BROOK-STREET, a hamlet in. the parish of SOUTH,
WEALD, hundred of CHAFFORD, county of ESSEX, l
mile (W. S. W.) from Brentwood. The population is returned
with the parish. A free chape.l> and, an hospital
for a master and various poor lepers, were established
some time previously to the 20th of Edward I., and
dedicated, to St. John the Baptist.