Elizabeth Brooke (writer)
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 family in East Suffolk, East Anglia, during the English Civil War and Restoration periods.
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
John Colepeper, 1st Baron Colepeper
John Colepeper, 1st Baron Culpeper was an English peer, military officer and politician who, as Chancellor of the Exchequer (1642–43) and Master of the Rolls (1643) was an influential counsellor of King Charles I during the English Civil War, who rewarded him with a peerage and some landholdings in Virginia. During the Commonwealth he lived abroad in Europe, where he continued to act as a servant, advisor and supporter of King Charles II in exile. Having taken part in the Prince's escape into exile in 1646, Colepeper accompanied Charles in his triumphant return to England in May 1660, but died only two months later. Although descended from Colepepers of Bedgebury, Sir John was of a distinct cadet branch settled at Wigsell in the parish of Salehurst.
Lord Colepeper
Great Wigsell manor house, rebuilt after it was sold by John Colepeper in 1623
Edward Hyde, c. 1643