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          ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA

  A DICTIONARY OF ARTS, SCIENCES, LITERATURE
           AND GENERAL INFORMATION

              ELEVENTH EDITION


            VOLUME IV, SLICE IV

   Bradford, William to Brequigny, Louis




ARTICLES IN THIS SLICE:


  BRADFORD, WILLIAM (governor)       BRAOSE, WILLIAM DE
  BRADFORD, WILLIAM (printer)        BRASCASSAT, JACQUES RAYMOND
  BRADFORD, WILLIAM (painter)        BRAS D'OR
  BRADFORD (England)                 BRASDOR, PIERRE
  BRADFORD (Pennsylvania, U.S.A.)    BRASIDAS
  BRADFORD CLAY                      BRASS (Nigeria)
  BRADFORD-ON-AVON                   BRASS (alloy)
  BRADLAUGH, CHARLES                 BRASSES, MONUMENTAL
  BRADLEY, GEORGE GRANVILLE          BRASSEUR DE BOURBOURG, CHARLES
  BRADLEY, JAMES                     BRASSEY, THOMAS
  BRADSHAW, GEORGE                   BRASSO
  BRADSHAW, HENRY (English poet)     BRATHWAIT, RICHARD
  BRADSHAW, HENRY (British scholar)  BRATIANU, ION C.
  BRADSHAW, JOHN                     BRATLANDSDAL
  BRADWARDINE, THOMAS                BRATTISHING
  BRADY, NICHOLAS                    BRATTLEBORO
  BRAEKELEER, HENRI JEAN DE          BRAUNAU
  BRAEMAR                            BRAUNSBERG
  BRAG                               BRAVO
  BRAGA                              BRAWLING
  BRAGANZA                           BRAY, SIR REGINALD
  BRAGG, BRAXTON                     BRAY, THOMAS
  BRAGI                              BRAY (England)
  BRAHAM, JOHN                       BRAY (Ireland)
  BRAHE, PER                         BRAYLEY, EDWARD WEDLAKE
  BRAHE, TYCHO                       BRAZIER
  BRAHMAN                            BRAZIL (legendary island)
  BRAHMANA                           BRAZIL (republic)
  BRAHMANISM                         BRAZIL (Indiana, U.S.A.)
  BRAHMAPUTRA                        BRAZIL NUTS
  BRAHMA SAMAJ                       BRAZIL WOOD
  BRAHMS, JOHANNES                   BRAZING AND SOLDERING
  BRAHUI                             BRAZZA, PIERRE PAUL SAVORGNAN DE
  BRAID                              BRAZZA
  BRAIDWOOD, THOMAS                  BREACH
  BRAILA                             BREAD
  BRAIN                              BREADALBANE, JOHN CAMPBELL
  BRAINERD, DAVID                    BREADALBANE
  BRAINERD                           BREAD-FRUIT
  BRAINTREE (Essex, England)         BREAKING BULK
  BRAINTREE (Massachusetts, U.S.A.)  BREAKWATER
  BRAKE (town of Germany)            BREAL, MICHEL JULES ALFRED
  BRAKE (engineering)                BREAM
  BRAKELOND, JOCELYN DE              BREAST
  BRAMAH, JOSEPH                     BREAUTE, FALKES DE
  BRAMANTE                           BRECCIA
  BRAMPTON, HENRY HAWKINS            BRECHIN
  BRAMPTON                           BRECKINRIDGE, JOHN CABELL
  BRAMWELL, GEORGE WILLIAM BRAMWELL  BRECON
  BRAN (Welsh hero)                  BRECONSHIRE
  BRAN (husk of cereals)             BREDA
  BRANCH                             BREDAEL, JAN FRANS VAN
  BRANCO                             BREDERODE, HENRY
  BRANCOVAN                          BREDOW, GOTTFRIED GABRIEL
  BRAND, JOHN                        BREDOW
  BRAND, SIR JOHN HENRY              BREECH
  BRANDE, WILLIAM THOMAS             BREEDS AND BREEDING
  BRANDENBURG (Prussian electorate)  BREEZE
  BRANDENBURG (Prussian province)    BREGENZ
  BRANDENBURG (town of Germany)      BREHON LAWS
  BRANDER, GUSTAVUS                  BREISACH
  BRANDES, GEORG MORRIS COHEN        BREISGAU
  BRANDING                           BREISLAK, SCIPIONE
  BRANDIS, CHRISTIAN AUGUST          BREITENFELD
  BRANDON (Canada)                   BREMEN (German state)
  BRANDON (England)                  BREMEN (German city)
  BRANDY                             BREMER, FREDRIKA
  BRANDYWINE                         BREMERHAVEN
  BRANFORD                           BRENDAN
  BRANGWYN, FRANK                    BRENHAM
  BRANKS                             BRENNER PASS
  BRANT, JOSEPH                      BRENNUS
  BRANT, SEBASTIAN                   BRENTANO, KLEMENS
  BRANTFORD                          BRENTANO, LUDWIG JOSEPH
  BRANTINGHAM, THOMAS DE             BRENTFORD
  BRANTOME, PIERRE DE BOURDEILLE     BRENTON, SIR JAHLEEL
  BRANTOME                           BRENTWOOD
  BRANXHOLM                          BRENZ, JOHANN
  BRANXTON                           BREQUIGNY, LOUIS GEORGES FEUDRIX DE


BRADFORD, WILLIAM (1590-1657), American colonial governor and historian,
was born in Austerfield, Yorkshire, England, probably in March 1590. He
became somewhat estranged from his family, which was one of considerable
importance in the locality, when in early youth he joined the Puritan
sect known as Separatists, and united in membership with the
congregation at Scrooby. He prepared in 1607, with other members of the
church, to migrate to Holland, but the plan was discovered and several
of the leaders, among them Bradford, were imprisoned. In the year
following, however, he joined the English colony at Amsterdam, where he
learned the trade of silk weaving. He subsequently sold his Yorkshire
property and embarked in business on his own account at Leiden, where
the English refugees had removed. He became an active advocate of the
proposed emigration to America, was one of the party that sailed in the
"Mayflower" in September 1620, and was one of the signers of the compact
on shipboard in Cape Cod Bay. After the death of Governor John Carver in
April 1621, Bradford was elected governor of Plymouth Colony, and served
as such, with the exception of five years (1633, 1634, 163