little, and this more lor the benefit of others than himself. Speed, the author of the ‘History of Britain,’ received from him much valuable assistance, and he also wrote for the work the ‘Life and Reign of King John,’ and the ‘Life and Reign of Henry II.’ According to Anthony it Wood he composed in his younger days a book on heraldry, which he gave to Guillim, who, ‘after adding some trivial things,’ published it in 1610, with the authors sanction, under his own name. There is, however, some reason to suppose that he gave to Guillim nothing more than notes, extensive and elaborate probably, but not in such a complete form for publication as Wood represents (see note by Bliss, Athenæ, ii. 299). In 1625 he published, with a preface, the posthumous volume of Crakanthorpe, ‘Defensio Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ contra M. Antonii de Dominis injuries.’ Barkham had made a very extensive collection of coins, which he gave to Laud, archbishop of Canterbury, who presented them to the Bodleian library. He left also a treatise on coins in manuscript, which was never published. He married Anne, daughter of Robert Rogers, of Dartford, Kent, by whom he had one son.
[Lloyd’s Memories (1677), pp. 278–81; Wood’s Athenæ Oxon. (ed. Bliss), iii. 35–7; Fuller’s Worthies, ed. 1662, i. 276; Biographia Britannica, ed. Kippis, i. 602–3; Prince’s Worthies of Devon, 101–4; Chalmers’s Biog. Dict. iii. 476–8.]
BARKING, RICHARD de (d. 1246), judge, was for some years prior of the abbey of Westminster, and on 14 Oct. 1222 was elected abbot in succession to Humeto or Humez, receiving the benediction from Peter de Rupibus, Bishop of Winchester (Dugdale, Monasticon, i. 271). He became successively a privy councillor, a baron of the exchequer next in rank to William de Hareshull, the treasurer (Madox, Exchequer, ii. 318), and, according to Dugdale and Weever, chief baron; but it is very doubtful whether such an office existed at the time (Foss). In 1242 mandates to the sheriffs of counties to collect scutage money for the king’s expedition to Gascony are tested in his name, and he appears then to have been a favourite and attendant upon the king. In 1245 he, with the Bishop of Carlisle, is the king’s deputy or lord justice of the kingdom during the king’s absence in the Welsh wars, and on that ground he is excused from attendance at the pope’s general council in that year. He died 23 Nov. 1246, having increased the revenues of his abbey by 300 marks per annum (Matt. Westm., Flor. Hist. 330), by the addition of the churches of Ocham, Aschewell, and Strengesham, the manor of Thorpe, the castle of Morton Folet, the village of New Morton, Gloucestershire, and one half the manors of Langdon and Chadesley, in Worcestershire. (Sporley’s manuscript copy of inscription on his second tomb; Cotton MS. Claud. A 8, fol. 496). He was ‘prudens et competenter literatus’ (Matt. Westm., loc. cit.), and was buried in a marble tomb before the altar of the Virgin in the lady chapel built in Humeto’s abbacy; but his tomb was destroyed in the time of the Abbot Colchester, and the same fate has befallen the slab that succeeded it.
[Foss’s Lives of the Judges; Dugdale’s Monasticon; Dart’s Westminster, ii. p. xx; Madox’s Exchequer, ii. 318; Weever’s Funeral Monuments.]
BARKSDALE, CLEMENT (1609–1687), author, was born at Winchcombe in Gloucestershire in November 1609. He received his earlier education in the grammar school of Abingdon, Berkshire. He entered Merton College, Oxford, as ‘a servitor,’ in Lent term 1625, but removed shortly to Gloucester Hall (afterwards Worcester College), where he took his degrees in arts. He entered holy orders, and in 1637 acted as chaplain of Lincoln College. In the same year he proceeded to Hereford, where he became master of the free school, vicar-choral, and soon after vicar of All Hallows in that city. When the garrison of Hereford was taken by the parlia-
