BREWOOD, EDWARD, a learned mathematician and antiquary, was born at Chester in 1565, and at the free school there he received the rudiments of his education. In 1581 he was admitted of Brazen-nose College, Oxford; and in 1596 was elected the first professor of astronomy at Gresham College, London, an office which he held till his death in 1613. His works, of which the following is a list, were all posthumous publications.—1. De Ponderibus et Pretiis veterum Nummorum eorumque cum recentioribus Collatione, 1614, 4to; 2. Inquiries touching the Diversities of Languages and Religion through the chief parts of the world, London, 1614, 4to; 3. Elementa Logica in gratiam studiosæ juventutis in Academia Oxon. London, 1614, 8vo, and Oxford, 1628, 8vo; 4. Tractatus quidam Logici de predicabilibus et predicamentis, 1628, 8vo; 5. Two Treatises on the Sabbath, 1630 and 1632; 6. Tractatus duo, quorum primus est de Meteoris, secundus de Oculo, 1631; 7. Commentarii in Ethicam Aristotelis, Oxford, 1640, 4to; and, 8. The Patriarchal Government of the Ancient Church, Oxford, 1641, 4to.