4 (-j- B R O 
from the late emprefs of Raffia, to go over to St. Pcterf- 
burgh to alii It in tlie edablifiiment of fotne public Schools; 
and an order was fent to the Ruffian ambaffiidor in Lon¬ 
don, to advance to him the funrof ioool. to defray his 
expences. But while Dr. Brown was ardently preparing 
for his journey, and almod on the point of Setting out for 
St. Peterfburgh, the gout and rheumatifm, to which he 
was fubjeft, returned upon him with violence, and con¬ 
fined him to his bed. This difappointmen?, concurring 
with his ill-flate of health, was followed by a dejection of 
Spirits, which caufed. him to put an end to Ins life, Sep¬ 
tember 23, 1766, in his fifty-fird year. He cut the jugular 
vein with a razor, and died immediately. 
BROWN (John), born in 1752 at Edinburgh, was early 
dedined to take up the profeffion of a/painter. He travel¬ 
led into Italy, and at Rome met with Sir William Young 
and Mr. Town ley ; .who, pleafed with l'ome very beauti¬ 
ful drawings done by him in pen and ink, took him, as a 
draftfman, into Sicily. Of the antiquities»of this celebra¬ 
ted if]and he made Several very fine views in pen and ink, 
exquilhely finifhed, yet (till preferving the charabler and 
fpirit of tlie buildings he intended to reprefent. He re¬ 
turned fome years afterwards from Italy to his native town, 
and came to London in 1786, where he difplayed cpnfide- 
rable profeffional abilities. Death deprived the public of 
this very ingenious artifl in 1787. Soon atter his death 
Jiis Letters on the Poetry and Mulic of the Italian Opera, 
j2ino.Were published. 
BROWN (Dr. John), author of tlie Elcmenta Mcdicincv, 
was born at Dunfe, or as fome fay, Linthlavvs, in the 
■county of Berwick, in 17.36, His parents were of mean 
condition, though they early contrived to give him an edu¬ 
cation. He was placed at the grammar-Softool in Dunfe, 
where lie afterwards became uffier, under Mr. Cruik- 
fhank, the mailer. From hence he removed to Edinburgh, 
where he commenced a private teacher ; but being noticed 
by Dr. Cullen, and taken into his family, he determined 
to apply himffilf to the Study of medicine. In this purfuit, 
he was" encouraged and abided by his patron ; until an un¬ 
fortunate disagreement afofe between them, which de¬ 
prived him for ever of Dr. Cullen's friendship. He now 
began to praflife as a phvlician, and broached an entire 
new fyftem of medicine, which gained him considerable 
encouragement and celebrity. In 1776, lie was elected 
prefidentof the medical fociety ; and the fame honour was 
conferred on'him in 1780 ; having taken liisdegiee in the 
univerfitv of St. Andrew’s. About this time he publiihed 
Ills celebrated work, F.lementa Medjcinte, explaining the 
difeovery of his new dofitrine : this he further illustrated, 
in a,courfe of leisures, which were numeroufl-y attended. 
Notwithstanding he acquired additional reputation and 
practice, he became embarrafled in his pecuniary affairs, 
which obliged him to leave Scotland. He came to L011- 
donin 17S6, where for fome time lie Supported his family, 
but a Splendid manner of living, without an income to 
fnppc\rt it, had become habitual to him. The confe- 
quence was, that, from inability to difeharge his debts, he 
was thrown into the King’s-bench prifon. From this Si¬ 
tuation he was afterwards liberated; when the ambaffiidor 
of the king of Pruffia, in his mailer’s name, made him the 
offer of a fettleinent at the court of Berlin ; but, while the 
negbeiation was pending, he was prematurely cutoff by 
aiwpoplexy,’ the 7th of October 1788, in the fifty-third 
year of his age. Previous to his death, he translated his 
Elementa Medicinae, which has been fince published by 
Er. Beddowes, , in 2 vols. 3 vo. It is a lingular perform¬ 
ance, discovering much originality, and containing many 
important observations 5 though in Some cafes he may he 
thoueht to carry his opinions too far, with refpedt to the 
regular practice. For particulars of this new theory of 
Er. Brown, fee the article Medic ins. 
BRQWN's POINT, a cape at the' South extremity oS the 
ifl and of Tobago. Lat. 11. 10. N. Ion. 60. 40. W. Greenwich. 
JjROWN'BlLL, J\ The ancient weapon of the-English 
B R O 
Soot; why it is called brown, I have not difcov ered ; bit 
we now Say brown mij'quet from it. Johvfon. 
And brown bills , levied in the city, 
Made bills to pals the grand committee. Iiudibras. 
BROWNE (George), archbifhop of Dublin, and the 
fil'd prelate who embraced the reformation in Ireland, was 
originally an Auguttine friar of London, and received his 
academical education in the houfe of his order, near Halv- 
well in Oxtord. He afterwards became provincial of the 
Augudine monks in England; and, having taken the de¬ 
gree of D.D. in fome foreign univerfiry, was admitted to 
tlie fame degree at Oxford in 1534, andalfoat Cambridge. 
Henry V111. promoted him, in March, 1535, to the arch¬ 
bishopric of Dublin, and a few months after his arrival in 
Ireland, tignified to him, that, having renounced the papal 
Supremacy in England, it was his pleafure, 'that his Sub¬ 
jects of Ireland Should do the fame ; and nominated him 
one of the commiflioners for that purptife. Tlie difficul¬ 
ties attending this commiffion appear from.a letter which 
the archbiShop tent to lord Cromwell, dated Nov. 2S, 1535. 
When tlie monasteries in England and Ireland began to be 
fupprelled, archbilhop Browne removed all fnperftitious 
reliques and images.out of the two cathedrals of St. Pa¬ 
trick’s and the Holy Trinity, in Dublin, and out of the 
other churches in his diocefe; after which he was made 
lord primate of Ireland, in OCt. 1551 ; but he did no“t long 
enjoy it, being deprived both of t hat dignity and his arch- 
bifliopric in 1554, the fil'd year of queen Mary, on account 
of his zeal in promoting the reformation-. He died about 
the year 1356. 
BROWNE (William), an Engliffi poet, born at Tavi- 
fiock in Devonffiire ; and after palling through a'gram- 
mar-fehool, was lent to Exeter College, Oxford. Before 
taking a degree, he removed to the Inner Temple, Lon¬ 
don, where he Seems to have devoted himfelf to polite li¬ 
terature and the mules, in (lead of law; for, in 1613, he 
published the fir It part of his Britannia’s PaSiorals, a con¬ 
siderable portion-of which appears to have been written 
before his twentieth year. In 1614, he published The 
Shepherd’s Pipe, in feven eclogues ; and, two years after, 
the Second part of his Britannia’s P.iflorals. Thefe works 
gained him great reputation. In 1624, he returned to his 
college ; became tutor to that earl of Carnarvon who was 
killed at the battle of Newbury in 1643, a;id of whom 
Clarendon Speaks So highly and the fame year was crea¬ 
ted mafter of arts : he was (tiled in the univerfity register, 
Vir omni humana literatvra ct bonarum artium cognitionc in - 
JlruBns ; “ a man well inftruCted in ufeful literature and 
the arts.” He afterwards went into the family of the earl 
of Pembroke; and Wood fays, that he got wealth, and 
purchafed an edate. He is fuppofed to have retired to his 
own country, and to have died there in 1643. Dr. An- 
derfon, in his valuable edition of the Britilh Poets, lavs 
of him, “ that in the age he lived he obtained the highest 
didindlion.as a poet; he was admired and beloved by all 
the bed writers of his time, he was esteemed and highly 
commended by the critical Jonfon, and the learned Sel- 
den ; and yet in a very few years af.er his death he was 
quite forgotten. 
BROWNE (Sir Thomas), an eminent writer and phy- 
fician, was the fon of Mr. T homas Browne a merchant, 
defeended from an ancient family at (Jpton in Chertiire, 
and born in the parifli of Sr. Michael, Cheaplide, the iytjr 
of October, 1603. His father died whild he vyas very 
young, leaving him a fortune of 6000I. His mother, who 
inherited a third of her lnitband’s fortune, married Sir 
Thomas Dutton, who held a pod under the government 
in Ireland ; and her fon, being thus 1 deprived of both his 
parents, was left to the rapacity of a guardian, by which 
lie was a considerable Sufferer. He was p -iced at Win- 
chefter-fchool, and entered as a gentleman-commoner of 
Broadgate-iiall, now Pembroke-coiiege. He was admitted 
to the degree of bachelor ol arts, Jan. 3.1, 1627 ; andjhav- 
