BROWNE, PETER (1665?-1735), Irish divine, was bishop of Cork and Ross from 1710 until his death in His two most important works are the Procedure, Extent, and Limits of the Human Understanding (1728), a critique of Locke's essay, and Things Divine and Supernatural conceived by Analogy with Things Natural and Human, more briefly referred to as the Divine Analogy (1733). The doctrine of analogy was intended as a reply to the deistical conclusions that had been drawn from Locke's theory of knowledge.