Brakes are explained both by Dr. Johnson and Archdeacon Nares to be a thicket of brambles or thorns. The privilege of "mowing the brakes" is still reserved to the keepers of the royal parks in the instrument by which they are appointed. It possibly meant cutting the underwood.
Brandon Richard, [30], bis, [287], a Falconer.
Braser, for a, [46].
Worn by archers on their left arms.
Brass, paid for two curtalls [i. e. quintals] of, [170].
Brawn brought, [89].
Browtherer, i. e. the Embroiderer's bill, [128].
Bray Lord, [20].
Edmund, first Lord Bray. He was summoned to Parliament in 1529, and died in 1539.
Breams brought, [62].