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Brooke |
 | | For example, Robert TAYLOR accused Robert Brooke of “DeLa Brooke Manor” of killing “divers of his hogs.” Brooke sued Cuthbert FENWICK for killing some of Brooke's swine, and was especially upset over the loss of a large boar, which, he said, defended the rest of his hogs from wolves. |
 | | There is an account of a John Brooke, "chirurgeon", who, as part of his professional work had to perform a crude autopsy on the corpse of a servant suspected of being beaten to death by his master. |
 | | Richard Brooke's birth year of 1530 is given in "The Brooke Family", in Maryland Genealogies from the Maryland Historical Magazine: A Consolidation of Articles from the Maryland Historical Magazine, indexed by Thomas L. Hollowick, 2 vols., 1:91, citing the Hampshire Visitation of 1634, published in Berry's Hampshire Genealogies, 339. |
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