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ffiort time after, he was collated, b.v the fame patron, to poems were alfo publifhed at Amfterdam, in 1712, by the 
the prebend of Bedminfter and Redcliff, in the cathedral fame perfon, who prefixed his life, extracted from Peter 
of Salifbury. Upon receiving this preferment, he. renic- Barman’s funeral oration upon him. Broukhufius was alfo 
ved from London to Briftol. where he married the daugh- an editor of Sannazarius’s and Palearius’s Latin works, 
tei' of Thomas- Harris, clerk, of that city, by whom he BROUN'CKER (William), vifeount Brouncker, of 
had feven children, fix of whom furvived him- He re- Caftle Lyons, in Ireland, fon of Sir William Brouncker, 
Tided on his living till his death, which happened Dec. ti , afterwards made vifeount in 1645, was born about 1620; 
1774, in the feventy-firft year of his age. From the time and, having received an excellent education, difeavered 
of Mr. Broughton’s quitting the univerfitv, till he was .an early genius for the mathematics, in which he after- 
confiderably advanced in life, he was engaged in a variety wards became very eminent.' He was created M. D. at 
of publications, the principal of which are as follow: Oxford, Julie-23, 1646. In 1657 and 1658, he was en- 
1. Chrillianity diftindt from the Religion of Nature, in gaged in a correfpondence of letters on mathematical fub- 
three parts. 2, Tranflation of Voltaire’s Temple of Tafte. jedts with Dr. John Wallis, who publifhed them in his 
3. Preface to his Father’s Letter to a Roman Catholic. Commercium Epiftolicum, printed in 1638, at Oxford, in 
4 . Alteration of Dorr.el on the Kpiffles and Gofpels from 4to. He with others of the nobility and gentry who ad- 
a Popifh to a Pro'fcfta'nt Book, 2 vols. 8yo. 5. Part of the hered.to Charles L in and about l.ond.ori, figned the te- 
■ new edition of Bayle’s Dictionary in Englifh, corredled. markable declaration p.ubliffied in April 1660. After the 
6. Jarvis’s Don Qm'xote; the language thoroughly cor- .reiteration, he was made chancellor to the queen confort, 
redted, and the poetical parts new trauflated. 7. Tra ifla- and a’commiflioner of the navy. He was one of thofe great 
tion of the Mottos of the Spectator, Guardian, and Free- men who firft formed tlve Royal Society; and, by the 
holder. 8. Original Poems and Tranfla'ions, by John charter of July 15, 1662, and that of April 22, 1663, was 
Dryden, Efq. now firft collected and publifhed together, appointed the firft prefident of it : wltich office he held 
2 vols. 9. Tranflation of the Quotations in Addifpn’s Tra- with great advantage to the Tociety, and honour to him- 
vels. 10. The firft and third Olyntliiacs, and the four felf, till theanniverfarv election, Nov. 30, 1677! Sefides 
Philippics of DemofHier.es (by feveral hands), reviled and the offices mentioned already, he was mafterof St. Kathe- 
correi’tcd. 11. Lives in the Biographia Britannica. 12. l ine’s, near the Tower of London ; his right to which pofi, 
'The Bilim ps of London and Winchefter on the Sacrament, after a long conteft between him and Sir Robert Atkyns, 
compared. 13. Hercules, a mufical dVama. 1.4, Bibiio- one of the judges, was determined in his fa.vour, No'v. 1681. 
theca Hiftorico-facra, an HiftoricabDifitjonary of all Red- He died at his houfe in St. James’s-ftreet, Weftminfter, 
gionsj 1756, 2 vols. folio. 15. A Defence of the coin- April 5, 1684. He publifhed-fome papers in the Philo- 
monly-received Doctrine of the Human Soul. 16. A fophical Tranfadtions-, of which the chief is his Ernies for 
Profpedt of Futurity, in four diffeftations ; with a preli- the quadrature of the hyperbola, which was the firft Teries 
ininary difeourfe on the natural and moral evidence of a of the kind upon that fubjeci. 
future ftate. In his public charadfer, Mr. Broughton was BROUS'SE, a town of France, in the department of 
diftinguiffied by an adlive zeal for tlie Chriftian caufe, the Puy-de-Dome; fix leagues eaft of Clermont, 
joined with moderation. I:i private life, he was devoted BROUSSON' (Claude), a French proteftanr, born at 
to the interefts and happinefs of his family and was of a Nifines in 1647. He was an advocate, and diftinguiffied 
mild, cheerful, and liberal, temper. This difpofition, by his pleadings at Caftres and Touloufe : and it was at 
which is not always united with eminent literary abilities, his houfe that the deputies of the proteftant churches af- 
attended him to his grave. In 1778, a pofthumous volume fembled in 1683, where they took the refolution to conti- 
■of fermons, on feledi fubjedts, was publifhed by Iiisf fon, nue to affemble, though their churches were demoliffied. 
the Rev. Thomas Broughton, M. A. of Wadham-coliege, The execution of this project occafioned violent conflicts, 
Oxford, and vicar of Tiverton, near Bath. feditions, executions, and maffitcres, which ended by an 
BROUKIIU'SIUS (Jonus), or John Broj;khuizen, amnefty on the part of Lewis, X IV. Brouffon retired to 
a diftinguiffied fcholar in Holland, born Nov. 20, 1649, at Nifmqs; but, fearing to be apprehended with the prin-ci- 
Amfterdam, v\ here his father was clerk in the admiralty, pal authors or the project, who dp. not feetn to have been 
Pie learned the Latin tongue under Hadrian Junius, and included in the amnefty, lie fluffed from town t© town, 
made a. prodigious progrefs in polite literature ; but, his ,and from kingdom to kingdom, to folicit the compaffion 
father dying when he was very young, he, was taken from of proteftant princes towards'his fuiTering .brethren in 
literary pm fuits, and placed withan apothecary at Amfter- France. Returning afterwards to his .own ‘country, lie 
dam, with whom he lived fome'years. Not liking this, ran through feveral provinces, aftd was taken-into cuftody 
he went into the army, where his good conduct raifed him at Olei-on in 1698, and removed to Montpellier,-where, 
to the rank of lieutenant:captain ; and, in 1674, was feat being-convi&ed of having formerly held fccret correfpdu- 
wiih hi's regiment to America in the fleet under admiral dence with the. enemies of the-ftate, and having preach- 
de Ruyter, but returned to Holland the fame. year. In e'd in defiance of the edidls, he was broken upon the-wheel 
167'S, he was Tent to the garrifon at Utrecht, where he the fame year. He was a man of great eloquence as well 
contracted a fiiendfhip with the celebrated Graevius; aiid as. zeal, greatly efteemed among- ftrangers, and regarded 
here, though a perfon o.f an excellent temper, lie had the as a martyr by thofe of his own perfuafion. The ftate if of 
misfortune to be fo deeply engaged in a duel, that, accord- Holland'added fix hundred florins, as a penfion to his wi¬ 
th g to the laws of Holland, his life was forfeited ; but dow, to four hundred which had been allowed to her 
Gnevius wrote immediately to Nicholas Heinfius, who huffian.d. Brouffon was the author of many works in fa- 
obtained his pardon from the ftatholder. Not long'after, vour of the Calvinifts: 1. The State of the Reformed in 
fie became a captain of one of the companies then at Am- France. 2. Letters to the Clergy of France. •' 3. Letters 
vr.erdam; which poft placed him in an eafy fituation, and of the Proteftants in France to all other Proteftants; print- 
- gave him leifure to purfue his. ftudies. His company be- ed at the expenceof the elector of Brandenburg, and dif- 
mg di(banded in 1697, a penfion was granted him ; upon peirfed in all the proteftant courts of Europe. 4. Remarks 
■ men fie retired to . a country-houfe near Amfterdam, upon Amelot’s Tranflation of the New Teftament; thefe 
where; he faw but little company, and fpent his time are all in French. „ 
among his books. He died Dec. 15,1707. Asa clafiical BROU VELIEU'REj a fowriuof France, in the depart- 
ediror, he is diftinguiffied by his labours upon Tibullus ment of the Vofges, and chief place of a canton, in the 
and Propertius ; the latter was publifhed in 1702, the for- . diftriCt of Bruyeres. one league north of Brnyeres. 
iH.er in 1768. He was an excellent Latin poet himfelf: a BROU'WER (Adrian), an eminent Dutch painter, 
volume of his poems was publifhed at Utrecht in 16S4, in born at Haerlem, irt 1608 ; and, befides his great obliga 
1 i mo 5 but a very noble edition of them was-given by Van tions to nature, was much beholden to-Frans Hals, who 
Hoogftraeten, a: Amfterdam, 1711, in 4to. His Dutch took him from begging in the ftreets, and inftrudted him 
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