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 FLOOD, 145 Rome he was sent to teach philosophy at Louvaine, where he continued some years. At length he removed to Prague, in Bohemia, where he was appointed the first superior and lecturer in divinity in the college of the Holy Conception of the Blessed Virgin, founded for Irish Franciscans of strict observance. When that city was about to be besieged by the forces of the Elector of Saxony, in 1631, after the battle of Leipsic, he attempted to escape in company with Matthew Hoar, but being stopped by some boors in arms, they were both murdered Nov. 7th of that year. A third companion, Francis Ma genis, a Franciscan, who made his escape at that time, wrote an account of Fleming, prefixed to his “Collectanea Sacra,” under the title of “Historia Martyrii Venerabilis Fratres Patrici Flemingi,” &c. Fleming's chief work was his “Collectanea Sacra;” or, Lives of Irish and Scotch Saints, with various tracts in illustration of their history, with notes, commentaries, &c. The whole was comprised in one folio volume, pub lished at Louvaine, 1667. The works of the three abbots, Columban, Aileran, and Cumian, published in the “Biblia Patrum,” are acknowledged to be taken from Fleming. He published also, “ Chrineon Consecrati Petri Ratis benae.” HENRY FLOOD, One of t h e most celebrated political characters o f modern times, was descended from a highly respectable family, and was the eldest son o f the Right Hon. Warden Flood, (who was lord chief justice o f the king's bench i n Ireland, and who died i n possession o f that office, o n April 16th, 1764.) The subject o f the present memoir was born i n the year 1782, and after a residence o f about three years i n the college o f Dublin, where ( i t i s said) h e was infinitely more distinguished for the beauty o f his person and the gaiety o f his manners, than for application t o study. He was WOL. II. L