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| Name |
John CROOKE AKA CROKE |
| Prefix |
Dr. |
| Born |
Abt 1508/1509 |
St Peter, Winchester, Hampshire  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Person ID |
I20124 |
Young Kent Ancestors |
| Last Modified |
20 Mar 2022 |
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| Notes |
- John Crooke (Croke), Doctor of Civil Law, was born 1508/9 in in the parish of St Peter, Winchester, Hants, and educated in Winchester College before admission to New College Oxford in 1526, where he was elected Fellow. He took the degree BCL in 1534 and DCL in 1543, in which year he was admitted to the College of Advocates. [1]
His career in the law was notable: beginning as a notary public, he was an advocate of the Court of Arches and advocate-general. He was vicar-general of the diocese of London, and a canon and prebendary of St Paul's Cathedral. At some point about 1547, he sat in Parliament. [2]
By 1547, he had married Dorothy, daughter of John Theobald of Seal, Kent. Their marriage produced one daughter, Dorothy Crooke, who married [[Honeywood-2|Robert Honywood] as his first wife.
John Croke died in 1551. [2]
Note:
Not to be confused with Sir John Croke of Chilton, two of whose sons married sisters of Robert Honywood aforesaid.
Sources:
1. "Covert-Cutts." Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714. Ed. Joseph Foster. Oxford: University of Oxford, 1891. 338-365. British History Online. Web. 21 September 2021.
2. 2.0 2.1 History of Parliament Online: Croke, John. Croke
A Biographical Encyclopedia of Early Modern Englishwomen: Exemplary Lives ...
edited by Carole Levin, Anna Riehl Bertolet, Jo Eldridge Carney, p. 327
"Mary Glover (fl. 1602)
On 18 October 1602, John Crooke, the chief legal officer for Inner Temple heated a needle and put it near the eye of Mary Glover; she did not flinch. Crooke also burned a paper by her hand so close that blisters formed, and again Mary did not flinch. Crooke was testing Mary's accusations that Elizabeth Jackson, an elderly charwoman, had bewitched her. These experiment, along with Mary's reaction to the real Elizabeth and not to a woman dressed like Elizabeth convinced Crooke that Mary was indeed bewitched.....Following John Crooke's experiments, the trial against Elizabeth occurred on December 1. Elizabeth was found guilty and sentenced to one year in prison with time spent in the pillories."
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