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BROOKE, Sir John (1575-1660), of Dean’s Yard, Westminster and Heckington, Lincs.

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Family and Education

b. 15 Aug. 1575,C142/235/89. 2nd s. of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham† (d.1592) of Sutton at Hone, Kent, and Anne, da. of Sir Henry Sutton of Averham, Notts. Vis. Notts. (Harl. Soc. iv), 143-4. educ. travelled ‘the best parts of Christendom’; embassy, Brussels 1605; NLW, Carreglwyd mss I/643; G. Holles, Holles Fam. Mems. ed. A.C. Wood (Cam. Soc. ser. 3. lv), 111-12; HMC Portland, ix. 95, 98. L. Inn 1614. LI Admiss. m. (1) bef. 21 Jan. 1609, CP, iii. 338. Anne (bur. 23 Feb. 1625), Kensington Par. Reg. (Harl. Soc. xvi), 107. da. of one Milner, wid. of Thomas Redman, proctor, of Knightrider Street, London, 1s. d.v.p.; PROB 11/145, f. 117. (2) 16 May 1628, Frances (d. 13 Dec. 1676), T. Allen, Lincs. i. 347; ii. 273. da. of Sir William Bampfield* of Drury Lane, Westminster, 2s. d.v.p. J.P. Malcolm, Londinium Redivivum, ii. 217; St. Martin-in-the-Fields Par. Reg. (Harl. Soc. lxvi), 263. Kntd. bef. 30 Oct. 1597; M.F. Keeler, Long Parl. 116. suc. bro. 1611; Chamberlain Letters ed. N.E. McClure, i. 306. cr. Bar. Cobham 3 Jan. 1645. CP, iii. 338. bur. 20 May 1660. Northants. N and Q, iii. 211.

Offices Held

Capt. ft. 1595, horse 1599; APC, 1596–7, pp. 194,199,1597–8, pp. 52, 566; 1598–9, pp. 140, 447; CSP Ire. 1598–9, pp. 452, 487, 497, 498; 1599–1600, p. 78; HMC Hatfield, v. 406; vi. 477, 523, ix. 146. col. Mdx. levies 1601; APC, 1600–1, p. 156. lt. Dover Castle 1615; CSP Dom. 1611–18, p. 295. standard-bearer of the army 1639; Ibid. 1639, p. 99. capt. Holy Is. 1642. Ibid. 1641–3, p. 237.

Esq. of the Body by 1599-at least 1603; Chamberlain Letters, i. 65–6; LC2/4/4, f. 47v. gent. of the privy chamber by 1605-bef. 1612; HMC Hatfield, xxiv. 63. commr. aliens 1622, T. Rymer, Foedera, vii. pt. 3, p. 239; Ibid. pt. 4, p. 31. trade 1622, 1625; Ibid. vii. pt. 4, p.11; Ibid. viii. pt. 1, p. 59. member, Council of War 1628; CSP Dom. 1627–8, p. 563. commr. Crown lands compositions 1630, C231/5, p. 27; CSP Dom. 1629–31, p. 186. gov. Virg. plantation 1631, Rymer, viii. pt. 3, p. 192. regulation of starch manufacture 1631, Ibid. 217. reform of drapery abuses 1639. CSP Dom. 1638–9, p. 355.

Cttee. Virg. Co. 1609–24; Recs. Virg. Co. ed. S.M. Kingsbury, ii. 136; iv. 363. member, Council for New Eng. 1620. A. Brown, Genesis of US, ii. 834.

J.p. Mdx. 1614–22, SP14/33; C193/13/1. Yorks. (N. Riding) 1617–22, C231/4, f. 35. Lincs. (Kesteven and Holland) 1630–?43; C231/5, p. 36; SP16/405; HMC 5th Rep. 100. assoc. bencher, L. Inn 1626; LI Black Bks. ii. 261. commr. sewers, Lincs. 1631, C181/4, ff. 39v, 53 collector for repair of St. Paul’s Cathedral 1633, GL, ms 25475/1, f. 14. commr. array 1642. Northants. RO, FH133.