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32 BROOKE. Robert, 2ud Lord Willouoiiby de BROOKE (alluded to in the article next above) by Elizabeth, ( a ) 1st da. and coheir of Richard (BBADCBAIIP), Baron Beauchamp of Powyk, was b. 1554 ; ed. at Shrewsbury School and at Trin. Coll. ; was Geut. of the Privy Chamber, Clerk of the Signet to the Council of Wales, 15S1 ; M.P. for co. Warwick, 1586-1603 ; cr. M.A. of Oxford 11 April 15SS ; Ranger of Wedguock Park, 1597, of which estate in 1601 he obtained the grant from the Queen, with whom he Ltood high in favour. Treasurer of the Navy, 1598-1604 ; Rear Admira] of the Fleet, 1590 ; K.B. at the Coronation, 24 July 1603 ; Sec. to the Council of Wales, 1603. In 1604 he received a grant of Warwick Castle,^) then in a ruinous state (on which he expended some £20,000), and in 1606 he sue. his father in the family estates, and (according to the modern theory) to his riijld to the Barony of Willoughby dc BroolccA*) P.C., 1614 ; Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1614-21 ; Joint Commissioner to treat with Holland, 1619. On 29 Jan. 1620/1 he was cr. BARON BROOKE OF BKAUCHAM PS COURT, eo. Warwick, with a spec, rem., failing the heirs male of his body, to Robert GrcrUle and (Fil/iam Greville, in like manner, sons of Fulke Greville of Thorpe Latimer, co. Lincoln, " Esq.," who was only s. and h. of Robert G. of the same, next br. to Sir Fulk Greville, the father of the grantee. He was Gent, of the Bedchamber, Oct. 1622 ; Recorder of Warwick ; Member of the Council of War ; was well known for his literary attainments ; for his friendship to Sir Philip Sydney ; for his patronage of Camden, See, He d. unrn. at Brooke House, Holborn, 30 Sep. 1628, in his 75th year, of wounds received from one Haywood, who had long been in his service. He was bur. in great state in his vault at St. Mary's, Warwick. M.I. Will dat. IS Feb. 1627/8, pr. 1628.(4). II. 1628. 2. Robert (Greville), Baron Brooke oe Beauchajiis Court, cousin and h. male, being s. and h. of Fulk Greville of Thorpe Latimer, co. Lincoln, by Margaret, da. of Christopher Cori.EY of Wadsworth, co. York, which Fnlke was only s. and I), of Robert Greville, also of Thorpe Latimer, uncle to the last Lord. He was 6. 1607 ; ed. at Cambridge ; was M.P. for eo. Warwick 1628, in which year he sue. his cousin (by whom he had been adopted when but four years of age) in the Peerage under the spec, limitation, of the pateut. Recorder of Warwick. He early imbibed republican notions, and with Viscount Say and Sele, was one of the two noblemen who refused to profess their loyalty to the King as required by tin? Council at York in 1639. Joint Commissioner to the Scots at Ripon and in London, Sep. and Nov. 1640. Lord Lieut, of co. Warwick (on nom. of Pari.) 1642. Col. of a Reg. of Foot, 1642 ; was present at the battle of Edgehill, 22 Oet. 1642, and was appointed Major Gen. (for the Pari.), for co. Warwick and co. Stafford, 1643. He m. about 1630 Catharine, 1st da. of Francis (Russell), 4th Karl of Bedford, by Catharine, da. and coheir of Giles (Bridges), Lord Chaxdos. lie d. at Lichfield 2 March 1642/3, in his 36th year, being struck with a musket ball while looking out of a window to direct the siege of St. Chad's Churrh.(°) Bis wife survived him. III. 164:3. 3. Francis (Greville), Baron Brooke of Beauciumis Court, s. and h. Recorder of Warwick. He d. num. Nov. 1658. (») See ante, vol. i, p. 279, note " a," and (for the Beauchamp descent), Vol. i, p. 278, note "d." ( b ) The manor of Warwick remained with the Crown till granted in 1629 by Charles I to the Corporation of London, who in 1631 sold it to William Bottom of London. In his family it continued till 1742, when it was purchased by Francis, Earl Brooke and Earl of Warwick, becoming thus again united with the Castle. ( c ) See ante p. 31, note " b." ( d ) On his death such representation of the families of Willoughby and Ueauchamp as he had derived from his grandmother, Elizabeth Willoughby, and her mother, Elizabeth Beauchamp (a coheir of a junior branch of the family of Beauchamp viz, Beauehainp of Powuck) devolved on his sifter and sole heir, Dame Margaret Vcrney, wdio (according to the modern theory) then became suo jure Baroness Willoughby de Brooke and to whose grandson and h. that Barony, in 1696, was allowed. (°) Just after he had prayed publicly that, if the cause he were in were not right and just, he might be presently cut off." Those who were acquainted with him believed him to be well natnred and just, and rather seduced and corrupted in his understand- ing than perverse and malicious. Whether his Passions, or Conscience swayed him, he was undoubtedly one of those who could have been with most difficulty reconciled to the government of Church or State. See " Clarendon."