Edward Brocket

{{short description|16th-century English politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2018}} {{Use British English|date=February 2018}} '''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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/brocket-edward-149091-155869|title=BROCKET, Edward (1490/91-1558/69), of Broadfield and Letchworth, Herts. - History of Parliament Online|website=www.historyofparliamentonline.org}}</ref> 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.{{sfn|Wigram|1926|p=179}}

==References== {{reflist}} *{{cite book |last=Wigram|first=Edgar T. A.|title=Transactions of the St Albans Architectural and Archaeological Society (1926)|year=1926|url=https://www.stalbanshistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1926_01_.pdf| access-date=2026-01-26|pages=177-180}}

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