Barneveldt
JAN VAN OLDEN (bär'ne-velt), Grand Pensionary of Holreached his 20th year when he was called to the office of Councilor and Pensionary of Rotterdam. He was allowed an important share in the management of those transactions with France and England by which the United Provinces sought to maintain themselves against Spain, whose yoke they had just thrown off. His conduct in the high office of Grand Pensionary of Holland and West Friesland, which he afterward filled, not only secured the independence, but restored the trade and improved the finances of the United Provinces. After the election of Maurice of Nassau to the dignity of Stadtholder, Barneveldt became the champion of popular liberties, and opposed the ambitious designs of the new prince. He was so far successful as to have a truce of 12 years concluded with Spain, in opposition to the views of the Stadtholder. About this time, the fanaticism of two sects, the Arminians and Gomarists, raged throughout Holland, and the Grand Pensionary was involved in the ruin of the former. After the condemnation of the Arminians by the Synod of Dort, Barneveldt was adjudged to death as a traitor and heretic, by 26 deputies named by Maurice. The sentence was carried into effect in 1619.
BARNSLEY, city and county, borough of West Riding, Yorkshire, England, on the Dearne, between Leeds and Sheffield, in the middle of a coal district.
It is one of the chief centers of the linen industry and has flour and sawmills, chemical manufacturing, wire drawing and glassmaking plants and foundries.
Pop. about 52,000. a