- 'The Glorious Day of the Saints.' a funeral sermon for Colonel Rainsborough, 1648
- 'God's Delight in the Upright,' a sermon to the House of Commons, 1648-9.
- 'The Hypocrite detected,' thanksgiving sermon for victory at Dunbar, 1650.
- 'A Believer's Last Day his Best Day,' a funeral sermon for Martha Randall, 1651-2.
- 'Precious Remedies against Satan's Devices,' 1652.
- 'Cases considered and resolved,' 1652-3.
- 'Heaven on Earth' (on assurance), 1654.
- 'Unsearchable Riches of Christ,' 1655.
- 'Apples of Gold,' funeral sermon for Jo. Wood, 1657.
- 'String of v Pearls,' funeral sermon for Mary Blake, 1657.
- 'The Silent Soul, or Mute Christian under the Smarting Rod,' 1659.
- 'An Arke for all God's Noahs,' 1662.
- 'The Crown and Glory of Christianity,' 1662.
- 'The Privie Key of Heaven,' 1665.
- 'A Heavenly Cordial,' for the plague, 1665.
- 'A Cabinet of Choice Jewels,' 1669.
- 'London's Lamentations' (on the great fire), 1670.
- 'A Golden Key' and 'Paradise opened,' 1675.
Besides these Brooks wrote epistles prefixed to Susannah Bell's ' Legacy of a Dying Mother,' 1673; to Dr. Everard's 'Gospel Treasury,' 1652; to the works of Dr. Thomas Taylor, 1653; and to John Durant's 'Altum Silentium,' 1659; also the 'Experiences of Mrs. Martha Brooks,' wife to Thomas Brooks, appended to her funeral sermon by J. C. (Dr. John Collinges, of Norwich?), 1676. To this Brooks added notes. Some select works of Brooks were published under the editorship of the Rev. Charles Bradley in 1824; the 'Unsearchable Riches' was included in Ward's Standard Library. The best of his sayings have been printed in 'Smooth Stones taken from Ancient Brooks,' by the Rev. C. H. Spurgeon. The complete works of Thomas Brooks, edited with a memoir by the Rev. A. B. Grosart, were printed at Edinburgh in 1866 in six volumes octavo. In his 'Descriptive List' John Brown reserves a select place for Brooks's works, as among the best of the nonconformists' writings. His works abound in classical quotations in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin. It is said there was a printed catalogue of Brooks's library issued for the sale, but no copy of it can be traced.
[Calamy's Nonconformists' Memorial, vol. i., 1802; Reeves's Funeral Sermon for Thomas Brooks, 1680; Descriptive List of Religious Books, by John Brown of Whitburn, 1827; Grosart's Memoir and Notes in Brooks's Collected Works, 1866]
BROOKSHAW, RICHARD (fl. 1804), mezzotint engraver, was for some years chiefly employed at low remuneration in engraving reduced copies from popular prints by MacArdell, Watson, and others; then going to Paris he established himself in the 'Rue de Tournon, vis-à-vis l'Hôtel de Nivernois, chez le Bourrelier,' and in 1773 published a pair of portraits of the dauphin, afterwards Louis XVI, and Marie-Antoinette. These proved so popular that Brookshaw made at least five repetitions of them of different sizes. His talents were highly appreciated in France, and during his residence there he produced some excellent plates, which are now scarce. Whether he returned, at any time, to England is not known, neither is the place or date of his death; the latest record of him are some plates in the 'Pomona Britannica,' published in 1804. His best works published in France were the above-mentioned portraits, and those of the Duke of Orleans, the Countess d'Artois, and the Countess de Provence. Among those engraved in England are 'Christ on the Cross,' after A. van Dyck (1771); 'Thunderstorm at Sea,' after H. Kobell (1770); 'The Jovial Gamesters,' after A. van Ostade; portraits of Miss Greenfield (1767) and Miss Emma Crewe and her sister, after Sir Joshua Reynolds.
[Redgrave's Dict. of Artists, 1878.]
BROOM, HERBERT (1815–1882), writer on law, born at Kidderminster in 1815, was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated as a wrangler in 1837. He proceeded LL.D. in 1864. He was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in Michaelmas term 1840, and practised on the home circuit. For a considerable period he occupied the post of reader of common law at the Inner Temple. He died at the Priory, Orpington, Kent, on 2 May 1882. He was the author of several works on different branches of law, among which 'Legal Maxims,' first published in 1845, obtained a wide circulation as an established text-book for students. A fifth edition appeared in 1870. Of his other works the principal are:
- 'Practical Rules for determining Parties to Actions,' 1843.
- 'Practice of Superior Courts,' 1850.
- 'Practice of County Courts,' 1852.
- 'Commentaries on the Common Law,' 1856.
- 'Constitutional Law viewed in relation to Common Law and exemplified by Cases,' 1st edition 1866; 2nd edition 1885.
- 'Commentaries on the Laws of England' (with E. Hadley), 1869.
- 'Philosophy of Law; Notes of Lectures,' 1876-8.
He was also the author of two novels, 'The Missing Will,' 1877, and 'The Unjust Steward,' 1879.
[Law Journal, xvii. 260; Solicitors' Journal, xxvi. 453.]
