this capacity he acquired a high reputation both for ability and impartiality, but it is as the author of the well known Abridgment, bearing his name, that he is best known to modern students. He died in 1558. His published works are: An Abridgment containing an abstract of the Year Books from 6 Hen. .8 to 4 Qu. Mary (1573); Certain Cases adjudged in the time of K. Hen. 8, Edw. 6, and Qu. Mary, from 6 Hen. S to 4 of Qu. Mary [originally entitled in French Ascuns novels cases, etc.] (1578); Reading upon the Statute of Magna Charta, c. 16 (1641); Reading on the Statute of Limitations, 32 Hen. 8, c. 2 (1647).
Admitted 9 April, 1683.
Son and heir of Sir William Bromley, K.B., of Baggington (Baginton), co. Warwick, where he was born. He graduated at Oxford in 1681. The first years of his manhood were spent in travel upon the Continent, of which he published accounts in 1692 and 1702. In 1689 he was elected for Warwickshire, and was one of those who declined to acknowledge William III. He was subsequently returned for Oxford University, which he continued to represent till his death, 13 Feb. 1731-2. He was an ardent supporter of the High Church party, and suspected of Jacobite views, which militated against his election as Speaker in 1705, though five years later he was chosen to the office without opposition.
BROOKE, BARON. See GREVILLE, FULKE.
Admitted 27 October, 1725.
Son and heir of the Rev. William Brooke, of Mullagh, co. Cavan. In 1735 he published a poem entitled Universal Beauty, which is said to have been revised by Pope, by whom, as well as by Swift and Lyttelton, his talents were recognised. This was followed by a translation of Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered, and by a number of Plays, the best known of which are his Gustavus Vasa, produced in 1739; and The Earl of Essex, 1749. The latter is now chiefly remembered for the line—
"Who rules o'er free men should himself be free,"
which gave rise to Johnson's parody —
"Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat."
He also produced some Novels, amongst which The Fool of Quality and Juliet Grenville are the best known. His "works" were collected in 1778 in 4 vols. He died in Dublin, 10 Oct. 1783.
BROUGHTON, BARON. See HOBHOUSE, JOHN CAM.
Admitted 28 April, 1594.
He appears in the Register as "Anthony, Viscount Mountague." He was the second Viscount Montague, being the grandson of Sir Anthony Brown, who was raised to that dignity by Queen Mary, 2 Sept. 1554. He was a nobleman of high character, and a staunch Roman Catholic. He died at Midhurst in 1629.
