(Dr Edmund), an eminent physician and English writer in the 17th century, was the son of Sir John Borlase, master of the ordnance, and one of the Lord Justices of Ireland in 1643. He studied in Dublin college, and afterwards at the university of Leyden, at which last place he took the degree of doctor of physic. He afterwards practised physic with great success in the city of Chester, and was incorporated doctor of the faculty in the university of Oxford. Among the books which he wrote and published are the following: 1. Latham Spaw in Lancashire, with some remarkable cases and cures performed by it. 2. The reduction of Ireland to the crown of England. 3. The history of the Irish rebellion. 4. Brief reflections on the earl of Carlislehaven's memoirs, &c. He died after the year 1682.