34^ BRA 
bred a benediftine monk in the monaftery of St. Werburg, 
in that ancient city. Bale mentions him with commenda¬ 
tion. He wrote a Chronicle in verfe, called the Life of 
.Werburg, wherein lie thinks the greateft glory of a nation 
is to draw their original from times out of mind. 
BRAD'SHAW (John), ferjeant at law, and prefident of 
the rump parliament, was born in 1586, and - defcended 
from an ancient family at Bradfhaw, near Chapel en le 
Frith, in Derbyfhire. He was born at Marple Hall in 
Chefhire ; and was one of the judges of the fheriff’s court 
in Guildhall, London, and juflice of the county palatine 
of Chefter. Very little is known of this extraordinary per- 
fon ; who, by a wonderful concurrence of circumffances, 
prefided at the trial of his fovereign Charles I. When the 
parliament appointed him their prefident, they afligned 
him a guard for the fecurity of his perfon, and the dean’s 
lioufe at Weftminfler for his habitation, with 5000I. in 
money, belides the feat of the duke of St. Alban’s, called 
Summer-hill, and lord Cottington’s eftate of Font-hill in 
Wiltfhire, then valued at 1500I. per anpum. Though the 
dignity of his office made him more confpicuous than forne 
otliers, and more the object of refentment to the royalifts, 
yet it is evident that he was 110 friend to Cromwell, nor 
pleafed with his ufurpation. He was turned out pf his 
pofl of prefident by Cromwell, in which office lie was Suc¬ 
ceeded by John Lifle, Elq. whole lady fell a victim to tlie 
unrelenting cruelty of judge Jefferies. We find no men¬ 
tion of the prefident in hiftory after the death of Oliver 
Cromwell, which happened in 1658, one year before that 
'of Bradfhaw, whofe infirmities perhaps prevented him 
from engaging in bufinefs for fome time before death put 
an end to his labours. He is mentioned in Ludlow’s Me¬ 
moirs, as diftinguifhed for his attachment to a republican 
form of government. “ Soon afier Cromwell’s death, 
(fays Ludlow ,) when the army had been guilty of violence 
to the parliament, and whilff one of their officers of the 
council of ftate, at which Bradfhaw prefided, was endea¬ 
vouring to juffify the proceedings of the army, and was 
undertaking to prove that they were neceffitated to make 
life of this laft remedy, by a particular call of Divine Pro¬ 
vidence ; Bradfhaw, though by long ficknefs very weak, 
and much extenuated, yet animated by his . rdent zeal for 
the civil authority, upon hearing tliefe words, flood up, 
and interrupted him, declaring his abhorrence of that de- 
teflable aCfion, and telling the council, that, being now 
going to his God, lie had not patience to hear his great 
name fo openly blafphemed ; and thereupon departed to 
his lodgings, and withdrew' himfelf from public employ¬ 
ment. 8 ’ Bradfhaw did not himfelf pronounce fentence of 
death agaiiift the unfortunate king Charles. The fentence 
was read by the qlerk ; the prefident, and the reft of the 
members, handing up while it was reading in teftimony of 
their approbation. The king objected to the legality of 
the court. Bradfhaw replied, “ Sir, inflead of anfwering 
fhe court, you interrogate their power, which becomes 
.Dot one in your condition.” “ Thefe words,” fays Lilly, 
w ho was prelent and relates them, “ pierced my heart ana 
foul, to-hear a fubjeCt thus audacioully to reprehend his 
fovereign, who ever and anon replied with great magnani¬ 
mity and prudence.” . Bradfhaw died before the reflora- 
tioii; and fome of his defendants in the female line were 
a few years ago in poireffion of part of the patrimonial ef- 
tate of Chapel en le Frith, near Buxton, which had for¬ 
merly belonged to him. 
BR AD'W ARDIN (Thomas), archbifliop of Canter¬ 
bury, was born at Hatfield in Suffcx, about the clofe of 
thirteenth century. He was educated.at Merton College, 
Oxford, where he took the degree of doCtor of divinity; 
and acquired the reputation of a profound fcholar, a fkil- 
ful mathematician, and confummate divine. From being 
chancellor of the diocefe of London, he became confefTor 
to Edward III. wlioiri he conffanily attended during his 
war with France, abiding that victorious prince with his 
advice, animating the troops, and fervently praying for 
their futcefs. After Ids return from the war, he was 
BRA 
made prebendary of Lincoln, and afterwards archbifhop 
of Canterbury. He died at Lambeth in 1349, forty days 
after his confecration ; and was buried in St. Anfelm’s 
chapel, near the fouth wall. His works are, j. De Caufa 
Dei, London, 1618. 2. De Geometria Speculative, &c. 
Paris, 1495, 1530. 3. De Arithmetica praflica, Paris, 
1502, 1512. 4. De Proportionibus, Paris, 1495. 5. De 
Quadratura Circuli, Paris, 1495, folio. 
BRA'DY (Robert), born in Norfolk in 1643, was rriaf- 
ter of Cains college,’ Cambridge, regius profe.Tor, and 
twice reprefentative of that univerfity in parliament. In 
1685, he was made keeper of the records in the Tower, 
and was phyfician in ordinary to Janies II. He wrote, An 
Introduction to the Old Englifh Hiftory ; An Hiftory of 
England, from the Time of the Romans to the End of 
the Reign of Richard II. and, A Treatife on Englifh Bo¬ 
roughs. He died in 1700. 
BRA'DY (Nicholas), fon of Nicholas Brady, an officer 
in the king’s army in the civil wars of 1641, was born at 
Bandon, in the county of Cork, October 28, 1659; and 
continued in Ireland till he was twelve years of age. Then 
he was fent to England, to Weftminfler fchool ; and from 
therics eleCled ftudent in Chrift-church, Oxford. After 
continuing there about four years, he went to Dublin, 
where his father refided ; at which univerfity he immedi¬ 
ately commenced B. A. When he was of due banding, 
his diploma for the degree of D. D. was, on account of 
his uncommon merit, prefented to him by that univerfity, 
while he was in England. His firft ecclefiaftical prefer¬ 
ment was to a prebend, in the cathedral of St. Barry, at 
Cork ; to which he was collated by bifhop Wettenhal, 
whofe domcftic chaplain he was. He was a zealous pro¬ 
moter of the revolution, and buffered for it. In 1690, when 
the troubles broke out in Ireland, by his intereft with king 
James’s general, M'Carty, he thrice prevented the burn¬ 
ing of the town of Bandon, after three feveral orders gi¬ 
ven by that prince to deftroy it. Afterwards, quitting his 
preferments in Ireland, he fettled in London ; where, be¬ 
ing celebrated for his abilities in the pulpit, he was elect¬ 
ed tninifter of St. Catherine Cree church, and leCfurer of 
St. Michael’s, Wood-ftreet. He afterwards became mi- 
nifter of Richmond in Surrey, and Stratford upon Avon 
in Warwicklhire, and at length reCtor of Clapham in Sur¬ 
rey ; which laft, together with Richmond, he held till his 
death. He was alfo chaplain to the duke of Ormond’s 
troops of horfe-guards, as he was to their majefties king 
William and queen Mary. He died May 20, 1726, aged 
lixty-fix. He tranflated the .dSneid of Virgil, which was 
publiftied by fubfeription. He publifhed three volumes of 
fermons in 8vo. and after his death three more were pub¬ 
lifhed by his fon. Among his fermons, there is one preach¬ 
ed on St. Caecilia’s day, in vindication of church-irmfic, 
firft printed in 1697, 4to. But what he is likely to be the 
longeft remembered for, is a new verfionof the Pfalms of 
David, in conjunction with Mr. Tate. This verfion was 
licenfed at Kenfington, where king William nfually refid¬ 
ed, in 1696 ; and is now fung in molt churches of England 
and Ireland, inftead of the old one by Stern hold and Hop¬ 
kins made in the reign of Edward VI. 
BRADYPEPSIA,yi [of @ga$‘v<; ) flow, and 'nrsif'ia, di¬ 
geftion.] A weak digeftion or concoCtion of food. Blan¬ 
chard fays it is a flow digeftion, proceeding from a deprav¬ 
ed difpofition of the acid ferment in the ftomach. 
BRAD'YPUS, J. the Sloth, a gemis of quadrupeds 
belonging to the order of bruta; the diftinguifiling cha¬ 
racters of which are thefe : they have no fore-teeth in ei¬ 
ther jaw ; the dog-teeth are blunt, folitary, and longer 
than the grinders, of which there are five on each fide'. 
The body is covered with hair; the fore-legs are much 
longer than the hind ; and they have long claws bn their 
toes. There are three fpecies, viz. 
1. The tridaClylus, or three-toed doth : this fingular 
animal has a naked face, a blunt black nofe, a little length¬ 
ened ; very fmall external ears ; eyes fmail, black, and 
heavy, with a dufky line from the corner of each j its face 
3 and 
