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HENRY BARROWE (? 1550-1593)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 443 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HENRY See also:BARROWE (? 1550-1593)  , See also:English Puritan and Separatist, was See also:born about 1550, at Shipdam, See also:Norfolk, of a See also:family related by See also:marriage to the See also:lord keeper See also:Bacon, and probably to See also:Aylmer, See also:bishop of See also:London . He matriculated at See also:Clare See also:Hall, See also:Cambridge, in See also:November 1566, and graduated B.A. in 1569-157o . Afterwards he followed the See also:court " for some See also:time, leading a frivolous if not licentious See also:life . He was a member of See also:Gray's See also:Inn for a few years from 1576, but was never called to the See also:bar . About 158o or 1581 he was deeply impressed by a See also:sermon, whereupon he retired to the See also:country, and was led by study and meditation to the strictest See also:form of See also:Puritanism . Subsequently, in what manner is not known, he came into intimate relations with See also:John See also:Greenwood, the Separatist See also:leader, whose views (probably due, in See also:part at least, to See also:Browne's See also:influence) he adopted without reserve . Though not strictly See also:resident in London at this time, he was associated with " the brethren of the Separation " there, in whose See also:secret meetings his natural earnestness and eloquence made him conspicuous . Greenwood having been' imprisoned in the Clink, See also:Barrowe came from the country to visit him, and on the ,9th of November 1586 was detained by the gaoler and brought before See also:Archbishop See also:Whitgift . He insisted on the illegality of this See also:arrest, refused either to take the ex officio See also:oath or to give See also:bail for future See also:appearance, and was committed to the See also:Gatehouse . After nearly six months' detention and several irregular See also:examinations before the high commissioners, he and Greenwood were formally indicted (May 1587) for recusancy under an See also:act originally directed against Papists . They were ordered to find heavy bail for comformity, and to remain in the See also:Fleet See also:Prison until it was forthcoming . Barrowe continued a prisoner for the See also:remainder of his life, nearly six years, sometimes in See also:close confinement, sometimes having " the See also:liberty of the prison." He was subjected to several more examinations, once before the privy See also:council at See also:Whitehall on the ,8th of See also:March 1588, as a result of See also:petition to the See also:queen .

On these occasions he vigorously maintained the principle of separatism, denouncing the prescribed See also:

ritual of the See also:Church as " a false See also:worship," and the bishops as oppressors and persecutors . During his imprisonments he was engaged in written controversy with See also:Robert Browne (down to 1588), who had yielded a partial submission to the established See also:order, and whom he therefore accounted a renegade . He also wrote several vigorous See also:treatises in See also:defence of separatism and congregational independency, the most important being:—A True Description of the Visible See also:Congregation of the See also:Saints, &c . (1589); A See also:Plain Refutation of Mr See also:Gifford's Booke, intituled A See also:Short See also:Treatise Gainst the Donatistes of See also:England (1590-1591), and A Brief See also:Discovery of the False Church (1591) . Others were written in See also:conjunction with his See also:fellow-prisoner, Greenwood . These writings were taken See also:charge of by See also:friends and mostly printed in See also:Holland . By 1590 the bishops thought it advisable to try other means of convincing or silencing these indomitable controversialists, and sent several conforming Puritan ministers to confer with them, but without effect . At length it was resolved to proceed on a See also:capital charge of " devising and circulating seditious books," for which, as the See also:law then stood, it was easy to secure a conviction . They were tried and sentenced to See also:death on the 23rd of March 1593 . What followed is, happily, unique in the See also:history of English See also:misrule . The See also:day after See also:sentence they were brought out as if for See also:execution and respited . On the 31st of March they were taken to the gallows, and after the See also:ropes had been placed about their necks were again respited .

Finally they were hanged See also:

early on the , See also:morning of the 6th of See also:April . The See also:motive of all this is obscure, but there is some See also:evidence that the lord treasurer See also:Burghley endeavoured to See also:save their lives, and was frustrated by Whitgift and other bishops . The opinions of Browne and Barrowe had much in See also:common, but were not identical . Both maintained the right and See also:duty of the Church to carry out necessary reforms without awaiting the permission of the See also:civil See also:power; and both advocated congregational independency . But the ideal of Browne was a spiritual See also:democracy, towards which separation was only a means . Barrowe, on the other See also:hand, regarded the whole established church order as polluted by the See also:relics of See also:Roman Catholicism, and insisted on separation as essential to pure worship and discipline (see further See also:CONGREGATIONALISM) . Barrowe has beencredited by H . M . See also:Dexter and others with being the author of the " Marprelate Tracts "; but this is improbable . AUTHORITIES.—H . M . Dexter, The Congregationalism of the Last Three See also:Hundred Years; F .

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Henry Barrowe and the Exiled Church . See also B . See also:Brook, Lives of the Puritans; and See also:Cooper, Athenae Cantabrigienses (1861), vol. ii . See also:BARROW-IN-See also:FURNESS, a seaport and municipal, See also:county and See also:parliamentary See also:borough of See also:Lancashire, England, 2641 M . N.W. by N. from London, on the Furness railway . Pop . (1891) 51,712; (1901) 57,586 . It lies on the seaward See also:side of the See also:hammer-shaped See also:peninsula forming part of the See also:district of Furness, between the See also:estuary of the Duddon and See also:Morecambe See also:Bay, where a narrow channel intervenes between the mainland and the See also:long See also:low See also:island of Walney, on which the erection of a strong fort was undertaken by the See also:War See also:Office in 1904 . In 1905 the connexion of Walney with the mainland by a See also:bridge was undertaken . In the channel is Barrow Island (among others) which is connected with the mainland, reclamation having been carried on until only a narrow channel was See also:left, which was utilized as docks . Barrow is of See also:modern and remarkably rapid growth .

Its rise was dependent primarily on the existence and working of the See also:

veins of pure See also:haematite See also:iron ore in the district of Furness (q.v.) . At the outset Barrow merely exported the ore to the furnaces of See also:South See also:Wales and the midlands . At the beginning of the 19th See also:century this export amounted at most to a few thousand tons, and though by the See also:middle of the century it had reached some 50,000 in 1847 the See also:population of Barrow was only 325 . In 1846 the first See also:section of the Furness railway was opened, connecting Barrow with the mines near See also:Dalton; in the ensuing years a See also:great increase in See also:trade justified the opening of further communications, and in 1859 the iron See also:works of Messrs See also:Schneider & See also:Hannay were instituted . The Barrow Haematite See also:Steel See also:Company (1866) absorbed this company, and a great output of steel produced by the See also:Bessemer See also:process was begun . Other See also:industries followed . Of these the See also:shipbuilding works have surpassed the steel works in importance, the celebrated See also:firm of Vickers, Sons & See also:Maxim having a yard where they construct numerous vessels of war as well as others . There are also a See also:petroleum storage See also:establishment, a See also:paper-pulp factory, jute works, and See also:engineering and See also:wagon works . The docks in the strait between Barrow Island and the See also:main-See also:land were constructed in 1867, and named the See also:Devonshire and See also:Buccleuch docks . The See also:Ramsden docks are a subsequent See also:extension . These are 24 ft. in See also:depth . There are also a graving See also:dock 500 ft. long, a depositing dock accommodating vessels of 16 ft. See also:draught, and two electric See also:cranes each able to lift 150 tons .

The Furness railway company is the dock authority . Passenger steamers run on weekdays to See also:

Belfast . The See also:town is laid out in rectangular form, and contains several handsome churches, municipal buildings, See also:exchange and other public buildings . An electric See also:tramway service connects the out-skirts and the centre . There are statues of Lord See also:Frederick See also:Cavendish (assassinated at See also:Dublin, 1882), in front of the town-hall, and of See also:Sir See also:James Ramsden (d . 1896), managing director of the Furness railway and first See also:mayor of Barrow, to whom, together with the See also:dukes of Devonshire and Buccleuch, the town owed mirth of its rise in the middle of the 19th century . The cottage inhabited by See also:George See also:Romney the painter from 1742 to 1755 has been preserved from demolition and retained as a memorial . Educational institutions include a school of See also:science and See also:art, a girls' high school and a technical school . Barrow is a See also:suffragan bishopric in the See also:diocese of See also:Carlisle . The parliamentary borough (1885), falling within the See also:North See also:Lonsdale See also:division of the county, returns one member . The town was incorporated in 1867, and became a county borough in 1888 . The See also:corporation consists of a mayor, 8 aldermen and 24 councillors .

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Area, 11,023 acres .

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