Bromley, Kent is in Kent.
In 1569 Catherine Gerard Lady Hoghton was born to Gilbert Gerard [aged 35] and Anne Ratclyffe [aged 30] at Bromley, Kent. She married in or before 1591 Richard Hoghton 1st Baronet and had issue.
Around 1586 Barbara Calthorpe was born to Henry Calthorpe [aged 26] in Bromley, Kent. She married 1607 Egremont Thynne.
John Evelyn's Diary. 14th July 1664. I went to take leave of the two Mr. Howards, now going to Paris, and brought them as far as Bromley, Kent; thence to Eltham, Greenwich, to see Sir John Shaw's [aged 49] new house, now building; the place is pleasant, if not too wet, but the house not well contrived; especially the roof and rooms too low pitched, and the kitchen where the cellars should be; the orangery and aviary handsome, and a very large plantation about it.
Samuel Pepys' Diary. 13th September 1665. By and by comes my wife and Mercer, and had been with Captain Cocke [aged 48] all day, he coming and taking her out to go see his boy at school at Brumly [Bromley], and brought her home again with great respect. Here pretty merry, only I had no stomach, having dined late, to eat.
John Evelyn's Diary. 27th August 1675. I visited the Bishop of Rochester [aged 50], at Bromley, Kent, and dined at Sir Philip Warwick's [aged 65], at Frogpoole.
John Evelyn's Diary. 19th August 1683. I went to Bromley to visit our Bishop [aged 58], and excellent neighbour, and to congratulate his now being made Archbishop of York. On the 28th, he came to take his leave of us, now preparing for his journey and residence in his province.
Letters of Horace Walpole. 5th August 1752. Battel. To Richard Bentley, Esq.
Here we are, my dear Sir, in the middle of our pilgrimage; and lest we should never return from this holy land of abbeys and Gothic castles, I begin a letter to you. that I hope some charitable monk, when he has buried our bones, will deliver to you. We have had piteous distresses, but then we have seen glorious sights! You shall hear of each in their order.
Monday, Wind S. E.-at least that was our direction-While they were changing our horses at Bromley, we went to see the Bishop of Rochester's palace; not for the sake of any thing there was to be seen, but because there was a chimney, in which had stood a flower-pot, in which was put the counterfeit plot against Bishop Sprat. 'Tis a paltry parsonage, with nothing of antiquity but two panes of glass, purloined from Islip's chapel in Westminster Abbey, with that abbot's rebus, an eye and a slip of a tree. In the garden there is a clear little pond, teeming with gold fish. The Bishop is more prolific than I am.
On 20th May 1713 Bishop Thomas Sprat [aged 78] died of apoplexy at the Bishop's Palace, Bromley. He was buried in the south side of the Chapel of St Nicholas, Westminster Abbey [Map].
Letters of Horace Walpole. 5th August 1752. Battel. To Richard Bentley, Esq.
Here we are, my dear Sir, in the middle of our pilgrimage; and lest we should never return from this holy land of abbeys and Gothic castles, I begin a letter to you. that I hope some charitable monk, when he has buried our bones, will deliver to you. We have had piteous distresses, but then we have seen glorious sights! You shall hear of each in their order.
Monday, Wind S. E.-at least that was our direction-While they were changing our horses at Bromley, we went to see the Bishop of Rochester's palace; not for the sake of any thing there was to be seen, but because there was a chimney, in which had stood a flower-pot, in which was put the counterfeit plot against Bishop Sprat. 'Tis a paltry parsonage, with nothing of antiquity but two panes of glass, purloined from Islip's chapel in Westminster Abbey, with that abbot's rebus, an eye and a slip of a tree. In the garden there is a clear little pond, teeming with gold fish. The Bishop is more prolific than I am.
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John Evelyn's Diary. 27th August 1675. I visited the Bishop of Rochester [aged 50], at Bromley, Kent, and dined at Sir Philip Warwick's [aged 65], at Frogpoole.
On 22nd August 1485 Robert Brandon [aged 75] died at North Cray, Bromley.