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in which there was filk mixed, to raife and terminate the 
gold or filver flowers : but at prefent all thof'e fiIks, whe¬ 
ther grograms, futtins, tafteties, or luftrings, if they are 
adorned or worked with flowers or figures, are called bro¬ 
cades. In manufacturing brocades, the flatted gilt wire is 
ipun on threads of yellow filk approaching as near as pof- 
(ible to the colour of gold itfelf. The wire, winding off 
from a bobbin, twills about the thread as it fpins round-; 
and,, by means of curious machinery, a number of threads 
are thus twilled at once by the turning of one wheel. The 
principal art conlifts.in fo regulating the motion, that the 
ieveral circumvolutions of the flatted wire on each fide 
may juft touch one another, and form, as it w ere, one con- 
tinued'covering. Brocades, though once fo captivating, 
have been difufed in England for many years part. 
BROCADE SHELL, the Englifh name of a lpeciesof 
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BROCA'DED, adj. Died: in brocade. Woven in the 
manner of a brocade : 
Should you the rich brocaded fuit unfold, 
Where fifing flow’rs grow (lift’ with trolled gold. Gay. 
BRO’CAG.E,/ [from broke. ] The gain gotten by pro¬ 
moting bargains: 
yet.fure his honefty 
Got him linall gains, but lhamelefs flattery. 
And filthy brocage, and unfeemly Unfits, 
And borrow bafe, and fome good ladies gifts. Spenfer. 
The hire given.for any unlawful office.—As for the politic 
and wholefome laws, they were interpreted to be but-iro- 
cage of an ufttrer, thereby i.o woo and win the hearts of 
the people. Bacon. —The trade of dealing in old things; 
the trade of a broker. The tranfadfion of bufinefs for 
other men.—So much as tire quantity of money is leffened, 
fo much nmft the fliare of every one that has a right to 
this money be the lefs; whether he be landholder, for his 
goods; or labourer, for his hire; or merchant, for his bro¬ 
cage. Locke. < 
BROCAR'DUS (James), an honefl inoffenfive vifionary 
of Venice, born in the beginning of the 16th century. He 
embraced the Protellant religion, and publifhed Ieveral 
books in Holland, wherein he maintained that the particu¬ 
lar events of the 16th century had been foretold by" the 
prophets. After he had applied feripture, as his fancy di¬ 
rected, to things that had already happened, he took the 
liberty to apply it to future events. Among the works 
he publifhed were his Commentary on the Revelations of 
St. John, and his Myftical and Prophetical Explication of 
Leviticus. He died about the year 1594. 
BRO'CATEL, or Brocadel, a kind of coarfe bro¬ 
cade; chiefly ufed for tapeftry. 
BROCATEL'LQ, J’. A calcareous ftojie or marble, 
compofed of fragments of four .colour?, white, grey, yel¬ 
low, and red. 
BROC'CO, a town of Italy, in the country of Lavorg, 
five miles w'eft of Capua. 
BROC'COLI,/ a ipecies of cabbage. See Brassica. 
BROCK,/, among fportfmen, a term ufed to denote a 
badger. A.hart, tgo,.of the third year, is called a brock., 
or brocket-, and a hind, of the fame year, is called a brocket's 
M er - 
BROCK'DROP, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Lower Saxony, and duchy of Holftein: fix miks weft of 
Krempe. 
BROCK'EL, or Bra'kel, a town of Germany, in the 
circle of Weftphalia, and county of Verden: five miles 
,eaft of Rotenburg. 
BROCK'LESBY (Richard), was the only fon of Ri¬ 
chard Brockleiby, Efq. of the city of Cork. The fubjcil 
of this article was born at Mineliead, Somerfet, on the 
a 1 th of Auguft, 1721, and remained in that town till lie 
was three years old. On being carried over to Ireland, lie 
was privately inflrufted, in his father’s lioufe at Cork, in 
#he rudiments of the Englifh tongue, writing, arithmetic, 
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&c. and from thence, at a proper age, fent to Ballvtore-' 
fcliool, in the north of Ireland ; the fame fcliool where 
Edmund Burke -was educated, and which had the .Credit 
of giving to the learned profeftions in Ireland fome of the 
molt diftinguiflied perfons of the prefent times. Having 
finifhed his claftical education at Ballytore-fcliool, which 
be went through with very becoming diligence and fuc- 
cefs, his -father, intending him for a phyfician, fent him 
to Edinburgh ; where, after continuing the ufual time, lie 
proceeded to Leyden ; here he graduated under the cele¬ 
brated Gaubius, who gave fuch a fandion to his young 
pupil’s progrefs in his ftudies, that he correfponded with 
him for feveral years afterwards; a circuniftance no lefs 
creditable to the dodpr’s merit, than ufeful’ to him in the 
courfe of his profeffion. His diploma is dated June 28, 
1745; and the fame year he publifhed Kis firft literary 
work, entitled Dillertatio. Inaug. de Saliva Sana et Mor- 
bofa. 
The dodor’s firft refidence in London was. in Broad- 
, flreet; and, as the profeffion was then filled with many 
men of eminence, long praftice, and family connections, 
he had to ftruggle with his fituation fingly. In 1746 he 
publifhed an Effay concerning the Mortality of the Horn¬ 
ed Cattle, and in the beginning of April 1751 was admit¬ 
ted a licentiate of the college of London. The dodor- 
had by this time rifen into reputation; and, as bis man¬ 
ners were naturally mild and conciliating, his knowledge 
well founded, and his talents fomewhat known as an au¬ 
thor, he foon€?ecame acquainted with the leading men in 
the profeffion, particularly the celebrated Dr. Meade, Dr. 
Xeatherland, the prefent father of the medicinal art, the 
good and learned Dr. Heberdcn, Sir George Baker, &c. 
On the 28th of September, 1754, he obtained an honorary 
degree from the univerfity of Dublin, and was admitted 
to Cambridge ad cundcm the 16th of December following. 
In virtue of this degree at Cambridge, he became a fel¬ 
low of the college of London the 25th of June, 1756; 
and, on the 7th of October, 17 58, (on the recommendation 
of Dr. Shaw, favoured by the patronage of the late I.ord 
Barrington,) lie was appointed phyfician to the army. In 
this capacity he attended in Germany the beft part of what 
is called thefcvti\years war , where he was foon diftinguifli¬ 
ed by his knowledge, his zeal, and humanity; and parti¬ 
cularly recommended himfelf to the notice of his grace 
the duke of Richmond, the late lord Pembroke, and others, 
which with the former mellowed into a friendfhip, only 
terminated by the doctor’s life. On the 27th of October, 
1,7.60, he was appointed phyfician to the hofpitals for the 
Britifh forces, and returned to England fome time before 
the peace of 1763. On his return he fettled in Norfolk- 
ftreet, in the Strand, where he was confidered as a phyfi. 
cian of very extenftve experience, particularly in all dif- 
eafes incident to the army. His practice fpread in pro¬ 
portion to his reputation; infomuch, that, befides the or¬ 
dinary produce of his profeffion, he had the care of fix 
noble families, at the ftipulated income of 100I. each; 
•which, with his half-pay, and an eftate of about 600I. a- 
year, (now devolved to him by the death of his fath.er,) 
enabled him to live in a very handfome manner; and his 
table was frequently filled with fome of the mod diftin- 
guiffied perfons for rank, learning, and abilities, in the 
kingdom. 
.In 1763, the late Mr. Wilkes having a duel with Sa- 
mufel Martin, Efq. the member for Camelford, wherein 
the former was wounded in the belly with a piftol-fhot. Dr. 
Brocklefby w as the phyfician called in by Mr. Wilkes, and 
confirmed by the houfe of commons.- Wilkes’s hidden 
recovery, and the noife which this tranfaCtion occafioned 
in the political world, gave great inCreafe to the doctor’s 
riling reputation. Though the events in the life of a.me- 
dical man, particularly after he has arrived at the top of 
his profeffion, in general, excite little curiofity, having a 
bufy uninterrupted praCtice to fill up almoft the whole of 
his time, yet there are incidents in his private life which 
might produce foiqegood impreffions; and let it be record¬ 
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