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liis enlargement. After this, his lordfliip recommended 
him to archbilhop Whitgift for inftrudtion and counfel; 
hut Brown, who looked upon himfelf as infpired, and 
judged the.archbilhop’s counfels to be fuperfluous and 
his practice antichfillian, loon left London, and fettled at 
Middleburgh in Zealand, where he and his followers ob¬ 
tained leave of the dates to form a church according to 
their own model. They equally condemned epifcopacy 
and prelbytery as to the jurisdiction of confiftories, clalfes, 
and fynods ; and would not join with any other reformed 
church, becaufe they were notSufficiently allured of the 
fantfity and probity of its members, holding it an impiety 
Jo communicate with dinners. Some years after lie had 
fettled his church at Middleburgh, he returned to Eng¬ 
land ; when he was cited before the bilhop of Peter¬ 
borough, but, not appearing, was excommunicated for 
contempt. The folemnity of this cenfure affected him 
fo deeply, that he made his fubmillion, and, receiving 
abfolution, was again admitted into the .communion of 
the church, and foon after preferred to a redtory in 
Northamptonfhire. Fuller is of opinion, that he never 
formally recanted his fentiments with regard to the main 
points of his doftrine ; but that his promile of a general 
compliance with the church of England, improved by the 
countenance of his patron and kinfman the earl of Exeter, 
prevailed upon the archbilhop, and procured this extra¬ 
ordinary favour for him. In a word, fays Fuller, lie had 
a wife with whom he never lived, and a church in which 
he never preached, though he received the profits there¬ 
of ; and, as all the other Icenes o'f his life were turbulent 
and ftormy, fo was his end : for, the conftable of his parilh 
requiring fomewhat roughly the payment of certain rates, 
his paffion moved him to blows. Of this the conftable 
complained to jufticc St. John, who was inclined rather to 
pity than punilh him; but Brown behaved with fo much 
infolence, that he was fent to Northampton-gaol, on a 
feather-bed in a cart, being very infirm, and aged above 
eighty years; where he foon after lickened and died, in 
1630, after boafting of his perfections, and that he had 
been committed to thirty-two prifons, in foine of which 
he could not fee his hand at noon-day. The chief of his 
works is a thin quarto, printed at Middleburgh in 1582. 
BROWN (Thomas), of facetious memory, as Mr. Ad- 
difon fays of him, was the fon of a confiderable farmer in 
Shropftiire, and educated at Newport fchool in that coun¬ 
ty, from whence he was removed to Chrift-church in Ox¬ 
ford, where he foon diftinguifhed himfelf by his uncom¬ 
mon attainments in literature. He had great quicknefsof 
apprehenfion, nor does it appear that lie was wanting in 
application; for we are told, that he was well (killed in the 
Latin, Greek, French, Italian, andSpanifti, languages, even 
before he was fenttoOxford. The irregularities of his life 
did not luffer him however to continue long at the uni- 
verfity, for he was foon obliged to quit that place ; when, 
inftead of returning home to his father, he formed a fchemg 
of going to London, in hopes of making his fortune. This 
fcheme clid not anfwer. He was very foon in danger of 
ftarving ; upon which he made an intereft to be fcliool- 
xnafter of Kingfton-upon-Thames, in which purfuit he 
fucceeded. But this was a profeflion very unfuitable to 
a man of Mr. Brown’s turn ; and therefore we cannot won¬ 
der, that he foon quitted his fchool, and went again to 
London ; and, as he found his old companions more de¬ 
lighted with his humour than ready to relieve his necef- 
fities, he had recourfe to that laft refuge of half-ftarved 
wits, fcribbling for bread. He publillied a great variety 
of pieces, under the names of Dialogues, Letters, Poems, 
&c. in all which he difcovered no Imall erudition, and a 
vaft and exuberant vein of humour ; for he was in his wri¬ 
tings, as in his converfation, always lively and facetious, 
in the mean time Brow-n made no other advantage of thefe 
productions, than what lie derived from the bookfellers ; 
for, though they railed his reputation, and made his com¬ 
pany delirable, yet, as lie poffeffed lefs of the gentleman, 
and more of the fcholar, fo he was not apt to clioofe his 
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acquaintance by intereft, but was more folicitotts to be re¬ 
commended to the ingenious who might admire, than to 
the great who might relieve, him. An anonymous author, 
who has given the world feme account of Mr. Brown, 
fays, that, though a good-natured man, he had one perni¬ 
cious quality, which was, rather to lofe his friend than his 
joke. He had a particular genius for fatire, and dealt ic 
out liberally whenever he could find occafion. He is famed 
for being the author of a libel, fixed one Sunday morning 
on the doors of Weftininfter-abbey : and of many others 
again ft the clergy and quality. He ufed to treat religion 
very lightly, and would often fay, that he underftood the 
world better, than to have the imputation of righteoiifnefs 
laid to his charge. Nevertlielefs, upon the approach of 
death, his heart mifgave him, and he began to exprefs 
fentiments of remorfe. Towards the latter end of Brown’s 
life, he was in favour with the earl of Dorfet, who invited 
him to dinneron a Chriftmas-day, with Dryden, and other 
gentlemen celebrated for ingenuity; when Brown, to his 
agreeable lurprife, found a bank-note of 50I. under his- 
plate ; and Dryden at the fame time was prefented with 
another of tool. Brown died in 1704, and was interred in 
the cloifter of Weftminfter-abbey, near the remains of 
Mrs. Behn, with whom he was intimate in his life-time. 
His whole works were printed in 1707, conlifting of dia¬ 
logues, effays, declamations, fatires, letters from the dead 
to the living, tranllations, amufements, &c..iu 4 vols. 
BROWN (Ulyffes Maximilian de), a famous general 
of the eighteenth century, was Ion of Ulyffes baron de- 
Brown, colonel of a regiment of cuiradiers in the Imperial 
fervice, of an ancient and noble family in Ireland. He 
was born at Bade, October 24, 1705. After having paged- 
through'the lelfons of a fchool at Limeric in Ireland, he 
was called to Hungary at ten years of age, by count George- 
de Brown, his uncle, colonel of a regiment of infantry. 
He was prefent at the famous fiege of Belgrade, in 1717; 
about the clofeof 1723 lie became colonel in his uncle’s re¬ 
giment, and then lieutenant-colonel in 1725. He went to 
Corfica in 1730 with a battalion of his regiment; and con¬ 
tributed greatly to the capture of Callanfora, where lie 
received a fevere wound in his thigh. He was appointed: 
chamberlain to the emperor in 1732, and colonel in 1734. 
He diftinguiflied himfelf in the war of Italy, efpecially iit 
the battles of Parma and Guaftalla-, and burnt, in prefence- 
of tiie French army, the bridge which the marftial de 
Noailles had thrown acrofs the Adige. -Being appointed 
general in 1736, lie favoured, the year following, the re¬ 
treat of the army, by a judicious manoeuvre, and laved" 
all the baggage, at the memorable day of Banjaluca in. 
Bofnia, Aug. 3, 1737. This fignal fervice procured him. 
a fecond regiment of infantry, vacant by the death o£ 
count Francis de Wallis. On his return to Vienna, irr 
1739, the emperor Charles VI. railed him to the dignity 
of general field-marfhal lieutenant, and gave him a feat in 
the aulic council of war. After the death of that prince,, 
the king of Pruffia having entered Silefta, count de Brown,, 
with but afmall body of troops, difputed with him every 
foot of ground. He commanded, in 174L, the infantry 
of the right wing of the Auftrian army at the battle of 
Molvitz ; and, though wounded, made a handfome re¬ 
treat. He then went into Bavaria, where he commanded 
the van of the fame army, made himfelf mailer of Deck- 
endorf, took much of the enemy’s baggage, and forced 
the French to quit the banks of the Danube, which the- 
Auftrian army afterwards paffed in perfeft fafety. 1 he 
queen of Hungary fent him the fame year to Worms, in 
quality of her plenipotentiary to the kingof Great Britain 
and here he put the finiliiing hand to the treaty of alliance- 
befween the courts of London, Vienna, and Turin. In 
1743, the fame princefs declared him tier aiStual privy- 
counfellor at her coronation of Bohemia, The count de 
Brown, in 1744, followed prince Lobkovitlli into Italy, 
took the city of Veletri the 4th of Auguft, notwitliftand- 
ih'g the great fuperiority of the enemy in numbers, pene¬ 
trated into their camp, defeated feveral regiments, and 
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