BRADWARDINE, THOMAS (c. English archbishop, called "the profound doctor," was born either at Hart field in Sussex or at Chichester. He was educated at Merton col lege, Oxford, and became chancellor of the university and profes sor of divinity. From being chancellor of the diocese of London he became chaplain and confessor to Edward III., whom he at tended during his wars in France. On his return to England, he was successively appointed prebendary of Lincoln, archdeacon of Lincoln 0347), and in 1349 archbishop of Canterbury. He died of the plague at Lambeth on Aug. 26, 1349, 40 days after his consecration.
Chaucer in his Nun's Priest's Tale ranks Bradwardine with St. Augustine. His great work De cause Dei contra Pelagium, etc. (ed. Sir Henry Savile 1618), by stressing the divine concurrence with all human volitions and with all activity in nature, unintentionally inau gurates a universal determinism. Bradwardine also wrote De Geometria speculativa (153o) ; De Arithmetica practica (15o2) ; De Proportioni bus velocitatum (Paris, 1495; Venice, 15o5) ; De Quadratura Circuli (1495) ; and an Ars Memorativa, Sloane mss. No. 3974 in the British Museum.