BROOKE, Sir Robert (1573-1646), of Cockfield Hall, Yoxford, Suff. and Walbrook, London

Family and Education

bap. 8 Mar. 1573,Transcript of Regs. of United Pars. of St. Mary Woolnoth and St. Mary Woolchurch Haw ed. M.S. Brooke and A.W.C. Hallen, 302. 1st s. of Robert Brooke, Grocer, of Bucklersbury, London, alderman 1590-1601, and Ursula, da. of Robert Offley, Merchant of the Staple, of Gracechurch Street, London. The Gen. n.s. xix. 227. m. (1) 24 Oct. 1597, Joan (d. 12 May 1618), da. of Sir Humphrey Weld, Grocer, of London, ld. mayor 1608-9, s.p.; St. Mary Le Bow, Cheapside, All Hallows, Honey Lane, and St. Pancras, Soper Lane ed. W.B. Bannerman (Harl. Soc. Reg. xlv), 420; G.E. Cokayne, Some Acct. of Ld. Mayors and Sheriffs of City of London, 40. (2) c.1620 (with £700), Elizabeth (d. 22 July 1683), da. of Thomas Culpeper of Wigsell, Salehurst, Suss., 3s. (1 d.v.p.) 4da. (1 d.v.p.). suc. fa. 1601; Kntd. 9 Jan. 1609. d. 10 July 1646. St. Mary Woolnoth and St. Mary Woolchurch Haw, 321, 323, 381, 389, 393; W.A. Copinger, Manors of Suff. ii. 220; F.W.T. Attree ‘Suss. Colepepers’, Suss. Arch. Colls. xlvii. 65-6; T. Gardner, Hist. Acct. of Dunwich (1754), p. 142; Top. and Gen. i. 491; Add. 19083, f. 285; Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 147.

Offices Held

Commr. piracy, Suff. 1612, 1640, C181/2, f. 174v; 181/5, f. 176. sheriff 1613–14, List of Sheriffs comp. A. Hughes (PRO, L. and I. ix), 132. j.p. 1614 – 12 July 1637, 11 Nov. 1637-at least 1641; C66/1988; 66/2859; Cal. Of Docquets of Ld. Kpr. Coventry ed. J. Broadway, R. Cust and S.K. Roberts (L. and I. Soc. spec. ser. xxxiv-vii), 73–4. commr. sewers 1619, C181/2, f. 349v. subsidy 1621 – 22, 1624 – 25, 1641–2, C212/22/20–1, 23; Harl. 305, f. 206; SR, v. 66, 156. Forced Loan 1627, C193/12/2, f. 55. sea-breaches, Norf. and Suff. 1638, C181/5, f. 103. propositions, Suff. 1642; dep. lt. 1642-at least 1643; LJ, v. 245, 337; Suff. and Gt. Rebellion ed. A. Everitt (Suff. Recs. Soc. iii), 39. commr. assessment, Suff. 1643 – d., levying money 1643, defence of Eastern Assoc. 1643, LJ, v. 658; A. and O. ii. 168, 235, 293, 537, 639. gaol delivery, Suff. 1644, oyer and terminer, Suff. and Bury St. Edmunds, Suff. 1644, C181/5, ff. 232–3v. New Model Ordinance, Suff. 1645; A. and O. i. 624. elder, Halesworth classis, Suff. 1645. W.A. Shaw, Hist. of Eng. Church during Civil Wars and under Commonwealth, ii. 425.

Parlimentarian

BROOKE, Sir Robert (1573-1646), of Cockfield Hall, Yoxford, Suff. and Walbrook, London

Main residences: Cockfield Hall, Yoxford, Suff.; Walbrook, London.

Author

J.P.F.

Volume

Commons 1604-1629

Web Title

BROOKE, Sir Robert (1573-1646)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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