BROKE, John (d.c.1417), of Hartfield and East Grinstead, Suss.

Commr. of gaol delivery, Battle May 1378; sewers, Suss. Feb. 1381, Feb. 1382, June 1385, Feb. 1386, July 1389, Feb. 1390, Feb., July 1391, Feb. 1392, Apr. 1393; oyer and terminer Feb. 1393, Oct. 1398; inquiry, Surr., Suss. Mar. 1393 (concealments), Suss. Sept., Nov. 1393 (wastes, Wilmington priory), Hants, Suss. Nov. 1394 (smuggling), Feb. 1397 (wastes, Tregoz estates), Surr., Suss. Apr. 1398 (goods of Thomas, duke of Norfolk), Suss. Oct. 1398 (lands of Ellen Horham and Sir Thomas Salman†); arrest, Surr., Suss. Nov. 1397, Suss. Jan. 1401; to confiscate and sell goods of Richard, late earl of Arundel Apr. 1398; collect an aid, Suss. Dec. 1401.

Steward of the duchy of Lancaster estates, Surr., Suss. 7 Feb. 1381 – bef.Nov. 1393; feodary 24 Oct. 1382-bef. 1392.Somerville, Duchy, i. 379–80; Reg. Gaunt 1379–83, nos. 1087, 1118.

Tax collector, Suss. Nov. 1382.

Escheator, Suss. 4 Feb. – 3 Dec. 1386, 24 Nov. 1394–28 Nov. 1399.

Jt. guardian, temporalities of the bpric. of Chichester 3 Feb.-Mar. 1390.

J.p. Suss. 8 May 1393 – June 1397, 27 July 1397 – Nov. 1399, Surr. 27 July-Nov. 1397.