Edward Brocket
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.[1] 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.[2]
References
[edit]- ↑ "BROCKET, Edward (1490/91-1558/69), of Broadfield and Letchworth, Herts. - History of Parliament Online". www.historyofparliamentonline.org.
- ↑ Wigram 1926, p. 179.
- Wigram, Edgar T. A. (1926). Transactions of the St Albans Architectural and Archaeological Society (1926) (PDF). pp. 177–180. Retrieved 26 January 2026.
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