John Broke
Mayor of Oxford 1512/13 and 1513/14
John Broke (or Brook/Brooke) was an Oxford brewer and a privileged tradesman of the University.
He appears a number of times in the records of the Chancellor’s Court. On 10 January 1504, at his and Thomas Wayte’s request, Pate, the manciple of Exeter College, is suspended for his contumacy in failing to appear. Disputes are twice submitted to his arbitration.
By 23 December 1502 Broke had been elected Bailiff.
Broke first became Mayor on 29 September 1512, and continued as Mayor for the following year until the end of September 1514.
By 1516 Broke was a Justice of the Peace, and by 1518 an Alderman.
An Indenture of 1524 lists the lay subsidy payable by privileged persons of the University. Robert Broke is listed under the "Servientes cum gardiano collegii animarum", and is liable for 4d in wages. He was, however, later discommoned (i.e. deprived of the privilege of dealing with the undergraduates) by the University for proceeding against a certain Thomas Bentley.