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contfnts that prevailed in it, removal (tven\ prejudices that 

 were very gentrally eiucrtaiiied, both a[raii.ll liimfclf and 

 the church, and gained over many adherents to tlic caufe 

 of conformity. In the parUament of 1661 he was chofen 

 fpeaker of the houfe of lords ; and as a further evidence of 

 the high eftimation in which Iiis charader was held, both 

 houfes concurred in cxpunginij from their records ever)' 

 charge both againft himfclf and the earl of Strafford. Inthis 

 parhamcnt he alfo obtained many fnbiUntial advantages for 

 the church. Whilil he was meditating other plans for the 

 benefit of tlic church and its minifters, he was difablcd from 

 profecuting them by a fccond llroke of the palfy ; and this 

 was fucceeded by a tliird fit w)iich termin;ited his Me, in June 

 l66ji. His works were colUacd and reprinted at Dublin 

 m |Cj67, in one volume, folio, which was divided into four 

 Unes or parts. The/rJ/ contains his difcourfes againll the 

 Roman Catholics ; the ffcoml confifts of various pieces 

 agamll the Engli/h feftaries ; the lUnl includes his writings 

 againft Mr. Hobbs, which have been deemed very valuable; 

 aiid the /oiir/i comprehends his controverfics about the Sab- 

 bath and the Lord's day, fingle fermons, and occafional 

 tracts Mr. Granger obferves, " that Dr. Bramhall was 

 one of the moft learned, able, and adive prelates of the 

 age in which he lived, an acute difputaiit, and an excellent 

 preacher." Although his condutl in the Irilh convocation 

 of I (5; 4 be not entitled to any very extravagant applaufe, 

 and the latter part of the canon, which is faid to have been 

 procured by his arguments, be totally inconfillent with a 

 proper refpett for tree inquiry, oranyjult fentimeiits of 

 rehgious liberty; and although he coincided in many re- 

 Ipeds with Laud and more efpecially in his principles of 

 evil government, he pofTetTcd much greater moderation in 

 religious matters. The temper and prudence, lik.wife, 

 with winch he condufted his ddigns, for the intereft of the 

 eitabl.nied church were far fuperior. Whilft he approved 

 himfelf a firm friend to the church of England, he manitefted 

 a great degree of chanty towards perfons of different per- 

 lualions ; and, accordingly, he diftinguilhed between articles 

 necctlary for peace and order, and thofe that are neceffary 

 for falvation ; often declaring, « That the church was not 



n D A tl','^J'r"JL ^y Sonera! propofitions." Biog. Brit 

 ■ K^r^l'?^?^' "^^"■'■""-' °f kiUingabramfn, r ; ted 

 BRAMINS. See Brachmans. 

 BRAMNEE, in Geo^rnj>/,y, a river of Hindoflan which 



RR''AVfPo?L°'^^'^"S=''' 40'^il"S.ofBaIafore. 



BRAMPOUR. SeeBuPHANPouR. 



BRAMPTON, a market town in Cumberland, Eng- 

 hnd, IS l.tuated in a deep and narrow vale, 3 , , miles N.W 

 from London. Camden fuppofes it to have been the Ro- 

 man Bremeturacum, "where the Cuneus Armaturarum 

 vere m garnfon on t!,e decline of the Roman empire ;" and 

 from us general appearance, it feems to have been of much 

 greater importance than at prefent. At the eaft end is a 

 ^aft conical mount, called the Moat or Caftle-hil! ; which h 

 about 360 feet in perpendicular height, and as acc'livity very 

 Iteep Near the lummit are a trench and rampart, which 

 entirely furround the hill, the crown of whicli has been 



fended by a breaft-work. Brampton principally confills of 

 one fpacious ftreet, irregularly built; but a few modern 

 houfes, and a good inn, have been lately erefted. Its chief 



fai^for Th^^^^r "^ ""^'^^ (TuefLy),and two ann 

 H ' I, rL /^.' ^""' "^^ °''tai"^d in the rei-^n of 

 Henry the 1 hird, by. Thomas de Multon, lord of Giffland 

 The houfes are J46, and the inhabitants 16S2, who are^ot 

 weU employed, there being no manufaaure of any ex nt m 



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the town : it appears, however, to be iinproving ; and a 

 railed waggon-way, which the earl of Carlifle has lately 

 made from his collieries at Tindalefell, will probably conduce 

 to the augmentation of its trade. Religious worfliip is per- 

 formed in a chapel, which was confecrated in 1789, having 

 been built with the materials of the church, which ftooi 

 about a mile from the town, on a bold eminence, near the 

 banks of the Kver Irthing. The chancel yet remains, and the 

 burial-fervice is generally read there, moft of the inhabitants 

 preferring to be interred 111 the ground that had entombed 

 their anceftors. 



About two miles diftant, on the face of a rock overhang- 

 ing the river Gelt, is the celebrated Roman infcription 

 noticed by Camden, and almoft every antiquary fince his 

 time. The rock is of an angular form ; and, from its ex 

 poicd fituation, the letters have been partially obliterated 

 but lefs fo than could have been expeded from the ftorras 

 ot htteen centuries. 



Near the jundion of the rivers Irthing and Gelt is Ed 

 mond-Caftle. the feat of Thomas Graham, efq. beautifully 

 ituated ; but greatly improved by the plantations, and other 

 taltefuland judicious alterations of the prefent proprietor 



S'VrVT"^^!'' °."//'!''"gg™H"'^' is a mound of earth,' 

 called Caftle-H.Il ra.fed about twelve feet from the adjacent 

 land, hollow on the top, and upwards of thirty yards in dia- 

 meter. Between one and two miles north-weft from Ed 

 mond-Caille, is Watchcrofs, the fourteenth ftation ad lineanT 

 Valh, and luppofed to have been the Aballaba of the No 

 t.tia. It IS htuated on the fummit of an eminence, of an 

 caly alcent, and commanding a very extenfive profpedt. 0„ 

 the fouth fide are feveral irregular lines and breaft-works 

 and the lite ot the Pr^torium is ftil! diftinft. The m"lkS 

 way, which generally accompanied the Prstenturs, runs Z 

 his part of the countj^ at fome diftance, in order to avo d 

 the marlhes and bogs through which both the walls of Seve! 

 rus and Hadnan were carried. Its comparative direftion 

 therefore, from Carr-voran to Stanwix. is that of a ftring to 

 a bow ; and hence it pafl-es this Itation, which is fevera hu > 

 drcd yards fouth of the wall. "ciax nun- 



.v^/^^v^^^"^' ^ '°«'" °f Germany, in the circle of 

 Weftpha ha, and bin^opric of Ofnabruck on the Hafe ■ 



W?f h") ■ °^Vorden Alfo, a town in the circle' of 



Weftphaha, and county of Lingen ; 5 miles S. S. e! of 



. BRAMSTEDT, orEaAHMSTHDr, a town of Germanv 

 I :V\ °^- ^°r- ^''°"y' -d duchy oHoE* 



Of wheat bran it is that ftarch-makers make tbeJr ft, .1, 



ngred.ent m the compofition of ?ataplafms Som! ,1 

 it wns plfn „C^ °' ^°^P- Among the ancients. 



ui.u wcduies tne hands in eu of fnar, A .v, T —."•"*» 

 n was alfo ufed as an eroti:," to S^e lov"""^ ''^ ^""^"'^ 



thartI?e"of"b"akt7"a,:d m'°t"' '"V"^^ ''-" °^f"-d 

 fubfifted on this a tic .^^thTlT' T]'"^ ^ave principaUy 



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