Life

Bromley was a native of Shropshire

Shropshire

Shropshire is a county in the West Midlands region of England. For Eurostat purposes, the county is a NUTS 3 region and is one of four counties or unitary districts that comprise the "Shropshire and Staffordshire" NUTS 2 region. It borders Wales to the west...

, and was educated at Magdalene College, Cambridge

Magdalene College, Cambridge

Magdalene College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England.The college was founded in 1428 as a Benedictine hostel, in time coming to be known as Buckingham College, before being refounded in 1542 as the College of St Mary Magdalene...

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At the beginning of James II's reign he was curate of St. Giles's-in-the-Fields, London; but soon afterwards he joined the Roman Catholic church and obtained employment as a corrector of the press in the king's printing-house. On being deprived of this means of subsistence he established a boarding-school in London which was attended by the sons of many persons of rank. Charles Dodd claimed he taught Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope was an 18th-century English poet, best known for his satirical verse and for his translation of Homer. He is the third-most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, after Shakespeare and Tennyson...

. Later Bromley was appointed tutor to some young gentlemen, and travelled with them abroad.

His death occurred, at Madeley, Shropshire

Madeley, Shropshire

Madeley is a town and civil parish in Shropshire, England, now part of the new town of Telford. The parish had a population of 17,935 at the 2001 census.Madeley is recorded in the Domesday Book, having been founded before the 8th century...

, on 10 January 1717.

Works

According to Dodd, he published 'The Catechism for the Curats, composed by the Decree of the Council of Trent, faithfully translated into English,' London 1687; and probably he was also the translator of 'The Canons and Decrees of the Council of Trent,' London 1687.