BROOKE, a parish in the soke of OAKHAM, county
of RUTLAND, 3 miles (S. S. W.) from Oakham, containing
110 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy,
in the archdeaconry of Northampton, and diocese of Peterborough,
and in the patronage of the Vicar of Oak
ham. The church is dedicated to St. Peter. A small priory
for- canons regular of the order of St. Augustine was
founded by Hugh Ferrars, in the time of Richard L, as
a cell to the monastery of Kenilworth in Warwickshire,
and dedicated to the Blessed Virgin: the revenue, in
the 26th of-Henry VIII., was valued at £43. 13. 4.:
only an archway remains.