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198 BRADY. Ormond, to attend Charles I. at Oxford, in company with Sir Henry Tichburne and Sir James Ware, to explain to him the situation of his affairs in Ireland, and to consult with him on the measures which were necessary to be taken. On their return they were taken by a parliament ship, just after Sir James Ware had thrown the letters, with which they were entrusted from the king to the Mar- quis of Ormond, into the sea. They were then carried to London, and committed to the Tower, in which they were confined eleven months, when they were released in exchange for other prisoners. He died in 1651, and was buried at St. Catherine's. DR. NICHOLAS BRADY, A learned divine, was the son of Major Nicholas Brady, an officer of the king's army in the rebellion of 1641, and was born at Bandon, in the county of Cork, on the 28th of October, 1659, and continued in his native country till he was twelve years of age, when he was removed to England, and placed in Westminster school, where he was chosen king's scholar, and from thence elected student of Christ- church, Oxford. After continuing there about four years, he went to Dublin, where his father resided; at which uni- versity he immediately commenced B. A. When he was of due standing, his diploma for the degree of D.D. was, on account of his uncommon merit, presented to him by 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, at Cork; to which he was collated by Bishop Wettenhall, whose domestic chaplain he was. He was a zealous promoter of the Revolution, and in consequence of his zeal suffered for it. In 1690, when the troubles broke out in Ireland, by his interests, with king James's general, M'Carty, he