From Berwick he seems to have removed to the Franciscan schools at Oxford, at which university he became a Doctor of Theology, and is enumerated as the twenty-second reader of divinity belonging to that order in the early years of the fourteenth century.
Barwick took his name from Berwick, where he appears to have been born or brought up. Leland also calls him the contemporary of William of Ockham, of whose doctrines, he adds, Barwick was a strenuous adherent. Bale states that he flourished about 1340.
And he appears to have read divinity lectures at Oxford about the beginning of the fourteenth century.
He was buried at Stamford.
He appears to have studied at Paris likewise. Foreign we are told by Dempster and Bale that he also went by the name of Breulanlius. And this Breulanlius is mentioned towards the end of the fifteenth century by the all-accomplished Pico della Mirandula as resisting Roger Bacon and other philosophers, who seem to have advocated the study of astrology at the university of Paris.
