BROMWICK-WEST, (Staffordshire) near the Tame, a little to the S. of Walsal, was in the R. of Edw. I. the Lp. of Richard
Basset, and was lately the seat of one of the Stanleys. It is noted for the birth of Walter Parsons, porter to K. James I.
whose picture was hung up in the guard-room at Whitehall, a man so tall and strong, that he would take up two of the
tallest yeomen of the guard under his arms, and carry them as he pleased, do what they could, about the guardroom.