Sir ROBERT, an eminent lawyer, son of Thomas Broke, Esq. of Claverly in Shropshire, was educated at Oxford, whence he removed to the Middle Temple. In 1542 he was chosen summer reader, and in 1550 double reader. In 1552 he was made serjeant-at-law; in the year following, lord chief-justice of the common pleas; and about the same time received the honour of knighthood. He was also recorder of London and speaker of the House of Commons. He died in 1558, and was buried at Claverly. Wood gives him the character of a great lawyer and an upright judge.