ABBOTS BROMLEY, a town in Staffordshire, with a market on Tuesday. After the dissolution of
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the monasteries, it was given to the Lord Paget; and has since been called Paget's Bromley, and is so denominated in the county map. But it retains its old name in the king's books, and is a discharged vicarage of 30l. clear yearly value. It likewise retains the old name with regard to the fairs; which are three, and all for horses and horned cattle. They are on the Thursday before Mid-lent Sunday, the 22d of May, and 24th of August. It is six miles east of Stafford, seven north of Litchfield, and 128 north-west of London. W. Long. 1. 2. Lat. 52. 45.