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control the political opposition, including the Church and King Club and the
Association for the Protection of Liberty and Property Against Republicans and Levelers. In 1792, he was appointed Steward of the Manor of Aston, in which capacity he secured the election of a churchman as Low Bailiff, a position which had been customarily filled by a dissenter. The legality of this proceeding was vigorously challenged and ultimately reversed, thus maintaining the popular franchise against the Lord and his nominated officer.
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There is some evidence that the episode represented the deliberate unleashing of a looting, drunken, unruly mob by the magistrates against the dissenters and the reformers, in an attempt to check their new political aggressiveness in
Birmingham. Numerous affidavits providing evidence that Brooke,
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Following the riots, the government in London erected military barracks at a number of nerve centers throughout the nation. In
Birmingham, Brooke made four acres of land available, next to Ashted Chapel, for military barracks. Brooke also helped to organize associations designed to observe and
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Meredith of Birmingham. He was admitted to the King’s Bench at Westminster and practiced in Birmingham. As an attorney, he acted as secretary to various organizations in Birmingham, most notably, to the
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Society in Late Eighteenth Century Birmingham,” a dissertation submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the University of Cambridge, Sidney Sussex College, December 1977, p.
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Elizabeth Green and was father to John Rose Brooke, Mathilda Brooke, and Henry Brooke. He died on 26 June 1802, at the age of 47, and was buried in Aston Parish Church.
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