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BROOKE, Giles (c.1553-1614), of Water Street, Liverpool, Lancs.

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b. c. 1553, s. of Alexander Brooke, yeoman, of Horwich, Lancs. educ. appr. to George Rainforth, merchant of Liverpool, 1567-74.Liverpool Town Bk. ed. J.A. Twemlow, i. 272 n. 14; ii. 153-4. m. Ellen, 2s. 2da. Lancs. RO, WCW, Giles Brooke, will and inventory, 1614. d. 1614. Ibid. sig. Gyles Broo[c]ke.
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Freeman, Liverpool 1574, Twemlow, ii. 470–1. merchant praiser 1583, Ibid. ii. 461. bailiff 1584–5, Ibid. portmoot ct. juryman and alderman c.1578-d., 1592 – 93 Ibid. ii. 295, passim. mayor, 1601–2. Ibid. ii. 650, 804.

Member, French Co. 1611. Select Charters of Trading Cos. ed. C.T. Carr (Selden Soc. xxviii), 67.

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BROOKE, Giles (c.1553-1614), of Water Street, Liverpool, Lancs.
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BROOKE, Christopher (c.1570-1628), of York, Yorks. and Lincoln’s Inn, London; later of Drury Lane, Westminster

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b. c.1570, 1st s. of Robert Brooke†, merchant and alderman of York, 1579-99, and Jane, da. of Christopher Maltby, draper of York.I. Walton, Life of Dr. Donne ed. H.K. Causton, 28-9. educ. ?Camb.; L. Inn 1587, called 1595. Procs. 1614 (Commons), 343; LI Admiss.; LI Black Bks. ii. 35. m. 18 Dec. 1619, Mary (bur. 26 Nov. 1622), wid. of Sir Robert Jacob, solicitor gen. [I] 1606-18, of Southampton, Hants, 1s. St. Martin-in-the-Fields (Harl. Soc. Reg. lxvi), 131, 176. suc. fa. 1599. Borthwick, Reg. Test. 27, f. 596. bur. 7 Feb. 1628 7 Feb. 1628. GL, ms 6673/2. sig. Chr[istopher] Brooke.
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Freeman, York 1603, dep. recorder 1608–16; Freemen of York ed. F. Collins (Surtees Soc. cii), 49; York City Archives, house bk. 33, f. 137; 34, f. 84. bencher, L. Inn 1610 – d., reader 1614, kpr. Black Bk. 1620 – 21, treas. 1623–4; LI Black Bks. ii. 135, 158, 218, 246. justice, Council in the North 1626–d.R. Reid, Council in the North, 498.

Cttee. Virg. Co. 1609–24. T.K. Rabb, Enterprise and Empire, 254; Recs. Virg. Co. ed. S.M. Kingsbury, ii. 499.

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BROOKE, Christopher (c.1570-1628), of York, Yorks. and Lincoln’s Inn, London; later of Drury Lane, Westminster
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BROOKE, Sir William (by 1602-1643), of Cooling Park, Kent.

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b. by 1602, Age calculated from date of admiss. to univ. o.s. of George Brooke of Cobham, Kent, and Elizabeth, da. of Thomas, 5th Lord Burgh. educ. St. John’s, Camb. 1616. m. (1) 17 Sept. 1623, Pembroke, da. of Henry Lennard, 12th Lord Dacre, of Hurstmonceaux, Suss. 2da.; (2) aft. Mar. 1627, Penelope (bur. 12 July 1694), da. of Sir Moyses Hill of Hillsborough Castle, co. Down, provost marshal of Ulster, 3da. Arch. Cant. xi. 208; Al. Cant.; CP sub Cobham; J. Cave-Browne, Story of Hollingborne, 81; J.P. Malcolm, Londinium Redivum, ii. 205. suc. fa. 1603; cr. KB 1 Feb. 1626. Shaw, Knights of Eng. i. 162. d. by 28 Sept. 1643.
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Asst. bridge warden, Rochester 1625 – d., snr. warden 1626, 1633, 1640; Traffic and Pols. ed. N. Yates and J.M. Gibson, 294. commr. sewers, Rainham bridge to Mucking mill, Essex 1627, Kent and Suss. 1629; C181/3, f. 233; 181/4, f. 32. freeman, Rochester 1628; Medway Archives, customal, new f. 48. j.p. Kent 1629–d.; C231/4, f. 263; PRO 30/26/104, f. 23. commr. charitable uses, Kent 1632 – at least33, 1637, C93/14/17; 192/1, unfol. assessment, 1641, Poll Tax 1642, SR, v. 85, 107, 152; A. and O. i. 92. array, 1642; Northants. RO, FH133. dep. lt. Kent 1642; CJ, ii. 724a. commr. sequestration of delinquents, 1643, levying money, 1643. A. and O. i. 113, 149, 231.

Col. of ft. (parl.) 1643–d. A. Everitt, ‘Acct. bk. of cttee. of Kent’, Seventeenth-Cent. Misc. (Kent Recs. xvii), 144.

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BROMLEY, Sir Thomas (c.1585-1641), of Holt Castle, Worcs. and Shrawardine Castle, Salop

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b. c. 1585, 1st s. of Sir Henry Bromley* of Shrawardine Castle and Elizabeth da. of Sir Thomas Pelham of Eythropp, Bucks.Suss. Gens.: Lewes Cent. comp. J. Comber, 206; Nash, Worcs. i. 595. educ. Queen’s, Oxf. 1600, aged 15. Al. Ox. m. (1) settlement c.1606-7, C2/Chas.I/F39/32.Anne (d. by 1617), C2/Jas.I/S35/13. da. of Sir Richard Walsh of Shelsley Walsh Worcs., 2s. 2da.; Nash, i. 595. (2) 14 Apr. 1635, Katherine, wid. of one Copinger, s.p. Soc. Gen. microfiche WO/REG/95100/1-4. Kntd. 23 July 1603; Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 126. suc. fa. 1615. WARD 7/55/245. bur. 10 Sept. 1641 10 Sept. 1641. Soc. Gen. microfiche WO/REG/95100/1-4.
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