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 BRODRICK. 201 throughout Ireland, all of which acknowledged her for their mother and foundresso Her biographers give no particulars of her life, but what relates to miracles. Several churches in England and Scotland are dedicated to her, some also in Germany and France, by which we may judge of her past reputation. She died at the age of seventy, A. D. 501, and Giraldus Cambrensis informs us, that her body was found with those of St. Patrick and St. Columba, in a triple vault at Down Patrick in 1185, and were all three translated to the cathedral of the same eity; but their monument was de- stroyed in the reign of Henry VIII. She was commemo- rated in many churches in Germany and France, until the year 1607, and likewise in the Roman martyrology on the 1st of February. ALLAN BRODRICK, FIRST VIsSCOUNT MIDLETON, was the second son of Sir St. Jobn Brodrick, and was educated to the profes- sion of the law in which he speedily attained to emi- nence, being appointed, in 1690, his majesty's serjeant. In 1695 he was advanced to the office of solicitor- general of Ireland ; and in 1703, being returned to the parliament as member for the city of Cork, he was unanimously chosen speaker of the bouse of commons and their choice was confirmed by the lord chancellor, in the name of the Duke of Ormond, then lord-lieutenant, in a higbly flattering speech. This good understanding, however, was soon broken; Brodrick appears to have beer a firm and warm friend to his country, and the powerful opposition wbich he made to some bills, proposed by the lord-lieutenant, and which were thereby frustrated, so much incensed his grace, that in 1704, he was removed from his situation as solicitor-general. A change, however, having taken place in 1707, her majesty appointed him attorney-general, and in 1710, on the death of Sir Richard