BIRMINGHAM, (Warwickshire) or BROMICHAM, 88 cm. and 109 mm. from London, is a large well-built and populous T. noted for
the most ingenious artificers in boxes, buckles, buttons, and other iron and steel-wares; wherein such multitudes of
people are employed, that they are sent all over Europe; and here is a continual noise of hammers, anvils, and files. It
gives title of Baron to Ld. Dudley and Ward; had once a mon. and chantry; has annual horse-races; a Mt. on Th. and Fairs
on Ascension-day, Corpus-Christi day, and Sept. 29. From hence the Bromichams, Es. of Louth in Ireland, are said to have
had their extraction. The Lp. of this T. having been in possession of their family, for several hundred years, was
conveyed, in the R. of Hen. VIII. to Sir John Dudley, afterwards Visc. Lille; who being attainted, Q. Mary gave the Lp. to
Thomas Marrow, Esq; whose posterity held it, about the year 1640.