Brerewood's biography is extremely brief. He published in GM during his lifetime. The advertisment at the beginning of the posthumous publication of Galfred and Juetta, however, somewhat incongruously praises him as "a gentleman then known, among persons of genius and the best taste, to have possessed peculiar talents in the lyric way of writing", and as "greatly esteemed and distinguished." The content of his works, according to the DNB, is often crude and risque.