BROMLEY (GREAT), a parish in the hundred of
TENDRING, county of ESSEX, 4 miles (S. S. W.) from
Manningtree, containing 693 inhabitants. The living
is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Colchester, and
diocese of London, rated in the king's boo.ks at
£16, 16. 0., and in the patronage of Valentine Warren,
Esq. The church, dedicated to St. George, is a handsome
and regular edifice. Petty sessions for the division
are held here once in five weeks, on Monday,
alternately with Mistley, Manningtree, and Thorpe.
This parish participates in the benefit of two scholarships
at St. John's College, Cambridge, to be filled
up out of twenty candidates from the school at Dedham,
of which number, Great Bromley supplies four.