But the following, by an Oxonian, which gave rise to that by sir William, is at least as good.:....

"The king, observing with judicious eyes,
The state of both his universities,
To Oxford sent a troop of horse; and why?haan hoitak
That learned body wanted loyalty:

To Cambridge books, as very well discerning,tratoon
How much that loyal body wanted learning."

Sir William Browne's will, an attested copy of which is now before us, is not the least singular of his compositions, and may be said to be written in Greek, Latin, and English, From many of the legacies, however, and particularly his mode of introducing them, we perceive the kindness and benevolence of his heart, which, in the circle of his more immediate friends, probably atoned for his many oddities. The above account of his works sufficiently shows that he was a very weak man, and with all the conceit which usually accompanies defective judgment. With the periodical critics, he was long an object of ridicule, and conquered them only by writing faster than they had patience to read. Unsuccessful, however, as he was himself, he determined that better writers should not be without encouragement, and therefore by his will, directed three gold medals, of five guineas each, to be given yearly to three undergraduates of Cambridge on the Commencement day, when the exercises are publicly read, and copies of them sent, by the successful candidates, to sir Martin Folkes, his grandson by his only daughter. The first, to him who writes the best Greek ode in imitation of Sappho; the second for the best ode in imitation of Horace; the third for the best Greek and Latin epigrams, the former after the manner of Anthologia, the latter after the model of Martial. These have been adjudged since 1775. He also left a perpetual rent charge of 211. per annum, upon sundry estates, for founding a scholarship, which is tenable for seven years; but the possessor, if of another college, must remove to the founder's college, Peter-house, and reside there every entire term during his under-graduateship.1

BROWNRIG, or BROUNRIG (RALPH), bishop of Exeter, was born at Ipswich in Suffolk, in 1592. His father, who was a merchant of that place, dying when he

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was but a few weeks old, his mother took due care of his education, in which he made a very considerable progress. At the age of fourteen, he was sent to Pembroke-hall in Cambridge, of which he successively became scholar and fellow; and there he distinguished himself by his facetious and inoffensive wit, his eloquence, and his great skill and knowledge in philosophy, history, poetry, &c. He took his master's degree in 1617, B. D. in 1621, and D. D. in 1626. He was appointed prævaricator when James I. visited the university, and discharged that employment to the universal admiration of the whole audience. His first preferments were, the rectory of Barley in Hertfordshire, and a prebend of Ely in 1621, to both which he was collated by Dr. Nicholas Felton, bishop of Ely. July 15, 1628, he was incorporated doctor of divinity at Oxford. On the 21st of September, 1629, he was collated to the prebend of Tachbrook, in the cathedral church of Lichfield, which he quitted September 19, 1631, when he was admitted to the archdeaconry of Coventry. He was likewise master of Catherine-hall in Cambridge, and proved a great benefit and ornament both to that college and the whole university. In 1637, 1638, 1643, and 1644, he executed the office of vice-chancellor, to the universal satisfaction of all people, and to his own great credit. In 1641, he was presented to the eleventh stall or prebend in the church of Durham, by Dr. Thomas Morton, bishop of that diocese, to whom he was chaplain. Upon the translation of Dr. Joseph Hall to the bishopric of Norwich, Dr. Brownrig was nominated to succeed him in the see of Exeter, in 1641. Accordingly he was elected March 31, 1642; confirmed May 14; consecrated the day following; and installed the 1st of June. But the troubles that soon after followed, did not permit him long to enjoy that dignity. Before the beginning of them, he was much esteemed, and highly commended, by his relation John Pym, and others of the presbyterian stamp: but they forsook him, only because he was a bishop; and suffered him to be deprived of his revenues, so that he was almost reduced to want. Nay, once he was assaulted, and like to have been stoned by the rabble, his episcopal character being bis only crime. About 1645, he was deprived of his mastership of Catherine-ball, on account of a sermon preached by him before the university, on the king's inauguration, at some passages of which, offence was taken by the parliament party; and VOL. VII.

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neither his piety, gravity, onor learning, were sufficient to preserve him in his station. Being thus robbed of all, he retired to the house of Thomas Rich, of Sunning, esqin Berkshire, by whom he was generously entertained: and there, and sometimes at London, at Highgate, and St. Edmundsbury, spent several years. During this time, he had the courage to advise Oliver Cromwell to restore king Charles II to his just rights, but yet he suffered in his reputation, as not being zealous enough for the church. About a year before his decease, he was invited to be a preacher at the Temple, min London, with a handsome allowance; and accordingly he went and settled there, in good lodgings furnished for him. But his old distemper, the stone, coming upon him with greater violence than usual, and being attended with the dropsy and the infirmities of age, they all together put an end to his lifes on the 7th of December, 1659: he was buried the 17th following in the Temple church, where there is an epitaph oven him. He was once married, but never had a child. Though he was very elaborate and exact in his compositions, and completely wrote his sermons, yet he could not be persuaded to print any thing in his life timed Bishop Brownrig, as to his person, was tall and comelyad Tire majesty of his presence was so allayed with meekness, cundour, and humility, that no man was i farther from any thing morose or supercilious. He had angreat deal of wit, as welbas wisdom; and was an excellent scholar an admirable orator, an acute disputant, a pathetic preacher, and a prudent governor, full of judgment, courage constancy, and impartiality. He was likewiseph person of that soundness of judgment, of that conspicurity fortan bal sposted life, and of that unsuspected integrity, thashe was adcomplete pattern to all. Drb Garden, who hadi kubwan chim above thirty yearsy declares that the never heard of any thing shidjorodone by him, which stand good man would have wished unsaidooriundone.qesome other pants of Dr. Gauden's character of him may be supposed to pro ceed from the warmth of friendship,duEchard says of him, that he was a great man for the Anti-Arminian cause for he was a rigid Calvinist), yet a mighty champion for the liturgy and ordination by bishops: and his death was highly Jamented by men of all parties.!" or Baxter, Neal, and other writers of the wonconformist party, are no less warm int this praises. He was one of those excellent men with whom Garchbishop Tillotson cultivated an acquaintance at his first coming to London, and by whose preaching and example be formed himself. After his death some of his sermons were published, under the title" Forty Sermons, &c." 1662, fol and reprinted with the addition of twenty-five, making a second volume, 16749 fol. 31 His style is rather better than that of many of his contemporaries.beads bed in BROWNRIGG (WILLIAM), aneminent physician, a native of Cumberland, was born in 1711, and educated in medical sciences at Leyden, under Albinus, Euler, and Boerhaave.d Having taken his medical degree in 1737, the returned to his native country, and settled at Whitehaven, where his practice became very extensive. About twenty years before his death, he retired to Orinathwaite, where he died, Jam 7, 1800, in his eighty-ninth year, regretted as a man of amiable and endearing virtues, and a most skilful physician His principal publications were, 1. His inaugural thesis, Ded Praxi medica ineunda, Leyden, 1737,4toal 2. ff A treatise on the art of making common Salt, Lond. 1748, 8vo, which procured him the honour of being chosen a fellow of the royal society. This work, which has long been out of oprint, was praised by Chaptal and bishop Watson for the profound knowledge of the subject displayed, itrit. balts An enquiry concerning the mineral elastic spirit scontained in the water of Spa in Germany," printed ins the Philosophical Transactions, vol LV. 4s A treatise & Onishe means of preventing the communication of pestilent contagion. As trip to the Spas of Germany suggested to himothe idea of analizing the properties of the Pyrmont springs, and sofssome bothers, and led him into that train of nice and deep disquisition, which terminated in the delelementizing one of our elements, and fixing its invisible fluid form into a palpable and visible substances All this the effected by producing the various combinations of gases and vapours which constitute atmoapheric air, and separating into many forms this long-supposed one and indivisible, whilst the solidified its quid essence into a tharth substanleen That Dara Brovenriggo was the legitimate father of these discoveries was not only knowncat odo vidnim s siis higit & swed Biog. B Brit-Life and Funeral Sermon by Dr. Gauden, 1660, 8vo. Fuller's Woahles Badis Life, See Index Clavendon's Hist. Vol. 11. pe303 Bylungte

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the time to his intimate and domestic circle, but also to the then president of the royal society, sir John Pringle; who, when called upon to bestow upon Dr. Priestley the gold medal for his paper of "Discoveries of the Nature and Properties of Air," thus observes, "And it is no disparagement to the learned Dr. Priestley, that the vein of these discoveries was hit upon, and its course successfully followed up, some years ago, by my very learned, very penetrating, very industrious, but too modest friend, Dr. Brownrigg." To habits, indeed, of too much diffidence, and to too nice a scrupulosity of taste, the world has to attribute the fewness of his publications. One of his literary projects was a general history of the county of Cumberland, but it does not appear that he had made much progress. He assisted Mr. West, however, in his entertaining "Tour to the Lakes," forming the plan of that popular workedete buf

BRUCÆUS (HENRY), son of Gerard, one of the magistrates of Alost, in Flanders, was born in that city in 1531 Having passed through the usual school education at Ghent, under Simon, a celebrated master, and at Paris and Bruges, at which last place he taught school himself with much credit, he was sent to Rome, where he taught the mathematics for some years; then turning his mind to the study of medicine, he went to Boulogne, and having completed his studies, and taken his degree of doctor, he travelled, for his further improvement, loveroa great part af France and At Paris, he was introduced to the acquainte ance of Adrian Tornebus and Peters Ramus Returning to Alost, he was made physiciamand principal magistrate of the citydalys he had become aloonvert sto Lutheranism, he readily accepted the invitationhof Johur Albert dake of Mecklenburg, có settle at Rostookyawhere he might with Hafety profess his religionvon Herslas berezappointed pro fessor in mathematics, and soon became popular also asa physician! After residing here 25 years, he was seized with an apoplexy, sof which she died, s December 4, 593 in His Withigs were, 1. do De Brino Moted580802020 stitutiones Sphereerdo viaPropositiones des morbo Gallfcopi Rastoclada 5691144p.03 4aiff Theses de hydrope Wiplied, a016870815.954 De scorbuto propositionessi 1589, 1591, 8yo, reprinted with Eugalenus's

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