or BRAINES, a decayed borough in the hundred of Hayridge, Devonshire, 9 miles N.N.E. of Exeter. It is pleasantly situated on an eminence surrounded by higher hills, except on the south, and consists for the most part of neat thatched cottages. It has a fine old church, guildhall, gaol, court-house, and national school; two paper-mills, and a small woollen factory. Pop. (1851) 1834. It is governed by a mayor, 12 masters, and 24 burgesses, and before the time of Henry VII. returned two members to parliament.