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bap. 25 Feb. 1613, 2nd but 1st surv. s. of Thomas Brooke (d. 3 Nov. 1622) of Norton, Runcorn, Cheshire, and Thelwall, Grappenhall, Cheshire, and 3rd w. Eleanor, da. of John Gerard of London.Grappenhall par. reg.; Vis. Cheshire (Harl. Soc. xciii), 19; Ormerod, Cheshire, iii. pt. 2, p. 681. m. (1) by 1639, Alice (bur. 27 Aug. 1641), da. and h. of Richard Hulse of Rickerscote, Castle Church, Staffs. 2s.; (2) 2 Nov. 1646, Frances (d. aft. 1655), da. of Sir Nicholas Trott of Quickswood, Herts., wid. of William Marbury of Marbury, Cheshire, s.p.; (3) by 1674, Mabel (bur. 23 July 1687), da. of William Farington* of Worden, Lancs., wid. of Richard Clayton of Crooke, Lancs., s.p.Grappenhall par. reg.; Kenilworth, Warws. par. reg.; C6/41/32; C10/116/24; Ormerod, Cheshire, i. pt. 2, p. 465; H.W.F. Harwood, ‘The true descent of Brooke of Astley’, The Gen. n.s. xiii. 223-4; F.C. Beazley, ‘Notes on the Brooke and Brock fams. of Cheshire’, Trans. Historic Soc. Lancs. and Cheshire, lxxiv. 174. Kntd. 24 July 1660;Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 230. d. 30 Nov. 1685.Harwood, ‘Brooke of Astley’, 224.
Offices Held

Military: maj. of ft. (parlian.) by Dec. 1645-aft. Nov. 1648.Brereton Lttr. Bks. ii. 393, 437; CSP Ire. 1647–60, p. 37.

Religious: elder, fourth Lancs. classis, 1646.LJ viii. 510.

Local: commr. assessment, Lancs. 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 1672, 1677, 1679; Cheshire, 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657, 1664, 1672, 1677, 1679;A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28); SR. militia, Cheshire 2 Dec. 1648, 14 Mar. 1655, 12 Mar. 1660; Lancs. 2 Dec. 1648. 4 Oct. 1647 – bef.Aug. 1664A. and O.; SP25/76A, f. 15v. J.p., 16 Mar. 1672–d.;Lancs. RO, QSC/48–62, 72–87. Cheshire 29 July 1652 – bef.Apr. 1657, by 23 Mar. 1658 – 1 Oct. 1659, Mar. 1660–?, 11 Jan. 1683–d.C231/6, pp. 244, 388, 442; C231/8, p. 75; C193/13/5; A Perfect List (1660). Commr. dividing parishes, Cheshire and Chester 10 Mar. 1656.Mins. of the Cttee. for Plundered Ministers rel. to Lancs. and Cheshire ed. W. A. Shaw (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. xxxiv), 115. Dep. lt. Cheshire 3 Oct. 1660–20 Sept. 1662, 9 Aug. 1664 – aft.12 Nov. 1678, 11 June 1685–d.;Cheshire RO, DLT/A11/102, 103, 104, 105, 108; DLT/B11, p. 127; Lancs. RO, DDTA 167, 170, 173, 372; CSP Dom. 1685, p. 165. Lancs. 4 Oct. 1676–8, 10 June 1685–d.Lancs. RO, DDTA 171, 174; D. P. Carter, ‘The Lancs. militia 1660–88’, in Seventeenth-Century Lancs. ed. J.I. Kermode, C. B. Phillips, Trans. Historic Soc. Lancs. and Cheshire, cxxxii. 180. Sheriff, Cheshire 6 Nov. 1668–11 Nov. 1669; Lancs. 13 Nov. 1673–5 Nov. 1674.List of Sheriffs (L. and I. ix), 18, 73. Commr. recusants, 1675.CTB iv. 739.

Civic: freeman, Liverpool 8 Aug. 1650–?d.Liverpool Town Bks. 1649–71 ed. M. Power (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. cxxxvi), 9, 52.

Parlimentarian
BROOKE, Peter (1613-85), of Great Sankey, Prescot, Lancs., and Mere, Rostherne, Cheshire.
: of Great Sankey, Lancs., Prescot and Rostherne, Cheshire., Mere.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

BROOKE, Peter (1613-85), of Great Sankey, Prescot, Lancs., and Mere, Rostherne, Cheshire.

Will
admon. 15 July 1686.Harwood, ‘Brooke of Astley’, 223.
Estates
inherited, in reversion (aft. death of his mo.), messuages and lands in Stockham, Thelwall and Grappenhall, Cheshire.Cheshire RO, WS 1622, will of Thomas Brooke. By 1639, owned a house in Great Sankey, Prescot, Lancs.Lancs. RO, QSB/1/210/35; LJ viii. 510. In 1652, purchased manor of Mere, Cheshire.Ormerod, Cheshire, i. pt. 2, p. 464. During the 1650s, purchased an estate at Walton, Cheshire.Ormerod, Cheshire, i. pt. 2, p. 464. By 1670, owned Astley Hall, Chorley, Lancs.Lancs. RO, DDHK 5/3/244; P.J. Pinckney, ‘The Cheshire election of 1656’, BJRL xlix. 403.
Oxford 1644
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Addresses
Religion
presented Edmund Jones to vicarage of Eccles, Lancs. 1652.Add. 36792, f. 58; Calamy Revised, 301-2.
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