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 to the Bar 24 Nov. 1693, and subsequently obtained the appointment of Solicitor to the Wine Licence Office. He died 29 Nov. 1724.

Besides his writings relating to the supposed murder of the Earl of Essex, he published a book on the Constitutions of the Company of Watermen and Lighterman, and some pamphlets on the condition of the Poor. His trial is reported in Cobbet's State Trials.



Admitted 22 November, 1751.

Only son of Nicholas Bradley, of Greatham, co. Durham. He was a contemporary of (q.v.), the "patriarch of modern Conveyancing," whose fame he rivalled. He was called to the Bar 10 June, 1757, and practised chiefly in his native county, where his drafts became precedents. He died at Stockton-on-Tees, 28 Dec. 1788.

He published in London, in 1779, An Inquiry into the Nature of Property and Estates as defined by English Law, and in 1804, Practical Points or Maxims in Conveyancing, with Critical Observations on the various parts of a Deed by J. Ritson, who was his friend and fellow townsman.



Admitted 22 November, 1816.

Second son of Francis Tempest Brady, of Willow Park, near Booterstown, co. Dublin, and great-grandson of Dr. Brady, the author of the metrical version of the Psalms. He was born 20 July, 1796, and educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated 1816. He was called to the Irish Bar in 1819. He became Solicitor-General for Ireland in 1837, Attorney-General 1839, Chief Baron of the Exchequer 1840, and Lord Chancellor in 1847. He was made a baronet by Mr. Gladstone in 1869, three years after his retirement from the Bench. He died 13 April, 1871.



Admitted 16 September, 1634.

Third son of Sir, Judge (q.v.). He was educated at Cambridge, where he graduated in 1637. Though called to the Bar 24 June, 1642, the civil troubles prevented his practising till the Restoration. He was elected a Bencher 30 Oct. 1663. In 1668 he was Reader at the Middle Temple, and in the following year became Serjeant-at-Law. In 1678 he was promoted to the Bench as a Baron of the Exchequer, but within a year, for no expressed cause, he, with three other judges, was summarily dismissed. Mr. Evelyn, who was present at his Reader's least, describes it as "so very extravagant and greate as the like had not been seene at any time. There were present the (q.v.). Privy Seal, Bedford, Belasys, Halifax, and a world more of Earles and Lords" (Diary, 3 Aug. 1668). He died in his chambers at Serjeant's Inn, 27 March, 1683.



Admitted 20 May, 1718.

Son and heir of Francis Bramston, of Chancery Lane, and grandson of Sir Moundeford Bramston, Master in Chancery, and great-grandson of (q.v.), of the Middle Temple. He was educated at Westminster