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320 COBHAM. Oct. 1592, at Cobham, and was bur. there. Fun. cortif. in tho Coll. of Arms. The death (24 Jany. 1590/7) of his da. Elizabeth, wife of tho celebrated Robert Cecil, affected him much, and he himself d. 6 March !.>!>fi/7, and was itir, in Cobham church. Will dat. 24 Fob. end scaled 1 March 1598/7, pr. 23 May 159". XI. 1597. 11, Henry (Brooke), Lord Cobham, 2nd but 1st suit. to s. and h.,(») was b. 22 Nov. 1504, at Cobham Hall. He was sum. to 1603. Part 24 Oct. (1697) 88 Kliz. to 27 Oct. (1602)4.1 Eliz. Warden of Cinque Ports, 1598 ; el. K G- 23 April, Mid iust. 6 June 1599. He sumptuously entertained the Qtieeu ;it his house at Blaekfriars, 16 ■Tune 1600. Being " but one degree from a fool,"( b ) " a worthless mortal, known to have neither honour, virtue, principle, or veracity,"^) he was arrested in .Inly 1603, togetlier with his br. George Brooke, Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Griffin Markham, and Lord Grey de Wilton, as being involved in a plot against the King, called " the treason of the Matne."^) His dastardly behaviour at his trial is well-known. He was condemned to death, and attainted when his honours became forjitcd.{<) His exe- cution, however, was never carried out, and he was, on 15 Dee. 1003, re-committed to the Tower of London, and (though, for bis health, he bad in 1018 been allowed a journey to Bath), he d. there, or possibly (near there), in the Minories, 24 Jany. 1018/9, the place of his burial being unknown. He d, s.p., but he had m, (contract 27 May 1001), Frances, Dow. Countess ok Kildarf. [I.], 2nd da. of Charles (Howard), 1st Earl ok Nottingham, by his 1st wife, Katherine, da, of Henry (Cary), Baron Hdnsdon. This lady, who was b. before 1572, and who became a widow 30 May 1597, took no notice whatever of her husband, after his trial, but lived in solitary state at Cobham Hall,! 1 ") which, with other his lands, had, on 13 May 1001, Keen granted to her for life by the King. She was bur. in Westm. Abbey, U July 162S. Will dat 21 June 102S, pr. 8 July 162S. The peerage had, as afsd., been forfeited, long before, viz. in 1003. [William Brooke, who Imt for the attainder would have, been Lord COBHAU, and who, occasionally, has been so designated, nephew and h., being s. and h. of George Brooke (attainted and executed for high treason, 5 Dec. 1603) by F.lizabeth, da. of Thomas (Burgh or Borough)), Lord Burgh de Gavnesrouo, which George Brooke was br. to the last Lord Cobham. He was b. 1598, and by Act of Pari. (7 Jac.) 1010, was restored in blood and to some small portion of the estate at Cowling and elsewhere, but a clause was added that he should not claim any of the property of his Father or of his uncle Henry, Lord Cobham, and that he was " not to enjoy the title of Lord Cobham without the King's special grace," which was never vouchsafed to him. He was K.B., 1 Feb. 1025/0, at the coronation of Charles I, and was K.P. for Rochester, 1G2S. He m. firstly, Pembroke, da. of Henry (Lkn.vakd), Lord Daukk, by CrisogOB, da. of Sir Richard Bakeji. He m. secondly, before 1012, Penelope, da. of Sir Moyses Hill of Hillsborough, bo. Down, Provost Marshal of Ulster, by his 1st wife Alice, sister of Sorley Boje MacDonnel. He d. s.p.m., fighting against bis King, from wounds received at the first battle of Newbury, 20 Sep. 1043, when the right to the (") His eldest br. Maximilian, was b. 4 Dec. 1560, at the Blaekfriars, London, and bap. the 0th at Westni. Palace, the Queen (who was present), William (Parr), Marquess of Northampton, and the " Yonnge Erie of Arundell " being the Sponsors. He had good abilities, but d. nam. and v.p. nt Naples, 5 Dee. 1583, aged 23, and was four. (°) Weldon's "James I." ( c j Carte, as quoted in Brydges' " Peers, temp. James I." C) The main plot (so called to be distinguished from the bye plot) was alleged to be to kill " the King and his cubs " and to place Arabella Stuart on the throne. (°) On 16 Feb. 1003/4 his achievement as K.G was taken down and kicked out of St. George's Chapel, Windsor. See a list of Knights of the Garter who have been degraded, ante, p. 04, note " i." (■) The reversion of this noble mansion was granted by James I to bis cousin Ludovie (Stuart), Duke of Richmond, in which family it remained till the death of Katharine (Stuart), suo jure, Baroness Clifton of Leighton Bromswold, when it passed (with that title, which see) to her descendants who still possess it, being, now, Earl of Darnley [I.]