BRUTON, (Somerset) 93 cm. and 115 mm. from London, is a well built populous T. with a fair Ch. a fr. s. founded by K. Ed. VI. and a noble alms-ho. the ruins of an abbey. Its chief trade is in serges, stockings, malting, &c. It has a stone bridge over the r. Bru, in the London road to Bridgewater. The manor, which was heretofore in the Mohun's family, by a grant from Will. the Conq. was purchased not many years ago by Sir John Meeres of Lincolnshire. The site and demesne of its mon. was given by Henry VIII. to Sir Maurice Berkley, ancestor to the Es. and Barons of Berkley, whose family had been seated here for several ages, from the R. of Edw. II. and it is now the seat of Ld. Berkley of Stratton, as it was lately of Visc. Fitzharding. Here is a Mt. on S. with a spacious hall over the Mt. house, where the quarter sessions are sometimes held for the E. division of the Co. Its Fairs are on Good-Friday, April 23, Sept. 8.