B R E 



B R E 



Uie fecoiid contains 17,275 inhabitants, and cottipifliends towers or eaftles, wherewith towns or camps were defended. 



25 kiliometres, and 5 communes ; and tlie third canton in- DiiCange GlofT. Lat. 



eludes 14,408 inhabitants, 22I kihometrts, and one com- BRKTAGNE, in Gcorraphy. See Eritanv. 



mune. Breil is feated on the decUvity of a hill on the fide BRETCHEM, or Gratham, a fmall town of Pohfh 



ot Its port ; and its ftreets, which are few in number, are Pruffia with a caftle on the fame river, in the territory of 



narrow and inconveniently contrived. It has two parifh Culm; 4R miles E. of Culm. 



churches, a marine feminary, and a court of admiralty ; but BRETKNOUX, a town of France, in the dcpartmcrt of 



it is principally famous for its fpacious road and harbour, 

 which are reckoned, (if we except Toulon), the largeft and 

 the fafed in the whole kingdom, and capable of containinir 

 500 fliips of war, in 8, 10, and 15 fathoms, at low water. 

 Its entrance from the welt fouth-\veft, called the " Gullet," is 



the Lot, and chief place of a canton in the diftritt of ligeac, 

 4 miles N.N. W. of St. Cere. The place contains 58';. and 

 tiie canton H754 inhabitants; the territory comprchcudi 

 140 kiliometres, and 11; communes. 



BRETESSED, in Hemllry, a term ufed by French lie- 

 narrow and rocky, and the palTage is difficult and dangerous, raids to exprefs any charge that is embattled 01^ both lide« 

 on account of the funken rocks on both fidis of the fnore. oppofite to each other. 



The entrance is alfo guarded by a ftrong caftle feated on a BRETEUIL, in G,-c^rn/>fjy, a town of Fi-arce, in the 

 rock on the fea-fide, and defended on the land-fide by a department of the Eure, and cliicf place of a canton, in the 

 large ditch and other fortifications. On one fide of the port dilliict of Evreux, 5 leagues S. S. \V. r.f Evrcux. The 



place contains 1873, and the canton 12,775 inhabitants^ 

 the territory inchides 1S7J kihcmrtres, and 14 communes. 



Br i.T tu I L, is alfo a town of Fiance, in the department 

 of the Oife, and chief place of a canton, in the dillrift of 

 Clermont, ji polls S. of Amiens. The place coiitaiiu 

 2ifo, and the canton, 11,632 ii:habitant« ; the extent of 

 the territory comprehends 147 1 kiliometres, ar.d 19 com- 

 nuines. 



BRETHREN and Sijlcrj nflijt Free Sphlt, in Ecdfuijli. 



IS a large quay, more than a mile long, and 200 paces 

 broad, covered with ilore lioufes for various kinds of mer- 

 chandife ; and, on the other fide, there is alfo a quay, for the 

 warehoufes, and the fii;e church of Notre Dame ; and in a 

 fuburb, about half the i'v/x of the city, there is a ftrong to\"er 

 oppofite to the caftle at the entrance of the harbour. At 

 the bottom of the ha'bour, to which the range of maga- 

 zines on the quay nearly extend, there are two docks for the 

 building of fhips, adjoining to which are the fliops and 



houfcs of the workmen ; and one of thefe docks feparates cal Hi/lory, an appellation afrnmed by a new fet't which 

 the rope walks from the city. The arfenal of Brell is a fprung up toward.-^ tlie clofe of the thiiteenlli ctnlui7, and 

 very large and magnificent building, plentifully fupplied S'""<-3 many adherents in Italy, I'rance, and (Jermany. 

 with different kinds of naval flores. This was entirely con- They took their denomination from the woids of St. I'aul, 

 fumed by fire in the year 1744. In 1604, an attempt was Rom., chap. riii. ver. 2. 14. and ma;::taiiRd, that the tn:e 

 made by lord Berkeley, who commanded a fleet of twenty- children of God were. inverted with the privilege of a full 

 nine fhips of war, with a number of fire fliips and bomb- and perfeft freedom from the JurifdiClion of the law. They 

 ketches, and general T.ilmache, who had the command of were enthufiafts to a degree of dilhaflion, both in their 

 twelve regiments of infantry, and two of marines, to feize piinciples and praftice. They refembhd the BKCiiiRDi, 

 on Breft. But whilft the failing of this expedition was de- by which name they were fomctimes called, in their alpe£\, 

 layed by counter irttrigues, the king of France difpatched apparel, and manner of living. Som.e of their pvofefSii 



marefchal Vaiiban to repair the old, and to raife new fortifi 

 cations, and a large body of troops to defend them. When 

 the Englilh armament arrived, the French were prepared in 

 great force to repel it ; and, therefore, the attempt, though 

 condufted with fingular refolution, was defeated, with the 



principles refembled thofe of the Panthelfts; for they hel<*, 

 that all things flowed by emanation from God ; that rational 

 fouls were portions of the Deity ; and that the univerfe was 

 God ; and that by the power of contemplation, they were 

 united to the Deity, and acquired hereby a glorious and 



lofs of 900 Britifh foldiers, and 400 feamen, and of general fublimc liberty, both from the finful lufts and the common 

 T;'Jmache, who died of his wounds, and who, in the agonies inftintls of nature : and hence they concluded, that the per- 

 of death, complained, that he had fallen by the treachery of Ion who was thus abforbed in the abyfs of tl. •. Deity, be 



his countrymen. N. lat. 48° 22' 55". W. long. 4° 30' 50" 

 Brkst, bny of, an American bay on the coaft of the 



Weilern ocean in New Britain. N. lat. Ji'' 10'. W. long. 



5i°3o'. 



BRET, Cape, lies in the Pacific ocean, on the eaft coall 



came a part of the Godhead, and was the fon of God \n 

 the fame fenfe and manner that Chrift was, and that he was 

 freed from the obligation of all laws, human and divine. 

 They treated with contempt all Chriliiaii ordinances, and 

 all external aAs of religion, as unfuilable to the flate of per- 



of the north ifland of New Zealand, within about 7 leagues feftion at which they were arrived. Some of them were 

 of feveral fmall iflands, clofe under the main, called " Ca- honell but deluded enthufiafts : and ihi.y endured the tor- 

 valles". S. lat. 5^;° 7'. E. long. 1'/]° ^1'. nients inflifted upon them by the inquifitors with ailoiiidiing 

 Bret, in Ichthyology, a name which the people on the calmnefs and triumph. Others proceeded to the moll ex- 

 coaft of Lincolnlhire give to the common turbot, a fifli ex- travagant licentioufnefs of conduct. They held their fecrct 

 trcmely common with them, and taken in vail abundance, aflemblies Hark naked, and lay in the fame beds with their 

 The way of catching them is in a net, trailed it is faid upon fpiritual fillers, and indifcriminatcly with other women, 

 the ground by two horfes ; the one going up to the middle without the Icall fcruple or hefitation ; modefty and decency 

 of his body in the water, the other on the fhore. The tur- being, according to their creed, marks of inward corrup- 

 bot is knomi by the name of Bret among the fifhermen, on tion. And fome of them proceeded ftiU farther, and main- 

 many of our fea coafts, but moft commonly, the fmaller taTiied, that the iliviue man, or believer, could not fin, let 

 turbot only are diflinguifhed by that title; when they have his conduA be ever fo horrible or atrocious. Many edicis 



attained to a moderate fize for the table, they are called 

 turbot. It Ihould be further obfcrved, that the pearl, Pleu- 

 raiecies Rhombus, likewife obtains the name of bret in loijic 

 parts of the country, Bret is the name of the turbot almolt 

 throughout the north of Britain. 



BRETACH14':, in MidJIi Jge llViters, denote wooden 



were publilhed againll them ; but notwithftanding the fcic- 

 ritics they fuffered, they continued till about the m.iddle of 

 the tifteciith cci!tur\-. They were called by feveral other 

 namo, fueh as Schweftriones, Picards, Adamites, and 

 Tnrhipms. Mofheiin'i Ecel. Hifl. vol. iii. p. J 2 2, &c. 202| 



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