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
Robert Brooke (MP for Dunwich)
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, Suffolk.
Arms of Sir Robert Brooke in his second marriage to Elizabeth Colepeper, from his monument at Yoxford, 1683
Cockfield Hall, Yoxford, where rebuilt by Robert Brooke, c. 1615 (but since modified), with a gable of the old hall of the Hoptons to the right
The Brooke monument at Yoxford, 1683
Memorial inscription for John Brooke, 1652, with Brooke and Barnardiston arms