Elizabeth Brooke (writer)
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Elizabeth Brooke, also known as Lady Brooke or Dame Elizabeth Brooke, was an English religious writer, part of whose writing of Christian precepts survives, and was matriarch of a landed manorial fami
Dame Elizabeth Brooke (1601-1683)
Cockfield Hall, Yoxford
John, Lord Colepeper, Dame Elizabeth Brooke's brother
Memorial inscription for John Brooke, 1652, with Brooke and Barnardiston arms
Sir Charles Blois, 1st Baronet, of Grundisburgh Hall and Cockfield Hall, Yoxford, Suffolk, was a British Tory politician who sat in the English House of Commons and the House of Commons of Great Brita
Elizabeth Brooke (writer)
…it, but also recovered again in a great measure her former Chearfulness." Through all this her unmarried daughter Mary remained with her, and young Charles Blois became the expected heir. Dame Elizabeth was harassed by lawsuits, though these were eventually decided in her favour. She became deaf in 1675, and…
Portrait of Sir Charles Blois by William Aikman