[2] Bromley missed the Glorious Revolution because he was travelling in France and Italy in 1688, following the death of his first wife in 1688 (he eventually married four times).

Throughout his time in public life Bromley was a staunch high church Tory with a reputation for honesty and extreme partisanship.

[1] Bromley was a strong opponent of occasional conformity by religious dissenters, who attended Church of England services often enough to avoid the legal penalties imposed by the Test and Corporation Acts.

On this occasion a new edition of Bromley's travel memoirs was produced by his political enemies (with an added table pointing the reader to the alleged pro-Catholic and Jacobite passages in the book).

[1] In his position as Speaker in 1713, Bromley responded to questions from a Scottish MP with the infamous reply that "they had catcht hold of Scotland, they wou'd keep her fast.

Lockhart Papers In 1713 Bromley left the chair of the House to join the administration as Secretary of State for the Northern Department.

Bromley never held government office again, but he remained the generally recognised leading Tory in the House of Commons until his health declined in the 1720s.