BROOKE, Sir John (1575-1660), of Heckington, Lincs.

Family and Education

b. 15 Aug. 1575, 2nd s. of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham† (d. c.Jan. 1592) of Sutton at Hone, Kent, and Anne (d. Jan. 1612), da. of Sir Henry Sutton of Averham, Notts.C142/235/89; CP iii. 338-9; Vis. Notts. (Harl. Soc. iv), 143-4. educ. travelled ‘the best parts of Christendom’;G. Holles, Mems. of the Holles Fam. ed. A.C. Wood (Cam. Soc. ser. 3, lv), 111-12. embassy, Brussels 1605;HMC Portland, ix. 95, 98. L. Inn 6 Aug. 1614.LI Admiss. i. 167. m. (1) bef. 21 Jan. 1609, Anne (bur. 23 Feb. 1625), da. of one Milner, wid. of Thomas Redman, proctor, of Knightrider Street, London, 1s. d.v.p.; (2) 16 May 1628, Frances (d. 13 Dec. 1676), da. of Sir William Bamfield† of Drury Lane, Westminster, 2s. d.v.p. PROB11/145, f. 117; Kensington Par. Reg. (Harl. Soc. par. reg. section xvi), 107; St Martin-in-the-Fields Par. Reg. (Harl. Soc. par. reg. section lxvi), 263; J.P. Malcolm, Londinium Redivivum (1803), ii. 217; T. Allen, Hist. of the County of Lincoln (1834), i. 347; CP. Kntd. c. May 1597;CSP Dom. 1595-7, p. 525; Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 94. suc. bro. Oct. 1611;Chamberlain Lttrs. ed. N.E. McClure (Philadelphia, 1939), i. 306. cr. Baron Cobham 3 Jan. 1645.CP. bur. 20 May 1660.‘Wakerley par. regs.’, Northants. N and Q, iii. 211.

Offices Held

Military: capt. of ft. by 1595;HMC Hatfield, v. 406. capt. of horse, 1599;HMC Hatfield, ix. 146. col. Mdx levies, 1601.APC 1600–1, p. 156. Lt. Dover Castle 1614–15.S.P.H. Statham, Hist. of the Castle, Town, and Port of Dover (1899), 409, 411; Lttrs. from George Lord Carew to Sir Thomas Roe (Cam. Soc. lxxvi), 12; CSP Dom. 1611–18, p. 295. Standard-bearer, royal army by Apr. 1639–?CSP Dom. 1639, p. 99. Capt. Holy Is. 4 Jan. 1642–?CSP Dom. 1641–3, p. 237.

Central: esq. of the body by 1599-c.1603;LC2/4/4, f. 47v; Chamberlain Lttrs. ed. McClure, i. 65–6. gent. of privy chamber by July 1605-bef. 1612.HMC Hatfield, xvii. 335; xxiv. 63. Member, council for New England, 1620.T.K. Rabb, Enterprise and Empire (Cambridge, MA, 1967), 254; A. Brown, Genesis of the United States (Cambridge, MA, 1890), 834. Commr. aliens, 1622;Rymer, Foedera, vii. pt. 3, p. 239. trade, 1622, 1625.Rymer, Foedera, vii. pt. 4, p. 11; viii. pt. 1, p. 59. Member, council of war, 1628.CSP Dom. 1627–8, p. 563. Commr. crown lands compositions, 1630;BRL, 602204/218; CSP Dom. 1629–31, p. 186. plantation of Virg. 1631;Rymer, Feodera, viii. pt. 3, p. 192. regulation of starch manufacture, 1631;Rymer, Feodera, viii. pt. 3, p. 217. reform of drapery abuses, 1639.CSP Dom. 1638–9, p. 355.

Mercantile: member, Virg. Co. cttee. 1609–24.Recs. Virginia Co. ed. S.M. Kingsbury (Washington, 1906), ii. 136.

Local: j.p. Mdx. 1614-bef. Nov. 1621;C66/1988. Yorks. (N. Riding) 24 Feb. 1617-bef. 1626;C231/4, f. 35; C193/13/1, f. 35v. Lincs. (Kesteven, Holland) 26 June 1630–?44.C231/5, p. 36. Commr. sewers, Lincs., Lincoln and Newark hundred 26 Nov. 1629-aft. Feb. 1642;C181/4, ff. 39v, 154v; C181/5, ff. 149, 223. East, West and Wildmore Fens, Lincs. 26 Mar. 1630-aft. Mar. 1638;C181/4, ff. 46, 149; C181/5, ff. 42, 111v. Hatfield Chase Level 30 June 1635-aft. Dec. 1637;C181/5, ff. 16v, 87. Holland Fen 16 Mar. 1637;C181/5, f. 66. Deeping and Gt. Level 30 Mar. 1638-aft. Dec. 1641;C181/5, ff. 101v, 181v, 215. repair of St Paul’s Cathedral, Lincs. 1 June 1633;LMA, CLC/313/I/B/005/MS25475/001, f. 14v. swans, 26 June 1635;C181/5, f. 14. further subsidy, Kesteven 1641; poll tax, 1641; assessment, 1642;SR. array (roy.), Lincs. 4 July 1642.Northants. RO, FH133.

Legal: associate bencher, L. Inn 22 May 1626.LI Black Bks. ii. 261.

Parlimentarian

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

: of Heckington, Lincs.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

BROOKE, Sir John (1575-1660), of Heckington, Lincs.

Will

not found.

Estates

inherited a third share of his fa.’s estate in Kent, inc. manors of Boughton, Repton Magna and Repton Parva and Sutton at Hone.C142/235/89. In 1646, estate consisted of manor and parsonage of Heckington, Lincs. worth £850 p.a. (which he had mortgaged in 1638 for £7,000, paying rent of £560 p.a.); manor and park of Cooling, Kent, worth £794 p.a.; messuages and lands in Cliffe, East and West Chalk and Frindsbury, Kent, worth £594 12s p.a.; and a lease for the term of 7 years yet to come of a house in Covent Garden at rent of £65 p.a. which he had sub-let for £20 p.a.SP23/193, pp. 503-4, 509-17; CJ v. 194a. In 1648, sold to James, duke of Richmond and Lennox for £12,700 (or £17,419), all his freehold lands in Kent (nine manors and lordships, two farms, plus other lands) and Essex (two manors) – in all, worth betw. £1,200 and £1,400 p.a.C6/106/139; C9/41/70; SP19/155, ff. 208, 210; CCAM 1389; Hasted, Kent, iii. 461; W. A. S. Robertson, ‘Six wills relating to Cobham Hall’, Arch. Cantiana, xi. 206-7.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

40-1 King Street, Covent Garden, St Martin-in-the Fields, Westminster (1633-43).Survey of London, xxxvi. 152, 305. Wallingford House, Westminster (1648-50).E. Cust, ‘James Stuart, duke of Lennox and Richmond, of Cobham Hall’, Arch. Cantiana, xii. 96.

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