# Edward Brocket > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Edward_Brocket > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Edward_Brocket.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Brocket > Source revision: 1336942751 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{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](/source/Broadfield%2C_Hertfordshire) and [Letchworth](/source/Letchworth), [Hertfordshire](/source/Hertfordshire), was an English politician. He was a [Member](/source/Member_of_Parliament) (MP) of the [Parliament of England](/source/Parliament_of_England) for [Hertfordshire](/source/Hertfordshire_(UK_Parliament_constituency)) in 1542? and November 1554.{{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}} In his role as [Sheriff of Hertfordshire](/source/Sheriff_of_Hertfordshire), Brocket and his Under-Sheriff, Pulter of Hitchin, bought the Protestant heretic [George Tankerfield](/source/George_Tankerfield) from [Newgate Prison](/source/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}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Brocket, Edward}} Category:1490s births Category:16th-century deaths Category:Members of the Parliament of England (pre-1707) for Hertfordshire Category:English MPs 1542–1544 Category:English MPs 1554–1555 Category:Shrievalties of English counties {{1554-2-England-MP-stub}} {{1542-England-MP-stub}} --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Edward Brocket](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Brocket) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Brocket?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.