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 Robert Brooke was an English landowner, magistrate, commissioner, administrator and MP who sat in the House of Commons between 1624 and 1629. He made his country seat at Cockfield Hall, Yoxford, S
Elizabeth Brooke (writer)
…her brother Lord Colepeper, politically loyal to the Crown, and her allegiance was therefore to the established Church, but she and her husband, Sir Robert Brooke, lived and worked in close connection with the more Puritan or Presbyterian spirit among the gentry and magistracy of the neighbourhood, and supported…
Arms of Sir Robert Brooke in his second marriage to Elizabeth Colepeper, from his monument at Yoxford, 1683
The Brooke monument at Yoxford, 1683