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HIS revd. gentleman was ſon of Nicholas Brady, an officer in the King’s army, in the rebellion 1641, being lineally deſcended from Hugh Brady, the firſt Proteſtant biſhop of Meath. He was born at Bandon in the county of Cork, on the 28th of October 1659, and educated in that county till he was 12 years of age, when he was removed to Weſtminſter ſchool, and from thence elected ſtudent of Chriſt’s Church, Oxford. After continuing there about four years, he went to Dublin, where his father reſided, at which univerſity he immediately commenced bachelor of arts. When he was of due ſtanding, his Diploma for the degree of doctor of divinity was, on account of his uncommon merit, preſented to him from that univerſity, while he was in England, and brought over by Dr. Pratt, then ſenior travelling-fellow, afterwards provoſt of that college. His firſt eccleſiaſtical preferment was to a prebend, in the Cathedral of St. Barry’s in the city of Cork, to which he was collated by biſhop Wettenhal, to whom he was domeſtic chaplain. He was a zealous promoter of the revolution, and ſuffered for it in conſequence of his zeal. In 1690, when the troubles broke out in Ireland, by his intereſt with King James’s general, Mac Carty, his