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b. bef. 1635, 2nd s. of Unton Croke I* of St Aldate’s, Oxford and Marston, Oxon. and Anne (d. 1670), da. and h. of Richard Hore of Marston; bro. of Richard Croke*.Vis. of Oxon. 1566, 1574 and 1634 (Harl. Soc. v), 280-1. educ. I. Temple, 20 May 1647; called 24 Nov. 1653;CITR ii. 276, 308. cr. BCL, Oxf. 5 June 1649.Wood, Fasti, iii. 129. m. (1) Bridget (bur. 27 Feb. 1649), da. of ?Sir Charles Wise; ?2da.; (2) 3 July 1655, Grace or Gracious (bur. 8 Jun. 1691), da. of Nicholas Leach (d. ?1646) of Newton St Petrock, Devon, ?2s (d.v.p.), at least 3 da.St Aldate and St Mary Magdalen, Oxford, and Exeter cathedral regs.; A. Croke, Genealogical Hist. of the Croke Family (1823), 548; Reg. of Burials at the Temple Church ed. H. G. Woods (1905), 27; Vyvyan, Vis. of Devon, 526, 547; PROB11/420/44. bur. 2 Mar. 1694 2 Mar. 1694.Reg. of Burials at the Temple Church, 28.
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Military: soldier (parlian.), Abingdon garrison bef. June 1646.Wood, Fasti, iii. 129; Croke, Genealogical Hist. i. 525. Capt. militia ft. Oxon. 2 Apr. 1650.CSP Dom. 1650, p. 505. Capt.of horse, regt. of Sir Arthur Hesilrige*/James Berry*, Scotland by Apr. 1651; maj. by 22 June 1658; col. of horse Jan.-July 1660.Wanklyn, New Model Army ii. 80, 114, 149, 174; SP28/74, f. 9; SP28/76, ff. 1–166; CJ vii. 637a, 669a, 679a, 805b, 807b, 808a.

Central: commr. sale of royal palace of Woodstock, Oct. 1649.The Woodstock Scuffle (1650, E.587.5); The Just Devil of Woodstock (1661), sig. A1 (E.1055.10).

Diplomatic: member, embassy to Sweden, 1653–4.Add. 53727, f. 119; B. Whitelocke, A Journal of the Swedish Embassy (1772), i. 454; ii. 463; Whitelocke, Diary, 293n.

Local: j.p. Oxon. 8 July 1656 – bef.Oct. 1660; Oxf. 4 Apr. 1659-Mar. 1660.C231/6, pp. 340, 430; C181/6, p. 353; Bodl. MS Rolls Oxon. 61. Commr. assessment, Oxon. 9 June 1657, 26 Jan. 1660.A. and O. Sheriff, 1658-Feb. 1660.List of Sheriffs (L. and I. ix), 110; CSP Dom. 1659–60, p. 366. Commr. militia, 26 July 1659;A. and O. Wilts. by 19 Oct. 1659.CCC 759.

Civic: freeman and bailiff, Oxf. 14 Aug. 1657–24 Mar. 1663.Oxford Council Acts 1626–1665, 22, 224, 306.

Irish: recorder, Cork by 11 Apr. 1663.Bodl. Carte 32, f. 355.

: St Aldate’s, Oxford.
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Commons 1640-1660
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CROKE, Unton II (d.1694), of the Old Palace, St Aldate’s, Oxford.

Will
7 Feb., pr. 4 May 1694.PROB11/420/44.
Estates
£200 p.a. estate granted 9 May 1655, specified 19 Sept. 1659 as two farms at Little Battington and Williborne, Wilts.;Ludlow, Mems. i. 406; CCC 747. lease from Merton College at Chetwode, Bucks. to c.1665; land at Headington Wick, near Oxford, c.1665-87;Vis. Oxon. 1669 and 1675 (Harl. Soc. n.s. xii), 84; Wood, Life and Times, iii. 246. residence bef. and property from 1671, part of Old Palace, St Aldate’s, Oxford, sold bef. 1679;Remarks and Collections of Thomas Hearne x ed. Doble, 224; VCH Oxon. iv. 97. lease of Great Island, co. Wexford.Bodl. Carte 161, f. 158.
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