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b. c. Feb. 1611, 1st s. of Sir Richard Brooke of Norton Hall, and 2nd w. Katherine, da. of Sir Henry Neville† of Billingbear, Berks.Cheshire IPM ed. R. Stewart-Brown (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. lxxxiv), 85; Vis. Cheshire (Harl. Soc. lix), 45; CB. m. 2 Jan. 1630 (with £1,240), Mary, da. of Timothy Pusey of Selston, Notts., 3s.Selston par. reg.; Cheshire RO, DBN/B/2/7; WS 1665, will of Sir Henry Brooke bt.; Cheshire IPM ed. Stewart-Brown, 83; CB. suc. fa. 10 Apr. 1632;Cheshire IPM ed. Stewart-Brown, 85. cr. bt. 12 Dec. 1662; bur. 7 Oct. 1664 7 Oct. 1664.Runcorn All Saints par. reg.
Offices Held

Civic: freeman, Liverpool 17 Sept. 1641–?d.Chandler, Liverpool, 271, 329; Liverpool Town Bks. 1649–71 ed. M. Power (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. cxxxvi), 2, 51.

Local: dep. lt. Cheshire by Dec. 1642 – aft.Jan. 1650, Oct. 1661 – 20 Sept. 1662, 9 Aug. 1664–d.SP28/224, f. 295; Cheshire RO, DLT/B11, pp. 108, 127; Civil War in Cheshire, 240–1. Member, Cheshire co. cttee. Feb. 1643-aft. Jan. 1650.SP28/224, ff. 294, 295; SP28/225, f. 432; HMC Portland, i. 96; Civil War in Cheshire, 245. Commr. assessment, 24 Feb. 1643, 18 Oct. 1644, 21 Feb. 1645, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657, 1 June 1660, 1661;A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28); An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6); SR. sequestration, 27 Mar. 1643; levying of money, 7 May, 3 Aug. 1643.A. and O. Sheriff, 19 Jan. 1644–17 Nov. 1647.CJ iii. 354b; LJ vi. 384a; List of Sheriffs (L. and I. ix), 18. Steward, honor of Halton, Cheshire 31 May 1644-aft. 1658.PRO30/26/21, p. 1; P. J. Pinckney, ‘The Cheshire election of 1656’, BJRL xlix. 401. J.p. Cheshire by 9 June 1647–1 Oct. 1659, Mar. 1660–d.C231/6, p. 442; Cheshire RO, DAR/I/29 (Crewe memo. bk.); QJB 3/1, ff. 3, 94v. Commr. militia, 2 Dec. 1648, 14 Mar. 1655, 26 July 1659, 12 Mar. 1660;A. and O.; SP25/76A, f. 15v. Chester 26 July 1659.A. and O. Member, sub-cttee. of accts. Cheshire by July 1650–?SP28/224, f. 327. Commr. ct. martial, James Stanley†, 7th earl of Derby, 11 Sept. 1651.Stanley Pprs. ed. F.R. Raines (Chetham Soc. o.s. lxvii), p. cccxxxvi. Judge, relief of poor prisoners, Cheshire and Chester 5 Oct. 1653.A. and O. Commr. securing peace of commonwealth, Cheshire by Nov. 1655;Cheshire RO, DLT/B38, p. 10. dividing parishes, Cheshire and Chester 10 Mar. 1656;Mins. of the Cttee. of Plundered Ministers rel. to Lancs. and Cheshire ed. W. A. Shaw (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. xxxiv), 115. poll tax, Cheshire 1660.SR.

Military: col. of horse (parlian.) by Mar. 1644-aft. Feb. 1646. 1650 – ?CJ iii. 440a. Col. militia horse, Cheshire 8 July; col. militia ft. 22 Aug. 1650–?CSP Dom. 1650, pp. 507, 509.

Parlimentarian
BROOKE, Henry (1611-64), of Norton Hall, Runcorn, Cheshire
: of Norton Hall, Runcorn, Cheshire.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
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BROOKE, Henry (1611-64), of Norton Hall, Runcorn, Cheshire

Will
20 Feb. 1663, pr. 26 June 1665.Cheshire RO, WS 1665, will of Sir Henry Brooke bt.
Estates
in 1625, Brooke’s fa. was assessed at £20 for the privy seal loan.Cheshire RO, DLT/B/11, p. 12. In 1632, Brooke inherited manors of Acton Grange, Aston Grange and Norton; capital messuage of Norton Hall; property in Acton, Aston, Moore, Norton and Stockham, Cheshire; and manor of Cuerdley, Lancs.Cheshire RO, DBN/B/2/2; Cheshire IPM ed. Stewart-Brown, 83-4. In 1634, acquired a lease of the rectory of Runcorn, with tithes.Cheshire RO, DBN/B/2/7-8. His estate bef. the civil war was worth approx. £780 p.a.M.D.G. Wanklyn, ‘Landed Society and Allegiance in Cheshire and Shropshire in the First Civil War’ (Manchester Univ. PhD thesis, 1976), 306. In 1650, he purchased, for £750, 8 fee farm rents in Cheshire worth £82 p.a.SP28/288, f. 13. In 1651, purchased from the trustees for the sale of crown lands manor of Halton, Cheshire, for £1,195.E121/1/5/43. In 1656, estate inc. manors of Acton Grange, Aston Grange, Halton and Norton; Norton Hall; mansion house of Halton; property in Acton, Aston, Congleton, Halton, Keckwick, Moore, Norton and Runcorn, Cheshire; manor of Cuerdley and messuages and lands there; and property in Widnes, Lancs.SP28/224, f. 328; Cheshire RO, DBN/C/2/4, 5-7.
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