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BHOMLEY, LITTLE. 392 r.l:<>MITON. It is not fur from the Great Eastern railway. Petty sessions are occasionally held in the village. The living is a roct. in the dioc. of Rochester, of the annual vaf of 6'.is, in tin- ]ati-"ii.of W. (iniham, Esq. The church U dedicated t M. George, and possesses a fine monu- il brass of a priest who died in 1432. The paro- nsisting of the produce of the church lands, are worth HIT annum. BROMI.KY, I.I 1 I l.i:. a par. in the hund. of Tond- ring, ir. the co. of Essex, near Great Bromley. The living is a rect. in the dioc. of Rochester, of the val. of . in the patron, of the Warden and Fellows of Wadham College, Oxford. The church is dedicated to St. Mary. There are charitable endowments amounting to 10 a year. BKOMLEY REGIS, or KING'S BROMLEY, a par. in the northern div. of the hund. of Offlow, in the co. of Stafford, 5 miles to the N. of Lichfield. It is situated on the banks of the river Trent, not far from the London and North- Western railway. This place was the seat of the earls of Mercia, one of whom, Earl Leofric, husband of the famous Godiva, died hero in 1057. For a long period after the Norman Conquest it was held by the crown, and thus acquired the distinctive name of "King's" Bromley. The living is a porpet. cur. in the dioc. of Lichfield, worth 72, in the patron, of the Pre- bendary of Alrewas and Weeford, in the cathedral church of Lichfield. The church, dedicated to All Saints, is in the perpendicular style, and contains some fine old family n -. Hero is a free school for boys, founded by Richard Crosse in 1699, which has an income from endowment of 105. The other parochial charities produce about 90 a year. Bromley Hall is the seat of J. Lane, Esq., a descendant of Colonel Lane, whose sister distinguished herself by her brave service to Charles II. after the battle of Worcester. Mary Cowper, an inhabitant of Bromley, is stated by Plot, in his history of the county, to have lived to so great an age that she saw six generations of her descendants. BROMLEY ST. LEONARD, u ]r. and suburban district in the Tower div. of the hund. of Ossulstone, in the co. of Middlesex, 3 miles to the E. of St. Paul's, London. It lies on the W. side of the river Lea, near the Regent's canal, and contains Bromley Newtown. A cut connects the river and the canal. A nunnery of tin lirin ilictinr onli i w,ii founded here about the close of the llth century, by William, Bishop of London, which flourished till the Dissolution, when it had a revenue of 122. Its site was given to Sir Ralph Sadler in 1640. Part of the parish consists of grass lands and market gardens, but the greater part U now built over, and contains, according to the census of 1861, a population of 24,072. The streets are paved and lighted with gas. There are some print-works, extensive distilleries, malt- ings, a manufactory of starch, and a brewery. The Tower Hamlets cemetery is partly in this parish. The living is a vie. in the dioc. of London, and in the patron, of J. Walter, Esq., M.P. The tithes are in the hands of a layman, but the income arising from pew-rents and surplice fees average 300 a year. The church, dedi- cated to St. Mary, is a neat brick building, having been !y n-built in 1843. A missionary church for 700 people was erected in 1861 in the south part of the parish, and is used in the week days for a boys' school. The missi tc appointed by the vicar receives > a year from the London Diocesan Church Building Society. There is a school for boys on Bow Common, also used for divino service on Sundays. The Wcs- leyans have a chapel here, and there are Natiniial and infant schools for 400 children, built in 1851. This parish participates in tin' lieiiefit of the free school founded at Bow by Sir John .Tollea in 1G17. Here are Una; -houses founded by Jolles, but rebuilt and managed by the Drapers' Company ; also those founded by .1 i nd placed under the same manage- mcir ho parish amount to u' i i- annum. The custom of gavelkind 1> y. In 1850 a union parish, at a cost of 70,000, designed to accommodate 800 inmates, and in 18G2 another union workhouse for the parish of Stepney. The Merchant Seamen's orphan asylum has recently been pulled down, and removed to Snaresbrook. hKOMLOW, a tnshp. in the par. of Worthin, hund. of Chirbury, in the co. of Salop, 8 miles to the N. of Bishop's Castle. BROMPTON, a town and tnshp. in the j>ar. of Gil- lingham, extending also into that of Chatham, hund. of Chatham and GilUngham, lathe of Ayl. .-.ford, in the co. i i Ki ut. It forms part of the borough of Chatham, i is within the lib. of the city of Rochester. It is situati on the summit of a hill to the N. of the town, ov looking the Medway and the dockyard, and is incliu within the lines, or fortifications for the defence of ' naval arsenal, &c. It is the site of several barracks ^ J infantry, marine, and those late of the East India ( - pany ; also of a military hospital and a museum. The i habitants are principally employed in the dockyard, living is a perpet. cur. in the dioc. of Rochester, 130, in the patron, of the Rev. W. Conway and Mil* Conway. The church is a pretty Gothic edifice of sU and flint, with a tower and handsome spire. It i erected in 1848. The Wosleyan Methodists have chapel here. llUOMPTON, a district par. forming part of ancient par. of St. Mary Abbots, Kensington, in hund. of Ossulstone, in the co. of Middlesex, 4 miles tdu the W. of St. Paul's, London. Its population, by thM census of 1861, is 14,886. Its present title is the " ward! of the Holy Trinity, Brompton" (the whole of KcnsingV ton being divided by a late Act of Parliament into thn "wards"). The ward of Holy Trinity, Brompton, now subdivided into three ecclesiastical district parishes! called Holy Trinity, Brompton (or Old Brompton), Sit perpet. cur., val. 639, in the gift of the Bishop of London ; St. Mary's, West Brompton, a pcrpet. cur. in the gift of the Incumbent of Holy Trinity, Brompton;-] and St. Paul's, Onslow-square, in private patronage alternately- with the bishop. These three churches accommodate 3,700 people. There is also an EpiscopfcB chapel holding 700. The Roman Cat oratory and chapel for 1,200, with - i,:mtio houses affiliated. The Baptists have a i -hapel tor :ii)0, the Consumption Hospital a chapel for 200, and tin ceme- tery a chapel for 100. There are Church schools fore 1000 children, and the usual charitable dnla, an alms- house for poor women, and a library for the poor. The "South Kensington," or, more properly, " Brompton/' Museum of Art, is in Holy Trinity, Brompton. Tha Exhibition building of 1862, and the Horticultural Society's gardens, occupy in Brompton the site of the former " Nurseries." The rosaries are now all extinct. Brompton is the site of the large hospital for consump- tion and diseases of the chest, founded by the Kev. BM H. Foulis, Bart., and erected in the Tudor style in 184M from designs by Mr. Francis. It is intended to iicoomj modate 230 patients, and a new east wing hn- been added, through the liberality of the acr songstress Madame Gld-< hmidt, better known by maiden name of Jenny Lind. Nearly Fulhain road, i.-. the ( 'ancer Hospital, ei 7,0oi designs of Messrs. V prin- 'in.', is of while 1'i-ii-U, with bands ml 1 1 'rra-cotta mouldings. Bromptonce tery was opened for interments in 1840, and utains a monument to Jackson, pugilist, and the grave of J. C. Robertson, t! of mcc'h.mii -s' instituti 8. The Jews also have a burial- ground near when- iju. en Elizabeth's i 'MI'TMN.a tnsh|.. in the par. of Clim-cli-Stoke, hund. of Chirliurv. in the Co. of Salop, G miles to the N.V. of Bishop's Castle. J'.Ki iMIT< >N, a par. in the wap. of Pi, k, rinir I, vine, s miles t.. U h. It is .situated near the river Derwenl and the York and Scarborough section of the Noi : railway, and contains tin- tn.slips. of Sawdr.n.