This ward is under the government of an Alderman, his Deputy, and nine other Common Council men; thirteen wardmote inquest men, eight scavengers, ten constables, and a beadle. The jurymen returned by the wardmote inquest serve in the several courts of Guildhall in the month of August. BROAD _walk_, 1. In the Tower. 2. Bargehouse, Southwark. BROAD _wall_, near the Upper Ground, Southwark. BROAD _way_, 1. Bishopsgate street. 2. Black Friars. 3. Privy Garden. 4. Tothill street. BROAD _yard_, 1. Coleman’s alley, Brown street. 2. Crow alley, Whitecross street, Cripplegate. 3. Dirty lane Blackman street. 4. Green Dragon alley, Wapping. 5. Holiwell court, Holiwell lane, 6. Islington. 7. Milk yard, Wapping. 8. St. John’s street. 9. Soper’s alley, Whitecross street. 10. Swan alley, Golden lane. 11. Upper Ground street. BRODERERS, or EMBROIDERERS, a company incorporated by Queen Elizabeth, in the year 1591, by the title of _The Keepers or Wardens, and Company of the art and mystery of the Broderers of the city of London_. They are governed by two Keepers, or Wardens, and forty Assistants. The Livery consists of 115 members, whose fine upon admission is 5_l._ They have a small convenient hall in Gutter lane. BROKEN _cross_, Tothill street. BROKEN _wharf_, Thames street. BROCKLEY’S _rents_, Artillery row.† BROMLEY, a town in Kent, situated on the river Ravensbourn nine miles from London, in the road to Tunbridge. Here is a palace of the Bishop of Rochester, to whom King Edgar gave the manor in the year 700; and here also is an hospital erected by Dr. Warner Bishop of that see, in the reign of King Charles II. for twenty poor Clergymen’s widows, with an allowance of 20_l._ a year, and 50_l._ a year to the Chaplain. BROMLEY, a pleasant village near Bow, in Middlesex, where was formerly a monastery. The great house here was built by Sir John Jacob, Bart, Commissioner of the customs at the restoration, and afterwards became the seat of Sir William Benson, Sheriff of London in the reign of Queen Anne, the father to William Benson, Esq; Auditor of the Imprest, who some years ago sold it, with the manor and rectory, to Mr. Lloyd, a gentleman of Wales. BROMLEY _street_, Holborn.† BROOK _alley_, 1. Rotten row. 2. Noble street. BROOK’S _court_, 1. Holborn. 2. Heneage lane. 3. In the Minories. 4. Thames street.† BROOK’S _market_, by Brook street, Holborn: so denominated from the Lord Brook’s city mansion, at the north corner of the market. BROOK’S _mews_, Brook street, near Bond street.† BROOK’S _rents_, Fore street, Cripplegate.† BROOK’S _street_, 1. Holborn.† 2. New Bond street.† 3. Ratcliff.† BROOK’S _wharf_, near Queenhithe.† BROOK’S WHARF _lane_, High Timber street, Broken wharf.† BROOK’S _yard_, 1. Old Fish street hill.† 2. Fore street, Lambeth.† BROOMSTICK _alley_, 1. Bunhill row. 2. Field lane. 3. Whitecross street, Cripplegate. BROUGHTON’S _rents_, Harrow alley.†