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LEFT BBADSHAW 146 BBAGAXCA Republican Governor of his State in 1895, and was elected to the United States Senate in 1909. He died in 1914. BRADSHAW, JOHN, an English Puritan, who was President of the High Court of Justice which tried and condemned King Charles I., born in Cheshire, in 1586. In 1649, he was Chief Justice of Chester, and when the trial of the King was determined upon, Bradshaw was chosen to preside. His deportment on the trial was lofty and unbending, and everything was done to give weight and dignity to this unex- ampled tribunal. On Cromwell's ac- cession to the protectorate, he was de- prived of his judgeship, but, on the restoration of the Long Parliament, was elected President of the Council of State. Bradshaw died in 1659, and on his death bed asserted that, if the King were to be tried and condemned again, he would be the first to agree to it. Bradshaw was magnificently buried in Westminster Abbey, whence, after the Restoration, his body was ejected as be- ing that of a regicide, and hanged on a gibbet at Tyburn, with those of Crom- well and Ireton. BRADSTREET, ANNE, the earliest American poet, born in Northampton, England, in 1612. She was a daughter of Gov. Thomas Dudley. In 1630 she emigrated to America with her hus- band, Simon Bradstreet, Governor of Massachusetts. Her poems were pub- lished as "The Tenth Muse, Lately Sprung Up in America." They are quaint and literal in style. She died Sept. 16, 1672. BRADWARDINE, THOMAS, "DOCTOR Profundus," Archbishop of Canter- bury, born in Chichester, in 1290. He was distinguished for his varied learn- ing, and for his treatise, "De Causa Dei contra Pelagium," an extensive work agai 1st the Pelagian heresy, for cen- turies a standard authority. He was chaplain and confessor to Edward III. Being appointed archbishop he hastened to England, but died of the black death on reaching London, Aug. 26, 1349. BRADY, JAMES HENRY, a United States Senator from Idaho, born in In- diana CO., Pa., in 1862. He received his education at the Leavenworth, Kan., State Normal School. In 1894, he re- moved to Idaho where he later became President of the Idaho Consolidated Power Company and was associated with other large State enterprises. He became a prominent figure in politics and was made Governor of Idaho for the term 1909-1911. He was chosen United States Senator in 1913. He died in 1918. BRADY, NICHOLAS, with NaHUM Tate, versifier of the Psalms, born in Bandon, Ireland, in 1659. He was ed- ucated at Westminster, Christ Church (Oxford), and Dublin, and kept a school at Richmond. Tate and Brady's metrical version of the Psalms was authorized in 1696, but with the stron? opposition of many among the Tory clergy. His tragedy, "The Rape, or the Innocent Impostors," his blank verse and sermons have sunk into ob- livion. He died in Richmond, England, May 20, 1726. BRADYPXJS, a mammalian genus, the typical one of the family hradypodidx. It contains the ai, or common sloth (/?. tridactylus), and other species. Various extinct genera and species of the fam- ily are found in South America. They are gigantic as compared with the mod- ern sloths. The most notable are megatherium, mylodon, scelidotherium, and in the Post-Pliocene of North America, megalonyx. BRAEMAR, a Highland district in the S. W. corner of Aberdeenshire. It con- t-iins part of the Grampian range with the heights of Ben Macdhui, Cairntoul, Lochnagar, etc. The district has some fine scenery, valleys and hillsides cov- ered with birch and fir. BRAGA, a city of Portugal, capital of the province of Minho, situated on an eminence between the rivers Cavado and D'Este, 34 miles N. E. of Oporto by rail. It is the residence of the Pri- mate of Portugal, who has a palace here. It has also a fine Gothic cathe- dral (12th century), partly modernized, the Church of Santa Cruz (1642), and manufactures of linen, hats, cutlery, firearms, jewelry, etc. The Bracara Augusta of the Romans, it retains ruins of a temple, an amphitheater, and an aqueduct. Near it is the cele- I brated Sanctuxirio do born Jesus do Monte, which is still a place of pilgrim- age. In the 6th century, Braga was the chief city of the Suevi, and it fell suc- cessively into the hands of the Goths and Moors, from the latter of whom it was taken by Alphonso of Castile. Braga produces hats, arms, textiles, and gold and silver articles. Pop. about 25,000. BRAGANCA, the name of two con- siderable towns in Brazil, (1) Brag- anga, a seaport, 100 miles N. E. of Para, at the mouth of the Caite, which is here navigable to the town. Pop. of town about 6,000. (2) Braganga, an