BREGMA, in anatomy, the same with finceput †.
BREHONS, the provincial judges among the an-
cient Irish, by whom justice was administered, and con-
troverries decided. These fages were a distinct tribe or
family, to whom competent lands were allowed in in-
heritance. In criminal cases the brehon had the eleventh
part of all the fines; which could not but be consider-
able at a time when murders, rapes, robberies, and the
like offences, were only subject to pecuniary commuta-
tions.