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b. bef. 1635, 2nd s. of Unton Croke I* of St Aldate’s, Oxford and Marston, Oxon. and Anne (d. 1670), da. and h. of Richard Hore of Marston; bro. of Richard Croke*.Vis. of Oxon. 1566, 1574 and 1634 (Harl. Soc. v), 280-1. educ. I. Temple, 20 May 1647; called 24 Nov. 1653;CITR ii. 276, 308. cr. BCL, Oxf. 5 June 1649.Wood, Fasti, iii. 129. m. (1) Bridget (bur. 27 Feb. 1649), da. of ?Sir Charles Wise; ?2da.; (2) 3 July 1655, Grace or Gracious (bur. 8 Jun. 1691), da. of Nicholas Leach (d. ?1646) of Newton St Petrock, Devon, ?2s (d.v.p.), at least 3 da.St Aldate and St Mary Magdalen, Oxford, and Exeter cathedral regs.; A. Croke, Genealogical Hist. of the Croke Family (1823), 548; Reg. of Burials at the Temple Church ed. H. G. Woods (1905), 27; Vyvyan, Vis. of Devon, 526, 547; PROB11/420/44. bur. 2 Mar. 1694 2 Mar. 1694.Reg. of Burials at the Temple Church, 28.
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soldier (parlian.), Abingdon garrison bef. June 1646.Wood, Fasti, iii. 129; Croke, Genealogical Hist. i. 525. Capt. militia ft. Oxon. 2 Apr. 1650.CSP Dom. 1650, p. 505. Capt.of horse, regt. of Sir Arthur Hesilrige*/James Berry*, Scotland by Apr. 1651; maj. by 22 June 1658; col. of horse Jan.-July 1660.Wanklyn, New Model Army ii. 80, 114, 149, 174; SP28/74, f. 9; SP28/76, ff. 1–166; CJ vii. 637a, 669a, 679a, 805b, 807b, 808a.

commr. sale of royal palace of Woodstock, Oct. 1649.The Woodstock Scuffle (1650, E.587.5); The Just Devil of Woodstock (1661), sig. A1 (E.1055.10).

member, embassy to Sweden, 1653–4.Add. 53727, f. 119; B. Whitelocke, A Journal of the Swedish Embassy (1772), i. 454; ii. 463; Whitelocke, Diary, 293n.

j.p. Oxon. 8 July 1656 – bef.Oct. 1660; Oxf. 4 Apr. 1659-Mar. 1660.C231/6, pp. 340, 430; C181/6, p. 353; Bodl. MS Rolls Oxon. 61. Commr. assessment, Oxon. 9 June 1657, 26 Jan. 1660.A. and O. Sheriff, 1658-Feb. 1660.List of Sheriffs (L. and I. ix), 110; CSP Dom. 1659–60, p. 366. Commr. militia, 26 July 1659;A. and O. Wilts. by 19 Oct. 1659.CCC 759.

freeman and bailiff, Oxf. 14 Aug. 1657–24 Mar. 1663.Oxford Council Acts 1626–1665, 22, 224, 306.

recorder, Cork by 11 Apr. 1663.Bodl. Carte 32, f. 355.

Parlimentarian
CROKE, Unton II (d.1694), of the Old Palace, St Aldate’s, Oxford.
St Aldate’s, Oxford.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
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CROKE, Unton II (d.1694), of the Old Palace, St Aldate’s, Oxford.

Will
7 Feb., pr. 4 May 1694.PROB11/420/44.
Estates
£200 p.a. estate granted 9 May 1655, specified 19 Sept. 1659 as two farms at Little Battington and Williborne, Wilts.;Ludlow, Mems. i. 406; CCC 747. lease from Merton College at Chetwode, Bucks. to c.1665; land at Headington Wick, near Oxford, c.1665-87;Vis. Oxon. 1669 and 1675 (Harl. Soc. n.s. xii), 84; Wood, Life and Times, iii. 246. residence bef. and property from 1671, part of Old Palace, St Aldate’s, Oxford, sold bef. 1679;Remarks and Collections of Thomas Hearne x ed. Doble, 224; VCH Oxon. iv. 97. lease of Great Island, co. Wexford.Bodl. Carte 161, f. 158.
Oxford 1644
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