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BRA 



again elefted, and confirmed by the king and pope. His 

 confecratinn took place at Avignon, but his premature 

 death prevented his bcin;j; enthroned. As u theolo;j;ian, 

 and alfo as a mathenriaticiun and pliiKifopher, he gained 

 great reputation, and his charaiter (or an attention to tlie 

 duties of his elevated iiation is highly coniuiended. His 

 works are leftures delivered at Merton college, and entitled 

 " De cauGi Dei, et de veritate caufarum eontra Pclaginni," 

 librl iii. publillied by Henry Savile, in London, in i6lS, fol. ; 

 •' Geometriea Specniativa," iuid " Avithnietica Speeulativa," 

 printed together at Paris, in 151-' ; and " Tra<^atus Pro- 

 portionurn," Venet. 1505. Molheim, probably referring 

 to the firll of the works above recited, lay., " the learned 

 Bradwardine, an Englifh divine, advanced many pertinent 

 and ingenious things towards the confirmalion of ChrilUanity, 

 in a book upon Providence."' Cave, Hill. Lit. t.ii. p. 425. 

 Moftieim's Ecel. Hift. vol. iii. p. ,;67. 



BRADY, Robert, a learned Englidi hiftorian and phyfi- 

 cian,\vas a native of Norfolk, and admitted, in 164';, in to Cains 

 college, at Cambridge, wherehe took his degree of bachelor of 

 phyfic,'in 16'; 3, and that of do6t()rin the fame faculty, by royal 

 mandate, in if;6o. By the fame mandate he was alfo clefted 

 niaiter of his college. About the year 1670 he was appointed 

 keeper of the records in the Tower of London, and fonic time 

 after he was chofen regius profeffor of phyfic, in theUniverfity 

 of Cambridge. A letter to Dr. Sydenham, written in 1679, 

 and propofing certain quellions, which were anfwered in 

 Sydenham's " Epillols refponforioe dux," is his only per- 

 formance in the line of his profefllon. His praftice was 

 probably inconfiderable, as he employed himfelt chiefly in 

 hirtoiical invelligation, and was one of the reprefentatives for 

 tlie Univerfity, in the O.-iford parliament of 1681, and in 

 that of James H. in 1685. He was, however, phyfician 

 in ordinary to the king. He, among others, attefted the 

 birth of the prince of Wales in 1688. He died in 1700. 

 His principal hillorical works are, " An introduflion to the 

 old Englifh hiftory," and " A complete hiftory of Eng- 

 land, from the (irfl: entrance of the Romans unto the end 

 of the reign of king Richard II." in :? vols. fol. The firll 

 work was printed in one volume in 1684, and the fubllance 

 of it may be comprifed in the three following propofitions, 

 viz. I. That the reprefentatives of the commons in parlia- 

 ment were not introduced till the 49th of Henry KL 2. 

 That William duke of Normandy made an abfolute conquell 

 cf the nation. 3. That the fncceffion to the crown of 

 England is hereditary, and not eleftive. The fecond work 

 was printed in two volumes ; the firll in 168 ■;, and the fecond 

 in 1700. The principal aim of Mr. Brady is to fhew, that 

 all the Englifh liberties are derived from the crown by way 

 of coneeffion from the princes; and he adduces a coUeftion of 

 copious materials, chiefly epitomifed from Matthew Paris, in 

 order to prove that the Normans impofed on theEnglilh nation 

 their own fyftem of laws and cudoms. The fyflem adopted 

 by Brady, in confequence offome bias rcfulling from his ob- 

 ligations to the crown, and his perfonal attachments, and 

 ably fupporicd, is the bafis of the general doctrine main- 

 tained in Hume's hiftory. To this purpofe it is obfcrved by 

 the learned Dr. Gilbert Stuart, (View of Society in Europe, 

 p. J 27,) that " Mr. Hume, (Irnck with the talents of Dr. 

 Bradv, deceived by his ability, difpoled to pay adulation to 

 government, and wilhng to profit by a fyiUni formed with 

 art, and ready for adoption, has executed his hillory upon 

 the tenets of this writer. Yet, of Dr. Brady it ought to be 

 remembered, that he was the flave of a faftion, and that he 

 meaidy proftitutcd an excellent underttanding, and admirable 

 quicknefs, to vindicate tyranny, and to dellroy the rights 

 of his nation." Befides his three volumes of hillory, i)r. 



Brady alfo wrote, " A treatife on Burghs," in a thin folio. 

 Biog. Brit. 



Br.^dy, Nicolas, an epifcopalian divine, was lintally 

 dcfcended from Hugli Brady, the fu ll protellant bilhop of 

 Meath in Ireland, and born at Bandon in the county of 

 Cork, in iC'Jf;. At the age of 12 years he was removed 

 from Ireland to Wellminller fchool, and from thence clefted 

 (Indent of Chrillehurch at Oxford. After remaining in the 

 Univerfity about four year?, he wi-iit to Dublin, where his 

 father refided ; and in the Univerfity of that city he obtained 

 the degreus of B. A. and M. A. and, afterwards, in a man- 

 ner peculiarly honourable, he received the degree of D. D. 

 Plis firll ecelcfiaftical prefcnnent was to a prebend in the ca- 

 thedral of St. Barry, at Cork, and to the parilli of Kinag- 

 larchy, in the county of Cork, to which he was collated by 

 bilhop Wettenhall, to whom he was domellic chaplain. His 

 attachment to the revolution, and his zeal in piorBoting it, 

 expofed him to much fuffering ; and, fuch was his interell 

 with M'Carty, king James's general, that in 1690, when 

 the troubles broke out in Ireland, he thrice prevented the 

 burning of his native town. Having been deputed by the 

 people of Bandon to come over to England, for the purpofe 

 of petitioning parliament for a redrefs of fome grievances 

 which they had fuffered, while king James was in Ireland, 

 he refigned his Irilh preferments, and fettled in London. 

 In this country he was much efteemed for his pulpit talents, 

 and obtained feveral preferments, amounting in the whole 

 to 600I. per annum ; the lail of which was the rectory of 

 Clapham in Surrey, which he held, together with Richmond, 

 to the time of his death. He was alfo chaplain to their 

 majellies, king William and queen Mary, and afterwards to 

 queen Anne. He died May 20, 1726, in the C7th year of 

 his age. His works are a tranflation of the " iEneids of 

 Virgil," publifhed by fubfcription in 4 vols. 8vo.; " Three 

 volumes of fermons, publilhed by himfelf; and "Three 

 other volumes," publilhed by his fon, in 1730; and "A 

 new verfiou of the pfalms," in which he was afPifted by Mr. 

 Tate. This verfion was licenfed in 1696; and is now ufed 

 in mod churches of England and Ireland, inftead of the old 

 and obfolete verfion by Thomas Sternhold and John Hop- 

 kins, made in the reign of king Edward VI. Biog. Brit. 



BRADYPE, in Zoology, (in French) fynonymous with 

 Bradypus, the (loth. 



BRADYPEPSIA, in Medlclm, a term fignifying (low 

 digedion, from /S^aSu;, (low, and wij-if, concoftion. See 

 Dyspepsia. 



BRADYPUS, in Zoology, the firft genus of animals in 

 the order hruta, the charafter of which (lands thus in Gme- 

 lin : no fore-teeth ; grinders in each jaw fix, obliquely trun- 

 cated, cylindrical, the two anterior ones longeli, and far 

 dillant : body covered with hair. The fpecies are tr'uiadylus 

 and d'ldadylus, which fee. 



Dr. Shaw defines the generical charafter of the (loth, or 

 IraJypus genus, in a manner fomewhat different from the pre- 

 ceding. He obferves that there are no cutting-teeth in 

 either jaw ; that the canine teeth are oblufe, (uigle, longer 

 than the grinders, and placed oppofite ; grinders, five on each 

 fide, which are obtiife ; fore-legs much longer than the hind ; 

 and the claws very long. The two fpecies tridadlylus and di- 

 dadylus are retained by this writer, under their old Linnxan 

 names ; a third fpecies is alio added, the urfine floth, brady- 

 pus urfinus, the urfiform fioth of Pennant, and pctre (loth of 

 Catton. 



It (liould be obferved, that the immcnfe fo(ril (keleton, of 

 which Monf. Cuivier has given an accurate defcription under 

 the name of megatherium, in the opinion oi that writer, muil 

 have belonged to an animal much more nearly allied to the 



genus 



