COKE (COOKE), Henry (1591-1661), of Thorington Hall, Suff.

Family and Education

b. 27 Aug. 1591, 5th but 3rd surv. s. of Sir Edward Coke†, lord chief justice (d. 1634) and Bridget, da. and h. of John Paston of Cookley, Suff.;Harl. 6687A, f. 11; Vis. Suff. 1664-1668 (Harl. Soc. lxi.), 48; Vis. Eng. and Wales Notes ed. J.J. Howard and F.A. Crisp, viii. 108, 110-11; C.W. James, Chief Justice Coke (1929), ped. bro. of Clement† and Sir Robert†. educ. Westminster;Supplementary Vol. to the Rec. of Old Westminsters, ed. J.B. Whitmore and G.R.Y. Radcliffe [1937], 35. Queens’, Camb. 1607;Al. Cant. I. Temple 1 Feb. 1610.I. Temple Admissions database; CITR ii. 48. m. lic. 24 Aug. 1619, Margaret (d. by 1656), da. and h. of Richard Lovelace† of Kingsdown, Kent and Hillingdon, Mdx. 7s. (3 d.v.p.) 3da. (1 d.v.p.).London Mar. Lics. ed. Foster, 304; A.J. Pearman, ‘The Kentish family of Lovelace’, Arch. Cant. xx. 59-61; R. Coke, Detection of the Court and State of Eng. (1694), ii. 57; Regs. of the Par. of Thorington ed. T.S. Hill (1884), 25-6, 71-4, 99; Vis. Eng. and Wales Notes, viii. 111-16. bur. 19 Nov. 1661 19 Nov. 1661.Hill, Thorington, 73.

Offices Held

Local: j.p. Suff. July 1630-aft. Oct. 1642.J. Broadway, R. Cust and S.K. Roberts, ‘Additional docquets of commissions of the peace’, Parl. Hist. xxxii. 232; Suff. RO (Ipswich), B105/2/1, f. 50. Commr. maltsters, 1636;PC2/46, f. 373. sea breaches, Norf. and Suff. 1638; piracy, Suff. 1642;C181/5, ff. 103, 176. assessment, 1642;SR. array (roy.), June 1642.Northants. RO, FH133, unfol.

Civic: freeman, Dunwich 23 Mar. 1640–?d.Suff. RO (Ipswich), EE6/3/3, f. 115v.

: of Thorington Hall, Suff.

COOKE

Likenesses

Likenesses: miniature, unknown.Holkham Hall, Norf.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

COKE (COOKE), Henry (1591-1661), of Thorington Hall, Suff.

Will

prob. died intestate.

Estates

worth £1,500-£2,000 p.a.Soc. Antiq. MS 667, p. 456.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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