[Fosbroke seems to have investigated the origin of this useful article.
He says, "Notwithstanding Montfaucon, it is not certain that the
ancients were acquainted with the wheelbarrow. Hyginus, indeed,
mentions a single-wheeled carriage, but it may apply to a vehicle of
conveyance. Some modern writers ascribe the invention to Pascal, the
famous geometer. The one-wheeled carriage alluded to was, perhaps, the
_Pabo_ of Isidore. As to the invention by Pascal, we find _berewe_, a
barrow, rendered by Lye, a versatile vehicle; but if more than the
hand-barrow had been meant, the addition of _wheel_ would perhaps have
been made to the world."--_Encyclopædia of Antiquities_, vol. i. p.
349.]
_Persons alluded to by Hooker._--Who was the ancient philosopher to whom
Hooker alludes in _Eccles. Polity_, b. III. ch. xi. (iii.)? and the Puritan
champion of the Church Service, cited b. v. ch. xxvii. (1.)?