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332 BROOKE 2nd Lord Willoughby of Broke, by Elizabeth,(') ist da. and coh. of Richard (Beauchamp), Baron Beauchamp of Powick, was b. 1554; was de jure Lord Willoughby of Broke; ed. at Shrewsbury school from 17 Oct. 1564; matric. at Cambridge (Jesus Coll.) 20 May 1568; was Gent, of the Privy Chamber, Clerk of the Signet to the Council of Wales, 1 581; Sec. for Wales 20 Apr. 1583; cr. M.A. of Oxford 11 Apr. 1588C'); Ranger of Wedgnock Park 1597, of which estate in 1601 he obtained the grant from the Queen, with whom he stood high in favour. Treasurer of the Navy, 1598-1604; Rear Adm. of the Fleet, 1599; 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,ooo), and in 1606 he sue. his father in the family estates, and (according to modern doctrine) to his right to the Barony of Willoughby of Broke. ('^) P.C. i Oct. 16 14; Chancellor of the Exchequer, 16 14-21; Joint Commissioner to treat with Holland, 1619; M.P. for CO. Warwick, 1620-21. On 29 Jan. i62o/i,('=) he was cr. BARON BROOKE OF BEAUCHAMPS COURT, co. Warwick, with a spec, rem., failing the heirs male of his body, to Robert Greville and W^illiam Greville, in like manner, sons of Fulke Greville, of Thorpe Latimer, co. Lincoln, who was only s. and h. of Robert G., of the same, next br. to Sir Fulke Greville, the father of the grantee. Gent, of the Bedchamber, Oct. 1621; Recorder of Warwick; Member of the Council of War.O He d. unm., at Brooke House, Holborn, 30 Sep. tation had passed from the family of Greville) that this Barony was allowed to her descendant and representative, Richard Verney; this being the first decision whereby a Barony by Writ was allowed to the heir at law (through a female) after it had been in abeyance. The older and better doctrine was, that, as the effect of abeyance was to vest the dignity in the Crown, no right of succession, after such vesture, could subsequently ensue, other than by the special favour of the Crown. G.E.C. The case is discussed by J. H. Round, in his Peerage and Pedigree, where it is shown that the Attorney General actually argued that the acceptance of the Brooke barony in 1 62 1 had the effect of extinguishing the claimant's right. V.G. (^) See ante, p. 47, note " e," and (for the Beauchamp descent) p. 46, note " f." C") For a list of those cr. M.A. on this day, see note sub Robert, Earl of Leicester [161 8]. V.G. (■=) The manor of Warwick remained with the Crown till granted, in 1629, by Charles I to the Corporation of London, who in 1 63 1 sold it to William Bolton of London. In his family it continued till 1742, when it was purchased by Francis, Baron Brooke (afterwards Earl Brooke and Earl of Warwick), becoming thus again united with the Castle. {^) See note "a" on previous page. If) The patent was not sealed till July 1621, and he sat and voted in the House of Commons up to, or nearly up to, the date of sealing. See N. Js" Q., 4th ser., vol. viii, pp. 22, 28. V.G. (') He was well-known for his literary attainments; for his friendship to Sir Philip Sydney, who had been his schoolfellow at Shrewsbury; for his patronage of Camden, {5'c.