BROOKE, a parish in the hundred of CLAVERING,
county of NORFOLK, 7 miles (s. E. by S.) from Norwich,
containing 640 inhabitants. The living is a discharged
vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Norfolk, and diocese
of Norwich, rated in the king's books at £5, endowed
with £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the
Crown. The church is dedicated to St. Peter. This
lordship was anciently part of the possessions belonging
to the abbey of St. Edmund's Bury, and the abbot,
in the 52nd of Henry III., pleaded exemption from
the jurisdiction of the king's bailiff: in the 10th of
Edward I. he received a grant of a market and a fair.