John Croke
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Sir John Croke (1553 – 23 January 1620) was Speaker of the English House of Commons between October–December 1601. He was a lawyer and judge by profession, and was Recorder of London. Croke won the City of London constituency in his election to the 1601 parliament, and was the last Speaker before the death of Elizabeth I, in 1603.
Croke was mentioned in one of the most famous parliamentary libels of the period, The Censure of the Parliament Fart, which recounted the audible emission of the MP Henry Ludlow in 1607:
- Never was bestowed such art
- Upon the tuning of a Fart.
- Downe came grave auntient Sir John Crooke
- And redd his message in his booke.
- Fearie well, Quoth Sir William Morris, Soe:
- But Henry Ludlowes Tayle cry'd Noe. [...]
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