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
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
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
Robert Brooke (MP for Dunwich)
…present hall, which was considerably modified during the 19th century (including the addition of the third storey). Sir Robert remarried in c 1620 to Elizabeth Brooke (born 1601), daughter of Thomas Colepeper (died 1613) of Great Wigsell in Salehurst, East Sussex. Elizabeth was a niece of Sir Humphrey Weld's widow…
Dame Elizabeth Brooke (1601-1683)
John, Lord Colepeper, Dame Elizabeth Brooke's brother