---- bake, brought, [32].
Breech at Woolwich. See Woolwich.
Breme Richard, [128].
Brennyng the barge, &c. for, [211]. See Barge.
Brereton William, [51].
A "Master Brereton" who was a gentleman of the privy chamber, was sent from the king to Wolsey at Southwell after his disgrace.—See Cavendish's Life of Wolsey, p. 253. It was apparently this individual who was executed in consequence of his supposed connexion with Ann Boleyn.
Bridewell, to one that pretended a title to, [6].
Henry the Eighth erected a magnificent house on the scite of the ancient one of St. Bride, for the reception of Charles the Fifth, in 1522, and called it Bridewell. The king often lodged there, and held a parliament in it in 1525. It was the residence of Katherine in 1529, pending the proceedings relative to her divorce. Edward the Sixth gave it to the corporation of the city of London for an hospital. Why a person who pretended to have a title to it should be rewarded with 20s. it is difficult even to guess.