About Edward Brocket
Lived 1490 – 1501 (aged 10–11). Edward Brocket was a politician.
Edward Brocket (1490/91–1558/69), of Broadfield and Letchworth, Hertfordshire, was an English politician.
He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Hertfordshire in 1542? and November 1554. In his role as Sheriff of Hertfordshire, Brocket and his Under-Sheriff, Pulter of Hitchin, bought the Protestant heretic George Tankerfield from Newgate Prison to St Albans for his execution in August 1555.
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